'Look Mum, one point': Why does the UK keep getting Eurovision wrong?

'Look Mum, one point': Why does the UK keep getting Eurovision wrong?Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMark SavageMusic correspondent, Eurovision Song Contest, ViennaEPALook Mum No Computer - aka Sam Battle - tried his hardest, but Eurovision just wasn't in his graspAnother year, another flop. The UK has self-destructed at Eurovision all over again.Look Mum No Computer, aka musician Sam Battle, got one solitary point, ending up in last place. It's the third time we've been at the bottom of the table since 2020. We've made the top 10 once since 2010. This is the fourth consecutive year I've written a post-mortem on our failure.Believe me, I don't want to be here – but here we are.In the run-up to the contest, there was little hope that Sam's shouty synth-pop banger Eins, Zwei, Drei, would fare well.But the musician gave it his all, stomping around the stage in a bright pink boiler suit while singing about quitting his office job so he could go to Germany and count to three (I am not making this up). It was, as Graham Norton observed, "a big swing".Marmite musicNow, look, I'm all for taking a chance. If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop. Sam was different. Eccentric and engaging, with the uncontainable energy of a shaken-up Coke bottle, he came up with a song that, for once, sounded uniquely British. "I have to applaud the BBC for the ambition," says Adrian Bradley of the Euro Trip podcast, which follows the competition's ups-and-downs."They took a risk on something that maybe people won't like, but which some people might pick up the phone and vote for.""I think it's a very interesting song in terms of production," agrees Satoshi, who represented Moldova at this year's contest. "The distortion on the voice, the synths that he uses. Everything has that British imprint - but...