The UK’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest has been revealed.
Country pop band Remember Monday will perform their song What The Hell Just Happened? at the contest, which is being held art the St Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland, between 13 and 17 May.
The trio is made up of Charlotte Steele, Lauren Byrne and Holly-Anne Hull, who met at sixth form.
They will be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999 when the group Precious entered with the song Say It Again.
Last year Olly Alexander’s performance with disco-style Dizzy saw the UK come 18th in Malmo, Sweden, while Mae Muller’s I Wrote A Song landed in second to last place in Liverpool in 2023.
‘A crazy honour’
Speaking on the Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on Friday, the band said they “feel like they are on another planet” after the announcement.
“(Our song) What The Hell Just Happened? is exactly how we’re feeling right now. It’s all very surreal; our friendship goes so far back, and we definitely never imagined that we’d be doing anything like this,” the band said.
“When you’re a kid and people ask you what you want to be when you grow up, an absolute classic is ‘I wanna be a pop star’, so the fact that we’re getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild.
“We’re going to be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999, which feels like such a crazy honour.”
They said they want to bring “loads of fun” to the contest and “do something that you won’t have seen before on the Eurovision stage”.
They added: “This is really the music World Cup and we’ll do our best to bring it home.”
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The trio already have a large following on social media, including over 500,000 followers on TikTok and 11 million likes.
They also appeared on singing competition show The Voice UK in 2019, where they were coached by Jennifer Hudson and were eliminated before the final of the competition.
The band has released a number of tracks since appearing on The Voice, including their EP Crazy Anyway which came out last October. They have also supported the likes of Tom Jones and American singer Dasha at their headline shows.
