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Musician loses out on performing at Eurovision

Graham Barnard & Alice Cunningham
BBC News, Suffolk
BBC Ollie Trevers smiles at the camera. He has dark hair and wears a dark coloured top with some white detailing around the collar. A green curtain is behind him as well as a white light.BBC
Mr Trevers and the band made it through to the final five where the public voted for their favourite entry

A Suffolk musician who missed out on a chance to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest has spoken of the "amazing experience" despite the loss.

Ollie Trevers and his band The Great Leslie, which has a German guitarist, had been taking part in the Chefsache ESC 2025 competition and made it to the final five at the weekend.

The winner would be chosen to perform as Germany's entry at this year's Eurovision, which is being held in Basel, Switzerland, in May.

Mr Trevers, who is from Framlingham, said despite the band not winning the public vote, he was proud of their efforts.

Kevin Le A band photo of The Great Leslie, which is made up for four musicians who, in this image, are standing in front of a brick wallKevin Le
The Great Leslie have a German guitarist and decided to try and represent the country at this year's Eurovision

"It was an amazing experience," he told to BBC Radio Suffolk.

"We did so well and I'm really proud of the whole band. We were there for the entire month and we had a great time.

"We met some amazing people and I'm sure it's going to lead to bigger and better things."

The Great Leslie were initially part of 24 acts chosen to audition for Germany's Eurovision selection competition, having been picked from a pool of about 3,000 entrants.

During the weekend's competition, they performed their song These Days, but ultimately lost out to Abor & Tynna with their song Baller, which received 34.9% of the votes during the event in Hürth.

Thomas Heß A close-up image of Ollie Trevers. He has dark hair that has been slicked back with Jel. He wears a silver earring in one ear.Thomas Heß
Ollie Trevers from Suffolk is the lead singer of The Great Leslie, which had attempted to represent Germany at this year's Eurovision

Despite enjoying the experience, Mr Trevers was looking forward to getting back to Framlingham.

"I'm very happy to come back home as well because it's been a long time," he added.

"It's going to be very nice to get back to Suffolk."

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