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Meet the UK's Eurovision entrant: 'The BBC is taking a risk on me'
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- Title
- Look Mum No Computer: UK's Eurovision entrant says his song Eins, Zwei, Drei, is 'a risk'
- Published
- Mar 6 2026
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- 183 words
Still can't believe it. I adore LMNC's "go on, just dig in and get messy" way of taking on complex projects like DIY modular synthesis and midi-fying an entire church organ. He really does embody this scrappy punk meets eccentric inventor aesthetic that feels exceedingly British.
I wish him luck with Eurovision! Hopefully the Bandcamp friday sales that just ended will help make all the stress worth it.
I watched the whole Joan's Organ series and it was fascinating. I appreciated him explaining how to tune all the different pipes. I would totally drop in to his museum if I ever got the chance.
Been following Look Mum No Computer for a few years now (got started with the Joan's organ series). I am not too familiar with Eurovision, but I felt like Eins, Zwei, Drei is a fun, outlandish song. I hope the best for him. It was also fun watching the music video as I felt like it was very much in style of Look Mum No Computer's previous works, and includes nods to some of his other projects, but just more polished and a higher production budget
Eurovision tends to tap dance on the line of outlandish, while the line is rotating on a turntable and jets of fire are all around the stage.
You can see some really interesting stuff, but it unfortunately tends to get weeded out by the end of the finals. I'll probably pick up Peacock in May just to stream it, though.
I'll be going through hardcore eurovision withdrawal when the competition comes around. A few countries dropped out and it just felt like a lot of the heart went, it became a more bitter, conflicted thing, which is absolutely antithetical to what it should be (in my opinion). Ah well, maybe one day it will again be a more lighthearted thing that isn't related to grim current affairs.
The feeling of the contest has changed to the extent that I'm surprised to see it mentioned on Tildes at all. In an environment where they were forced to make some political decisions, the organizers chose to firmly support one side of a disagreement, and in doing so, seem to have put themselves at odds with a significant portion of the European public, and certainly with creative and intellectual circles.
In a few years Eurovision has gone from something that came up frequently in social conversation for me around that time of year to something that most social circles I'm in seem to see as completely inappropriate to discuss, watch, or support. All of the fans I knew have stopped watching in the last two years, or at least would not socially admit to watching it. The casual mentions of it at my university are gone. Some people I know with strong views on the matter would likely say that any artist still participating is expressing their support for genocide; one of those people was an ardent Eurovision fan until two years ago.
I've watched in previous years, but the lack of any social conversation around it makes it far less enjoyable, and watching it now does feel morally wrong.
This is where I'm at - it's hard to be excited about the contest in the current moment, and even though most of the artists are amazing, I think I may skip the live show and look up specific countries' artists after the fact. I don't think I can join in the zaniness and silliness when they're actively pretending like everything is normal, especially when countries are boycotting and artists are getting harassed.
Perhaps there's some good that it blew up, because it had been simmering for a while, hadn't it? There were lots of ugly rumours and stories coming out, and the normal politicking around voting, which is grubby enough, got even grubbier, and, I don't know, there was definitely a feeling that it's "united by music" motto was ringing hollower and hollower every year. I watched some of my country's national competition, that would otherwise have fed into eurovision, and that was fun. Not quite as big a scale, but there were some fun, talented and not-so-talented artists. But I'll miss it. I'll miss its glorious and unrepentant campness. I used to go to watch parties and had some good times with friends and colleagues.
Nice, I've seen some of Look Mum No Computer's videos on YouTube before.
I've been following Look Mum No Computer since the Furby Organ days and this seems like a really cool opportunity for him!
So that's why the Furby Organ suddenly showed up in my recommendation feed the other day! Was curious why it got a sudden revival years later since I don't watch many similar videos right now.