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Brighton Auditions Feedback from Live and Unsigned Music Competition

Auditions took place in Brighton for the Live and Unsigned Music Competition on Saturday 29^th January at the Hove Centre. The first audition in the south for Live and Unsigned 2011 was in the vibrant seaside location of Brighton, and was packed full with bands and singers. Well done to all those who auditioned and especially the few who made it through to the Live Regional Final shows on Saturday 16^th April.

Find below feedback for a selected few from the day who stood out for the right and sometimes wrong reasons.

Please be aware views expressed by Judges are opinions and subjective to that particular Judge panel. These views in no way reflect the views of Live and Unsigned, but are published with a view to being beneficial to the performing bands and singers who auditioned. So please take the feedback onboard with a view to helping.

Edged - had a good performance, strong stage presence, good backing vocals and melody

Alabaster Queen - really made cover song her own

Billy Wears Dresses - very catchy with good charisma and personality

Bobby Random - had a strong song with good verses, but let down by a weak chorus

Anything - good dynamics and tight

Barkley Carrington - needs to work on the guitar playing

Gabriella Bishop - had lovely voice, strong vocals with good control and power. Needs to bring an original song next time and watch her breathing

Amelie Carlyle - Judges loved her and thought she was quirky and cute - consider quirky styling to match this

Kirsty Fallowfield - for 14 years old, wow! Awesome voice, just needs to be a bit more original

Elliot Locke - set up vox loops with pedals - Wicked!

Jag - another tight band with good arrangements

Forgetting Yesterday - had a great structure to the track with some great melody on the vocals. Tempo kept speeding up and slowing down. Drums drowned out the rest at times but that’s probably due to levels and easily sorted at the shows

Fox Wagon - Loved the hair and costumes. Guitar licks very tight as a band with good energy. Vocals a bit off tune

Jason James - performed well but tuning was off

Husky George - vocal harmonies were great and matched with a good image

Cos I Am - very catchy song which was clearly well rehearsed, work on the image though

Freddie Light - had awesome voice, will need to make the act more original going forward

Gutterfly - super tight as a band with great vocals

Jetpack Elastic - female fronted band with a very good young drummer

Matt and Sueleen - worked well with some nice harmonies

Dan Moorhead - had a great composition to song, just believe in yourself a little more

Richard Wyles - had a great tone and strong voice, need to be able to control nerves better, which is solved with more performance

Kopperhed - good stage presence and super tight band

Press to Meco - whole band was tight, in particular drummer had a great style