Australian singer Go-Jo, whose song Milkshake Man was Down Under nation’s 2025 Eurovision entry, made a guest appearance at the Tuesday semi-final. He joined Austrian hosts Victoria Swarovski and Michael Ostrowski on stage on Tuesday night, explaining that he had wound up back at Eurovision by mistake.
“I was actually supposed to go home to Australia, but instead I landed in Austria because some idiot confused Australia with Austria,” he said. Host Swarovski then declared: “Let’s clear this once and for all. What’s Austrian and what’s Australian.” The trio then broke into song, trading quips between the two nations that the trio called “opposites”.
Such lines included: “Spiders, snakes and shark attacks, Australia would kill me.” The Australian reply: “Your desserts, they cause heart attacks, and winter sports don’t thrill me.”
During the total bop of a song, a large yellow road sign beamed out across crowds featuring a kangaroo. The common road sign in regional Australia, warns drivers Down Under of kangaroo road hazards. The Eurovision version was tweaked to add the words ‘no kangaroos in Austria’. The quirky performance eventually culminated with a spot of call-response crowd involvement, with the trio geeing up their audience with: “I say kanga, you say roo!”
Australia’s participation in the competition will kick off on Thursday night with the second semifinal. Australian singer Delta Goodrem will preform her track Eclipse, despite previous online criticism from Aussies on social media, who branded her and her music as “boring,” “dull,” and “one-dimensional”; a far cry from 2025 Aussie entrant Go-Jo.