His song hasn’t been revealed yet, but BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills said he had heard it.
He said: “The UK often gets criticised at Eurovision, or it has in some years. ‘We’re always really safe, we always keep it really middle of the road.’ So we are going to try something different this year. Why not? Let’s try something different, and it is different.”
Speaking about the song, Mills said: “From just one listen, I want you to imagine a bit of Basshunter’s Now You’re Gone and then put a bit of Parklife [by] Blur in there, and maybe you would add in a bit of West End Girls [by] Pet Shop Boys, maybe the synths of The Human League. Sprinkle a bit of Verka Serduchka in there. Maybe just a tiny bit of Sex Pistols.
“Stick all that in a blender and create a big anthem to take on Eurovision, one that I can imagine they will be singing in that arena.”
The song will get its first radio play on Mills’s Radio 2 breakfast show “in the coming weeks”, the BBC said.