You're A Star Returns...

mike65

...with added "street cred"

September 2004
RTÉ's You're A Star goes for three

RTÉ and Screentime ShinAwiL, the makers of the 'You're A Star' talent search show, yesterday announced that the series would return for a third year.

The programme is looking for ambitious Irish musical hopefuls to audition this autumn for their chance at a career in the music industry and to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest next May in the Ukraine.

RTÉ 2FM presenter Dave Fanning, Barbara Galavan and Hazel Kaneswaran are the new judges while Ray D'Arcy will return to present the show once again.

Following the enormous popularity of the previous two series', 'You're A Star' will again take the headline slot on RTÉ every Sunday night for 17 weeks starting in November.

Audition locations and dates:
Limerick - LIT Millennium Theatre, Moylish Park on Saturday 11 September
Waterford - Garter Lane Theatre, 22a O'Connell Street on Saturday 18 September
Sligo - Hawk's Well Theatre, Temple Street on Saturday 25 September
Dublin - Liberty Hall Theatre, Eden Quay on Tuesday 12 October
Laois - Dunamaise Theatre and Centre for the Arts, Church Street, Portlaoise on Saturday 16 October. Bands only.

Auditions at all venues start at 9am and registration closes at 3pm. More information is available online at: www.rte.ie/star

Dave Fannings career is now over!

Mike.

grumpytrousers

Harsh to say that about fanning - I mean, I think he's 'Sold out' by appearing, but in fairness, a man who's getting into his fifties can't forever pretend to be cutting edge forever. The format of his 6pm show is proof of that anyway - i.e. I recognise 70% of what he plays and i'm 30, as opposed to recognising 40% when i was a teenager.

He's slowly but surely turning into a Radio 1 type anyway, and I mean that in a good way....

I suppose this is RTE's screwy way of trying to make sure that this years final winner is more 'youth oriented'. Having re-read my comments above, I realise the irony of getting Dave in to do this....

lodgepole

Fanning will be the evil prick part of it. He guested in the last series didn't he? It'll be better than seeing Linda Martin, Louis Walsh and Phil Coulter sucking the cocks off a load of amateur karaoke singers with gel in their hair.

grumpytrousers

They are not "amateur karaoke singers"...they are *ahem* "talented young re-interpreters of songs"...:D

ixoy

I'm sure I saw an ad for this with Dave Fanning, talking in a rush to ensure he outpaced the speed of sound, saying how he thought You're A Star was a load of crap. Hopefully he'll practice what he preaches and insult them throughly like they deserve. And if Ronan Keating offers to a pen song, maybe we can expect him to be told where to shove that pen.

kirn

in fairness, dave fanning isn't really that alternative, he just prefers mainstream rock to mainstream pop.
anyway, if anyone thinks he'll be doing a simon cowell on this they'll be mistaken.

i think the reason he's here is because 'you're a star' is deeply uncool, and by him being on the panel they're hoping for a bit more cred...
k

Jim

I'm on for Mickey Joe again.

Morgans

Give the job to "six". They won something similar and aren't too busy at the moment to record a Eurovision no-hoper. Sure, they could get it done on their lunch-breaks.

ravenhead

No no no no no NO ..... it was wrong the first time, really wrong the second time but to come back & do it all over again????? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???? WHY........... :eek:

flogen

ravenhead wrote:

No no no no no NO ..... it was wrong the first time, really wrong the second time but to come back & do it all over again????? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???? WHY........... :eek:

ahem... welcome to RTE...

flogen

Sarky

There is no god.

MisterAnarchy

Youre a star
Definition of Star

1. An artistic performer or athlete whose leading role or superior performance is acknowledged.
2. One who is highly celebrated in a field or profession.

Ha ha ha

jor el

I read in the paper yesterday that some looser from Pop Rivals will also be presenting it with Dave. That's just great isn't it. Get someone who couldn't make it through one of these shows to 'judge' the quality of the hopefulls. I hope Fanning gives all the crap ones a propper roasting the way Cowell does it on the American one. That's funny sometimes.
I hate to see this crap coming back on for the next 5 months but RTé seem to be on a winner. They make a fortune from the voting that goes on, the ratings are high so can charge an arm and a leg for advertising, the 'winner' will go to Europe and probably flop out (OK maybe they'll be talented and good but the kind of song that this show picks is just not winner material) so Ireland won't win and RTé won't have to host the show next year. It's only a pitty they don't spend some of that money by putting on something worth while watching.

grumpytrousers

But Dave won't roast 'em, that's the problem. I met the chap once and he's an utter gent, polite, courteous, bought me a pint after bumming a smoke from me...

Take a listen to his show, no matter what music people say they like, he doesn't pounce on 'em...and for my money, he won't start having a go at people 'trying to make a start in the business' on their first time on national telly...

sceptre

jor el wrote:

I read in the paper yesterday that some looser from Pop Rivals will also be presenting it with Dave. That's just great isn't it. Get someone who couldn't make it through one of these shows to 'judge' the quality of the hopefulls.

