I’m waiting for someone to cover our song – I want a Balkan beats version! Or if Andrew Lambrou did it! You know, Andrew’s a big metal fan.Īsh: Yes, we’re on all the socials Andrew Lambrou a comrade or the competition, or is there even a competition?Īlex: We feel we’ve won the competition already. You’re exploring your own musicality and you’re covering genres that you wouldn’t otherwise. Is a competition but it’s also about getting to know the other artists and covering their songs. That’s part of what Eurovision’s about because, yes, it What’s the social media strategy moving forward? Are you covering other contestants’ songs like you did during Australia Decides?ĭanny: We want to do that again. Hair is a huge part of your identity and then it’s gone. Alex and Scott should get a soothing balm…ĭanny: They better! And we want to do a bald awareness campaign because that transition from having hair to baldness – a lot of men go through it and it’s not talked about. Moroccan Oil – Eurovision’s major sponsor – is going to have a field day with all the hair in the band. It must be like your workout.” Many professional drummers do have a workout routine. Do you need a strong core to keep up all that drumming?Īsh: We were on tour last year in Berlin and Danny’s parents came to the show. You’ll be fit after two weeks rehearsing at Eurovision. There’s going to be some fists on the ground, for sure, and an epic, glorious ending that needs to be uplifting. How are you preparing for that?Īlex: I’m expecting to feel what I felt on stage at Australia Decides, only a greater feeling of destiny and the realising of a career I’ve spent 19 years chasing.ĭanny: We want to stage it similarly to the video… just on steroids. You’ll soon be on the global stage for Eurovision. It turned out that a Russian bootlegger had printed his own copies of our album and everyone had bought it from Amazon. Simone: Well, on that… we played a festival in America and did a signing afterwards and all these people came in with a copy of our third album but when we opened the centre of the booklet, which Ash had designed, it was blank. When you get hacked, it’s kind of like, you’ve made it, right? Simone, your socials were hacked a while back. Scott, Cain and Simone attempt a growl, and Cain gets a head-banging lesson from Danny. They want to do crazy stuff and have fun and that’s what we do. I think kids feed off the intensity and the energy of it. My friend’s six-year-old loves the growl. Scott: Seeing that reaction to a death-metal growl in a Eurovision song is awesome.ĭanny: Heavy music doesn’t get out there as much as other genres so they think it’s going to be Cookie Monster growly stuff. My favourite part is when Danny inflects on “human… touch!” It disarms you and you want to listen again… then there’s the growl! This song will be on everyone’s Spotify wrap-up by the end of the year!Īlex: It’s nice to see the reception and people getting involved in our back catalogue.Īsh: We’ve never worked harder on a song… to take Promise where we wanted to in the most efficient fashion and not have it be too jarring was a huge song writing challenge. We approached Promise in a way that allowed us to add things and make it more exciting. You don’t usually think of how a song will look on stage unless you’re writing for theatre. Having done Australia Decides we realised we needed to do something that’s more for the stage. Promise was written entirely for Eurovision. Tell us about the evolution from last year’s song, Dreamer to Promise.ĭanny: Dreamer was a Voyager song we already had, moulded into three minutes for Eurovision. Coming second in Australia Decides last year was exciting, but people kept encouraging us to have another crack. People at our shows kept saying, “You guys would be great for Eurovision!” Then in 2015 we checked it into overdrive – everything we did had the hashtag. Is this the culmination of your #VoyagerForEurovision campaign?Īsh: We started that hashtag before Australia could even enter. On stage, there’s usually a keytar in the hands of lead vocalist Danny Estrin, and he’s joined up there by Simone Dow (guitar), Scott Kay (guitar), Ashley Doodkorte (drums) and Alex Canion (bass, vocals).ĮSC Bubble’s Cain, hopped on their voyage to Liverpool, to see how these long time Eurovision fans are ‘promising’ to rip up the stage… hook, line and growl!ĭNA: Voyager will represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest with your new song Promise. This year SBS has given their new song, Promise, a direct pass to represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest this May. Voyager, the synthpop metal quintet from Perth came 2 nd in Australia Decides 2022 last year, not to mention, winning the public vote.
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