Keli Holiday Puts His Hand up For Eurovision
"No, I would give it a crack. We could do it,” Holiday tells Australian breakfast radio.
Delta Goodrem one year, Keli Holiday the next?
The Australian singer, songwriter and co-founder of award-winning electronic duo Peking Duk isn’t against the idea of following in Delta’s footsteps and representing Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Holiday (real name: Adam Hyde) stopped by Triple M’s “Mick In The Morning” on Wednesday, May 27 for a chat with co-hosts Mick Molloy, Rosie Walton, and Nick Riewoldt.
While on air, funnyman Molloy pitched the idea of Holiday throwing his hat into the glittery ring that is Eurovision. “I had a fever dream the other day,” Molloy remarked, “you would win us Eurovision.” He continued, “it’s possibly of no interest to you… it’d be incredible. You go there and do that (“Dancing2” dance), and they would lose their minds.”
Holiday was on the same page. “No, I would give it a crack. We could do it,” he enthused.
Goodrem is a hard act to follow. With her performance of “Eclipse” earlier this month at Wiener Stadthalle, Austria, Australia placed fourth overall — the country’s second-highest finish in the contest’s history, behind only Dami Im’s runner-up effort a decade earlier, in 2016. Bulgaria will host Eurovision 2027 after DARA won in Vienna with “Bangaranga.”
Holiday is flying high right now, thanks to his viral hit “Dancing2,” song of the year winner at the 2025 ARIA Awards. Its parent album, Capital Fiction, opened at No. 3 on the all-genres ARIA Albums Chart in February, and topped the national Australian albums tally. The Canberra-based artist supported the record with a national tour in March that went deep into regional Australia, and headed abroad with his first-ever run of dates in North America.
That’s where Holiday was, briefly, grounded.
As previously reported, Holiday says he was denied re-entry into the United States during that trek, forcing him to cancel a planned New York City performance and return home early. “Unfortunately I’m not going to make it to tonight’s show at Baby’s All Right in NYC,” Holiday wrote on Instagram in March. “I have spent all day detained at the Canadian border and denied entry back into the U.S. despite having the proper visa documentation in place.”
Speaking this week on breakfast radio, Holiday said he can’t wait to get back. “I was meant to go to Ol’ Mates [a pub connected to Aussie comedians Hamish Blake and Andy Lee], I was going to do a surprise set there and have a bunch of fun with a bunch of people,” he remarked. “I’m not at liberty to discuss such matters fully at this time… (laughs)… but what I will say, is that I love the United States. I’m gutted I couldn’t do the New York City show, and I hope to get back there soon because there is a lot of people wanting a Keli Holliday show, but I want to bring it to them, so we’ll see.”
The Keli Holiday experience continues with tour dates Down Under, followed by shows in the United Kingdom and Europe through June.
Stream the “Mick In The Morning” interview below.
