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Speaker 1: Fresh from the buzz which I imagine doesn't wear off

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Speaker 1: overnight of Eurovision. Simone Dow from Voyagers joining us. Good morning, Simone, how.

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Speaker 2: You doing morning?

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Speaker 3: Good morning? How is it still buzzing in your ears?

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Speaker 2: A bit?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't. I think it's going to take another

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Speaker 2: month or two for it's actually thinking. To be honest,

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Speaker 2: is what we've gone through the last few months has

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Speaker 2: just been insane.

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Speaker 1: Well, boy, you're just going to be playing at the

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Speaker 1: w Way Day Festival Sunday week during the fourth of

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Speaker 1: Burswell Park, performing alongside Amy Shark, Baby Animals and Mark Seymour.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about Eurovision, because I mean this was

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Speaker 1: huge Eurovision. We were so excited that a Perth band

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Speaker 1: was representing this. But you had made a few attempts

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Speaker 1: to get in before, hadn't you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean it started off as when it

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Speaker 2: first kind of got announced in twenty fifteen, because we've

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Speaker 2: had a ton of fans coming up to us at

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Speaker 2: some of our shows the past saying man, you guys

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Speaker 2: would be great on Eurovision and we were like, really,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Danny was like, yes, amazing and ask

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Speaker 2: because they've been Eurovision fans for years, we're never going

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Speaker 2: to be a chance of that. Then twenty fifteen rolled

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Speaker 2: all around and obviously we got added into being able

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Speaker 2: to compete. We started off with like a hashtag Voyager

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Speaker 2: for Eurovisions, trying to see if it guarned some attention.

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Speaker 2: Then when you could start popping the applications in, we

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Speaker 2: chucked a couple of songs through Runaway got in the

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Speaker 2: top twenty, it didn't quite make the top ten and

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen and then we did Australia Decides last year

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Speaker 2: and we came second. It was on the public vote,

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Speaker 2: which blew our minds. Oh my god. And yeah, then

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Speaker 2: we got the call in late last year just saying yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're how would you like to go to Liverpool? Basically

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Speaker 2: after we put a song in, Yeah I do. Then

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Speaker 2: we're just like, okay, we ever incredible. Yeah, we were

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Speaker 2: in shock and you know, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: it took like a couple of months of that to

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Speaker 2: think in let alone actually doing the thing.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, what's it like?

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Speaker 4: Can you take us back to the moment on stage

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Speaker 4: the last time The last time we saw you was

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Speaker 4: playing a blazing guitar solo on the stage of Eurovision

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Speaker 4: doing the guitar histor onics like any van Halen.

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Speaker 3: And it's just everything.

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Speaker 4: Is it in your mind that there could be a

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Speaker 4: billion people watching those? I think it's so surreal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, like performing and playing music, I mean

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Speaker 2: that's what we all, I mean, that's our passion, that's

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Speaker 2: what we were born to do. We love performing. A

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Speaker 2: lot of people ask us that, they're like, we are

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Speaker 2: you nervous. It's like it's a different kind of nervous

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Speaker 2: when you enjoy it. It's like no nervous excitement. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you kind of just as soon as you walk out.

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Speaker 2: I mean the room was filled with eleven twelve thousand

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Speaker 2: people as well. Yeah, yeah, as soon as you walk

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Speaker 2: just energizes you. You just feel that and you're like

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Speaker 2: you push that all back out again. And the hard

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Speaker 2: thing with Eurovision is trying to condense that into a

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Speaker 2: camera for people so the viewers back home get the

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Speaker 2: same feeling as the people in the actual room that

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Speaker 2: you're in. So that was the hardest part. But now

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Speaker 2: we were loving it. Like honestly, every time we were

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Speaker 2: up on there, we were like can we just do

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Speaker 1: One of the funnest parts of Eurovision is some of

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Speaker 1: the things that you see happen on the stage in

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Speaker 1: terms of the just the staging.

