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The difficult thing is that some under 16s would be ready for this, it just depends on their level of maturity. Trouble is, how do you measure that...force them all to undergo a psychiatric assessment before the live shows? :lol:

Aiden Davis - I don't get all the love for this kid here at all. He only managed one dance move different to that of his audition and you can sure as hell bet that the visual effects were not of his own brainchild. Hollie Steel - Second chance? No-one else would get that opportunity and she'd already failed three times with her diction in the first performance before the "tears". It all went to prove that she was not "ready" to progress and should not have been given another chance. Greg Pritchard - the lower end of his falsetto scale failed to the point of being painful to listen to...excepting that, he did pretty well Good Evans - Piers buzzed when the adults started singing, it should have been prior to that when the two young girls started singing woefully out of tune...after that it actually improved DCD Seniors - one of the best of the night, but nowhere near as good as Diversity or Flawless; a few of them lost their timing during the act and their initial costumes were hideous. The Dreambears - good fun, but Simon was right, it was a bit clumsy...as if they hadn't rehearsed enough...or were too nervous. Martin "Gos" Matcham - he sang better this time (except for some dodgy microphone control at the start) and the guitar solo was ok...the backing performers were the worst of the lot! Luke Clements - I guess he thought the melon-thing would be humourous to start with...but it wasn't! Then it was the same apple trick as his audition followed by the same old fire-juggling that I've seen many times before.

1 (1) The Show - Lenka 2 (2) For What It's Worth - Placebo 3 (11) Arrows Of Eros - Golden Silvers 4 (3) Sounds Of The City - Dykeenies 5 (13) Not The Only Person - Rumble Strips 6 (5) Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar 7 (4) Counterpoint - Delphic 8 (16) The 59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem 9 (9) Stone Cold Sober - Paloma Faith 10 (17) Bulletproof - La Roux 11 (14) I Am Not A Robot - Marina & The Diamonds 12 (6) I Got Love - King Blues 13 (7) Heartbreak - Magistrates 14 (NE) Rusted From The Rain - Billy Talent 15 (8) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 16 (NE) Lying At The Side Of You - Wallbirds 17 (10) Don't Fight It - The Panics 18 (22) Weighty Ghost - Wintersleep 19 (NE) Confusion Girl - Frankmusik 20 (12) The Girl And The Robot - Royksopp 21 (33) Notion - Kings Of Leon 22 (23) Learn To Lose - Hockey 23 (28) Pearl's Dream - Bat For Lashes 24 (NE) New Divide - Linkin Park 25 (18) The Kids Are Sick Again - Maximo Park 26 (20) Fire - Kasabian 27 (15) Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Morrissey 28 (27) Sing When You're In Love - The Enemy 29 (24) It's Not My Problem - Sneaky Sound System 30 (26) I Wanna - All American Rejects 31 (34) Fifteen Minutes - Yeah Yous 32 (19) Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club 33 (21) The World We Live In - The Killers 34 (30) We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun 35 (36) Mama Do - Pixie Lott 36 (38) Untouched - Veronicas 37 (NE) Dressed To Digress - Boy Crisis 38 (40) Never Forget You - Noisettes 39 (RE) Death - White Lies 40 (29) Rubber Lover - Marmaduke Duke 41 (46) Heavy Cross - Gossip 42 (NE) Young - Hollywood Undead 43 (25) Daniel - Bat For Lashes 44 (NE) Don't Wanna Run No More - Vagabond 45 (35) Shark In The Water - VV Brown 46 (31) Know Your Enemy - Green Day 47 (43) Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - Manic Street Preachers 48 (45) Rabbit Heart - Florence & The Machine 49 (32) Knocking - Will And The People 50 (39) Be The One - Jack Penate

