Eurovision fans weren’t the only ones eager to get tickets to the live events; one of the members of Australia’s Voyager admitted to feeling the same way.
Last month, the Perth-based synth-metal band was announced as the act that Australia will send all the way to Liverpool.
Voyager was founded in 1999 by lead singer Daniel Estrin, guitarists Simone Dow and Scott Kay, bassist Alex Canion, and drummer Ashley Doodkorte.
They’ve been lobbying to represent their homeland since the invitation was made in 2015, and while they nearly missed out on a public vote last year, they were selected this time.
They are the first band to ever represent Australia, and their pop metal single Promise has been characterised as “made for the Eurovision stage.”
However, even though they were assured a highly sought-after slot in Liverpool Arena in May, they had to ensure that their extended family and friends could also attend the live show.
That means getting online with thousands of other people a few weeks ago.
‘Our friends and family were joking around and asking if we could put their names on the door,’ Canion told Metro.co.uk.
‘However, we did say we were playing a gig with 36 other countries, so tickets were a little hard to come by.’
The bassist and other band members were fortunate to obtain tickets for their loved ones, but it was a hard effort.
‘I went through the ticket buying situation and it was nerve-wracking,’ he laughed.
‘We were on our computers trying to secure tickets for other people and it was a pretty surreal experience.
‘Even later also hearing about those £45,000 suites… what is that in Australian dollars, like $100 million?’
Canion, on the other hand, expressed excitement about his wife and their little boy travelling to the UK for the event, as well as extended family and some acquaintances who had managed to secure tickets.
‘On top of figuring out what we are going to wear on stage, there’s also been the logistics of bringing our families over from Perth and how we will do that, which will be a wild experience,’ he said.
‘We will get to share the biggest moment of our careers with our family and friends though, which will just be the cherry on top.’
On Wednesday evening, the running order for the two semi-finals were announced, with Voyager picked out to close the second.
‘I woke up to that news this morning’ he said yesterday.
‘I went holy …. I don’t know who did that, but thank you.’
He added: ‘Being a band we play a lot of festivals and gigs with multiple acts. For us it feels like we are headlining Eurovision semi-final 2.’
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is coming to the BBC in May.
Source My Celebrity Life.