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Speaker 3: Are there any rules and parameters that have to be followed?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you did have pyrotechnics and everything going on.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, look it was the crew there were absolutely sensational. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I never worked with such a professional crew before. They

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Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that they can get off these

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Speaker 2: ginormous props in between songs. I think they've got like

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Speaker 2: what I mean. And that wasn't even I don't even

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Speaker 2: they're just sort of yell at each other and let

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Speaker 2: each other know they're around. But it's like organized chaos.

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Speaker 3: Amazing incredible super.

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Speaker 2: Rounds, and the stage itself is just I've never played

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Speaker 3: And I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I hope I get to again ye led screens and yeah,

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Speaker 2: like you said, pyrotechniques, it's just yeah, absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 3: It was just a thrill imagining you're ruined.

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Speaker 1: Now of course after having a crew like that, it's like,

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Speaker 1: come on, come off, why am I waiting?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, like we've played on we've played to three people,

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Speaker 2: We've played to now you know, like twenty thousands up

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Speaker 2: through the cameras as well. We honestly, it's it doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter what size of the stage it's on, it's the

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Speaker 2: we're not We're not I'm looking a gift horse in

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Speaker 4: Okays of mine? What about backstage? Is it a love

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Speaker 2: Well? Actually, you know what it was everyone that was

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Speaker 2: involved in the competition this year were absolutely lovely human beings. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I'm not just saying that for the radio this Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were honestly like the most genuine and sweet people

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Speaker 2: and it was really sad when you know, when we

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Speaker 2: were doing the semis and you had to actually say goodbye. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we became quite close with the busker and they got

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Speaker 2: they didn't make it in their semi and we were

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Speaker 2: really sad to you know, you just it's like by

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Speaker 2: you just don't see them again. Yes, so it's it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a love fast backstage. Everyone was just like

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Speaker 2: time to actually just go out and have a beer

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Speaker 2: or have a feed with each other. It would have

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Speaker 2: been really nice, but you know, got stuff to do.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Well, you came a very respectable ninth.

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Speaker 3: We were so proud.

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Speaker 1: But what do you make of these reports that you

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Speaker 1: know it was might have been slightly swung in Sweden's

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Speaker 1: favor because next year being the fiftieth and getting aberate,

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Speaker 1: do you think it's the you know, all that we.

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Speaker 2: Didn't pay attention to any of Like, we didn't really

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Speaker 2: was going on. We were just the whole time it

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Speaker 2: was this. We want to immerse ourselves in in what's

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Speaker 2: going on in this in this moment, because we're very

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Speaker 2: aware that you don't get opportunities like this very often

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Speaker 2: in your life, so we just wanted to enjoy it

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Speaker 2: and just like feel every moment of it. We had

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Speaker 2: the time of our lives. We were absolutely thrilled we

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Speaker 2: won our second semi and six in the jury vote,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, and then to come ninth votal. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: we are stoked. We're not bothered with any of that

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Speaker 2: noise that comes out of the press or anything. We're

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Speaker 2: stoked and we're really we felt the love, honestly from Australia,

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Speaker 2: from WA in particular, the love that we fell over

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Speaker 2: there and the support from everyone back here was just incredible.

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Speaker 2: So thank you to everyone that you know sent us messages,

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Speaker 2: who voted for us, who said that tells their family

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Speaker 2: to vote for us because they couldn't vote in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone.

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Speaker 1: Well, what the people want to know is when is

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Speaker 1: your album Fearless in Love coming out.

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Speaker 3: How can they get it? What's going on there?

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is currently available for pre orders on If

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Speaker 2: you go to any of our social media platforms you

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Speaker 2: will see that our website. It is released on July fourteenth.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: You also have an Aussie tour in June which is

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Speaker 2: nearly sold out. I think we've still got some tickets

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Speaker 2: left in Canberra, Adelaide and Brizzy if you can get

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Speaker 2: in fast. And then we're coming back to Europe in October.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm very good on the Wada Festival is going

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Speaker 4: to be a beauty to someone for June.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait.

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Speaker 2: We just want to have a nice, little family friendly

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Speaker 2: party with everyone that's supported us and have a really

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Speaker 2: good time.

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Speaker 3: Looking forward to it asome Mina's great to chat to.

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Speaker 2: You, No worry, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: No great to hear the story, so yeah, worry