Here's that clip of Nicky doing Sex On Fire. Shame it appears to be set in a pub from Trainspotting but he does sound great on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhGwdKqj7kU

Someone of lower intelligence or culture

Haha. Ok! Well then, I would guess that would be me for not knowing what it meant!

You are certainly better informed on the music industry/vocal technicalities than I am!

Re. The 'baby buble' thing, I think you are right. I was cringing inside for Nicky when they gelled his hair down and stuck him in a suit. It was just so wrong .

Yes, I'm looking forward to hearing what he does.

Over 1000 tickets sold out for Garage gig! They are making twitter pleas for blankets because they've been queuing for so long

Ah well I'm a terrible music geek and have been all my life, and I'm a hobbyist 'bedroom producer', so I have a little understanding of some of the more technical aspects of recording/putting a track together I suppose, though by no means comprehensive.

Over 1000 tickets sold? That's a decent sized venue! I went to see the Pixies a couple of weeks ago and I don't think that could have been more than that, and they're A Terribly Important Band.

Well, according to the guy in the supporting band anyway

Love Pixies. I tried to get tickets for Glasgow Barrowlands but sold out.

Love Nicky doing Sex on Fire. Here's another one from that very same Trainspotting pub. Big band song but my god what a voice!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WD265pRJsH0

Pic from the stage tweeted by (I think) the supporting DJ.

https://twitter.com/DJdaveydavidson/.../photo/1/large

So pleased for him!

Aww that's brilliant! The balcony will be full too.

Found this short video clip. Looks like Nicky deployed a 1D song to great effect

http://instagram.com/p/ihFsBxCeem/

Ok, I want your feedbacks guys and girls.

https://soundcloud.com/hitstastic/hi...ic-game-player

A song I made about two years ago and recently tweaked before uploading to SoundCloud. Does this sound like the type of song you'd expect Nicholas to record?

I messaged his mum Eileen (maybe a tad crazy looking back, I was kinda drunk on Boxing Day and just thought what the hell). Haven't a clue if Eileen has read my post but I really hope Nicky gets a decent team of writers behind him.

As someone who has been writing/producing just as an interest for several years I'd love to put some tracks forward, just don't know how to go about it.

In my message i also added:

Glasgow Commonwealth Games - Nicky getting to perform at the opening ceremony would be excellent.

23rd November 2014 - his 18th birthday next year falls on a Sunday. What better birthday present than getting a UK #1 single that day.

I'm just like others here, if only i was working in the music industry I'd really support him as an artist. His vocal tone is spot on, not too nasal or theatrical like Joe McElderry, not too gravel pit like Luke Friend, and not tone deaf like Leon Jackson.

I agree with mmpfb, this was the first time in 10 years I got behind a young male singer on the show. I usually always prefer the female contestants (eg; Ella Henderson being my fave in 2012 and thought the final 5 in 2012 was shockingly bad with James Arthur the best of a bad bunch).

What is it with these tiny clips the youngsters take nowadays

A fragment of A Thousand Years: http://instagram.com/p/ihMV52kACq/

I had a listen to your track but it's not really the sort of sound I could imagine Nicky doing tbh - I would expect something a little more songy from him if that makes sense - yours sounds something more along the lines of what someone like Tamera might do, for instance. A bit more beaty and synthy, and dare I say it 'urban'.

I don't know how you'd go about putting songs forward, I'm afraid. I'm no songwriter, which is a very specific skill, I just tend to take acapellas and do slightly perverse remixes of them, disco versions of Plan B songs etc for fun.

From what I know, which isn't very much, you need to get a publishing deal - there are publishers and then there are record companies who license songs from the publishers - there are often songs that are sitting round for years before someone records them (or at least releases it). We Found Love was nearly done by Leona Lewis for instance, I believe, though obviously Calvin Harris has his own cachet currently. So, I guess you would submit your demos to a publishing company in much the same way an author might submit their manuscripts to a book publisher in the hope they might pick you up. Once your on their books then they'd pimp out your songs to labels looking for songs for some of their artists.

The other alternative I suppose would be to look into those big teams like Xenomania who operate in a different way - IIRC there's about 30 of them all basically hanging out in a house and they all collaborate constantly, being very ruthless in what they keep to use and what they throw out as the Xenomania director decrees. There was a very interesting article on the Pet Shop Boys working with them a few years ago, might be google-able. It sounds almost like a sort of pop art school - all very fluid roles. I'd imagine getting involved in a place like that would lead to learning a HUGE amount about songwriting, but I also imagine they're nigh on impossible to get into.

My God, the SCREAMING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohorJs97o0

Aw so happy for him, what an atmosphere and he nailed that song

There's one of him doing I won't give up, something gets thrown on stage it hits him on head and he starts laughing lol wish I went now that atmosphere sounded amazing, lol

pity we didn't see that Nicholas on x factor if people saw that side of him he would have walked it and I saying a happy belated Christmas to all the nicky fans on this haven't been on this lately

Awww what a wee star he is up on that stage!

Merry Christmas Sean!

Hitstastic - that's a catchy tune. I agree it's not so much something I would imagine Nicky singing, rather than listening and dancing to. Good luck.

So happy the gig went well for him yesterday

Hamilton Palace sold out too. A lot of disappointed wee girls out there

Yep some girls were gutted about the meet and greet tickets being sold out.

Conspiracy theory time - we saw that Nicholas in week 2 when he finished up She's The One by singing the final line directly to Nicole and giggling. Coincidentally he topped the votes that week - could it be they directed him away from showing that side of him? I always wondered who the hell told him to start doing air grabs - those seemed to start after week 6...

The personality we saw on stage and what was shown on Extra were 2 completely different things.

You can see the star quality on the YouTube clips posted on here from The Garage.

Here's a wee Daily Record article if you haven't seen it:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/enterta...donald-2972376

Yeah he's a cheeky little bugger off stage, and it does seem to come through off of the main show. I can only think he was given some really bad advice, whether deliberate or not. He seems much more at ease performing at The Garage. I think if he got the sense the show was working against as we suspect it must have affected his ease on stage.

Hopefully that side of him will come over more on the XF tour and he'll win over a lot of the doubters. Don't they mix it up a bit more on the tour? Lots of duets/group numbers as well as the individual performances? (I've never been)

No idea, never been myself. Never had the notion