-Sascha Williams; this guy was brilliant, he looked so plain and dull during the introductory conversation, and then he got up and started a crazy act, balancing a board on a tube, and adding a lot of stuff, he put on a great show! Very thrilling, exciting, and he had that scoundrel-smile that was very charming, and the assistant kissed him as if to make it clear: he’s mine :-p
-Giang Brothers from Vietnam were very impressive, it was a show of amazing strength and balance. It was great from the start, and it ended with one of them going down the stairs and then back up with his brother on his head! Wow.
-Ellie & Jeki from South Korea did a brilliant quick-change show, loved it. Very well done and very well played, playing to the music, putting on a great act, I loved them! I loved the act and the two of them so much that I was very sorry to admit that I wasn’t at all thrilled by their semi-final act. It was slow and there were only a few changes, not many like the first time; there never was a wow moment, and unfortunately there wasn’t even an awww moment. Their romantic act of the two of them meeting and him proposing to her was sweet, but nothing that surprised anyone, nothing that made people go awww. I still hoped they’d get through so to see them again, but they didn’t. They should have though.
-The Greek guy was fun, he played a cord instrument and they all ran to the stage to throw plates and break them; after another thing he did, balancing glasses on his head, there was a little, a tiny piece of cloth on fire and Ant&Dec went “the stage is on fire” :-p come on! Dec actually ran there to pour water on it...
Comedians:
-Robert White, wow he was funny, he looked rather silly at first with his green shirt and shoes, but then he started going joke after joke, very funny, and he sang a little thing that contained jokes on all the four judges, which takes guts I think. He was very funny.
-Andrew Lancaster did impressions, I liked him. He did Trump, Brian Cox (my fav of them), Russel Brand and another guy that I guess is probably in politics.
-Lost voice guy, Lee, was a rather bizarre act since he had previously written it all on his machine and it said it out loud, but it was funny! Very funny jokes. Sure, that poor guy on agt would have done much better had he been able to record his lines, that time when he suddenly forgot everything and couldn’t go on...
-Noel James, 52, was funny, he’s the one who put down the guitar and used the cover :lol:
-Ross from Essex; Simon and Amanda buzzed, the others didn’t but didn’t like him anyway. I honestly can’t really judge because I didn’t understand a word he was saying....
-Ben Langley made his act by ‘mocking songs’, meaning that the showed how they can be misunderstood, like “only seventeen” could be heard as “only seven teeth”, and of course when you read it written down you think you hear it for real.
-Micky Kerr, 36, was the one who picked on Simon for eating, and he was very funny: he sang the “absolutely amazing song”, and the other song about “the bag for life” that he had lost :lol: at first when he said “I’ve suffered a loss” they were all like, for real? It was very funny (and Simon had no idea what a bag for life was, I don’t think he makes many trips to supermarkets :-p ). I liked this act very much, it was fun! His semi-final was great too, he was my fav comedian this year, I liked his style and his silly jokes and his funny face, and most of all his ‘quiet’ comedy, loved it. Too bad at the final he used that song about arrogance, I didn’t like it, I suppose it was for comedy purposed and yet it kinda sounded arrogant for real, it wasn’t funny. Before that song, I was enjoying his act.
-Marc Spelmann, the magician that ended his show with a video of his wife and little baby who had do undergo chemiotherapy as she was born. It was a heartbreaking story with a beautiful little girl involved, so of course he got a golden buzzer. From Ant and Dec.
-Marcel, 34, is a fantasy illusionist. I read his stage name should be Magus Utopia. I liked the act, going to sleep, dreaming of monsters chasing him and trapping him, and waking up screaming, very good act.
-Mandy Muden, 55, is a sort of comedian/magician. The magic was alright but the comedy part was lovely, I liked her act, she was fun! Her semi-final was less amazing, I mean the magic was good but we’ve seen that already, and on bgt as that, but she was again funny and I liked her a lot!
-Andrew Lee from Malaysia did a ‘card trick’, he found the card Dec had chosen, but by throwing blindfolded a knife at him !! Good act :-)
-Maddox, the guy with the smoothing voice that played with the Rubik’s cube, throwing it in the air and catching it solved! He also had Amanda do it :-)
-Professor Strange was the one that had previously been at Amanda’s kid’s birthday party, although she didn’t remember him at all. They buzzed him off, but I thought they were too harsh, it was funny and they should have let him finish. It was too silly for grown-ups ok, not something that could win BGT, but it would have been nice to let him show what he can do so other people could call him for their kids’ parties. I mean, sometimes they say yes to the most absurd things for no reason at all :-/
-Sora from Japan did a very bizarre act, by having them all choose a design of underwear, and then for a second they made it look like the assistant would strip, and then he did it and he wore the things they had chosen... very bizarre...
