Look Mum No Computer Eurovision Song Heads to Vienna With 24 Rivals
Look Mum No Computer Eurovision Song will reach the Eurovision Song Contest final in Vienna on Saturday, with Sam Battle set to perform for the UK against 24 other countries. Battle will take to the big stage in the contest’s 70th edition with his electro-pop anthem Eins, Zwei, Drei.
Vienna and 24 rivals
Battle said it took about 12 hours to write the song he will bring to the final. That detail fits the rest of his route to the stage: he grew up in Yaxley near Peterborough, started gigging in Cambridgeshire in the 2000s, and played across the county as a solo act and with Yellow Snow and Zibra before landing on the Eurovision platform.
His entry arrives with a profile built on unusual electronic instruments, including organ pipes combined with dozens of Furby toys and old handheld Game Boy consoles. He was on the radar of Introducing early in his career, which helps explain why this performance now carries the weight of a long local build rather than a sudden novelty turn.
Jodie Bartle on Eurovision
Jodie Bartle said she was “absolutely bursting with pride” at the thought of her brother taking to the Eurovision stage. She also said, “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.”
That family reaction lands alongside the harder edge of the contest itself: he is performing in front of 24 other countries in Vienna, not in a small showcase or a one-off local set. Battle said, “I am just going to try my hardest for the UK, for me and my mates and family.”
Max before the final
Battle became a father to his son Max just weeks before Eurovision, and Jodie Bartle said, “He's got a five-week-old baby at the moment that in the future is going to be able to say 'my dad's done Eurovision', which is absolutely epic”. That timing gives the performance a second audience beyond the scoreboard: a new parent stepping onto one of music television’s biggest stages with a song written in about 12 hours.
Jodie Bartle added, “All I want for him to just enjoy it” and said, “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.”
For Battle, the practical next step is simple: Vienna on Saturday, the UK flag, and one fast-written song in front of a field of 24 rivals. If Eins, Zwei, Drei lands well, it will validate years of oddball electronics and regional circuit work; if it misses, the bigger story still remains the same, because he has already turned a Cambridgeshire gigging career into a Eurovision final slot.
