Belgium: Hooverphonic to sing "Wrong Place" at Eurovision 2021

Belgium: Hooverphonic to sing
Thursday, 04 March 2021

  • Belgium's Eurovision 2021 hopefuls, the group Hooverphonic, have released their entry for Rotterdam, which is titled "Wrong Place" .

    One more Eurovision 2021 has been revealed as Hooverphonic released their song for the 65th edition of the contest, titled "Wrong Place" , along with its official music video. The song premiered on the MNM morning radio show, hosted by Belgium Eurovision commentator Peter Van de Veire.

    The song story refers to a woman waking up, which has regretted making a one night stand. It talks about a one night stand that didn't work out the way expected with the woman regretting to put herself in such situation and finding herself the post hook up morning in the wrong place.

    Along with the song the band released the official music video of "Wrong Place" which unfolds in a spooky old mansion. The gorup's leading singer Geike Arnaert, who rejoined the group recently, is the main character of the video, dress in a white dressed that resembles to a bride's dress.  

    Listen and watch below the music video of "Wrong place":

    Hooverphonic have already made their back-up performance for Eurovision 2021 but haven't shared many details on the staging of the song apart from that it will be under the guidance  Hans Pannecoucke, who was the creative director of the Dutch 2014 entry “Calm After the Storm” .

    Belgium is set to compete in the first semi final show on May 18, 2021 in Rotterdam Ahoy.

     

     

    A few words about Hooverphonic

    The Belgic band Hooverphonic was created in October 1995. Although initially it was known as a trip – hop band it quickly started to include alternative, electo, electro-pop and other sounds. The group started out as  Hoover, a name used by other groups too, and switch to the name Hooverphonic αφού in orde to avoid legal complications.

    On October 10, 2008 the band’s leading vocalist , Geike Arnaert , announced that she will leave the group opting for a solo career. Hooverphonic’s last concert took place on December 13, 2008 at  Tele-Club in Ekaterinburg, Russia. This last concert was recorded by Russian MTV and was broadcast on Russian TV in 2009. In October 2010 Hooverphonic decided  Noémie Wolf as Geike’s successor, a choice that was officially announced during the De Laatste Show on VRT. However on March 26,2015 the group revealed that Noémie will leave the group. On April 2018 the band found its new leading vocalist, Luka Cruysberghs.

    The group’s major hit was the song entitled Mad About You, which reached high chart positions in European Countries and Australia.

    Recently Former Hooverphonic singer Geike Arnaert, who had left the group twelve years ago,got back on board with the other two members, Alex Callier and Raymond Geerts , replacing Luka Cruysberghs.

     

     

    Belgium in Eurovision 

    Belgium is one of the countries to have participated in the Eurovision SOng Contest since its first edition back in 1956. After 30 years the country achieves to win the contest in 1986 with the 13 yo Sandra Kim and her entry “J’aime la vie“.

    The country has finished last in the contest 8 times while in two of these occasions didn’t receive any point at all. In 2003 with the group Urban Trad and their song “Sanomi” it almost reached its second victory finishing in the 2nd place, only two points behind Turkey and Sertab Erener with her entry “Every way that I can“.

    Although the country has managed to qualify to the final 5 times the last decade, with Loïc Nottet in 2015 and Blanche in 2017 achieving the best results coming 4th in the final, the last two years it hasn’t been that story.  In 2018 with  Sennek and “A matter of time” , failed to reach the final although the juries ranked her 9th in her semi final. In 2019 internally selected  Eliot represented the country in Tel Aviv with his song “Wake up” which failed to reach the grand final.

    Last year Hooverphonic were internally selected to perform "Release Me" in Rotterdam. Following the cancellation of the contest by EBU due to the coronavirus pandemic, a consultation between the VRT, the French-speaking public broadcaster RTBF and Hooverphonic leaded to VRT announcing that the band will represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. RTBF considered it a logical decision to offer Hooverphonic and the VRT this opportunity and postponed their turn for participation for a year until 2022.