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13 May 2025 3:23 PM
By Nick Reilly
The UK’s Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2025, Remember Monday, have told Rolling Stone UK about their hopes for success in Basel and how a friendship of over a decade is at the heart of the group.
The trio – Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull, and Charlotte Steele – will represent the UK this weekend with ‘What The Hell Just Happened?’ – an arena primed musical rollercoaster that is sure to grab the ears of the continent. It takes in shades of Queen, Elton in full pomp and – as one review pointed out – even subtle sounds of Chappell Roan.
Lyrically it may reflect the chaos of waking up after a big night out, but the group say that it’s a nice reflection of being friends too. They met at a sixth form college in Hampshire in 2011 and would rehearse as a band on Mondays – hence the name. They’ve been firm friends ever since, memorably performing on The Voice in 2019, while forging their own careers as theatre performers. All this, unsurprisingly, feeds into the overwhelming theatricality of the song.
“We’ve been friends for 14 years and we’ve got a sisterhood going on,” explains Byrne. “We grew up together and at any time in our friendship when one of us has been down or, you know, going through something, the other two have been there to pick them up and that often results in taking our girl on a night out and making her feel good. There’s loads of little moments in the song that reflect the silly things that have happened to us in those scenarios.”
Even if current bookies odds say otherwise, a single listen to the song shows off impeccable harmonies and a huge chorus that could well result in the UK’s best Eurovision result since Sam Ryder almost won in 2022. Are they feeling the pressure?
“I’m just excited to get out there because I do feel like we need to get into the bubble and into that zone of knowing we have a job to do and that’s to deliver this song well enough,” adds Hull.
Of the band’s high standards, Steele adds: “Something really annoying about the three of us is we will come off stage no matter what just happened in the moment and we need to see the three minute performance in silence before we can celebrate what we’ve done. So what we’re desperate for is to be watching that video back and say yeah, we smashed it.”
But even if the group – who found out they got the gig late last year – have created a banger, there’s still a legion of cynics to win over. Every year, the UK entry is faced by a legion of naysayers who claim that politics and continental ties are hampering our chances at winners. Remember Monday emphatically insist that this isn’t the case.
“There’s definitely been a certain kind of perception among British people and Sam Ryder showed that very much isn’t the case. He said that part of the reason he went out there was to change perceptions,” adds Byrne.
“We would really love more than anything to prove all of those people wrong, the same way that Sam did. Sam is now a national treasure and I think so much of that is the fact that he had such an incredible mindset. He said something like ‘Don’t think about what you can get from it. Think about what you can bring to it’. That was honestly such like a wonderful thing to have for us to have heard before we went into this process.”
While a Eurovision win isn’t guaranteed, there’s a bright future ahead of the group. An appearance at Wembley Stadium for Capital FM’s Summertime Ball awaits this summer, ahead of a UK tour that takes in a show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire this November.
Steele says: “Our whole year has transformed since the Eurovision announcement and we couldn’t feel more grateful for the whole process because it’s bringing us these opportunities.
“It feels like a full circle moment. Our Eurovision experience started when we found out we were being considered for it while on tour last year and now we’ll be finishing up with our own headline tour, which is triple the size of the last tour. It’s all just a massive ‘pinch me’ moment.”
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