Sam Battle heads to Vienna for Eurovision Uk Entry 2026 final
Look Mum No Computer, the eurovision uk entry 2026, will take the stage in Vienna on Saturday as Sam Battle performs for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest final. He goes into the 70th edition against 24 other countries, with a song written in about 12 hours and a five-week-old son waiting back home.
Sam Battle in Vienna
Battle is set to perform the electro-pop anthem Eins, Zwei, Drei. He told Radio Cambridgeshire presenter Dotty McLeod, “I am just going to try my hardest for the UK, for me and my mates and family.”
The move from Cambridgeshire gigs to the Eurovision final is a long way from where he started in the 2000s. Battle, who grew up in Yaxley near Peterborough and was born Sam Bartle before changing his name, built his early reputation playing across the county as a solo act and with Yellow Snow and Zibra.
Furby toys and Game Boys
Battle drew attention for the unusual electronic instruments he creates, including work that combined organ pipes with dozens of Furby toys and old handheld Game Boy consoles. Those inventions helped put his name on the radar of Introducing, the sort of early exposure that can turn a regional act into a national booking.
The 70th Eurovision Song Contest final gives him a larger test: 24 other countries, one live performance, and no room for the kind of technical wobble that homemade instruments can invite. That is the friction in this story — the same DIY instinct that made him noticeable is now carrying the UK entry onto a stage where precision matters.
Jodie Bartle on pride
Jodie Bartle said she was “absolutely bursting with pride” at the thought of her brother taking to the Eurovision stage. She added, “Sam's always been destined for something massive, and I'm so happy that he's finally been given the opportunity for the world to see how unbelievably talented he is as an individual.”
She also said, “All I want for him to just enjoy it,” and added, “We're proud of him no matter what [and] he should be proud of himself as well and the song I think is good enough to get points and just hopefully the world also agrees with that.”
Battle became a father to his son Max just weeks before Eurovision, and at the time of the interview the baby was five weeks old. For the UK act, that leaves Vienna as a career marker and a family one at the same time: a father stepping into the final with a song he wrote quickly, a sister already framing the night as a win either way, and a live audience that will decide how far the experiment travels next.
