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• After multiple attempts, they were directly chosen by the post-Australia Decides “committious mysterious” and hopped on the long haul to Liverpool.
• They did not disappoint, making it through to the final.
• Traditionally, synths in metal, particularly onstage, were generally frowned upon and seen as a sign of inauthenticity.
• Beginning with synthesised staccato pulses playing rich harmonic progressions, it feels like a classic Euro-trance anthem, not unlike the Swedish winner, Tattoo.

A what? I haven’t seen one of those in ages!

• It looks like a keyboard but is hung around the neck and played like a guitar.
• The first verse of Voyager’s song begins its ascent, “if you haven’t ever done anything like this before then you haven’t been alive”.
• I suppose not – I really need to get out with my keytar more often, this looks like fun.
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An instrument of mixed feelings

• Created in the late 1970s and popularised throughout the 1980s, it looks like a product of its time.
• Made of shiny plastic, shaped like the future, it’s showy and rather impractical to play.
• If you want to play chords, it is easier to play them on a horizontal keyboard, like a traditional synthesiser.
• Like its distant ancestor, the piano accordion, a player is free to move around, finally free of the horizontal grip of gravity.

The fall and the rise

• This quickly resulted in cheaper, easier-to-use synthesisers becoming more widely accessible, leading to the home recording boom we all enjoy today.
• This bastion of the future soon became as passe as the flat-tops, mohawks and mullets of the people who played them.
• As we moved into the 1990s, the joyous excesses of 1980s pop bands would soon be seen as daggy.
• Replaced by faceless DJs, flannel-wearing rockers and choreographed dancers, it was time to sell your keytar or put it into storage.

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