Musician's Guide to Eurovision

[Happy Jack]

Assuming that you are terminally bored, or desperately underemployed, here's a meaningless distraction for you.

 

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[MacDaddy]

 

 

 

[Russ]

I'm Team Aussie this year - one of my favourite bands are representing Australia - Voyager. 

They do a kind of synthpoppy take on prog-metal, I've been listening to them for quite a few years now, and they're bloody great. Their bass player Alex is also a monster player.  This was their third try ad being nominated for Eurovision, and they got the nod! 

 

Here's the tune - it's a banger.  

 

 

 

And Alex's bass playthrough: 

 

[LeftyJ]

14 hours ago, Russ said:

I'm Team Aussie this year - one of my favourite bands are representing Australia - Voyager. 

They do a kind of synthpoppy take on prog-metal, I've been listening to them for quite a few years now, and they're bloody great. Their bass player Alex is also a monster player.  This was their third try ad being nominated for Eurovision, and they got the nod! 

 

Here's the tune - it's a banger.  

 

 

 

And Alex's bass playthrough: 

 

 

Voyager are awesome! I saw them open for Leprous once here in the Netherlands, and have been listening to them regularly since. I wasn't aware they were competing in Eurovision this year, but that's awesome! 

[BreadBin]

33 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

 

Voyager are awesome! I saw them open for Leprous once here in the Netherlands, and have been listening to them regularly since. I wasn't aware they were competing in Eurovision this year, but that's awesome! 

I saw them supporting VOLA last year. They played a number and my gig buddy turned to me and said "It sounds a bit Eurovision doesn't it"

They then explained that it had been their entry into Australia's choose a Eurovision entry that year!

They are a really good professional band and put on a great show. 

Edited May 3, 2023 by BreadBin

[Russ]

2 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

 

Voyager are awesome! I saw them open for Leprous once here in the Netherlands, and have been listening to them regularly since. I wasn't aware they were competing in Eurovision this year, but that's awesome! 

They tried to get selected last year too, with the song "Dreamer". They won the audience vote, but not the jury vote. This year, there was no public vote, and they got "appointed", probably because they got passed over last year!

[BreadBin]

1 hour ago, Russ said:

They tried to get selected last year too, with the song "Dreamer". They won the audience vote, but not the jury vote. This year, there was no public vote, and they got "appointed", probably because they got passed over last year!

Dreamer - that was the song I was on about!

[tauzero]

Bloody hell, that Voyager song is awful. I absolutely hate the sound of autotuned vocals, it seems that it's an obligatory effect these days.

[odysseus]

19 hours ago, Russ said:

I'm Team Aussie this year - one of my favourite bands are representing Australia - Voyager. 

They do a kind of synthpoppy take on prog-metal, I've been listening to them for quite a few years now, and they're bloody great. Their bass player Alex is also a monster player.  This was their third try ad being nominated for Eurovision, and they got the nod! 

 

Here's the tune - it's a banger.  

 

 

 

And Alex's bass playthrough: 

 

 I love me a bit of Voyager. I've been a fan since I discovered them quite by chance about six years ago.

 

Don't think I'll be watching Eurovision though.... 

[Russ]

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

Bloody hell, that Voyager song is awful. I absolutely hate the sound of autotuned vocals, it seems that it's an obligatory effect these days.

There's no autotune at work there. Certainly not on the lead vocals. 

 

Danny and Alex can sing. Here's a live performance of the tune from a couple of weeks back: 

 

Edited May 3, 2023 by Russ

[BreadBin]

^^ yep there's no pitch correction there. They don't need it 👍

I can't stand it, properly ruins it for me.

[Gasman]

Shame that Moldova's Sunstroke Project didn't win their national vote this time and won't be at the final - I'll miss Sergey Stepanov, the Epic Sax Guy! 

 

Eurovision 2010: www.youtube.com > watch?v=Jh-cSidGovk

[YouMa]

I won't watch it this year as its not in a foreign country which takes the fun out of it for me. I will miss all the gorgeous exotic female presenters though.

[LeftyJ]

11 hours ago, YouMa said:

I won't watch it this year as its not in a foreign country which takes the fun out of it for me. I will miss all the gorgeous exotic female presenters though.

Excellent point. It was hosted here in the Netherlands in 2021, and it didn't help.

And our presenters were all (quite literally) overshadowed by Nikkie de Jager - who is awesome, and put the other three to shame with her English pronounciation.

 

[nilorius]

In my country Latvia - to get further at Eurovisio it is no chance for rock, metal, jazz, latin. Only perfectly balanced pop, soul or disco with superbably writen words that slime together in each part. No other way, believe me i have tried a lot.

[Dan Dare]

36 minutes ago, nilorius said:

In my country Latvia - to get further at Eurovisio it is no chance for rock, metal, jazz, latin. Only perfectly balanced pop, soul or disco with superbably writen words that slime together in each part. No other way, believe me i have tried a lot.

 

My hovercraft is full of eels.

[nilorius]

8 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

My hovercraft is full of eels.

My canned heat is full of boogies !

[Waddo Soqable]

2 minutes ago, nilorius said:

My canned heat is full of boogies !

Bogies? 

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Bogies? 

No, boogy !

[Dan Dare]

39 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Bogies? 

 

They slime together

[Waddo Soqable]

5 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

They slime together

I regret to say I knew a kid at school who used to eat his own bogies

( at least he'd didnt ask for other people's to try..) 

[Russ]

14 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I regret to say I knew a kid at school who used to eat his own bogies

( at least he'd didnt ask for other people's to try..) 

I went to school with a kid who would pay other kids 50p for a scab so he could eat it. 😮

 

[nilorius]

Bogie was also real for everybody, for me it's like a boogy now, when i use the bus to get to work.

Edited May 8, 2023 by nilorius

[Waddo Soqable]

2 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Bogie was also real for everybody, for me it's like a boogy now, when i use the bus to get to work.

Did they stick bogies on the bus seat then? 

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Did they stick bogies on the bus seat then? 

No, they stick them in a special place where i like to stand.