Remember Monday are still struggling to believe they’ve been picked to perform at Eurovision and revealed exactly why the pop trio are nervous ahead of the final
UK act Remember Monday have admitted they are still struggling to believe they’ve been picked to perform at Eurovision in front of tens of millions around the world representing the UK.
The trio, made up of friends Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele, who met at school in Hampshire, are the first all-female British group act since Precious in 1999. They are seen as huge outsiders to win Eurovision with the bookmakers but they are not letting that dampen their spirits and enthusiasm ahead of performing their single ‘What The Hell Just Happened?’.
Bookmakers Paddy Power have Sweden as odds-on favourites with Austria 3-1 and France 6-1, the UK are now 100-1 for victory. But excited Holly, 30, said: “I don’t think our brains have computed that that is the amount of people watching. For us it’s not necessarily the size of the audience, it’s that we so badly want to do a good job and that’s where our nerves are coming from, we want to be able to watch it back and be SO proud!”
Charlotte, 31, from the band, would have been watching at home in fancy dress were she not involved this time around. She explained: “I am a huge Eurovision fan, I have been for as long as I can remember – it’s kind of infamous as a Charlotte thing now. We always host Eurovision parties – everyone picks a country, they bring food and drink from that country, we go all out! My favourite Eurovision artist has to be Alexander Rybak who represented Norway in the 2009 and won with Fairytale. I just loved it!”
Lauren, 30, described the weeks heading into the final as a “whirlwind of creativity and chaos” and also told how the band were given a memory box on the day they were announced as the UK entry and so they will have that with them backstage as a lucky charm on the night. The band are no strangers to singing live having kickstarted their career on The Voice UK in 2019.
Asked what their Eurovision final performance will be like, Charlotte said: “We obviously want it to be a surprise on the night, but what we can say is that we are leaning into our musical theatre backgrounds that is for sure and we just hope that audiences love the staging and design as much as we do.”
A total of 26 countries are through to the Grand Final. As one of the ‘Big Five’ countries ( United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Italy), the UK has a guaranteed place in the Grand Final. Switzerland is also guaranteed a place in the Grand Final due to them being hosts this year.
Commentator Graham Norton also insisted, despite being outsiders with the bookmakers, UK act Remember Monday “have a great advantage in that they are unlike any other act this year”.
They will compete in Saturday’s grand final against touted favourites such as Sweden’s Kaj with their entry Bara Bada Bastu, about Nordic sauna culture, Austria’s JJ (Johannes Pietsch) with the emotional song Wasted Love, and Israeli singer Yuval Raphael with the ballad New Day Will Rise. He explained: “Remember Monday have a great advantage in that they are unlike any other act this year.
“Their vocals and harmonies are flawless, the song has a very strong hook and the trio are hugely likeable. With a decent place in the running order they should do very well indeed.”
The result of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest will be determined by a combination of points from national juries and viewer votes in the participating countries, along with a separate rest of the world vote. Each national jury is made up of a group of five music professionals in that country.
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