Australia’s 2023 Eurovision entry and song revealed

Australia’s Eurovision entry and song for 2023 has just been revealed – here’s who we’re sending to Liverpool in May.

Nick Bond

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February 22, 2023 - 6:15AM

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Australia’s entrant and song for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest has been revealed.

On YouTube at Tuesday at 7.30pm Central European Time (Friday 5.30am AEDT) the Perth band Voyager was revealed as Australia’s entrant.

The synth metal group will go to Liverpool in England with their song Promise.

“As a long-time Eurovision fan, this is the pinnacle — Voyager gets to play the greatest show on earth!” Danny Estrin, lead singer of Voyager, said.

“Our song Promise is made for the Eurovision stage and collectively we feel it’s one of our best yet.”

The memorable tune is definitely poppy but has a good dollop of heavy metal in there too - a genre which is a favourite of Eurovision audiences.

While Ukraine won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, this year’s competition will take place in the home country of the runner-up, the UK, due to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.

The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will take place early on the morning of Sunday May 13, Australian time.

It’ll be the eighth time Australia has been a part of Eurovision, and follows Sheldon Riley placing 15th in last year’s contest. His ballad Not the Same went over well with judges but left viewers cold, earning a brutal score of just 2 points from the public vote.

Australia’s biggest Eurovision success story so far is still Dami Im, who nearly won the competition in 2016, coming a close second with her stirring ballad Sound of Silence.

Sheldon Riley copped a mixed reaction last year. Picture: Getty

Two years later, poor Jess Mauboy delivered our worst showing so far at a Eurovision final, placing 20th in the 2018 contest with the song We Got Love.