mxdwn.co.uk » 67th Eurovision Song Contest https://www.mxdwn.co.uk all that matters in music in the UK Fri, 01 May 2026 18:26:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 The UK’s Entry Mae Muller Announces Winter UK and Ireland Tour https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/the-uks-entry-mae-muller-announces-winter-uk-and-ireland-tour/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/the-uks-entry-mae-muller-announces-winter-uk-and-ireland-tour/#comments Thu, 04 May 2023 14:22:46 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=61241 Songstress and Eurovision hopeful Mae Muller has announced she’ll be touring the UK and Ireland this November giving fans the chance to hear the UK’s Eurovision entry live.

The singer announced her headline shows on the 28th April across her social media platforms. Muller signed off her caption, “i can’t wait to tell you more and i can’t wait to see u all, a slay of truly enormous proportion!!!”.

Tickets for the dates will be on sale at 10 am on Friday 5th May. For more information see here.

The singer will also be performing at an array of festivals across the UK this summer including Birmingham Pride, Truck Festival, Brighton & Hove Pride, and Big Feastival.

Muller will be performing “I Wrote a Song” at the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on the 13th May. The song, which she co-wrote with Karen Poole and Lewis Thompson, is the first UK Eurovision entry to debut inside the Top 40 on the Singles Chart in its first week since 2011. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles and number 3 on the UK Singles Downloads. The song debuted on the 9th March this year coinciding with the announcement that Muller would be representing the UK in the contest. Watch the video for the song below:

“Not to toot my own horn, but I think it’s a great pop song,” Muller told Music Week. “You can dance to it and it’s also a heartbreak anthem, but it’s more than that: it’s about lifting yourself back up, empowering yourself, believing in your self worth and working through negative emotions to come out the other side. And I think that aligns with Eurovision.”

The 25-year-old singer from London, whose full name is Holly Mae Muller, has been rising in notoriety over the last few years. Her debut album Chapter 1 was released in 2019, the same year she supported Little Mix on their LM5: The Tour. Her collaboration with the Swedish music collective Neiked and American rapper Polo G, “Better Days” in 2021 charted in the top 40 in both the UK and the US. Her last record was her third EP, No One Else, Not Even You, in 2020.

This year the UK will host the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in the Liverpool Arena on behalf of last year’s winners Ukraine. The Semi-Finals will be split between the 9th and 11th May to accommodate the volume of countries all jostling for the title. The winner will be announced on the 13th May after the Grand Final. To see the official list of entries click here.

For a complete list of Mae Muller’s UK and Ireland dates see below:

26/05/23 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
27/05 – Birmingham Pride – Birmingham
21/07 – Truck Festival – Steventon
22/07 – Tramlines – Sheffield
05/08 – Brighton & Hove Pride – Brighton
25/08 – Victorious Festival – Portsmouth
27/08 – The Big Feastival – Kingham
01/09 – Sundown Festival – Norwich
20/11 – SWG3 – Glasgow
21/11 – O2 Ritz – Manchester
23/11 – Roundhouse – London
24/11 – O2 Institute – Birmingham
25/11 – Beckett Student’s Union – Leeds

]]> https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/the-uks-entry-mae-muller-announces-winter-uk-and-ireland-tour/feed/ 0 Eurovision Song Contest Resale Tickets Priced at Thousands Above Face Value https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/eurovision-song-contest-resale-tickets-priced-at-thousands-above-face-value/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/eurovision-song-contest-resale-tickets-priced-at-thousands-above-face-value/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:44:06 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=59885
Eurovision Song Contest ticket buyers have taken to third party websites in attempt to resell their tickets at extortionate prices. The highest resale price seen so far online is going for over £12,000. The 2023 67th Eurovision Song Contest is being held in the UK this year, in Liverpool. The UK are hosting the contest on behalf last years winners, Ukraine, who are unable to host the event this year due to safety and security reasons. In 2022, Kalush Orchestra won the contest for Ukraine, with their song ”Stefania.”

The grand final will take place in the Liverpool Arena, which holds an 11,000 capacity. The tickets went on sale yesterday (Tuesday March 7), however all tickets for the Grand Final of  the international music event sold out within 30 minutes of them going on sale. Fans were given the choice of nine events to attend for the contest but the tickets sold out for all of those events within 90 minutes.

Semi-final show seats were originally priced between £30 to £290, whereas grand final seats ranged from £80 to £380. Resellers are valuing the tickets at outrageous prices on websites, such as Viagogo, in order to cash in a significant profit. Tickets are being priced at thousands above face value. General admission standing tickets for the Eurovision Grand Final are currently priced at £3,500, whereas the price for one VIP Grand Final ticket is currently listed as £12,057. Fans who are desperate to attend the event have been left feeling disappointed at the ridiculously overpriced resale prices.

One of the presenters this years Eurovision Song Contest, Rylan Clark, has hit out at resellers over the shocking resale prices. On Twitter, Rylan posted a gif of a man who seems to showing his middle finger, whilst also writing, ‘’To the people selling Eurovision tickets at RIDICULOUS resale prices that arnt proper fans – pricks.’’

A spokesperson for Viagogo produced a statement regarding the resale prices. The statement said, “Viagogo is a regulated marketplace and we want fans to have the options and flexibility they deserve for buying and selling tickets to live events. It’s important to stress that prices can change and are not necessarily an indication of what a fan will spend.Tickets listed at eye-catching, high levels rarely, if ever, sell. Having just gone on sale, demand for a Eurovision ticket is high, but last year some tickets for the event sold on viagogo for as little as £26. We encourage fans to keep monitoring our site for different options.”

A Eurovision statement was issued explaining the actions they have taken to try to stop the resale issues, “We have switched off Ticketmaster’s ticket transfer option (this option enables purchasers of tickets to transfer their tickets into the names of others) in order to reduce the ability to resell tickets at inflated prices. Purchasers who wish to resell their tickets can do so at face value through Ticketmaster’s Fan to Fan Resale platform. Any tickets proven to be breaching terms and conditions of sale can be invalidated.” 

The musician chosen to represent the UK this year will be announced on BBC Radio 2, March 9. Singer Mae Muller has been rumoured to be the British entrant for the 2023 contest. Sam Ryder represented the UK at the 2022 Eurovision Contest, with his song ”Space Man’‘, and came second place to Ukraine. The grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will take place on Saturday 13th May, at 8pm BST. The event will be available to watch live on BBC One.

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