July 18th, 2012 by TV Writer Lynn.
There’s good news today for fans of The Voice UK finalist Sam Buttery because it’s been announced that he’s landed a role in West End musical Taboo, which will run from September to late December at London’s Brixton Club House.
Of his role in the musical, which was originally played Boy George, Sam said he’s delighted to be playing the role of Leigh Bowery, and added, “Leigh Bowery is such an icon to me, so to get the chance to play him is just phenomenal. I just can’t wait!”
Taboo, which is to be directed by Christopher Renshaw, is set against the backdrop of the 1980s New Romantic scene and tells of the story of a young Billy, based on Boy George, who has aspirations about becoming a photographer… Read more & comment »
May 1st, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
This post was written by guest blogger and reality TV showbiz observer Daniel Cohen. Catch up with him on Twitter here.
How fickle viewers are. Two months ago thousands of people were raving online about how great it was that The Voice was coming to the UK. Finally a show where people would be judged on how they sang, not how they looked. A show were judges would be coaches and nice to the contestants. How these people looked down on those that watched X Factor….. those cruel people that just went for looks over singing ability.
My, my, what a difference a few weeks makes. This weekend the first live show of The Voice went on air and the same viewers sang an entirely different tune.
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April 30th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Sam Buttery has admitted that he wishes he had chosen a less camp tune for the first live episode of The Voice on Saturday.
The 21 year old singer was eliminated from the BBC show last night and revealed in a subsequent interview that if he could do the performance again, he would choose a different song to showcase his vocal talent.
Buttery dressed in a bright red and black skull covered shirt, rocked the biggest quiff he could manage and sang Erasure’s ‘A Little Respect’ on the live show. Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning he admitted that he had some regrets about his performance. He explained:
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April 30th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Sam Buttery
Sam Buttery has revealed who he is backing to win The Voice.
The 21 year old singer was eliminated from the BBC show last night, in the first results episode of the series. He was joined by Sophie Griffin as will.i.am and Tom Jones had to chose one act each to send home, after both their teams performed on Saturday evening.
Sam may be out of the competition, but he knows exactly who he thinks can go on to win and he told The Sun that he’d like to see the first triumphant Voice star being a female.
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April 30th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Sam Buttery has revealed that he is glad he performed on BBC series The Voice and not rival show The X Factor, because he received payment for starring on the BBC series.
The 21 year old singer was eliminated last night, after finding himself in the Team Tom bottom two with Matt and Sueleen. The Welsh singing legend that is Tom Jones seemed to struggle in choosing between the two acts, but finally decided that it was Sam’s turn to leave, after his less than inspiring rendition of ‘A Little Respect’ the evening before.
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April 29th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Sam Buttery has given his reaction to the news, that he was the first person to be eliminated from The Voice this evening.
The 21 year old singer failed to impress the viewers, with his rendition of ‘A Little Respect’ on last night’s live show and after receiving the lowest amount of public votes along with fellow singers Matt and Sueleen, Tom Jones chose him as the unlucky act going home tonight.
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April 29th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
The Voice aired it’s first live show this weekend and tonight, the first two finalists from Team Tom and Team Danny have been eliminated.
On last night’s performance show, there were some very clear winners and a few singers whose vocals were definitely below par. In our chart post we rated the contestants in terms of their performance and while we named Joelle Moses and Jaz Ellington as our favourite singers of the night, we felt that both Sam Buttery and Sophie Griffin struggled with their song choices for the evening.
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April 29th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Tom Jones had a very tough decision to make on The Voice this evening.
In the first elimination of the series, the Welsh singing legend had to eliminate either Matt and Sueleen or Sam Buttery, after they received the lowest amount of public votes following their performances on last night’s live show.
Sir Tom seemed to struggle with his choice and told the trio:
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April 29th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.
Sam Buttery has admitted that he has found his time on The Voice so far, very ‘surreal.’
The 21 year old singer has made it onto the live rounds of the hit BBC series and since performing at his blind audition earlier this year, has found himself rubbing shoulders with Welsh singing legend Sir Tom Jones, pop royalty Jessie J, rock God Danny O’Donoghue and world famous music star will.i.am.
Speaking to his local newspaper, the Tamworth Herald, Sam confessed that it has been a weird journey so far and said:
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April 29th, 2012 by Gerard McGarry.
Tonight on The Voice, the vocal teams of Tom Jones (scraggly Welsh warbler) and Will.I.Am (possibly an automaton, we’re still investigating) performed live for the very first time. First night nerves were in evidence, from some pitchy moments in the singing, right down to a slightly-awkward Holly Willoughby (*sigh* more beautiful than ever…). But since The Voice seems to be taking a talent-based approach to this competition, we’ll overlook that for the moment.
Right now, we’re going to get down to ranking the best and worst of tonight’s performances. We’d love to hear who your favourites were tonight, what your highlights were and what tunes you wanted to press mute on. Here we go!
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