{"id":522464,"date":"2026-03-06T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522464\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:23:09","slug":"look-mum-no-computer-uks-eurovision-entrant-says-his-song-eins-zwei-drei-is-a-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522464\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Mum No Computer: UK’s Eurovision entrant says his song Eins, Zwei, Drei, is ‘a risk’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eins, Zwei, Drei was written on one of those synths. Affectionately known as Kosmo, it’s a towering black box, external<\/a> that resembles a cross between a telephone exchange and the flight deck of an airliner.<\/p>\n

The song was written after the musician emailed the BBC’s Eurovision team “out of the blue” last September.<\/p>\n

Initially expecting to write for another artist, he was surprised to be asked to consider performing at the contest in his own right.<\/p>\n

The idea for Eins, Zwei, Drei came as he was setting up his equipment.<\/p>\n

“I was actually moving a sofa to make room for my synth and, as we prepared to lift it I said, ‘Eins, Zwei, Drei’.<\/p>\n

“Everyone was like, ‘That’s the name of the song!’<\/p>\n

“And lo and behold, 12 hours later we had the rough version of this thing.”<\/p>\n

By Christmas, Battle was on a shortlist of five artists who’d been asked to play a showcase for the BBC’s Eurovision team, including head of delegation Andrew Cartmell and Sam Ryder’s manager David May. <\/p>\n

In January, he was chosen as the UK’s representative. He was publicly announced last month, and the song was unveiled on Friday.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty mad, but yeah, I’m excited,” he says of taking part in the contest. “[I’m] working hard to do the best that I can do.”<\/p>\n

Battle will take his song to Vienna in May, after a bruising Eurovision build-up that saw five countries pull out<\/a> of the contest due to Israel’s participation.<\/p>\n

The musician says he hopes his song, with its message of embracing other European countries, will sound a note of positivity.<\/p>\n

“The idea of Eurovision is a feeling of togetherness,” he says. “And that’s what I wanted to portray.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eins, Zwei, Drei was written on one of those synths. Affectionately known as Kosmo, it’s a towering black…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-522464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}