-DVJ, a dance crew, 10 to 18, were good. Funny the moment when one of them ‘forgot’ to take off the black gilet :-p very nice.
-David & Javier, the two guys from Barcelona/Mexico that danced together a samba (was it?) and they danced very well :-)
-Cali Swing, 9 to 14, danced Salsa very well. They were the kids in blue suit and yellow shirts, and were very good.
-Rise, a group of girls, one of them a survivor of the Manchester attack at the Ariana Grande concert. Great girls, keep it going.
-Lexie & Christopher, both 10, danced a good jive. Very young for a stage, though.
-Baba Yega, 5 guys aged 21 to 33, looking like identical aliens, danced to the song Ba-ba-ye-gaaa, and didn’t speak a word :-p
-Tap attack, were three girls and three boys put together by a mom, and they did an impressive tap-dancing choreography, I loved it.
-B Positive choir were really good, and a message to donate blood to help other people.
-Jenny Darren,68, surprised them all with a rock song, serious rock I mean, and she did well, she rocks! “Highway to hell” she sang.
-Father Ray Kelly,64, sang REM’s Everybody hurts. Very very well.
-Amy Marie Borg, 16, sang Nella Fantasia, but she was so very nervous.
-The Ratpackers, 22 and..58 maybe?, sang New York New York. They had good voices, but at times were not really synchronized, I think.
-Jack & Tim were a son/father duo, and they were really nice, and sang their own song “the lucky ones”, and it was really nice. Simon pressed the golden buzzer (without any crowd chanting, good)
-Donchez, 60, sang his own song WiggleWine. It was infectious, everybody liked it and wanted to dance to it. As he finished, David went for the golden buzzer.
-D-Day Darlings, they were 9 women in uniform who perform for veterans, were really sweet. “we’ll meet again some sunny dayyy...”
-Aleksandar Mileusnic, 23, sang “seven nation army” very well, he was very charming.
-Lifford sang “a change is gonna come”, he was good. A soul singer. Alesha, who knew him already and said right away he was good, pressed the golden buzzer.
-Miss Tres, 35 to 43, from Philippines, came in as three pretty girls and then had big voices and sang Sex Bomb.
-Ronan Busfield sang Maria from WestSideStory, he had quite a voice, and there’s a chance he could even do better since this time he was very nervous.
-Sarah Llewellyn from USA did something very strange; in Amanda’s words “we’ve never had a sexy, cake-eating, opera singer”. Indeed not.
-Gruffydd Wyn Roberts, 22, sang in Italian and quite good too. Simon stopped him and he changed to Nessun Dorma. He sang in a very good Italian, I can say, at least the first bit. He made a mistake but got it together and finished it. At the end he paused at the wrong moments, but did very well in the whole, and he had a great voice, and I liked the guy, and he had friends shouting for him, and he got Amanda’s golden buzzer.
-Shaquille Rayes, 20, sang his own song dedicated to his dad, and it was very nice.
There was Simon’s little son in Blackpool, such a cute little thing *_*
It’s so annoying when the audience starts booing anytime the judges criticize something someone did, it’s really annoying and frankly quite rude!
Also the bits when you hear what someone in the crowd says, that’s so fake and annoying.
Impressionist Jess Robinson was very good, but she only did singing impressions, so all singers + Sharon Osbourne. At the semi-final, she also did a bit of dancing, but that I thought affected her voice a bit. She was really good though, I liked her, I love impressions well done :-)
Liu Xin (her) and Goa Lin (the husband) did a brilliant performance, it was acrobatic and yet it was a very elegant dance, and the ending was amazing, with her so elegantly standing on tiptoe over his shoulder, with one leg only, they were so beuautiful... I loved them!
Charlie Dyson was the 9-y-o on the push scooter (monopattino) doing stunts, I mean he was 9!!! wow.
