British YouTuber Look Mum No Laptop can be representing the UK on the seventieth Eurovision Track Contest in Vienna, Austria, in Might 2026.
Look Mum No Laptop can be representing the UK within the 2026 Eurovision Track Contest (Picture: PA)
Digital music artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Laptop has been chosen to characterize the UK at this 12 months’s Eurovision Track Contest, the BBC has introduced. The tech creator, whose actual title is Sam Battle, is a solo artist described as “an innovator of distinctive musical machines”. He first arrived on the music scene again in 2014 because the frontman of the indie rock band, Zibra, which carried out at Glastonbury in 20215 for BBC Introducing.
Since then, he has been performing and recording underneath his solo title and can be flying out to Vienna this Might to characterize the UK on the worldwide tune contest. Talking in regards to the thrilling alternative, he stated: “I discover it fully bonkers to be leaping on this glorious and wild journey.
“I’ve all the time been an enormous Eurovision fan, and I really like the magical pleasure it brings to tens of millions of individuals yearly, so getting to affix that legacy and fly the flag for the UK is an absolute honour that I’m taking very severely.”
Look No Laptop additionally boasts 1.4million followers throughout his social media platforms as a content material creator primarily based in Kent. His music has attracted consideration for the bizarre digital devices he creates, together with organs constructed from Furby toys and Recreation Boys, synthesiser bicycles and flame-throwing keyboards.
He teased: “I have been working for a very long time creating, writing, and producing my very own visions from scratch, and documenting my course of. I can be bringing each ounce of my creativity to my performances, and I am unable to wait for everybody to listen to and see what we have created. I hope Eurovision is able to get synthesized!”
The BBC chooses the UK’s Eurovision entry by means of an inner course of with the assistance of a panel of inudstry specialists. The pinnacle of leisure on the BBC, Kalpna Patel-Knight stated: “His daring imaginative and prescient, distinctive sound and digital efficiency type make him a really unforgettable artist.
One other agreed: “Why can we nonetheless hassle with this utter nonsense [three cry-laughing emojis]” as one other agreed: “Can we simply ship Sam Ryder again? We would have a better likelihood of successful with him.”
In the meantime, some viewers supported the brand new artist, with one fuming: “Oh right here we go together with the annual negativity tune contest. Give the man an opportunity ffs”. One other agreed: “Go and take a look at his YouTube channel. He’s an extremely proficient bloke. Fixes devices and electronics, and curates a museum.”
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