In fairness, you don't have to be a rally driver to be able to tell when David Coulthard (that well-known Scotch thosser) is driving badly. And you don't need a Grammy to be able to tell a hopeless no-hoper from a talented singer. Shame some of last year's judges were apparently tone-deaf but what can you do. I don't know what Dave's singing credentials are but I've not heard of him bounding up to the karaoke deck after a few snifters. Hance let's assume he's about as talented as a singer as this "looser from Pop Rivals" (was that the ITV thing that produced Girls Aloud and that other talentless bunch of Ben Sherman wearing laddies?)

jor el

In fairness, you don't have to be a rally driver to be able to tell when David Coulthard (that well-known Scotch thosser) is driving badly.

Fair point, but if you went up to DC and called him a crap driver, he could simply ask you if you've ever tried to drive an F1 car. If you haven't, then you really can't say how bad he is, though he's definitly worse than most of the other drivers.
How can this girl be taken seriously as a judge by the candidates when she couldn't make it in pop herself? With Dave, at least he's been in the business for years and knows a good sound when he hears it, whether he can sing or not. The other one is just some wannabe who failed to make it as a popstar and now will be judging other wannabes.
She'll probably be able to tell them they're crap, but will they believe, or will they keep returning again and again like that Brendan Kilkenny fool.

sceptre

Pretty bad example from me wasn't it (I just wanted to bring up that thosser thing again). Coulthard obviously isn't a bad driver - even on a bad day he's probably officially only twentieth in the world.

I can see where you're coming from and I don't totally disagree with it. I still reckon you don't have to be talented to be able to spot talent. On the other hand, if you're going to be judging a singing contest you may have more credibility if you've achieved something in that field (and as you point out, Fanning has a track record that gives him that credibility). So you're right really, but having said that my singing voice probably isn't all that great and I can recognise some talentless idiot when I see one. Or a "good sound" (man) when I hear that too.

grumpytrousers

How can this girl be taken seriously as a judge by the candidates when she couldn't make it in pop herself?

Well - to echo Sceptre, the fact that she isn't Kylie Minogue doesn't make her 'untalented' per se, or unable to point out how talented/untalented others are. The fact she/they didn't have much chart success has a significant rooting in the fact that Simon Cowell (who they were meant to work with) had bigger fish to fry elsewhere.

I sort of worked with one of the gals from Six, and she could sing all right. And dance. (Christ - I'm dropping names like the bejaysus here...)

I think i've said it about lots of the fodder that RTE chucks out under the banner 'entertainment'...the denizens of boards dot ie aren't the target audience. It's not that we're smarter, or more aloof...just harder to please and tend not to share the cloth eared tendancies and over fondness for soft-rock-power-ballad-schtick of the rest of the population.

This being the case it's this "rest of the country" that will quite happily sit down for the programme, come up on the TAM ratings, text in their votes and allow all and sundry to proclaim it a 'success'.

Meanwhile we'll sit about and moan about it.

like the cunths we really are

loyatemu

if the purpose of "You're a Star" is to produce a possible eurovision winner then it has so far failed miserably - didn't we get "nul points" last year?
if we didn't we deserved to - who picks the actual song anyway?

grumpytrousers

loyatemu wrote:

if the purpose of "You're a Star" is to produce a possible eurovision winner then it has so far failed miserably - didn't we get "nul points" last year?
if we didn't we deserved to - who picks the actual song anyway?

It's not that we're smarter, or more aloof...just harder to please and tend not to share the cloth eared tendancies and over fondness for soft-rock-power-ballad-schtick of the rest of the population

*ahem*

question asked...and answered!

mike65

Grumpy its nice to see you think we're too darned post-modernly metrosexual
to watch! I did'nt even know who the other two were...

Mike.

moggie

aye
who are the other two? :rolleyes:

or to be more specific - what were they once in, or what is their claim to fame?

grumpytrousers

mike65 wrote:

Grumpy its nice to see you think we're too darned post-modernly metrosexual
to watch! I did'nt even know who the other two were...

Mike.

I meant it as a compliment - highlighting the...um...discerning nature of the denizens of these here parts...:D

aye
who are the other two?

or to be more specific - what were they once in, or what is their claim to fame?

Say what. You talkin' to me? Other two what - judges. Haven't a notion. Sure aren't they probably famous. and off the telly. ideally suited to be judges...

JBoyle4eva

Another cold cold winter is ahead of us, and when these pop idol s**t progs come back on, you know you've gotta light the fire!


PS. Gonna watch The X-Factor on UTV just for the slagging!

grumpytrousers

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Another cold cold winter is ahead of us, and when these pop idol s**t progs come back on, you know you've gotta light the fire!


