Last month the synth-metal band, who hail from Perth, were announced as the act Australia would be sending all the way to Liverpool.
First forming back in 1999, Voyager is made up of lead singer Daniel Estrin, guitarists Simone Dow and Scott Kay, bassist Alex Canion and drummer Ashley Doodkorte.
They’ve been campaigning to represent their home country since the invitation was extended back in 2015, and while they narrowly missed out following a public vote last year, this time around they were handpicked.
The first band to ever represent Australia, they’ve described their pop metal track Promise as being ‘made for the Eurovision stage’.
But although they might be guaranteed a highly sought after spot in Liverpool Arena in May, they had to make sure their extended family and friends could join the live audience too.
Which of course meant having to jump online with thousands of others 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 members of the band were lucky to get tickets for their loved ones, but it was a stressful task.
‘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?’
Looking ahead though, Canion said he was excited to have his wife and their young son travel to the UK for the contest, as well as extended family and some friends who had managed to snap up 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.
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