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EXCLUSIVE: Our UK act for @Eurovision will be revealed on Saturday 7th March on @BBCRedButton after @BBCTheVoiceUK

Not during MF! :drama:

 

From Guy Freeman:

Last autumn, we opened the sparkling Eurovision door to anyone who wished to submit a song and performer for consideration as our UK entry for the 2015 Contest. The result of that open submission process was a very impressive collection of songs, of every conceivable type, that came in from a huge variety of amateur and professional writers and performers. Thank you to everyone who made the effort and got involved.

 

Some of the submitted songs were easily good enough to be commercial tracks straight away and others had clear potential, so it wasn't hard to draw up an initial shortlist of interesting contenders. What we did next, was consider the strengths and weaknesses of each song in detail, with the realities of the Contest foremost in mind. We also gave the shortlisted writers an opportunity to come back with any further suggestions or refinements which they thought would really maximise the impact of their songs.

 

Ultimately, one song stood out as having both instant impact and real memory staying power. Everyone is now working hard to get it ready for the evening of Saturday 7th March, straight after The Voice, which is when our UK entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest will be revealed on the BBC Red Button service, bbc.co.uk/eurovision and Eurovision.tv.

Edited February 24, 201510 yr by AdamAloud

Sophie's choice~

I know it could just be a load of talk but Guy's post has me super excited for this.

 

At least we have a date!!

At least we have a date.

 

Would love it if Alexandra Burke was the representative but it seems too unrealistic :(

This will be happening at 9.30pm as The Voice is on from 7.30pm till 9.30pm on March 7th - so there won't be any Melodifestivalen clash!

I know it could just be a load of talk but Guy's post has me super excited for this.

 

At least we have a date!!

Me too, he really speaks like he's got a great idea how the contest works and is really trying to carve something that isn't just throwaway but a real chancer.

Oh oh!

 

Daily Star running with the story that Voice winner Jermain Jackman is our entry. I desperately hope that they are putting 2 and 2 together (with the presentation being after The Voice) and coming up with 5 but my excitement has suddenly dropped very very quickly. :(

I really hope the fact that 'everyone is working hard to get the song ready' as said in the press release means that it isn't a song that is already finished (Jermain's new single is 3 minutes long but is already out on YouTube).

 

In other news, there's a hilarious rumour on Twitter that it is Jahmene Douglas with a song called 'Mother' and it just reminds me of Ruslana on the Belgian panel last year :lol:

is this the Jermain Jackman song potentially being entered then?

 

 

it fits the 'funky' criteria that the tweet suggested. It doesn't sound like a hit though

I suppose he's at least a proven vocalist and the song is fairly instant/catchy but I can't imagine it lighting up the scoreboard particularly and I'm finding it hard to get excited about it. It seems like a bit of a waste of an entry if it is this, we really need to just go all out one year and send something that doesn't sound like album filler.

I saw that last night and really hope not, Daily Star aren't exactly the most reliable of sources and surely they wouldn't be building up to a big reveal for a song that's already premiered?

I'm sure it was the Star that 'revealed' Atomic Kitten as our entry in 2012/13 so they're not the most reliable as you say!

He's just tweeted and confirmed it's not him!

 

 

Just like Michelle Visage tweeted she wasn't going into the CBB house...

That's a good song but total bottom 5 fodder and not particularly exciting. Hopefully that is just a rubbish rumour.

I have faith in Guy Freeman that he'll choose something great again, I can't imagine him choosing Jermain as that song would definitely not have been chosen "with the contest in mind".

This tweet is no longer there, but if it was and therefore is true then maybe a leak could be on its way shortly! (She is a wardrobe stylist so that part makes sense)

 

Jermain, oh my god :drama: They could barely have chosen anyone WORSE!

Like I say, I'm quietly confident it isn't him. Children Of The Universe didn't premiere before the big reveal so why would they have Jermain's on Youtube with a lyric video etc.

 

HAVE FAITH PEOPLE (I'm trying!)

If I recall correctly we got something like 6 different people rumoured in the run up to the reveal last year (I definitely remember Holly Drummond and Nina Nesbitt, there were probably others too).

 

It's all part of the fun!