Evermore Rocks!!!

Ever heard of Evermore? No?! Well you are totally missing out… They are BLOODY AWESOME!!! Evermore are Jon, Peter and Dann Hume from New Zealand, Jon was born in Australia though and are now based in Sydney, Australia. Their first album was Dreams which as pretty good but I love Love LOVE their new album Real Life… First single from the album is Running, and second single is Light Surrounding You which I’m just obsessed with now… and I’ve attached the videos at the bottom… I went for their live show yesterday night… AWESOME!!! They are soooo good… oh man… they are sooooo good live… great songs… great musicians… great showmanship!! I love them even more now… More info at their official website: http://www.evermoreband.com or their myspace account: http://www.myspace.com/evermore

The Australian Idol Is…

Okay so the Australian Idol has finally come to an end… the Final itself wasn’t really spectacular… I was rather disappointed with the performances really… how sad… Oh the winner’s single is a rather mellow song… Maybe Tonight… not bad but nothing wow about it… personally I think it would be a great song for a country pop singer… the melody has a country-ish sound to it… ah if only I could sing it the way it’s played in my head…

Blah… anyway… the result show is more interesting with performances from the past idol winners and runners-up… as well as this year’s final 13… and some really great fireworks… Bad thing was it took forever for them to announce it… x_x And it really was a sucky result… Kate is the 2005 Australian Idol… bleak… yuck… she’s soooooo boring… ZZZzzz… Sorry Em… but don’t worry you’ll do well… And Lee… you rock!!!! Cheers!!!

Australian Idol: Final 3

I totally forgot to blog this week’s results… Well the theme was No.1 hits… and each had to sing two songs… I can’t really say much because all of them were good of course… I think Emily was the best… and I like Lee… ;p

Ok so… I was already guessing that Lee would go… well because he was bottom two last week anyway… and it was partly because I voted…!! And well… that’s what happened… Lee’s out… sob sob so sad… I love his work… but what the heck… you don’t have to win to become successful… So good luck to ya mate and Emily I will be cheering for you!!!

Australian Idol: Final 4

A heat was definitely on with only 2 weeks left before the grand final… and with them singing songs from THE KING himself… Elvis…!! The final 4 were required to sing two songs from Elvis and I would say the best performance can from Dan followed Kate (WHY!!!)… Lee wasn’t bad… he chose to sing Your Teddy Bear which was quite funny though… he actually threw a teddy bear into the crowd… so cute… Emily was good with her first song… but her second song to me was a disaster… she chose Can’t Help Falling In Love… and I just thought that her rendition was terrible… too much doodling with the song… I very much prefer A-Teen’s version… But overall no clear person was exceptional…

For this week, since there’s only 4 left, there was only a bottom 2 instead of 3 and they were Dan (shock!!!!) and Lee… naturally I already knew Lee was going… I mean he’s the least capable at singing… But personally I really wanted him to stay till top 3 and then let Dan and Emily battle it out or something like that… I was hoping Kate would go actually… I just don’t like her… she seems very pretentious… anyway yeah so… I voted for Lee like maybe 20 times or something… I don’t really know… I just used up the free credit I got… and you know what there was only 27 votes between the bottom two!!! That’s like sooooooo close!!!!! But the shocker was… Dan was the person to leave!!!!!!!! Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!! So sad… I think he really thought he would get further… I think everyone thought so as well… at least further than Lee… I really don’t know whether to feel guilty for voting for Lee or not… But I predict the final 2 will be Emily and Kate… Between those two… hopefully Emily will win… But I guess we’ll have to see… Until next week… cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 5

Moving along the musical timeline this week was 70s week… Only 5 left and the pressure is definitely on… Excellent week this week it really was… Lee was back to his fast paced self… Kate lost her voice but amazingly when she sang you’ll never have guessed… but she chose to sing Lady Marmalade which I think was not really suitable for her… Daniel was not too bad… Emily was as usual her spectacular self… bagging yet ANOTHER “touchdown”… a “carnation touchdown” at that… and the outstanding performance for the night came from Daniel who delivered all that the judges have ever expected… with Desperado… and he got himself a “touchdown”…

