United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM 2025

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[HarryUK]

RINA SAWAYAMA!!!!!

 

[theditz83]

RINA SAWAYAMA!!!!!

Aw snap - 16 mins too late to be first to that one...

But still in time for this queen - come on Jane, cruise us to victory, legend!

 

[gigi_copp3]

BIRDY!

 

[AcousticCotton]

Double post

 

[AcousticCotton]

BIRDY!

Yes!

 

[HectorDM]

Henry Moodie, please. A gorgeous ballad similar to "Drunk Txt" will do very well. Like Sam Ryder, he's likeable and great live.

 

[Sean]

My current hot suggestion is Artemas

 

[AcousticCotton]

Is Jessie Ware busy?

 

[HarryUK]

Just send a MEN dot com original scene and show these religious freaks what actual porn is

 

[Chrisiam]

All I want is someone who can sing well live!

 

[Sean]

I think the safest option now is Rina Sawayama. I doubt she'd want to enter unless Israel is out though?

 

[bstream]

Biggest lesson from ESC 2022 — vocals FIRST (+ at least one of the key “something elses”: charisma, catchy song, preliminary stage vision). The other things can be hashed out over time.

 

[Kitakaze]

Feels like a total pipe dream right now to think Rina would be tempted to do it after Olly’s result but it goes without saying she’d be one of our best contenders who actually does tick all of the boxes. Evidently it needs to be something risky regardless of who goes and there should be no excuses for not picking a reliable live performer next time.

 

[Chrisiam]

Given how close Rina is rumoured to have gotten to do it in 2023 I could only see her doing it if she is given creative control and freedom over the project. Which I can see the BBC allowing, though I fear that given that Olly was (seemingly) given control over the staging of this year they may be reluctant to do so. And if it is true that she was close to doing it in 2023 but didn't because of what essentially boiled down to paperwork issues she may be reluctant to get involved for fear of getting messed around again.

 

[ESCConor]

we need to go back to basics.

we need to get someone who is a strong vocalist, who has that experience of performing to big crowds and we also need to promote the song/artist and give them full creative control and freedom over their staging too, the key to winning ESC is to go after those jury votes and create that moment on stage.

I think we got the production right, and the staging concept was good in theory, but I think overall Olly vocally was not great and maybe the televote was put off by the oversexualised nature of the staging.

Im not calling for the resignations of people from the delegation, there's a lot the UK delegation have got spot on in the last few years, but we do need to do better in terms of finding an artist who vocally is consistently very strong live.

Do these things and I have no doubt we will do better next year.

 

[FitzyUK]

Someone with strong vocals and a catchy chorus. The staging for this year was great the song and vocals just did not match. Names wise I could not even begin to guess.

 

[SAYAY]

I really loved Dizzy and I really love Olly Alexander, I just want every single person from the UK in here to know that

 

[Fluke]

Still want Brett Domino to have a shot!

 

[SpiritofKeiino]

I'm gutted for Olly and the UK delegation. I fear 2025 will be a return to the Michael Rice/Electro Velvet era.