Remember Monday reflect on 'best year of our lives'

Remember Monday, the UK's 2025 Eurovision Song Contest entrant, have described 2025 as the "best year of our lives", despite a disappointing result in the competition.

Holly-Anne Hull, Charlotte Steele and Lauren Byrne were speaking to a group of students from the Sixth Form College Farnborough, Hampshire, where the three met while studying performing arts.

Remember Monday finished 19th out of 28 at the contest in Basel, Switzerland in May, even though their performance on the night was well-received.

The trio, who formed the band while at the college, said their lives since Basel had been the "scariest... and also best feeling in the world".

Remember Monday went on a UK tour after Eurovision and performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for Children in Need last month.

Ms Steele was a founding staff member of performing arts sixth form Artemis College, in Bracknell, and would go onto be its deputy head teacher

Asked how they prepared for performances in front of millions, she said they "try not to think about it too much," adding that "we got our nerves out probably the first time that there was the big arena audience".

"By the final, we just had to try not to remember there were 200 million people watching at home, you can't picture that number," she said.

Asked what advice the band had for next year's UK Eurovision entrant, Ms Hull said: "Just live every day to the max, because it goes very, very quickly".

Despite a Eurovision performance that critics felt was strong - the trio's vocal harmonies were particularly praised - their song "What The Hell Just Happened" failed to receive any public votes.

The BBC's music editor Mark Savage said on the night that although the band could "really sing", the complexity of the song may have been their downfall.

He described it as a "manic mish-mash of musical styles... it sped up in the verses, and slowed down for the choruses, with all the consistency of a jelly in a heatwave".