Naturally with only 5 left and all them talented at their own right… it was difficult to even think about any one of them leaving… The bottom 3 for the week were Kate, Lee and Daniel… Kate was sent back to safety first with the public rallying behind her and overlooking her unfortunate condition… So it was down to Lee and Daniel… Lee has never been the strongest singer in the competition but boy do the people love him and he really knows how to entertain the people… Daniel in his own right made himself known as a serious contender over the past two weeks when he stepped up his game and he does have a good rock voice… In the end… it came down to a difference of less than 0.2% between the two guys… and the one to leave was… Daniel… So Lee lives to sing another day… Good thing at that too… Personally I think he brings something special to the competition… If I’m not wrong he’s the first punk-based singer in the competition… not only in AuI… So I hope he gets far… Until next week… Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 6

Motown week!!! Well… it was another great week… with the exception of Lee Harding who sang Michael Jackson’s Ben… nice song but not for Lee… he had really bad pitching problems… Daniel Spillane had a great night where he was said to have “found himself”… and he really did… Emily scored another touchdown from Mark and from all that’s been happening she might just win AuI…!!!!

A really close call I would say since all the finalist that are left are great musicians in their own right… and it’s all down to their fan base… Bottom three were Anne, Daniel and Dan… Dan was sent back to safety right after being sent to the bottom 3… So it was down to Anne and Daniel… Who is your guess?? Well the answer is Anne!! I guess she just didn’t have a large enough fan base… sad really… she was really good… So 5 are left… It’s a fight to the finish… Until next week… Cheers…!!

Australian Idol: Final 7

This week’s theme was the 80’s… and it was GREAT!!! Best one so far… everyone’s performance was stepped up a notch… All great song choices… and the best performance for the night was by Lee Harding… I have to say this before anything… I hate the song Eye of the Tiger from the movie Rocky III… I hate it… and when I found out Lee was doing that song… I was like… what the… why why why??? BUT he totally revamped the song man!!!! He made is super fast and super punkrock!!! I was SOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!! Everyone should really see it… It’s like… those who watch AuI know that Lee really isn’t the best singer in the competition… but man he can perform like heck!!! He always gives a great show… He even got a touchdown from Mark!!!! Alright!!! GO LEE GO!!! That was really surprising man!!! Only the second of the season!!! Everyone else was good too of course…

Bottom three for the week was James, Daniel and Emily (SHOCK)… When Daniel was the first to be sent to safety everyone was outraged!!!! But seriously… this is one of those cases where you think that the person is so good so other people will voted for him/her but ended up everyone thought the same thing… STUPID!!!! After much booing and shouting from the crowd… they finally announced that James would be the one to leave… Pheeew… narrow escape there… Seriously everyone should NEVER ASSUME!!!! Until next week… Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 8

This week was BIG BAND night!!!!! Yeah baby… the coolest… smoothest… baddest… music genre ever to have graced the planet… Hehehe… well I enjoy it… Not everyone agrees thought like AuI judge Kyle… who hates the genre and so to impress him you need to be… REALLY GOOD… Well… Anne, Emily and Kate would be the stand outs… personally I didn’t like Kate’s performance because it was a little boring… Lee lost his cool touch this week… My favourite was Anne’s performance… And the worst for me was James… I thought he just tried way too hard… and he has very gay hand gestures which annoy me… No offense… and he spoiled a nice song…

Anyway bottom three were… Dan (shock), Milly and James… and the one to leave is… Milly… quite sad… but she’s been upstaged by everyone else… so… no choice… Yeap Dan was second lowest… That was a shock… my guess to an explanation would be because even though he is good… He hasn’t been upping it to the next level like Anne and Emily have… So yeah… Till next week… Cheers…