Australia’s 2023 ‘Eurovision’ entrant Voyager imagine “prog music” has a spot on the tune contest.
The prog-metal band are heading to Liverpool subsequent month to symbolize their nation within the annual singing competitors with their epic observe ‘Promise’, and guitarist Simone Dow admits it could be a “dream” to win the present like Italian glam rockers Maneskin did in 2021 and Finnish monster metallers Lordi in 2006.
She informed Whole Guitar journal: “I feel prog is definitely excellent for enjoying at Eurovision.
“The entire level of it and the entire function is not only the music; they really need you to reveal the theatrical aspect of it as effectively. It is the visuals, the way it appears to be like and the way you inform that story on stage, as a lot because the music. Prog is normally five-minute epics the place you are telling a thousand tales, so why not?”
Australia has been eligible to compete since 2015, and Voyager – additionally comprising Daniel Estrin, Scott Kay, Ashley Doodkorte, and Alex Canion – have been dreaming of doing the present since then.
Seeing ‘Roc Hallelujah’ rockers Lordi in live performance impressed them to enroll.
Simone mentioned: “We really went to see Lordi in live performance.
“It was unimaginable. It was a full stage present they placed on with props, not simply carrying the outfits. It was form of Alice Cooper-esque. I assume that was the primary time I believed, ‘Wow, okay – I assume steel does carry out at Eurovision!?”
