Eurovision fans fear UK is ‘serious contender for last place’ after performance reveal

Eurovision fans are more worried than ever about how the UK will fare at this year’s contest after a clip of the artist’s performance was released.

Look Mum No Computer – real name Sam Battle – is this year’s representative for the UK and is in Vienna, ready to take to the stage to battle (pun not intended) for the top spot against the other nations with the song, Eins, Zwei, Drei.

With the Grand Final taking place in a week, the general public has been provided with a first glimpse of what the live version of the techno-pop song will look like.

And the 37-year-old music artist is fully leaning into the electronic aesthetic with a set design of wirey-button machine and a group of dancers with furry computers for heads, with the ‘experimental’ singer executing a mad scientist look as he pulls various fake levers.

Of course, aside from a rare exception in 2022 when UK entrant Sam Ryder landed second place with Space Man, it has been decades since our little island has done well in the final rankings.

The UK is all too used to being at the bottom of the lot. In 2025, girl group Remember Monday finished in 19th place out of 26 with 88 points from the professional jury and a brutal zero points from the public vote.

However, after seeing Look Mum No Computer’s offerings, viewers are worried this could be the worst year yet.

‘So the zero points streak continues…’ X user ka_morian0121 shared.

‘Great Britain receives NIL POINTS,’ M predicted.

‘Safe to say, were not winning it this year,’ Joe shared.

‘This is a complete mess. Nil pwahhhhh,’ J declared.

‘Let’s get ready for last place again!’ S lamented. ‘Another year at the bottom of the leaderboard,’ Lily W echoed.

‘A serious contender… for the last place,’ Crashgrana brutally declared.

Some have come to Look Mum No Computer’s defence, attempting to give it the benefit of the doubt.

‘I love the song. Was not keen on it [at] first but now I love it,’ StuartIbertson added.

‘Shame the “machines” look pretty fake and I did expect more from the UK. Still a unique and catchy song though, but I think it’s bottom five again for us,’ DougnutDoney wrote.

‘It does make you wonder why everything new gets so much negativity, whether it be songs, new programmes, anything!’ Debs reflected.

‘The UK actually did something interesting for their Eurovision entry,’ LDN48 posted.

This is the first song in the contest’s 70-year-run where the UK song will not be sung entirely in English, already making it stand out. And it’s all about the mundanity of the nine-to-five.

Speaking about the song when it was first released in March, he said: ‘That is 123, in German, for people who aren’t aware.

‘It felt right to write a song that included a bunch of different European things – the whole thing is about going on holiday, and feeling I’m gonna have some pizza, maybe in Italy.

‘I’m tired of eating this [jam] roly poly, which I love eating for most of the year, but I just want a little bit of a break from it.’

As proceedings kick off in Vienna, the contest is also preparing for controversy after several countries announced they were boycotting this year’s competition over Israel’s inclusion – including the Big Five nation, Spain.

Just this week, the Israeli broadcaster KAN was issued a formal warning for violating the competition rules over promotional videos of their entrant.

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