1 (1) The Show - Lenka 2 (7) New In Town - Little Boots 3 (4) Longing For Lullabies - Kleerup feat. Titiyo 4 (2) For What It's Worth - Placebo 5 (15) Arrows Of Eros - Golden Silvers 6 (3) Sounds Of The City - Dykeenies 7 (17) Not The Only Person - Rumble Strips 8 (6) Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar 9 (5) Counterpoint - Delphic 10 (20) The 59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem 11 (13) Stone Cold Sober - Paloma Faith 12 (21) Bulletproof - La Roux 13 (18) I Am Not A Robot - Marina & The Diamonds 14 (10) I Remember - Deadmau5 feat. Kaskade 15 (8) Gifted - NASA 16 (26) Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas 17 (9) I Got Love - King Blues 18 (27) Supernova - Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West 19 (11) Heartbreak - Magistrates 20 (35) Heartbreaker - MSTRKRFT feat. John Legend 21 (NE) Rusted From The Rain - Billy Talent 22 (12) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 23 (NE) Lying At The Side Of You - Wallbirds 24 (14) Don't Fight It - The Panics 25 (29) Weighty Ghost - Wintersleep 26 (NE) Confusion Girl - Frankmusik 27 (16) The Girl And The Robot - Royksopp 28 (45) Notion - Kings Of Leon 29 (30) Learn To Lose - Hockey 30 (39) Pearl's Dream - Bat For Lashes 31 (NE) New Divide - Linkin Park 32 (22) The Kids Are Sick Again - Maximo Park 33 (25) Fire - Kasabian 34 (42) Said It All - Take That 35 (19) Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Morrissey 36 (38) Sing When You're In Love - The Enemy 37 (33) It's Not My Problem - Sneaky Sound System 38 (36) I Wanna - All American Rejects 39 (NE) Symphonies - Dan Black 40 (48) Fifteen Minutes - Yeah Yous

From what I remember of his audition, he just repeated the same few moves. I think George Sampson was much better than that. Hopefully he can come up with something better for the semi-final though.

The yawnfest of a standard saxophonist went through automatically? The incredibly out-of-tune grandfather and granddaughter next? These semi-finals are becoming more and more farcical as they progress. No doubt tomorrow (or rather, later today) will see the George Sampson drone take an automatic place in the final.

My favourites.. 3 Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy 6 Queen - I Want It All 7 Lynne Hamilton - On The Inside (Theme from Prisoner Cell Block H :D :P ) 8 Roxette - The Look 9 Neneh Cherry - Manchild 10 Bobby Brown - Every Little Step 11 Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman 12 The Bangles - Eternal Flame 14 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 19 Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care 22 Holly Johnson - Americanos 24 Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina / On Fire 26 Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now 39 Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing

I've only heard the new single "Rusted From The Rain" so far. Sounded like a slightly heavier version of Bon Jovi (hope that doesn't put too many people off!). Not too bad though. Any idea of a release date for the album?

I was expecting High End Of Low to be horrendous too, but I agree, it's not that bad at all :)

Not yet...from the article... Sounds hopeful that an agreement will be reached soon though.

BUMP...because there may be light at the end of the tunnel...the PRS are cutting royalty rates... Telegraph.co.uk: PRS cutting royalty rates

I liked it when I first heard it, quickly went off it and now I'm liking it again.

Sickly? :P Just a couple of little girls messing about and thinking they were entertaining...I was saying "come on...buzz!!!" during most of their act.

Don't "love" any of them, but it wouldn't let me select none, so I opted for Black Eyed Peas...the best of a bad bunch. The only hate is Lily Allen. I guess I'm just indifferent to the majority of them!

:rolleyes: Not another of these daft stories about what any of the acts has/hasn't done in the past. The programme is about giving talented people their big break...who gives a flying fig about what they've done in the past??? If Shaheen or anyone surrounding him "underplayed" or denied his previous experience I didn't notice and couldn't care less, and would still only base my opinion on the performance given on the night. A performance that you evidently didn't like and whilst the performance wasn't dripping with emotion, it was hardly devoid of it, as you would claim! Agreed, it wasn't a flawless performance but was certainly one of the better ones on the night and I think he deserved to go through. Hopefully, in the final, he'll perform a slower, more soulful song in which he can display all the emotional facets that you feel were missing last night.

