I was looking at the releases and see that Jessica garlick has a download only single out 11th May.

Oh gosh....I have just been looking at the cassette of her single and wondering what she was doing......I don't have a cassette player anymore so I've been binning a lot of them

 

I always liked Jessica

Who is she?I've never heard of her

I liked all 10 of the finalist in the first PI.

There was 1 I had a problem with otherwise they are the best 10 finalists in any of the programmes

Who is she?I've never heard of her

Jessica was in the top 10 of Pop Idol, went out after Korben.

She went on to sing in the 2002 Eurovision song contest with Come Back and came an excellent 3rd.

No sign of an album

Jessica was in the top 10 of Pop Idol, went out after Korben.

She went on to sing in the 2002 Eurovision song contest with Come Back and came an excellent 3rd.

 

 

Thanks for explaining who she is Pam :) ,i think i vagly remember her now :)

Still think pop idol, was the best. I dont want you to think Im being negative but thought you might find this article interesting especially the bit about steve brookstein who took a stand for his own material.

 

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6149245.ece sorry should be underlined.

 

Google just said the link was broken, so I couldn't read it.

Sorry about that meg. You can still read it as link is available on Digital spy -forum X factor - subheading - what happens to x factor runners up.It is the first post under that heading.I know you are very busy so dont worry. Dont know why it wont show here.

On Digital Spy news Steve Brookstein is putting the knife into Simon Cowell.

This is the exract I was referring to from a very long but very interesting article froim the Times.

 

The winner leaves the show with a much-hyped £1m contract with Simon Cowell’s label, Syco Entertainment (part of Sony BMG), and a place with Modest! Management, run by Simon’s old mucker Richard Griffiths. This year, 16-year-old Eoghan Quigg (third) and the boyband JLS (second) have each signed to Sony subsidiaries. The others must make what they can, fast — gigs, interviews, public appearances — because as sure as night follows day, when the tour ends, the agents, management and publicists who have supported them thus far will part like the Red Sea. “They’ll realise quickly,” says Andy Abraham (runner-up, 2005), “that the industry doesn’t want them.”

 

What the industry does want, for as long as it can get it, is its share of the booty. Once key management has released its grip, contestants must take their chances with the exotic dancers, psychics and tribute acts that form the clientele of a sliding scale of smaller agents; in some cases, they are artistes with such a fragile grip on the slippery celebrity slope that their various distinctions are listed in parenthesis: Anthony Hutton (winner of Big Brother 6), Ben Ofoedu (singer with Phats & Small and fiancé to Vanessa Feltz). When I request interviews, e-mails shoot back and forth. “What’s the budget? Any indication of the fee?”

 

All the ex-X Factorees are keen to hear what the others have said. Nobody wants to say bad things about the X Factor beast in case it turns around and bites. Recent participants are gagged, signing one contract binding them to Syco if they win and another forbidding them to make comments that may be considered unduly negative or critical of the company and, particularly, Simon Cowell. Nobody wants to appear decimated by the experience either, though some of them were. Of his sudden celebrity status, Tabby Callaghan (third, 2004) says: “For a few years afterwards, my perspective and senses were totally distorted by it. If you’d told me the table was an elephant I would have believed you. I lived in a bubble of delusion from which I only just recovered.”

 

Steve Brookstein (2004) will forever be remembered as the winner who somehow lost. “I’m probably served up as a warning to everyone: ‘You don’t want to end up like Steve Brookstein.’” Brookstein gained the highest-ever number of viewer votes — 5.5m — but Cowell later admitted that he thought “the wrong act had won”. Runners-up G4, a quartet of good-looking boys straight out of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, also signed with Sony that year and went on to release two platinum-selling albums. Their first reached No 1 on Mothers’ Day, a pivotal point in the year for record sales; they completed five sellout tours and released a bestselling autobiography before splitting up in 2007. Brookstein, meanwhile, was dropped by Syco 12 weeks after his first album was released, despite his single, a cover of the Phil Collins song Against All Odds, going straight to No 1. And it still rankles. “If you really want to crucify someone, give them a Phil Collins song…”

 

Fatally for him, post X Factor, Brookstein refused to play the game. He didn’t like the clothes or the cheesy photoshoots and wanted artistic control over the material he recorded. “Simon kept saying, ‘I know what I’m doing,’ by which he meant, ‘I know what sells.’ But it sounded like karaoke to me. I was offered £12,500 to go away quietly, and when I didn’t take it, life got very difficult. My website came down, there was a lot of negative publicity…”

 

He mentions finding tickets for a film premiere suddenly cancelled. “I was basically shunned by the industry.

 

No serious management would touch me because they’ve all got connections with Simon.”

 

Tabby Callaghan, 2004’s token rocker, points out that The X Factor is a one-hour show comprising 10 minutes of music. “I’ve played guitar from six years old; it was incredibly f***ing frustrating to be given an instrument with no strings and be asked to mime, but you have to go in with your eyes open.” Callaghan has dusted himself off and is back in his box-room studio again, and planning to launch himself in America. “I learnt a $h!tload about myself and about life. There’s so much stigma if you’ve been on the show. I was broken down to zero by it. I had to build myself up from nothing. But I’m as tough as old boots. It’ll take more than The X Factor to finish me.”

 

When I ask how he manages, he says: “Hey, I’ve two helicopters out back and an Olympic pool… Everything’s great.” Brookstein just sounds bewildered. “I sing at restaurants and birthday parties, which keeps me ticking over, but I’m scared the minute I do a gig The Mirror will be there to take the p***, ‘Steve Brookstein workingin pubs again.

 

I feel very sorry for them. The British media are totally without morals.

sounds like the "men in black" - they are all vultures out fo rth ebig bucks at anyones expense tbh.

 

I really wish more would be exposed about these shows and the men running the music industry.

 

I think, if they're making money, not many in the industry would be bothered.

Singers and song writers versus the business men.........each needs the other but the songsters are more prolific than the

men in black, so it is the men in black who rule the music industry.

The great shame is that in business there is little room for the honourable traits of compassion or encouragement , just an

over-riding greed for swift financial return.

Ity seems very cold now.

Depressing, but an interesting read. Sue

At least the contestants nowadays know what lies in store for them. Popstars and Pop Idol were the forerunners, and at that time

contestants were buoyed up with hope and great expectations, but didn't know what they had let themselves in for. But the

music industry is so difficult to break into that there will never be a shortage of contestants trying to milk the publicity.