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TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Since you weren’t too interested in the location (other than the brewery) yesterday, we decided to get down to business and reveal you who will be hosting our three spectacular shows. You already know both of them, you voted for them in the last edition, and this is not the first time you have done that. Please prepare for Declan McKenna and Alex Lawther.
Yes yes, Declan McKenna is certainly no stranger to the Natian audience as 204th Nation Song Contest was his fourth and by far the most successful attempt to win the trophy. For Doire, he won second place with the song Why Do You Feel So Down? (NSC153) and sixth place with the absolutely ingenious Rapture (NSC 194). New Bander State was also second with the song British Bombs (NSC175) and, finally, he repeated second place for the Griffin Empire, achieving incredible debut success with the song The Key to Life on Earth (NSC204). He initially gained recognition for winning the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. McKenna self-released the song Brazil, a protest song criticising FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil, as his debut single in December 2014. The song reached number one on Sirius XM Radio's Alt Nation Alt 18 Countdown for 23 January 2016 and held that spot for three weeks. The song also reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart. He released his debut studio album, What Do You Think About the Car?, on 21 July 2017. McKenna released his second studio album, Zeros, on 4 September 2020, after multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You will find out tomorrow what and with whom Declan will sing during our three shows.
Declan will be accompanied by a colleague from the video, his dear friend - Alex Lawther, who was claimed to look like Declan until they stood shoulder to shoulder. This young, extremely talented actor made his professional acting debut originating the role of John Blakemore in Sir David Hare's South Downs in the West End. He made his feature film debut playing a young Alan Turing in the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game (2014), for which he received the London Film Critics' Circle Award for "Young British Performer of the Year" and was declared one of BAFTA's 2015 Breakthrough Brits.
He achieved more mainstream success for his role as Kenny in Shut Up and Dance, an episode of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror (2016), and for portraying the lead role of James in the Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019). His other notable work includes his roles in Freak Show, Howards End, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Ghost Stories, and The Last Duel. He is known for his frequent portrayals of emotionally unstable or disturbed young men and LGBT youth.
Wake up besties!
There are three days left until the end of the applications, and we are missing some key players. More precisely, 25 of them. Hurry up, so that your tile on the table changes colour from blue to purple as well.
Yes yes, Declan McKenna is certainly no stranger to the Natian audience as 204th Nation Song Contest was his fourth and by far the most successful attempt to win the trophy. For Doire, he won second place with the song Why Do You Feel So Down? (NSC153) and sixth place with the absolutely ingenious Rapture (NSC 194). New Bander State was also second with the song British Bombs (NSC175) and, finally, he repeated second place for the Griffin Empire, achieving incredible debut success with the song The Key to Life on Earth (NSC204). He initially gained recognition for winning the Glastonbury Festival's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015. McKenna self-released the song Brazil, a protest song criticising FIFA and the 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil, as his debut single in December 2014. The song reached number one on Sirius XM Radio's Alt Nation Alt 18 Countdown for 23 January 2016 and held that spot for three weeks. The song also reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart. He released his debut studio album, What Do You Think About the Car?, on 21 July 2017. McKenna released his second studio album, Zeros, on 4 September 2020, after multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You will find out tomorrow what and with whom Declan will sing during our three shows.
Declan will be accompanied by a colleague from the video, his dear friend - Alex Lawther, who was claimed to look like Declan until they stood shoulder to shoulder. This young, extremely talented actor made his professional acting debut originating the role of John Blakemore in Sir David Hare's South Downs in the West End. He made his feature film debut playing a young Alan Turing in the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game (2014), for which he received the London Film Critics' Circle Award for "Young British Performer of the Year" and was declared one of BAFTA's 2015 Breakthrough Brits.
He achieved more mainstream success for his role as Kenny in Shut Up and Dance, an episode of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror (2016), and for portraying the lead role of James in the Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019). His other notable work includes his roles in Freak Show, Howards End, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Ghost Stories, and The Last Duel. He is known for his frequent portrayals of emotionally unstable or disturbed young men and LGBT youth.
Wake up besties!
There are three days left until the end of the applications, and we are missing some key players. More precisely, 25 of them. Hurry up, so that your tile on the table changes colour from blue to purple as well.
You can't just casually drop a bombshell like that!