Musician Tokio Myers, 32, he was a pianist but added something like another keyboard doing something I didn’t exactly understand but they all loved it. I liked a lot hearing him playing the piano, he was good! It’s the rest I didn’t understand. I liked it, but didn’t really understand it. I gather he sort of mixed different musics together to make something whole and different. Where did the voice come from? From a recorded song that he used of he made them with the computer? I don’t know.
-Angara Contortion group were four Russian girls dressed in lucid green, great contortionists and with a good ‘choreography’. Great. They were like snakes but beautifully graceful and at the end they built a human totem :-p really good.
Annette & Yannick performed on roller skates, basically just doing all the best lifts from the ice-skating pairs competition... I guess nobody there follows ice-skating... or maybe they did it before and the whole lot of ice-skaters copied them, who knows. What they called impressive was Hotarek’s lift of making the girl rotate only holding her with one hand..
DAN the ‘mind readers’ put on a good show, but at the semi-final was struck me more was that Simon couldn’t find the right page and word in the dictionary :-p and Amanda helped him :-p The performances were both good, but for me they talk a bit too much. I know they had to fill time, obviously, but not repeating the same thing two, three times, it becomes boring.
Comedians:
-Jonny Awsum was funny, such a strange act, where he sort of parodied musicals, making Ant and Dec going up and down.. hard to describe it without seeing it but I liked it! “it is a musical feeeature with Ant and Deec” at first seemed rather strange but it became really awesome, enjoyable and entertainment. I loved his semi-final too, “the triangle song”, I loved it.
-Daliso Chaponda was so funny, I laughed out loud before the act even started :lol: “Thou shall not swap” was the most hilarious thing, so so funny :lol: He was Amanda’s golden buzzer, but only after the crowd shouted for a while :-/ annoying.
-Issy Simpson was the 8-y-o magician, the little bossy girl with style. Simon:”is it bad for me to call you a witch?” - “not in Harry Potter” , loved this, so cute. Simon”this is like real life Harry Potter” and she went “Awww”, so sweet. It was the act with the box that Simon and David said they couldn’t lift it but she could :-p Good presentation, the little girl, she was very cute and determined, but I kind of thought that she got so far in the competition because of her age..
-Josephin Lee was the blond girl, 29, that made 3 balls float and then two vanished and the third was suddenly herself. She was really good!! At the semi-final she did a very good show too, with a bit of magic and a lot of show, with a good speech about women killed for being different and the assistant taking over the power and the stage. Simon found it irritating but as a girl I found it really good, and she is good. How do men put on a big show? Usually there are girls to distract the audience, she didn’t use that, she can’t, she’s the pretty girl people look at. After all, her trick was a very basic one, the get-in-the-box/disappear/reappear-elsewhere trick, but she put on a very good show around it.
-Matt Edwards did, as he put it, crazy variety magic, it was so silly and funny I really liked it, the Tequila act, with the salt pouring forever from his hand... really funny :-p he was Ant&Dec’s golden buzzer, and the crowd chanted after they had started going for it :-) good. I liked the act and I liked him :-) nice. The semi-final was very good too, he’s funny.
-Tanba was the crazy Japanese man with the yellow jacket who ‘swallowed’ a long balloon and some razor blades and strings and then pulled it off again.
-Sarah Ikumu is the 15-y-o who sang a very difficult song because it showed her vocal ability the best, and she did good. Big voice. And only 15, wow. Simon pressed the golden buzzer, she was great. That was a very adult performance!
-Reuben Gray was the 16-y-o who sang and played the piano, with his biggest fan, his dad, surprising him by being in the audience instead of at work. I liked him, good performance.
-The Miss Treats were four girls. One of them had tried X-factor four years before as a solo, but I liked them as a group. I love groups where they all sing, because that brings something more. There are so many singers out there, and a group with four different voices is a good thing. Their semi-final was good too, they sang well and I liked their looks. They were very cool, they should go places. It was unbelievable that they were only third at the semi-final.
-Sian Pattison was the 31-y-o mother of three, very scared, but with her second song she did well!
-Martin and Faye were a father-daughter duo, sweet and good. They sang: the prayer, I know it from Bocelli and Celine Dion, and it was good, he had a great voice and she a sweet one. The Italian was , you know, very British, but they sang well. I really liked them. At the semi-final they were even better. I thought he contained his voice so that hers would be shadowed, but they were really good. She’s really young, but they’re great.
