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Irish Guy on Australian Idol

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    BaZmO* wrote:
    ...And doing them on a Australian Reality TV Show. A country that's not exactly reknowned for producing musical artists of any great note (excuse the pun)...
    What a load of uneducated crap!

    Bazmo isn't there another thread you could hijack? You are starting to become tedious!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    dSTAR wrote:
    What a load of uneducated crap!

    Bazmo isn't there another thread you could hijack? You are starting to become tedious!
    Haha. :D I'm becoming tedious? Right back atcha mate!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    See also troll and flamebating


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    MODEDIT: No personal attacks here please. Doing so again will result in a ban.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭plonk


    BaZmO* wrote:
    And doing them on a Australian Reality TV Show. A country that's not exactly reknowned for producing musical artists of any great note (excuse the pun).

    ACDC
    Wolfmother
    Jack Johnson
    Ben Harper
    Nick Cave and the bad seeds
    the avalanches
    Savage Garden
    Daddy cool
    Crowded house


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Dead Can Dance, Regurgitator, You Am I, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Something for Kate, The Clouds, Killing Heidi, John Butler Trio, The Waifs...

    Shall I go on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭imeddyhobbs


    Every man/woman that is on/in any australian tv bla de bla is a foreigner
    !was there any natives on this show?aborigines??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    This years finalist alongside Damien Leith (Jessica Mauboy) is half Koori.

    The previous winner of the show two years ago (Kasey Donovan) is Koori.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    dSTAR wrote:
    Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Dead Can Dance, Regurgitator, You Am I, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Something for Kate, The Clouds, Killing Heidi, John Butler Trio, The Waifs...

    i am surely not the only one who hasnt heard of most of these bands/singers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    what about kylie and jason then?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Damien Leith surprised everyone by being announced the winner of Australian Idol tonight.

    Well done mate!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 aussiegirl


    Good on him.. He deserved it. Im very happy for him :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭Nea


    Well done Damien.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 pinkshirt


    Hi

    I'm an Aussie, and was just googling Leith after hearing him win on Oz Idol. Just wanted to let you guys know the good news. He's amazing! By far and away the best they've had on that show. It'll probably be in the papers over there tomorrow, but you guys have a head start :-)

    Rebecca


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    plonk wrote:
    ACDC
    Wolfmother
    Jack Johnson
    Ben Harper
    Nick Cave and the bad seeds
    the avalanches
    Savage Garden
    Daddy cool
    Crowded house
    Neil Finn is from New Zealand and Jack Johnson is from Hawaii. As for the rest...hmmmmm.
    dSTAR wrote:
    Hunters & Collectors, Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Dead Can Dance, Regurgitator, You Am I, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Something for Kate, The Clouds, Killing Heidi, John Butler Trio, The Waifs...

    Shall I go on?
    If by "go on" you mean that you're gonna mention some musicians that people outside of Australia have actually heard of, well then by all means do "go on"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,836 ✭✭✭Vokes


    Fair play to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    Good lad Damien! Based on the few performances I've seen, I knew he would win it. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    BaZmO* wrote:
    Neil Finn is from New Zealand and Jack Johnson is from Hawaii. As for the rest...hmmmmm...
    BaZmO - I am well aware that Crowded House are actually a kiwi band as much as Australians would love them to be home-grown :cool:

    As for Jack Johnson, not sure why the OP put his name as being Aussie??

    Surprisingly you raise an interesting point...

    There seems to be a tendency of countries like Australia (and Britain) to adopt talent from other countries once that person has been living in the country for any length of time. I touched on it a bit here.

    It used to really bugger me off whenever I heard a British TV presenter refer to a certain Irish Band as British. Already this is starting in Australia. Damien went on record just before the show to say that next year he would becoming an Australian citizen.

    I understood this to mean that he was possibly aware of the fact that people might see him as being a foreigner and not fully accept him and thus jeopardize his chances of winning Australian Idol. It is interesting that on his My Space page he considers himself a Grass roots Irish / Australian musician and songwriter.

    Just think BaZmO now that its all over you won't have me to add meaning to your life! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    he is releasing a album of covers what more do we need to know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    im irish and have been in brisbane oz for the last few months, wouldnt normally be watching idol *cough cough* but have been watching damien from the start, he totaly deserves to win Ha' boy Damien...congrats !!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭ClareBear


    Just youtubed him to see what all the fuss is about...

    Well he's better off than if he did You're a Star anyway!

    Fair play to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    BeeGees are Aussies aren't they?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    BeeGees are Aussies aren't they?
    Nope. They were born in the Isle of Man, then moved to Manchester and then moved to Australia.

    Anyway, believe it or not I'm actually delighted for the guy I really am. I just had a issue with the way some of the posters here were wetting themselves over the prospect of the new musical saviour that is Damien Leith, a reality TV star that has a decent voice and does cover versions. I'll hold off on calling him the next best thing until he's at least released a few original songs of any note.

    Damien went on record just before the show to say that next year he would becoming an Australian citizen.
    Hmmm... that's odd.

    dSTAR wrote:
    Just think BaZmO now that its all over you won't have me to add meaning to your life!
    lol. :D;)


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