Claude needed some time to recover after his Eurovision adventure in Basel. The singer is now, more than a month later, back on his feet, he said backstage at Pinkpop in an interview with NPO Radio 2.
“I’ve come out of that pressure cooker again,” Claude laughed in conversation with Annemieke Schollaardt. “It’s all been so bizarre. You’re really in a bubble with everything. The moment I came home, everything was very different again. It really took some acclimatizing and finding my way again. But I’ve found my way.”
Claude was back on stage in the Netherlands fairly quickly. His first show was a guest appearance during the Suzan & Freek concerts in the Ziggo Dome. “That wasn’t exactly small. But because you’ve experienced the tension of the Eurovision song contest, you can just think with a lot of things: oh, this will be alright.”
The singer participated in Basel with his song C’est La Vie. He finished in twelfth place.