-Perfect Pitch choir were really good, a lot of kids, 9 to 14, the girls in a red dress and the boys in a white shirt and black jacket.
-Angelicus Celtis Choir girls had beautiful lyric voices, and sang the female piece from Turandot although I couldn’t understand a word...
-Destiny Chukunyere sang Aretha Franklin’s Think.
-Leah Barnville, 14, sang Caruso..
-Kyle Tomlinson, 15, was the one who came with a vengeance, he started it all by saying that two years before David had told him to get a singing teacher, and now Alesha tells him to go on and prove him wrong. They had fun against David and I get that, but Kyle did have singing lessons these two years so if he got better he should say thanks and not be angry! He was given an advice and he took it. Obviously after all this David used for him his golden buzzer, that was obvious, just like Alesha did with those girls.
-Sue Moretta was the one who sang Rain on my parade coming out of the back, already singing while coming down the stairs. That was prepared, and I don’t like these things. She was good though. Beautiful and talented. Not sure why David pulled down his trousers, I really don’t.
-Father and son John and Brandon Pohlhammer tapdanced and also sang a bit, and they were so nice dancing together (John was the one who wouldn’t say his age, only said it was similar to Simon’s and he went ‘ok 35’ :-p )
-Grace and Ali, 17 and 16, were very good. I loved them. At the semi-final she had a rope attached so she could fly through the stage: she was beautiful flying around, but they didn’t need that, they’re beautiful when they dance together and they need nothing more than music, lights and costumes. They should have been second, not third.
-Coventry Dynamite Cheerleaders, 24 people, doing a really cheerleading act, the serious one not just girls with ponpons, but the serious choreography with guys and girls, and jumps and stunts and serious athletics.
-All In Dance crew, the six guys who performed a sort of Game Of Thrones dance routine, and very well. They were good and I liked the choreography very much. It don’t get why they weren’t chosen among the semi-finalist dance-acts.
-Code 3, three girls 14 to 16, with cut-short-hoodies and looking very nice although David said they were in pajamas, they were cool, I liked them.
-David Geaney, the Irish guy whose legs flipped in the air while he sort of tapdanced/riverdanced. Don’t know what he did exactly but he was very good, cute and very nice. Simon didn’t like the music and maybe that’s why it was changed at the semi-final... which was a shame because the first music suited him much better, the second ‘over the rainbow’ had nothing to do with his dancing. He was still incredible, though. Wow. He was amazing! Simon didn’t clap and didn’t like it, but I don’t agree with him, I liked this guy a lot and I thought he was brilliant and specially with the first music he was something I’d have watched again and again. I will probably.
-Empire Dance Troupe, a lot of guys and girls, were good too.
Lucy and her little dog TripHazard, such a cutie, adorable little thing, it was a lovely act, well done, loved it.
Darren Altman did impressions. I liked it.
The Togni brothers did that circus act when one is lying with his feet up and the other sits on them and is thrown up and down doing acrobatics, I explain it very badly but luckily I’ll understand what I mean if I ever get back here reading this.
The Spartans were a big group and did gymnastics very well, and not disguising it as dancing, Good.
The Dunkin Devils played basketball in an acrobatic way, with the red basketball shirts and shorts revealed after taking off the black jackets and trousers.
Charlie from France got wet into a bath and then did acrobatics hanging on two sort of ropes.
-Soldier Richard did a good show, I didn’t think it was that great a magic trick but still it was a very good show, you know, the electric touch, the heating of the can with his hands, and also the ‘I’ve spent six years in an origami center in Japan’..
-Christian Lee called himself a magician but he’s also a comedian I’d say :lol: he’s the one that called Amanda on the stage and then put a huge red balloon on his head, his ‘mind enhancing device’, and when he took it off the Titanic music started and Amanda opened her arms like in the movie, it was fun! At the semi-final he had David on stage who, for some reason, was not very cooperative, I don’t know why but he never even smiled while the other was making jokes, which kinda ruined it because seeing him on stage not laughing kinda stops one from laughing at home.
Singers:
-12-y-od Beau Dermott (a girl) sang Defying Gravity enchanting Amanda and gaining her golden buzzer: again, I hated it that the crowd shouted for the golden buzzer, it makes it all sound fake. She should do musicals though, she’s good.
-Wayne Woodward is the 20-y-o that sounds incredibly like DannyDyer when he speaks, but then is incredible when he sings! Very good, and nice guy too. I liked him a lot. He sang ‘just the way you look tonight’ at the audition.
