Australia: Electric Fields speak about their preparations for Eurovision 2024!

The Guardian spoke with Australia‘s representatives for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in May in Malmö, Sweden, regarding their participation in the competition. Less than a month before rehearsals begin, Electric Fields, who will perform the song One Milkali (One Blood) live at Malmö Arena, dropped some clues about their onstage perfromance.

The band members first shared some information regarding their performance on the Eurovision stage, emphasising that connecting the audience with the song’s message is their top priority.

Finding connections between the lyrics and the outfits, as well as between the audience and the performance, is a lot of fun for us.

The band also stressed the value of advancing their culture. Given this, they made the decision to incorporate Yankunytjatjara, an Aboriginal language, into their song. The band members stated the following in relation to this decision:

Even though our people have been degraded by their own nation, we are incredibly proud. We resemble a resurrected phoenix. Let’s proceed as a team. Australia will accept us. We just feel very happy and ready to prove what we want to prove.

They concluded by discussing their thoughts about competing in Eurovision. The band has attempted to perform on the competition stage previously. In 2019, they finished second in the Australian national final, with the song “2000 and Whatever”.