Singing Competition Brighton – Feedback from Live And Unsigned Brighton Auditions!

Brighton auditions for the band and singing competition Live and Unsigned, took place on Saturday 11th February at the Hove Centre, Brighton! Over 350 unsigned musicians turned up to audition for the band and singing competition in Brighton in front of the judging panel of music industry specialists.

Judging the unsigned musicians for the singing competition at the Hove Centre, Brighton were Paddle Round the Pier representative Jen Paddle, Lisa Holton from the Brighton Singing Tuition, Matt Twaites from Metway Studios, Gavin from Gavdude the music video producers, George McFarlane from Song Creator and Head of Future Music Chris Grayston.

Well done to all those who auditioned for the band and singing competition in Brighton especially the few who made it through to the Live Regional Final shows on Sunday 29^th April in the Great Hall, Hove Centre, Brighton.

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

Please be aware views expressed by judges are opinions and subjective to that particular judging 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. We ask you to please take the feedback onboard with a view to helping acts improve.

Singing competition BRIGHTON – Audition Feedback!  

Aura – Needed a little more vocal support of the lead, and perhaps the addition of keyboards to the act but needed to be fuller.

Carla George – Had a sweet sound, very nice on the ear.

Hayley Cann– Backing track needs to be developed in a studio and also make more of the hook to the song.

Clear As Mud – Liked the style, got us all jumping. Song is catchy and engaging strive for even more energy frontman.

Beggarz Fixx – Good vocal support from the guitarist perhaps a bit more performance required from them to back it up.

Coco the Butterfields– One of the bands of the day! Female vocals are silky, the song is great it works so well as a single release so radio friendly. Being ultra critical beat boxer could do with finding something original with beat boxing style it could be just another beat boxer perhaps addition of rap too rather than overuse of the beat box style.

Gil Cohen – Liked the idea but suffered in the execution from pitch and timing.

Almost Monday– Good name and a good vibe.

Alfie Jones – Good interaction and connection with his audience being the judges on this occasion.

The Blues Ever Greens– Good sound fitting to the band name but all looking down when playing was a very uninspiring performance which they will need to work on. Try and look like you’re having fun!

International Diamond Thieves– Liked the way they threw themselves into the performance like it was the last song of the night, great passion but hopefully the attitude is purely for the on stage stuff with this band.

Singing competition BRIGHTON – Further feedback

Charlotte Curwood – Song choice needs to be considered carefully and try and project your voice more.

Departure from Normal – Poor start but good energy and looked like a band with loads of potential.

Crazy Bald Head – Song would work well in a ska band as an solo act probably needs more.

Freddie Light– Lovely mash up worked really well with an amazing voice.

Derider– Maybe need to consider how you line up on stage, bass player is very tall so perhaps have on the wing can’t see drummer either which is even more important as singing too.

Delaney– Vocals worked well very comfortable.

Flint Lock– Need to think about image got a good catchy song need to pull through a performance and image as one unified.

Jake Whetcombe– Really good but perhaps the delivery is too similar to Ed Sheeran, need to develop an edge to that style otherwise going to keep getting compared to Mr Sheeran.

Singing competition BRIGHTON – Further feedback

In Dynamics– Drummer is frantic and engaging playing. Lead vocalist don’t forget to engage with your audience.

Jet Pack Elastic– Musically good, great vocals but look at image it needs synergy and more passion from the lead gutarist.

Aaron– Lovely voice, but we are looking for originality.

Quackhouse – Fantastic harmonies although a little repetitive.

Noraay– Great song and style, think about your image know its winter but you need to look like you’re a pop star.

Reminisce– More stage presence required and a new image.

Rhea Melia– Good song just remember to perform throughout to the end and try and give more presence.

Tripping over air– Little Script sounding, but could do with being tighter as a band.

Loveridge– Nice enough song but needed to drive through more of a hook and was a little old fashioned.

Dillon– Watch mic control keep the mic to your mouth at all times.

Mirna– Lovely sentiment, good connection to the music.

Lauren Tester– Need to cool the vibrato (wobble) in the voice as too much.

The Sighted and Captures– Need a little more practice to get tighter be good to see them again in a year.

Singing competition BRIGHTON

Acts that make it through to the Live Showcases will be in with the opportunity to win a multitude of prizes. The winners of both the Blackstar Exposure Award, the award for the act with the largest quantity of submitted publicity material in relation to the competition, and the Extreme Exposure Award, the award for the act who performs the most high publicity stunt, will win a free day in a local recording studio worth up to £250, or if the winning act is a band, they’ll win a brand new Blackstar amp. The Live and Unsigned studio partner for Brighton is Metway studios. Runners up for the Blackstar Exposure Award will receive free music lessons worth up to £125, courtesy of Brighton Singing Tuition. In addition to this Gavin from Gavdude will be offering a music video prize worth £10,000 click here for more details.

In addition, acts that make it through to the Live Showcases will be given a chance to win festival slots, with festival organisers selecting acts to perform at their 2012 festival at each stage of the competition. Brighton acts will also be within a chance of being selected to perform a slot at Paddle Round the Pier Europe’s largest annual free beach festival.

If you’d like to come along to see some of the bands and acts that made it through to the Brighton Regional Showcase Finals on Sunday 29^th April at the Hove Centre, Brighton click here to go to the Live and Unsigned website to purchase tickets or if you want to get involved for next year then click here to enter.