-Kathleen Jenkins, the woman who came with the black and red dress (black with red flowers) and with white socks, and looked very nice. She had her father and her husband in the audience, and she sang very well, I liked her a lot, they were all in silence listening carefully and Simon was the first to stand up and clap. She said she was nervous but she did very well, I loved her audition. Simon: “Kathleen I’ve been waiting for you all day, someone who’s just got it”. I think she sang very well at the semi-final too, although I would have chosen a different song. “one day I’ll fly away” is a beautiful song, anyway. I’m really sorry that Britain didn’t fulfill Simon’s prediction and didn’t back her up and she didn’t go to the final, that was a shame, mostly because he didn’t back her up as well, with David and Alesha voting for her and Amanda voting for the mother-son-hugs, he could have said her name... maybe I say this because I’m emotional and not a businessman, and yet she deserved that place in the final and he should have said her name! That’s the most disappointing thing I’ve ever seen or heard him doing!
-Emma the primary school teacher: “if anybody presses that buzzer there’s gonna be 35 angry children waiting for them” :lol: she sang well enough.
-Presentation School Choir, the Irish Choir, presented by Veronica who looks cute in her nice glasses according to Simon :-p I liked her because she was very elegant and lady-like, and the choir consisted of 57 girls and at the audition they sang I think an Irish song? It was very good, I liked it a lot.
-Craig sang Wrecking Ball using the voices of Morgan Freeman, Micky Mouse, Christopher Walken, and also Muppets, South Park, and Gollum!!!! It wasn’t as good as the American Daniel, but he was nice, I liked it.
-Ruby Murry, real name Tom, sang Nessun Dorma. The pronunciation was good enough, although not perfect, because for example like many English-speaking people he couldn’t say ‘stelle’.
-Vox Fortis, as the name says, had very powerful voices, and were five men, so kind of the black answer to Collabro. They were really good, but it was all a choir, they didn’t sing separately. Why were they called Vox Fortura at the semi-final?? Anyway, I liked their rendition of Bowie’s Heroes.
-The Garnett Family consisted of three daughters and their mom, and they were good.
-Rachel Wooding, 37, was the musical theatre actress who stopped when she had her little baby, now 11 months old. She sang very well indeed! She was the blonde one with black heels and nervous legs :-p
-Josh Curnow, singer songwriter with a sort of BrianAdams voice, also playing the piano. I liked it.
-Morgan Smith, 15, sang Spotlight to show her vocal ability. It started really terrible imo, and Simon asked a second song, and was better, although not my style.
-Fia and her mother Ana were very good and nice, all the best. They were both very very good.
-Zyrah, four pretty girls, 25 to 28 I think, who sang very well.
-Danny Beard, with the yellow glitter beard, sand Sweet Transvestite very well :-)
-Melanie and her son Jamie, 15. They were good, and I guess people liked their mother-son hugs.
-Another kind of blue is that couple that danced on a video playing showing the sky and stuff so that it looked like they were falling and stuff like that. I don’t know about this.
-Shannon and Peter, the dancers who got married, had children, stopped dancing for years and now started it again together, were really good together, I liked them.
-Kronos, a dance group of kids wearing black jackets, plus a girl in red appearing at the end.
-Saulo Sarmiento, 28 from Canary Island, introduces himself to three flirty judges :-p and then did his act, sort of pole dancing but with a moving pole, and was really really good.
-Déjà vu, a group from Glasgow, with the white shirt and British-flag-papillon.
-Total TXS, five kids 16 to 19.
All those videos where terrible auditions were buzzed by Amanda and Alesha and even David, but Simon didn’t and instead he clapped, or sang along, or stared with an estatic expression on his face were really funny. Obviously I never saw it on tv, because it never aired here, and I do wonder a bit how it really went, did he really clap and said yes to those terrible auditions? Well there were already three buzzers, so it was safe enough I guess. I suppose he was having a bit of fun, doing to the others what they usually do to him :-p
The only funny thing about the hypno-dog act was seeing Simon on his knees :-p (sorry..). Oh wait, did this happen before? So maybe Simon didn’t buzz because he was pretending to having been hypnotized to be nicer? Mah.
