mr james newman. were deep—sea divers. # and no—one came to find us. # if you had nothing left. # i'd give you my last breath.# cheering and applause. you're so wonderful! cheers! the awesome band! thank you. you get reactions on instagram and twitter and stuff but when you get, like, a real—life reaction, it was like... ..you know, really rewarding. john's come for a bit of press. haven't seen me in a while, have you? ijust wanted a couple of drinks to calm down, cos it has been... laughter. that was pretty good, actually. it has been a mental day. you remember what it used to be like, john? yeah. remember, back in the day? i remember back in the day. next week. next week, head—to—head. i got you a tequila. oh, you are a legend. a good one. a lot of people were excited that i was doing eurovision, and didn't expect it. well, some people guessed it on twitter the night before. they thought it was either going to be me orjohn. well, what do you want, half? i'll do half, you do half. cheers. to the futu

we can speak to this year's uk entrant james newman, along with radio 2 dj ken bruce, who normally coversck quite far. waterloo is there from aber as it should be on going way, way back. —— waterloo from abba. and there are songs from way back that i think even both of you would know and it's a well—known song that came from eurovision. as well that, we have the song heroes from mans zelmerlow, which i think changed eurovision. even though it is a recent one. a different setting to what i thought i was going to be doing, i thought i would be polishing my dancing shoes and getting ready for a big night on the bigger stage of my life but instead i'm in the kitchen having a cup of coffee. it's a nice kitchen, i'll give you that. what will you be doing tonight? goal unfortunately for my wife, i've got us some abba outfits, so because there is only two of us, we are just ab. do you have on nearby? is it the white satin jumpsuits? go and have on nearby? is it the white satinjumpsuits? go and she has a poncho and i have put up some bunting and british flags, and we are going to have a zoom party

radio 1 newsbeat followed james newman on hisjourney to be the uk's eurovision representative ahead ofoss the uk for the rest of this week and on into the weekend. it was though particularly chilly and windy to start the new week. the next few days will see the wind ease. it will get warmer gradually. we were sitting to the east of this high pressure on monday. we have a blasting northerly wind, and as it wobbles through, it will bring us much warmer atlantic air. come the weekend our temperatures will get quite a surge. here we are for the rest of today. the weather front working its way down out of southern scotland into northern england. patchy rain and perhaps even some snow for the tops of the pennines. wintry showers in scotland. the aircoming in the air coming in is that cold. a frost in scotland and northern england overnight. further south, cloud and a few showers. it isa it is a milder night across southern england and south wales. a few showers at the south—east first thing. they will tend to clear. the northerly wind will bring more showers into the north—east of england th

want to james newman, it was a great song, he becomes our nominee and itjust doesn't happen.celand. it's very easy to say without a contest that iceland would have one which is what everyone is saying because often the favourite favourite doesn't wind on the night. i think iceland definitely would have had a good chance and it's a shame that song cannot go straight through next year. azerbaijan, the cleopatra, the russian entry would have done well. this year's artists, it's up to the country but this your‘s artists if they want can perform again next year but it has to bea perform again next year but it has to be a different song, it cannot be the current song. why do i go to all the current song. why do i go to all the effort of writing a song i need to do it again. thank you for coming on, scott. —— to do it again. thank you for coming on, scott. -- go to all the effort of writing a song and need to do it again. i think i'd give it your eyes and overall. british entry an absolute cracker. that's all from breakfast today. andrew marr is limbering up for his show ina andrew