The Mirror newspaper has revealed that Gary Barlow has been invited to submit a song for the 2008 Making Your Mind up show, the United Kingdom's Eurovision Song Contest selection show. He has revealed that although he is considering a second entry as a songwriter, Take That would not perform the song.
Gary Barlow entered a song in 2004, losing out to James Fox's entry Hold onto our love. Although he is not ruling out writing a second entry for the comepetition four years on, Barlow said: "It's a great show and maybe there's a chance we could pull it off, but think of the stick we would get!"
The BBC have not yet released any news regarding the 2008 national selection for the United Kingdom, but news is expected early in 2008. Last year, well known names such as Morrisey and Jarvis Cocker were linked to the event, and JustinHawkinsentered the competitionhowever they havenow ruled themselves out of participating in 2008. After a series of poor results, the BBC may have more difficulties attracting strong names from the British music industry to the event.
