We Have Lift Off!
Daniel Estrin and Simone Dow are seated in a brightly lit dressing room within the bowels of London’s O2 Arena satellite venue the Indigo. A keytar leans against the wall. On a stage nearby an audience listen as The Sky At Night presenter Chris Lintott and award-winning author Lucy Hawking, daughter of the late national treasure Stephen, conduct a scholarly debate over black holes and the mysteries of the universe.
The occasion, of course, is Space Rocks (read our review on page 116). Voyager’s Estrin and Dow are honoured to be a part of this fine event, though the sharing of their band’s name with a pair of robotic probes sent to study the outer reaches of the Solar System in 1977 is purely coincidental.
“In fact, the band was originally going to be called Orion,” reveals singer Estrin. “We’re not sci-fi
