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

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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”.

This is a big deal for us. We always had the hope that we could influence the world, even in the slightest positive way

Electric Fields will be performing 13th, in the first semi-final on May 7th.

Below, you can watch the Eurovisionfun team’s reaction to Australia’s Eurovision 2024 entry

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Source: The Guardian 

Australia: Discussions are underway for its Eurovision 2024 participation!

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The decision about Australia’s participation in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest is still pending, according to information obtained by TV Tonight Australia, as talks are still going on between EBU and SBS, the nation’s public broadcaster.

According to SBS sources, the broadcaster will air Eurovision 2024 as usual. However, the country’s participation is still up for negotiation. Nonetheless, the aim of the country’s public television is to be present in Malmö.

Eurovision is a cherished part of the SBS family, our intention is for Australia to remain in the competition and we are currently in discussions. We’ll confirm details as soon as we are able.

Since 1983, Australia has televised Eurovision, which has garnered immense popularity. As part of the celebration of the contest’s 60th anniversary, the country took part for the first time in 2015, with the intention of this happening just once. However, EBU kept issuing invitations to Australia in the years that followed, until 2019 when the country signed a five-year contract with the organization that allowed it to compete in the contest without a formal invitation. This contract expired in 2023, therefore it’s unclear whether the country will participate in the competition going forward.

Australia was represented last year by Voyager with the song “Promise”, finishing in 9th place in the final, having previously won the 2nd Semi-Final!

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Source: TV Tonight 

Australia: Sacha Jean Baptiste will be the Creative Director for Sheldon Riley!

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In an interview with Aussievision, Paul Clarke from Australia’s Eurovision Delegation revealed that Sacha Jean-Baptiste will be the creative director for the performance of Sheldon Riley in Turin. 

Paul, who is Director of Blink TV, SBS’s production partner, said that the team had signed up with Sacha to work with Australia this year after the collaboration they had in Eurovision 2017 and 2018!

“We’ve signed up with creative director Sacha Jean-Baptiste, who is working with us this year, I’m really excited about that. At the moment they are just doing choreography sessions… they are just doing uniform hand movements, they are in a creative fever, they absolutely love each other!”

Sacha-Jean Baptiste is a Swedish choreographer, dancer, and show producer who has worked on over 20 Eurovision entries. These have included iconic performances such as ‘Fuego’ for Cyprus, ‘Beautiful Mess’ for Bulgaria, ‘LoveWave’ for Armenia and ‘Tout l’univers’ with Gjon’s Tears for Switzerland last year. This year we already know that Sacha-Jean Baptiste will be the stage director for Sweden and also Switzerland.

Listen the live performance of “Not The Same” by Sheldon Riley in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn24vrXH64k

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