Remember Monday announced as UK's Eurovision 2025 act

Country pop band Remember Monday will perform their song What The Hell Just Happened? at the event, which is being held at the St Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland, between 13 and 17 May.

The trio is made up of Charlotte Steele, Lauren Byrne and Holly-Anne Hull, who met at sixth form college.

They will be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999, when the group Precious entered with the song Say It Again.

Last year Olly Alexander's performance with disco-style number Dizzy saw the UK come 18th in Malmo, Sweden, while Mae Muller's I Wrote A Song landed in second to last place in Liverpool in 2023.

'A crazy honour'

Speaking to the Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on Friday, the band said they "feel like they are on another planet" after the announcement.

"[Our song] What The Hell Just Happened? is exactly how we're feeling right now. It's all very surreal; our friendship goes so far back, and we definitely never imagined that we'd be doing anything like this," the band said.

"When you're a kid and people ask you what you want to be when you grow up, an absolute classic is 'I wanna be a pop star', so the fact that we're getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild.

"We're going to be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999, which feels like such a crazy honour."

Previous UK Eurovision entries - and where they placed

Since first entering the contest in 1957, the UK has won Eurovision five times.

It also holds the record for taking second place more than any other nation, finishing as runner-up 16 times, according to the Eurovision website.

• 2015: Electro Velvet - Still In Love With You, finished in 24th place
• 2016: Joe and Jake - You're Not Alone, finished in 24th place
• 2017: Lucie Jones - Never Give Up On You, finished in 15th
• 2018: SuRie - Storm, finished in 24th place
• 2019: Michael Rice - Bigger Than Us, finished last in 26th place
• 2020: James Newman - My Last Breath, contest cancelled due to COVID
• 2021: James Newman - Embers, finished in 26th place
• 2022: Sam Ryder - Space Man, finished in 2nd place
• 2023: Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song, finished in 25th place
• 2024: Olly Alexander - Dizzy, finished in 18th

They said they want to bring "loads of fun" to the contest and "do something that you won't have seen before on the Eurovision stage".

They added: "This is really the music World Cup and we'll do our best to bring it home."

The trio already have a large following on social media, including over 500,000 followers on TikTok and 11 million likes.

They also appeared on singing competition show The Voice UK in 2019, where they were coached by Jennifer Hudson and were eliminated before the final of the competition.

The band has released a number of tracks since appearing on The Voice, including their EP Crazy Anyway, which came out last October. They have also supported the likes of Tom Jones and American singer Dasha at their headline shows.

-SKY NEWS