Electro Velvet to represent United Kingdom in Vienna!

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has just announced the act representing the United Kingdom in Vienna, it’s Electro Velvet who will be singing “Still In Love” on stage.

 

 

The artist and the song were presented during a special show called “Our Song for Eurovision 2015” on the BBC Red Button service, right after the broadcasting of “The Voice”. Scott Mills was in charge of hosting the event.

Shortly afterwards viewers across the rest of the world could watch it out on Eurovision.tv.

The broadcaster made public the following statement regarding the selection process:

“Last autumn, we opened the sparkling Eurovision door to anyone who wished to submit a song and performer for consideration as our UK entry for the 2015 Contest. The result of that open submission process was a very impressive collection of songs, of every conceivable type, that came in from a huge variety of amateur and professional writers and performers. Thank you to everyone who made the effort and got involved.

Some of the submitted songs were easily good enough to be commercial tracks straight away and others had clear potential, so it wasn’t hard to draw up an initial short-list of interesting contenders. What we did next, was consider the strengths and weaknesses of each song in detail, with the realities of the Contest foremost in mind. We also gave the short-listed writers an opportunity to come back with any further suggestions or refinements which they thought would really maximise the impact of their songs. Ultimately, one song stood out as having both instant impact and real memory staying power.”

What do you think about the British choice? Stay tuned to ESC+Plus for further information coming from the UK at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.