So I caught most of this weeks auditions, but I was staying in Blackpool and so I only caught bits of the show and from what I did see I was impressed with some really good singers like Sam.

He went to the Newcastle Audition and sang Handbags and Gladrags by the Stereophonics. I like people like Sam because he genuinely didn’t know how good he was and was shocked when the judges like them. It must have made his day that Danni fell in love with his voice! I do hope that Sam goes far in the competition and Domonic who sang Mack the Knife he also surprised me he had a cracking voice on him.

I also liked Trinity. They were only on for a short clip, but were made up of Mum, Dad and their daughter. The dad had a big beaming smile the judges said,and I think they could bring something different to the X-Factor.

Kimberley the 16 year old was great and the group the Aphrodisiacs were really wild and funny. They said they thought it was about time a group won the competition lets just hope that there is a group in the competition that can show the judges that they can win because there are a couple of groups that have been good.

There was one though that shocked me this week and not in a good way unfortunately and that was the lady that had been learning how to sing for the competition for 3 years with a vocal coach. I did feel really sorry for her the singing coach hadn’t helped her at all and in my opinion I have to agree with the judges when they said that she should get a refund.

I’m not sure what I thought about the guy who thought he was the next Robbie Williams. Louis nearly choked when he said that Shayne Ward and Leona Lewis had no charisma about them, and there was no way he wanted him to go through, but Simon gave him his chance. Finally was a 28 year old single mum Natasha who came in with her daughter Jasmin. She had the moving story and when she sang she really was an amazing singer and hopefully she will get to the final.

Hope you all have a great week.

Best wishes

Shaun

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