The final rehearsal if the big 5 and Ukraine is the UNITED KINGDOM. Mae Muller is representing the UK with her up-tempo bop I Wrote A Song. She’s 25 and from London, and performing sassy pop numbers is very much her thing. Eurovision.tv has high hopes for this wrapping up the final day of first rehearsals with a bang. 

According to Eurovision.tv this is a LOT of fun. Mae’s dressed in black trousers with a rather fabulous corset jacket, and starts the performance on a raised plinth in front of the LED wall. It features huge pop art-style graphics that blend really cleverly with the live staging – there’s a section at the beginning where Mae’s face splits in two horizontally, so she’s literally inside her own head. It gives the whole thing a pop video quality that looks great live, and we suspect it will look even better on TV.

She’s flanked by four dancers in red and black, who join her at the front of the stage for a VERY polished dance routine through the second half. It’s kept the spoken middle eight that we saw through pre-party season, and it all builds to a big old pop banger finish. Definitely one of the tracks in this year’s contest that we’re going to hear in bars all over Europe this summer.

It is already knowledge that Mae is going to perform last in the Grand Final, and Eurovision.tv believes it is hard to imagine a better closing song for a home crowd. This is going to go VERY big in the hall.

Stephan Herholdt designed a promo CD single of the UK entry for ESC Covers and here is it.