The Voice Of Ireland

Elmo · 22-12-2011 2:58pm

mcgu wrote: »

Are Kian, Sharon Corr, Bresie and Brian Kennedy all signed connected to Universal by any chance?????

If they are then it could show that the Programme makers were under pressure from their advertisers to support the product they are placing with in the programme. Which is against the Product Placement rules, but then Shinawhil do that on The Apprentice You're Fired nearly Every week. But

...... Shhhhhhh! Tell no one! Shhhhhh!.

mcgu · 22-12-2011 3:03pm

Just ran a little bit of a google search with all the judges names and universal music.... well well well!

Colmo52 · 22-12-2011 7:21pm

mcgu wrote: »

Just ran a little bit of a google search with all the judges names and universal music.... well well well!

None of them are signed with Universal

Elmo · 22-12-2011 7:30pm

Colmo52 wrote: »

None of them are signed with Universal

I can't find anything to suggest they are either perhaps mcgu could give us a link, before I start going off on a rant

my rants would make perfect sense if other would do the research for me

mcgu · 22-12-2011 7:50pm

All I said was well well well!!

Elmo · 22-12-2011 11:05pm

mcgu wrote: »

All I said was well well well!!

true! true! true!.... but the implication.

Stench Blossoms · 27-12-2011 9:17pm

Who is Bresie?

mcgu · 27-12-2011 9:29pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Breslin

Pretty Polly · 30-12-2011 5:37pm

Looking forward to seeing Bresie. Was surprised when i heard he was going to be on the panel though. At least this years judges have experience in the music industry. Lord knows why Blathnaid was on the judging panel last year.

leahyl · 03-01-2012 7:27pm

Looking forward to watching this cos Bressie is hot!!

cgpg5 · 03-01-2012 11:19pm

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Who is Bresie?

Some clown who actually calls himself Bressie! Something Breslin the lead singer of the Blizzards.

JP Liz V1 · 03-01-2012 11:21pm

leahyl wrote: »

Looking forward to watching this cos Bressie is hot!!

He is probably the only judge who has a current career and is sorta relevant music wise

Danny from The Script is a judge on the UK show

Elmo · 04-01-2012 10:14pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Danny from The Script is a judge on the UK show

I don't know! I just don't understand!

pinkhappyturtle · 05-01-2012 2:04pm

Its not really a surprise that they all at some stage have had a link with Universal Sounds or perhaps owe a favour here or there but my question is with the exception of Bressie other than being on stage what exactly qualifies them to judge the competition?

Sharon Corr: http://www.sharoncorr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=854&start=50

Kian Egan (Westlife): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Westlife_songs (They have done a few ablums with Universal)

Brian Kennedy: The Ireland's Call song was done with Universal Sounds. Theres loads of articles were this is mentioned.

Bressie (The Blizzards): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blizzards

mcgu · 05-01-2012 2:06pm

Well well well !!

Colmo52 · 05-01-2012 2:52pm

You're starting to sound like Jim Corr with all this conspiracy bullsh*t.

mcgu · 05-01-2012 3:04pm

Sure its a tiny little Country - there are bound to be connections.

JP Liz V1 · 05-01-2012 6:02pm

Surely they could have got better judges for this

Elmo · 05-01-2012 8:31pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Surely they could have got better judges for this

It is hard to know what a good judge is??? Jessy J and your man from the Script on the UK version, I am not sure how good they are as Judges, both are relatively new to the music scene. Will.i.am is prob the best of the 4, but only as he is also a producer. And well Tom Jones is a veteran to be fair. If only Joe Dolan was still knocking about.

It's not about the money money money

pinkhappyturtle · 06-01-2012 4:23pm

Its not a conspiracy, Irelands just super small when it comes to the music scene so your bound to cross paths with a hand full of people again and again.

When it comes to judging at least the guy Bressie has done some producing and has a small clue about that side of things. As judges I would be looking for someone like that someone who is the other side of the recording world who has spotted the next best thing. It hurts me to say it but someone like Lou who has the eye for what the public will buy.

On the up side there is loads of other channels to be watched on Sunday nights and failing that the cinema etc so avoiding the whole show shouldn't be too hard haha.

mcgu · 06-01-2012 4:33pm

Brian Kennedy is another judge. If his car crash performance on TV3's "come dine with me" is anything to go by, I'm interested to see if he redeems himself on "The Voice".....

Luis21 · 06-01-2012 5:08pm

Looking forward to this. Sharon "new big silly looking lips" Corr, Brian Kennedy, Some bloke and Kian "Look at my hairline, you could land a plane on my forehead" Egan.

Car crash.

RisnL · 07-01-2012 4:15am

Bressie has technical knowledge

gazzer · 07-01-2012 12:03pm

Kian Egan is a useless manager (spent 2 years trying to get his wife's band to work and failed) and he never sang lead vocals in any Westlife song afaik so how the hell is he qualified to be a judge of singing?

Pretty Polly · 07-01-2012 6:27pm

gazzer wrote: »

Kian Egan is a useless manager (spent 2 years trying to get his wife's band to work and failed) and he never sang lead vocals in any Westlife song afaik so how the hell is he qualified to be a judge of singing?

I think it was closer to 3 years...what a disaster!!

RisnL · 08-01-2012 5:43am

I agree that kian Egan would be no good as a manager but he might be of use as a coach, he's been in the business for a while and knows how I works, he must be able to hold a note or two after being in westlife. I think they're would have been several other candidates better suited to the role but the show needs viewers, they're are probably thousands of people watching it simply because he is a coach.