Anyway, I love Amanda, and this is the year when that guy in the white shirt ruined Let It Go with a hard-rock singing :-p she was so upset :-p
I guess Simon was joking when he called Dec to translate what the DJ John from Newcastle was saying, come on, it was perfectly clear to me, not even a little bit difficult!
Marc Métral and his act where he makes it look like his dog Wendy talks, I never liked that, it was creepy and unnatural, and the dog looked like a puppet, a fake dog not a real one, her mouth was mechanical, I hated that act. Maybe the judges and the audience were too distant to see it as we could see it, and maybe that’s why they were all amazed... I didn’t like this at all.
The Kanneh-Masons, a family, six kids all playing instruments: 1 piano, 3 violins and 2 cellos.. I think. Well the cellos have the point at the end so this should be right. Wow, what a family, they were good
Comedian impressionist Andrew Fleming started out on the wrong foot by telling them that a lot of celebrities were simply lucky but are not worth much: “do you see people on tv and think I’m better than they are?” - “I do yeah”; “if there was an MOT test for people on television a lot of ‘em would fail”; but then his performance was really good and funny, and you know what, it was a bit of a shocker at first, but if you think about it he’s right of course, I don’t know the whole of British television but it certainly is true here! And from the bit I’ve seen I’d say it’s true over there too. I can’t say I liked his semi-final though, it was rather plain, the impressions were good but it wasn’t funny. I was surprised that the girls buzzed at the same time, and rather sorry when I saw his hurt face, but it simply wasn’t funny to me, and I thought it as soon as I saw them what are the dancers doing here, it should be just him, that’s how impressions work! But I still think he’s good, very good. If I were in Britain and I could afford it, I would pay to see him live.
35-y-o Lisa Sampson with her hoola-hoops was really nice and funny, and very very good, I loved her
Vladimir Georgeski or something, doing a good act with a trampoline. Very good and funny.
Danny Posthill the comedy impressionist was good, and his Michael McIntyre was spot-on! His semi-final was even better, and for once there were lots of character-impressions I did actually know! It was lots of fun, and also one of the best impressions of Dec I’ve ever seen :-p It was really really good:lol
Cute Jessie or Jessica from Ireland was a nine-year-old sweet little thing, and then she started screaming and doing martial arts with a sword :-p They were all in shock :-p
Leo Bailey-Yang was the 7-y-o boy who played the piano blindfolded!
-Jules and her dog Matisse: I loved them so much, the dog was adorable and beautiful, and they made a lovely act where she was a dog catcher and he would run away from her at first and then win her over :-) and then at the final Matisse did something even better, I don’t know how he managed to walk on that rope, I was glad she was under it waiting to catch him in case he should fall. Matisse and her other dogs love her so much, it’s so nice to watch that. And they won!!
-Calum Scott did a great audition, I loved how he sang that song. The finale was good too, he had a little moment of lost voice but he got back into it and did very well, I like how he sings.
-Becky, the mother of 5, sang Over the Rainbow very well, his son was right when he said “why don’t you show Simon Cowell how it’s done?” :-p lovely.
-Revelation Avenue, the choir than only did in-house-rehearsal up to this point, sang Roar and gained Amanda’s golden buzzer.
-15-y-o Isaac Waddington played the piano and sang She’s always a woman by Billy Joel. It was a good act, I like it when they all go silent listening to something sweet.
-Misstasia, the four girls who love everything Princesses, were really good and nice, and Amanda smiled all the way thru it, and called them “Cinderella Ariel Belle and Snow-white”. Simon went “your target audience is three-year-olds and Amanda” ... and me too :-) They sang Let it go at the semi-final and they were very pretty :-) and all four sing very well and they should do Disney musicals! ♥️♥️♥️
-The Neales, the three nice brothers with the father who had had an heart attack so they made him sing to relax.
-Maia Gough, the 10-y-o fan of Whitney Houston. A bit nasal for me.
-Alison Jiear, powerful voice
-Gracie, the 10 or 12 year-old girl who sang Over the rainbow, very very well.
-The Sakyi Five, they didn’t resemble the Jackson five only in the team name, but also they were four guys with a child, but unlike the others here I liked them all, they were all good singers; without any big stars like MJ of course, but that’s not easy to do.
-The Kingdom Tenors, 12 guys from 21 to 31, singing You raise me up. They were good, but when they sang together there was something off for me, kind of off-beat, but maybe it’s just me.
