Gearing up for EUROVISION - Australia Decides on Feb. 26, Voyager’s Alex Canion and Scott Kay join our host Dario for a full hour of good prog, pop and Eurovision banter! Nerding out on Symphony X and Textures, musing about the evolving progscene and evaluating their chances against stiff competition in the heavy department this year. Don’t miss out on them before they might go to Italy as the next step of their (World) Domination Game!

Chapters:

01:25 Why did we invite Voyager to the Progtalks with ‘only’ a new single out?

03:12 Why is Australia competing in the EUROVISION song contest?

04:20 Shooting the video for Dreamer after wrapping up A Voyage Through Time

09:15 Songwriters and performers at once: a novelty at Eurovision?

10:47 Writing Dreamer

16:08 Any other Voyager songs that are fit for Eurovision?

20:05 The Domination vs. The Damnation Game (Symphony X)

23.38 Evaluating the other contestants Voyager are up against

26:18 How heavy is too heavy for a Eurovision audience?

27:50 Pain of Salvations Eurovision run: Daniel Gildenlöw the Shaman

30:22 Danny, the compass for navigating through the Eurovision ocean

32:20 The challenge of writing a short song

33:20 ‘selling out’ in the eyes of an elitist heavy music crowd

38:40 2022: the year of heavy bands at Eurovision: stiff competition!

43:18 Australia Decides

43:48 Any other Prog bands who should enter Eurovision?

46:19 More Voyager plans apart from Eurovision? New album?

50:30 A stable line-up for more than a decade: the secret ingredient for songwriting chemistry?

🎵 Voyager is:

Danny Estrin - Vocals, Keyboards

Alex Canion - Bass, Vocals

Simone Dow - Guitars

Scott Kay - Guitars

Ash Doodkorte - Drums

💿 Discography:

Element V (2003)

uniVers (2007)

I Am the ReVolution (2009)

The Meaning of I (2011)

V (2014)

Ghost Mile (2017)

Colours in the Sun (2019)

Dreamer (Single) (2022)

✔️ Follow Voyager:

Website: https://www.voyagerau.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voyageraustralia

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/voyagerau/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/voyagerau

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/voyageraustralia

Bandcamp: https://voyager.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GTGRJu

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