The Bandaloop are in the race to become Austria's next Eurovision stars. Their song
Back To Fantasy is one of the five songs competing in the Austrian National Final on Februari 15.
And Eurocovers is pleased to inform you all that the band have recorded ABBA's
Waterloo after a 'meeting' with the Legendary Swedish band and made it available for you here, Yay! (more people should do that).
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| Credits: photo (c) Norbert Ivanek, wax figures (c) Madame Tussauds Wien |
"Waterloo" is an
exclusive gift for all the fans of The Bandaloop
and is available until the 28th
of February as free download here:
Download "Waterloo" Hope you didn't miss it.
"Back To
Fantasy" can be downloaded on
iTunes:
"Back To Fantasy" on iTunes
The Bandaloop website, Also check out the
Austria page at the Malmö Collection.
from their press message:
"Since this year's ESC finals will take place in Malmo, Sweden, the members of
The Bandaloop - Barca Baxant, Justin Case and Mike Blitz - tried to gain some
inspiration from the legendary Swedish band ABBA. Fortunately, they could easily
"get in touch" with the most popular Swedish band in Vienna - for they are
currently part of the exhibition at Madame Tussauds Wien, as a wax
figure".
"ABBA used to give me a lot of inspiration when I was young. I
was a huge fan of them!" so Barca Baxant, singer of The Bandaloop. Being able to
represent Austria at the ESC, just like ABBA for Sweden did, is her greatest
ambition for this Friday: "in 2013, we would like to reach what ABBA with
'Waterloo' did in 1974: the European crown of pop music!" Justin Case, bassist
of The Bandaloop and king of the keyboards, loopers and all other electronic
instruments in this project, spent the last few days working on their
extraordinary cover version of the ABBA-hit: "with 'Waterloo', ABBA made Song
Contest history at that time. On the one hand, it was an honour to work on our
own interpretation of this song, and on the other hand, it was of course huge
fun as well!" Finally, as Mike Blitz, drummer of The Bandaloop adds: "once we
have performed our own version of 'Waterloo' this Friday and done our best at
it, we hope to gain the sympathy of the audience. The song fits our style
perfectly: electronic music with a touch of pop from the '70s and '80s, glowing
in a new, fancy light!"
Special thanks to Marco
Nice to see the old classics aren't forgotten.
