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good luck my friend... i'll know you'll be a hit without doubt.
all the best
andy

Thanks mate. Awaiting the audition letter at the moment.

Had the audition today, not the one in front of Cowell & co but the pre-show one with the producers. We performed part of our comedy act, a song about castrating chav families and burning their houses down (with two actors playing real life chavs), which is, astonishingly, the tamest part of our show.
We won't know if we are through to the televised one yet, but they will let us know before Christmas. They filmed an interview with us all in the waiting area and singled us out for photos.
I should imagine the interview will be heavily edited as we did it in character, so to speak, so there were no mundane stories about working in MacDonalds, someone close dying or how it means the world to us and we really want it. We just said we were doing it to amuse ourselves and if by chance they put us through they would receive the biggest number of complaints an ITV show has ever had and we would perform something completely different and unexpected each week. It won't be some third-rate karaoke fools singing Celine Dion songs out of tune.

It was a hoot!!

Did anyone else audition?

they phoned me up (man - am i not popular? ) and asked if i could come on wednesday, i said no, so they asked thursday, i still siad no, they asked when i would be available, i told them, so I have a nice fat audition on saturday

is there a big waiting time? What did you do when you got there? Same as last year?

I didn't got to last years. It said on the form the audition was at 9am and traffic going into London was a nightmare at that time so when we got there we thought they'd tell us to bu**er back off to the wilds of Berkshire.
Luckily we didn't have to wait around too long and they kept us after the audition as they wanted to take some photos of us and do an interview.

In the waiting area the tea and coffee are overpriced for what they are. I was quite horrified and wished I had brought a flask along.

i do hope you get through now after that delightful descripiton, LF...

theyd get a lot more viewers, even if they werent happy about what they were seeing!!

best of luck to you too Beardy....

Thank you. It would certainly be fun and we would have fun doing it.
I don't know how much of the interview they can/will show. It was a babble of poor-taste jokes, nonsense and dismissive comments on reality shows in general.

We'd all love to see you make it through Freddie so keep us posted!

Thanks mate, I certainly do hope so. I will perform some magic if we get into the later stages though the effects I use in cabaret clubs work there, I fear they may not be as spectacular on television as some big illusion where the box does all the work. It will have to be a smash and stab type effect.

The others auditioning - good lord! - precocious stage school brats being dragged along by their pushy parents, awful 'sensitive' singer songwriter types with 'emo' (or should that be emu?) haircuts who insisted on strumming their horrid little guitars whenever a camera came anywhere near them in the waiting area, tarty middle aged women who thought they were Tina Turner and wailing r 'n' b divas who should really be audtioning for X-Factor instead.

Then there was the four of us. In it for a laugh, in character the whole time and just extracting the urine. We were certainly having the most fun there, I can tell you!

i believe the correct term for emo hair is 'turkey hair' lol

sounds like a bad club tbh.... having fun is what its all about... xD

keep us posted... *fingers crossed*

Thanks mate. There certainly won't be any tears and begging from me.
Fun is what it's all about, it's only worth doing something if you enjoy it.

I look forward to hearing about your brother's last dying wish you see you on stage performing what you love!

I'll say it was Bernard Manning's last wish!

Blapsing_Beard wrote:I look forward to hearing about your brother's last dying wish you see you on stage performing what you love!

lmao i love it when that happens on x factor
*backstage*
'well heres a sad story about emily, her father died while writing her entry form, how sad...'

*auditions*
'well how did you decide to to join the show'
'well how funny you should ask, coincidentally my dad died while writing out my entry form'
'oh my gosh that was so unexpected, its a shame i dont look sad and cant act'
'heres my performance'
'well your dad died so your through'

and they never ask anyone else how they decided to join etc...
dont get me wrong its not funny having friends or relatives die (it happens to everyone) but it seems that maybe it would give an unfair advantage to the person and its so blatantly set up....

Sometimes it's a competition to see who has the best sob story.
Quite frankly, I think using personal tragedy to further your ambitions is rather sick and shows they don't hold that person's memory in much regard.