Eurovision destiny shaped at Farnborough sixth form

COUNTRY group Remember Monday face a daunting prospect at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest as the first all-female group to represent the UK since 1999.

- By CHARLOTTE MCLAUGHLIN

The trio, who met while studying at Farnborough College, enter the competition after other Brit hopefuls have endured more than two decades of mainly gloomy results.

There have been bright spots during the last five years, with the millions of followers-strong TikTok star Sam Ryder soaring with Space Man, earning second place in Turin in 2022. His social media stardom, theatrical staging and unrelenting upbeat personality were credited with the stunning result, and this is something the trio of Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull, and Charlotte Steele also seem to have in spades.

Watching them interact at their tea party-themed launch in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the girl group laughed and joked, and showed they are unlikely to be affected by haters online. The trio often use their strong voices to turn the worst social media comments into harmonised songs.

As Hull, 30, said, they are "used to high-pressured environments as a band and as individuals" because they come from a musical theatre background.

Laughing, she said: "We're so happy and we're so loving this experience, that the odd negative comment isn’t going in... and as annoying that might be for the person (commenting), it’s going over our heads because we're reading the good stuff, (and that’s) going in. I know some people focus on the negative, and it's really hard (not) to, but we have each other as well. We're each other's therapists and protectors and if one’s down, the other two will lift it up, and vice versa."

This follows last year’s UK entrant Olly Alexander, whose disco-style Dizzy came 18th in Malmo, telling other Eurovision contestants to get “a good therapist” following other participants voicing concerns about duty of care, and a series of other controversies at the event.

Remember Monday also have a secret weapon in their upbeat entry, What The Hell Just Happened?