PS. Gonna watch The X-Factor on UTV just for the slagging!

I read that as 'gonna watch it for the shagging'....

Flukey

I've managed to avoid this tripe :rolleyes: over the past two years, as I do any of these Pop Idol shows, and I intend to make it three-in-a-row! The whole thing is aimed at kids, who know nothing about music (a bit like Louis Walsh then) and whose votes have nothing to do with the talent (which is usually non-existent) of the individual.

munkeehaven

yup, i can just hear the lickle 8-10 year old girls getting ready to text ten times in a row for the best looking yob that will appear on the show.first they will get rid of the female contestants and then all will be left is the male ones for them to obsess about. *shiver*.tis dark times ahead i tells ya.

aidan_walsh

G'yan munkee... You know you voted for Chris Doran 10 times a night yerself...

munkeehaven

what was wrong with him/ why did he sing with his jaw dropped the whole time/ he looked like he was dim in the the head.it disturbed me.my liil sis was like "oh ee i wanna use your phone oh ee!"

jor el

I hope you smacked her upside the head with it instead munkee

grumpytrousers

yup, i can just hear the lickle 8-10 year old girls getting ready to text ten times in a row for the best looking yob that will appear on the show.

And there's another prob with the show...I found myself in a provincial hotel a few months back and there was a gang of younger folk there...all highly excited that "george" from You're a Star had been seen around the town and would possibly be coming in. Which he duly did. There's x votes, per tweenie in the voting pile marked "george" from here on in. (aye - did him fook all good ultimately, but i'm sure this applied across the board)

Also, as Ireland is a small country, its' easy to get votes based upon 'running a good campaign' rather than any discernable talent/ability. Rather like..um...real elections innit.

AND I FOR ONE WILL NOT HAVE MY POTENTIAL POP STARS STOOPING TO THE LEVELS OF POLITICIANS...



(btw, does anybody know has the 'Vote James Kilbane' Billboard gone from outside Mullingar yet?)

Cabaal

Oh ffs!
RTE dragging out a crap show to waste more money, will it ever stop?
whats next Big Brother Ireland?

grumpytrousers

Cabaal wrote:

Oh ffs!
RTE dragging out a crap show to waste more money, will it ever stop?
whats next Big Brother Ireland?

SSSHHHH, they'll hear you....

if we see BB Ireland, I shall blame you...

The Song Thrush

Funny the way everyone calls it crap, but this year's final got almost a million viewers and it's the second-most watched program of the year on RTE1.

Cabaal

It still don't make it good...

Thought Off-Topic somewhat... film wise they made Jeepers Creepers and that was ****e and everyone I knew that saw it said the same, but that did'ent stop them from making a Jeepers Creepers II!

No offense to anyone that watches & likes it but they need to get out more and do something more interesting with there lifes

Flukey

Well some programmes are so bad, you just have to watch them.
Anyway, there was no escape from it, with it being rammed down our throats everywhere you turned. Even people who never watch the damn thing know who Chris Doran is. Yes, he is the talentless plonker that got 7 points in the Eurovision!
:rolleyes:

grumpytrousers

The Song Thrush wrote:

Funny the way everyone calls it crap, but this year's final got almost a million viewers and it's the second-most watched program of the year on RTE1.

A billion flies may eat excrement - that does not ennoble the practise

©S Fry, sometime or other...

John R

grumpytrousers wrote:

A billion flies may eat excrement - that does not ennoble the practise

©S Fry, sometime or other...

LOL.


To be fair to RTE I can't really fault them for putting this dross back on. It is a good programme for them in many ways. It is a huge ratings winner, it is dirt cheap to produce, it brings in lots of phone vote income and most importantly it seems to guarantee that RTE will never have to shell out on producing a Eurovision programme again.

Cabaal

Flukey wrote:

Yes, he is the talentless plonker that got 7 points in the Eurovision!
:rolleyes:

Well atleast he's famous for something

John R wrote:

It is a good programme for them in many ways. It is a huge ratings winner, it is dirt cheap to produce, it brings in lots of phone vote income and most importantly it seems to guarantee that RTE will never have to shell out on producing a Eurovision programme again.

shhhh thats the plan, they don't want to host it anymore
so far there plan is going very well imho

:cool:

grumpytrousers

Cabaal wrote:

Well atleast he's famous for something




shhhh thats the plan, they don't want to host it anymore
so far there plan is going very well imho

:cool:

Tsk -they nicked that idea from an episode of Fr Ted. It'll never work...

jor el

grumpytrousers wrote:

Tsk -they nicked that idea from an episode of Fr Ted. It'll never work...

I was just thinking that too. My lovely horse, running through the fields.... and so on.

The Song Thrush

I don't think Ireland will ever win again. All we send is ballads, and the juries are a couple of years gone now... I don't ever recall Ireland sending anything uptempo. And I wouldn't call Mickey Harte uptempo....