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Voice of Ireland!

  • 07-09-2013 11:28pm
    #1
    ilovesmoothies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭


    Hey
    Has anyone applied to audition for the Voice of Ireland?? Im just wondering what your thoughts on it are and if you have been there before what is the audition process like?
    No slagging please ha :eek:
    Cheers :-D


Comments

  • #2
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    It'd probably take longer than I have to explain my thoughts on it, so I'll leave it at this: it's a pile of shît. As for the audition process, it's the same as any of those shows. You do a pre-audition with producers to see if you make the cut for the televised auditions. One thing I'll say for the voice is that, unlike xfactor etc, they don't do 'wacky' auditions to embarrass people for petty laughs.


  • #3
    ilovesmoothies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭ilovesmoothies


    Im a nervous wreck now after your opinion! Lol.. Thanks for your thoughts.. :-D


  • #4
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    I'll tell ya what I think of these shows and why. They're a bita fun. It's gas to watch them on a lazy Saturday with a pizza and a beer and all that. It's not great television but it's also not the worst there is out there. But they're not about music. They never have been and they really never will be. They're about television. They're about getting people to tune in every week and watch. And pay money to vote. Once in a while, someone will actually make a huge music career out of these shows. Once in a while. But that's more as a lucky bi-product of a show that's based around the competition. After the competition is over, that's it. Anyone know what Pat Byrne is doing right now? He's the lad that one the first Voice of Ireland. He apparently hated his own first single. Everyone else did too. It tanked.

    So yeah, my point is this: If you wanna go on the Voice of Ireland, go for it. It could be loads of fun and you'll probably get on telly! But just, for your own sake, don't see it as an inroad for a huge musical career. And I'm not saying it to put you down or anything and I'm not saying it's impossible. Just... don't expect too much...


  • #5
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »

    So yeah, my point is this: If you wanna go on the Voice of Ireland, go for it. It could be loads of fun and you'll probably get on telly! But just, for your own sake, don't see it as an inroad for a huge musical career. And I'm not saying it to put you down or anything and I'm not saying it's impossible. Just... don't expect too much...

    Excellent advice!


  • #6
    kahler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭kahler


    assuming that you re actually going to audition for the thing, that advice should be enormously liberating. you re not actually going to gain anything from it and you probably cant really lose much either. so have a few days out on the producers of the show, have a bit of a laugh with the other contestants and go home. nothing to be nervous about at all. the only ones who win on that show are the judges and the producers. the contestants are merely fodder for them to argue over to make themselves look good. brian kennedy had a single about a box or something way back when i were a lad, bressie had never been heard of and the corrs were a good link to conspiracy theories about allsorts before that show came out. household names again! best thing to do is get a gig as a judge on the show. sitdown work and no heavy lifting!


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