Over The Hills And Far Away history:
The Wishmastour was a big success for the band that was able to tour around the world as a headliner for the first time. Wishmaster also did well and had great results in many countries like France. Yet, Nightwish did not rest and quickly went to the studio to record an EP, to help fans wait between the Wishmastour and the following album that was supposed to be released in 2002 only (it was actually released on May 31, 2002). This is when they decided to make a cover and a song by Gary Moore was chosen. Yet, they could not release an EP with only one new song, especially a cover, so Nightwish also recorded two unreleased tracks: Tenth Man Down, a track in which Wilska sings the male vocals and Away, a new and enchanting ballad. Nightwish also recorded Astral Romance again – a new version as far as the music is concerned as well as the lyrics that were changed for the occasion. Tony Kakko the singer and leader of the great band called Sonata Arctica sings the male vocals (instead of Tuomas in the original version).

Tenth Man Down on French TV:
Tenth Man Down’s introduction was used as a soundtrack for a commercial for TPS channels. The story is simple: TPS was looking for a music that could fit with the images from their new commercial campaign. XIII Bis Records suggested that they used Tenth Man Down and the producers were convinced by this song! That’s how millions of people heard a song by Nightwish (or at least a part of it) at least once in their lives, without even knowing it!

From Wishes To Eternity, the Audio CD:
The live album « From Wishes to Eternity », which is the audio version of the DVD, was only released in Finland (the group was very well known there and was then able to release two CDs in a short period of time). That is why France and the rest of the European countries had to content themselves with a more complete version of Over the Hills and Far Away, that only contained extracts from this live CD. However, it is possible for you to order it on the Nightwish Shop.