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‘I’m super excited, but it’s bloody expensive!’ Australia’s Eurovision megafans gather to cheer on Electric Fields in Sweden
With 160 million watching at home, Electric Fields is about show the world 65,000 years of Indigenous culture – which ‘is already a beautiful win for Australia’
When Butchulla song man Fred Leone brings out the first ever yidaki (didgeridoo) to grace the Eurovision stage in Malmö, in the early hours of Wednesday in Australia, a party of Garrwa and Butchulla tribal families will be watching live from his home town of Hervey Bay, south-east Queensland.
“All the local elders and families are getting together to have a big Eurovision party back home. They’ve been telling me, ‘We’ll be watching, we’ll be cheering you on’,” Leone says. Even in Malmö, it feels “surreal” to be playing at the world’s biggest song contest.
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