Spoilers from the blind auditions
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I went to the first recording of the blind auditions. Some class acts, some not so good. If you go to any recordings please post news. As ever, more people turned up than there were seats for. About 100 were turned away.
There's a new logo. Some changes to the set and a nice laser show.
In the first recording about 20 acts were heard.
Will chose an amazing young blond rapper girl, think Nicki Minaj but British. A real stunner , he was completely over the moon. He now has 2 people from the first recording. You can tell he's going for quality, he turned the least.
Ricky has picked a young 23 year old songwriter turned singer with an amazing voice from Bath, now living in London. She sang her own song, which she mentioned had charted under someone elses name. Her name is something like Hannah simon, though I may have mixed that up. A potential winner in my opinion. . She was the only one who everyone turned for. She was leagues ahead of the others. Ricky has 3 girls already with 9 shows still to record. He said he'd got too trigger happy.
Rita seemed to pick up lots but nothing special in my opinion - way too trigger happy, often only she turned. Rita had a crack commando team of 4 make up and hair assistants constantly hanging around her trying to keep her spectacular hairstyle stopping from moving. I overheard a couple of them saying it was a nightmare trying to keep the style up. I struggle to see it lasting 9 more recordings. Rita turned the most but struggled to win over the real class acts. She seems to be going for popular style over quality voice.
Tom picked a 16 year old girl with a beautiful unique voice from shepherd's bush. She seemed far older.
In other news, Black Lace made an appearance , and had the whole audience and Ricky singing Agadoo. Bruce Jones (ex Coronation st) seemed to be supporting this act.
There's a new logo. Some changes to the set and a nice laser show.
In the first recording about 20 acts were heard.
Will chose an amazing young blond rapper girl, think Nicki Minaj but British. A real stunner , he was completely over the moon. He now has 2 people from the first recording. You can tell he's going for quality, he turned the least.
Ricky has picked a young 23 year old songwriter turned singer with an amazing voice from Bath, now living in London. She sang her own song, which she mentioned had charted under someone elses name. Her name is something like Hannah simon, though I may have mixed that up. A potential winner in my opinion. . She was the only one who everyone turned for. She was leagues ahead of the others. Ricky has 3 girls already with 9 shows still to record. He said he'd got too trigger happy.
Rita seemed to pick up lots but nothing special in my opinion - way too trigger happy, often only she turned. Rita had a crack commando team of 4 make up and hair assistants constantly hanging around her trying to keep her spectacular hairstyle stopping from moving. I overheard a couple of them saying it was a nightmare trying to keep the style up. I struggle to see it lasting 9 more recordings. Rita turned the most but struggled to win over the real class acts. She seems to be going for popular style over quality voice.
Tom picked a 16 year old girl with a beautiful unique voice from shepherd's bush. She seemed far older.
In other news, Black Lace made an appearance , and had the whole audience and Ricky singing Agadoo. Bruce Jones (ex Coronation st) seemed to be supporting this act.
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I'm very impatient, so i always want to know all the spoilers
I'm going tomorrow morning and can't decide what time to get there. Any advice please? Are the queues as long this year?
The way they filled the studio for my session you need to be there really early for the good seats which were filled first with lots of mostly priority wristbands friends family etc.I got there sometime between 10:30 - 11. I got last of bad seats.
If they fill it the same way you need to be at the front of the eticket queue - under number 50 I'd say to get a good seat. I was number 118.
Don't forget to post spoilers
Thank you! I normally arrive about 8:45, but tomorrow it will be nearer to 10am. I'm going on my own as my friend can't make it, so if I don't get in I'll just go home again!
Last year we were numbers 7 and 8 in the queue and got numbers in the 3000s, it didn't seem to make any difference to getting in
Yeah they are definitely putting the trendy lookers to the front
In my opinion though the best seats are high up behind the judges.
That's always been my objection too. Last year our seats were awful, and we were sat in front of a college group who talked and laughed through the whole show. I'll give it one more try this year, turning up a bit later, and see how I go
Bear in mind there will be people with priorty tickets who got turned away Tuesday and today.
I'm actually wondering whether to bother or not?
I stayed to the end about 6pm. Bear in mind it was the first recording so it was still a practice session.
Thank you! I'll give it a go (after the trams get cheaper at 9:30!) and if I don't get in I'll go to the Lowry Outlet for a look
That's what I was thinking but I was glad I went in the end, it was better than I expected. Top Tip - take some snacks and hide them as you'll get peckish
Also, something I wish I'd done, take a pen and paper to write down the name of anyone who is really good to put on here for people to watch out for.
I have a friend who is a contestant in the last session on Saturday. You said you were there for the first session which was I presume 12pm. You said you didn't leave until 6pm. Was there another session afterwards? How many acts did they actually see in your session and were any really good acts turned away? We are just concerned that there will be no coaches places left by Saturday evening which will be recording 8. Do you know how many were put through in the session after yours? Also, anyone else going to any of the recording would be good to know how many acts they are putting through. Thanks for your spoiler by the way. Lily
I went to the last set of blind auditions 2 years ago. There were only 3 places left at that stage, so most people were rejected. I know there was a big hoohah last year with people not even getting to sing as all the places were taken, so maybe they will have done something different this year?
I'm just leaving the house to go to this morning's auditions, so if I get in (!) I'll let you know later
I have a friend who is a contestant in the last session on Saturday. You said you were there for the first session which was I presume 12pm. You said you didn't leave until 6pm. Was there another session afterwards? How many acts did they actually see in your session and were any really good acts turned away? We are just concerned that there will be no coaches places left by Saturday evening which will be recording 8. Do you know how many were put through in the session after yours? Also, anyone else going to any of the recording would be good to know how many acts they are putting through. Thanks for your spoiler by the way. Lily
About 10 acts went through in the first session! Given there are 9 other sessions (one in the afternoon, one in the evening), that would be 100 acts at that run rate, when there are only 48 places. The problem was caused by Rita and Ricky being too trigger happy. I didn't count the acts but there may have been as many as 30 acts heard in my session, it was very long (longer than any other recording session I've been to)
[Correction , later found out there are 7 more sessions, not 9 so the run rate would equal 80 acts going through]
All the above assumes they hear the same number of acts per session, which of course we can't be certain about. I suspect it varies.
Like Gillypanda I went to one of the later sessions last year and can confirm that it became more difficult as time went on as the places started to fill up.
Having said all that I expect that the producers will give guidance to them about spreading it out across the sessions. Ricky is definately aware of the issue anyway because he admitted he was too trigger happy. Only Tom and Will are playing it cool and really listening out for talent IMO. Will rarely turned, same was true last year. I suspect will knows that if he turns he may very well be picked so he needs to be careful. For your friend , it will mean that Tom and Will will most likely still have some places left. So far Rita has the weakest team IMO.
Ah I didn't realise they had a day off. That makes it seem more reasonable.
Then there were a couple of people who were runners up, very good , not exceptional- one in Will's team, one in Tom's.
Do let us know how it goes.
You haven't got any spare friends and family seats have you;-) ? If so please email me I'd love to go again!
I didn't notice the mix of boys and girls, maybe girls slightly edging it. Certainly Ricky only won girls.