...claiming the title for least #1's...just 5 Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (3wks) Lily Allen - The Fear (6wks) The Enemy - No Time For Tears (9wks) Placebo - For What It's Worth (2wks) Lenka - The Show (1wk so far) ...and albums... The Killers - Day And Age (6wks) Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (3wks) U2 - No Line On The Horizon (2wks) Ronan Keating - Songs For My Mother (1wk) Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (1wk) Peter, Bjorn & John - Living Thing (1wk) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz (1wk) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (4wks) Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (1wk) Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (2wks so far)

That's something else that I said too. All the blue lights and background whilst the ballroom dancers were on in their blue outfits was poorly thought out.

Just what I said when the act started :P

MD Show Group were (another :rolleyes: :P ) dance troupe - they danced to Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us" and held up banners against knife crime etc. at the end of the act. Shaheen continues the Michael Jackson theme...he started singing to the Mark Ronson version of "Valerie"; Simon stopped him and got him to sing his second choice song "Who's Loving You". Hope that jogs your memory :D I hope so too!

Not particularly keen on either of them, but Empire Of The Sun is vaguely easier on the ear.

Of tonight's acts, I liked MD Show Group and Shaheen best from the auditions.

1 (1) Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers 2 (NE) Graffiti Soul - Simple Minds 3 (2) 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day 4 (4) The Liberty Of Norton Folgate - Madness 5 (3) Manners - Passion Pit 6 (9) True Romance - Golden Silvers 7 (NE) The High End Of Low - Marilyn Manson 8 (5) Quicken The Heart - Maximo Park 9 (8) Dark Days/Light Years - Super Furry Animals 10 (6) Deaths And Entrances - My Latest Novel 11 (NE) The Best In Town - The Blackout 12 (7) Align The Planets - In Case Of Fire 13 (11) Welcome To The Night Sky - Wintersleep 14 (13) Music For The People - The Enemy 15 (10) Relapse - Eminem 16 (16) Junior - Royksopp 17 (12) Attics To Eden - Madina Lake 18 (18) Sneaky Sound System - Sneaky Sound System 19 (NE) Gary Go - Gary Go 20 (14) Primary Colours - The Horrors 21 (33) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 22 (27) Invaders Must Die - Prodigy 23 (25) Day And Age - The Killers 24 (22) Years Of Refusal - Morrissey 25 (17) Scars And Souvenirs - Theory Of A Deadman 26 (15) Four Winds - Lightning Seeds 27 (28) The Fame - Lady GaGa 28 (26) Asleep In The Bread Aisle - Asher Roth 29 (24) Wall Of Arms - Maccabees 30 (NE) Elsewhere - Scott Matthews 31 (19) Battling Giants - Ben's Brother 32 (23) Very Best Of - Thunder 33 (30) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 34 (29) Sounds Of The Universe - Depeche Mode 35 (31) Yes - Pet Shop Boys 36 (20) What Matters The Most - Shannon Noll 37 (32) Grace/Wastelands - Peter Doherty 38 (NE) Escala - Escala 39 (35) I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyonce 40 (21) Abnormally Attracted To Sin - Tori Amos

Staying true to what I said on the first page of this thread, Vlad The Impaler is not good at all. Fire has proved a slight improvement on that. As for the album being leaked - I'm happy to wait until the actual release date to hear more. PS - are you saying you don't like "Empire"??? :o

The "deal" with the lib dems has been mentioned a few times in the past, but I think they're beyond that now. More than ever before, I think the Lib Dems will want to present themselves as a viable alternative in their own right against the two main parties when a General Election finally comes around...which will inevitably be June of next year.

DJ Talent - ...also pleasantly surprised he didn't make top 3...I think the only reason he made it this far is because Simon saw £ signs before him Shaun - awful attempt at meshing some kind of pseudo-opera with rock. Good song choice, but appalling arrangement. Merlin - "could've died"...but he escaped far too quickly, which ruined the whole thing! Hot Honeyz - as one of the judges said...more like lukewarm honeyz tonight Jamie Pugh - dreadful start, got a little better and a great end...but the poor start cost him dearly Peter - shouldn't have been in the semis, surprised me by starting well, but it just didn't go anywhere after that Gareth - superb...first time I can remember disagreeing with Simon Cowell's comments...he was completely wrong Flawless - definitely not living up to their name. I preferred Diversity in the auditions...and moreso now