-Emma Jones, 23, had a beautiful voice, she sang Ave Maria. It was touching how she was lowering her shoulders in fear before, and then she sang and had an angelic voice. She should have had a place in the final, she is wonderful, I absulutely loved her voice, I hope she’s going on with the singing, a voice like that must be heard and enjoyed, angelic and soul-touching.
-Lorraine Bowen is the one who came out with a pianola to sing her Crumble Song, she was funny and she wasn’t at all put off by the three buzzers she got right away, she went on with style, and got David’s golden buzzer! This song was, you know, like a B-movie, something that is not good but is enjoyable for some strange reason: “everybody’s good at cooking some-thing, And I am good at cooking crumble” :-p At the semifinal she was laughing while singing :-p Simon’s face was like horrified :-p
-The HoneyBuns, six women who sang “Raining men”; they were very good, and funny too “we met at weightwatchers” :lol: I liked them a lot. and they reacted very well to Simon’s comments: “I don’t know that we could fit in a cruise ship” was brilliant. Not only they kept it polite but they turned it funny and nice.
-Boyband , they’re called, but “no no we’re a dance act” :-p lovely, 5 nice boys with a good routine, they were Ant and Dec’s golden buzzer.
-IMD dance group, ages 9 to 18, were good too.
-Jonathan. Solo dancing is not really my thing, but he was good.
-Old men grooving, the group of five not-so-young-men who surprised everybody with their modern dancing
-Entity, ages 10 to 15, with the brother of a girl who was apparently on X-factor. They were Alesha’s golden buzzer.
-UDI, from ..Siberia? They did that strange show blue vs red, with the place all dark and showing only what they wanted to show, with two guys leading characters and the others making the choreography in the dark. There were 8 or 10 maybe?
-The Beat Brothers, five guys tap-dancing, I liked that.
(Amanda looked so nice when she put that cowboy hat on her head :D )
Darcy Oake’s dove illusions : amazing!
I loved the puppet Patsy May’s audition! Very funny! (the blue puppet with the purple hair). At the semi-final though she sang but there was no comedy. Her strong point was the comedy.
Sam Jones did well at the audition, I like ventriloquism when it’s funny and well done.
-Collabro did an amazing audition, as soon as I saw that it was obvious they had to win! Ah when they were still getting along all five of them, I liked the band a lot, and the “natural chemistry” among them, and the different voices together... of course it couldn’t last like that right? “This is the sound we want to make” and then Richard changed his mind apparently. All five are very good, but I loved the combination.
-Jack Pack, the four guys singing That’s life, were good, yes.
-REAformed, the group of three girls (15,18 and 21, the latter the girl that met Alesha a few years ago and Alesha told her to stick to education first, and the other judges laughed at her for this :-p), were Alesha’s golden buzzer.
-Bars & Melody, the two kids singing, one melodious and the other one rapping, a song about bullies. They were Simon’s golden buzzer, I only wished he hadn’t waited so long, I hate it when the crowd shouts for them to push the golden buzzer, it’s really annoying and it makes it look like the judge is forced to do it, but maybe wouldn’t have otherwise. Two lovely kids. All the best.
-Ed Drewett, I liked his voice very much and also the song ‘I have the power to change the world’, it’s not true but it was a beautiful song nonetheless. Clap clap. Is there a record of it?
-SweetChix, a band of five girls: one looking very BaysideSchool, a blond one doing rap, one with a cap, plus another blond and one with big hair. Very good audition. 14 to 16 years old, I liked their look, their different clothes but all black and white, and I liked them, hoping they’ll stay best friends. A bit of fame and everybody changes, usually.
-Jodi Bird sang Don’t rain on my parade, and she should go on doing musicals!
-Lauren and Terrell, the kids who did street dancing, the blond girl and the black boy, were really good!
-Paddy & Nico... what can I say, she’s famous in Italy too, I think that of all the BGT people including the judges she’s the most famous in Italy. Susan Boyle is known too, but this year Paddy is the famous one, because she danced at the Festival di Sanremo, three times I think, during the performance of a contestant band. It was almost 80 when she auditioned! And it was February 2018 when she danced here! 83 years-old! wow! Paddy and Nico had done other performances before that, but Sanremo is the biggest show in Italy, so after that her face was everywhere.
She was the first ever Golden Buzzer I think.
-Christian Spridon was David’s golden buzzer, after the other three had given him the red buzzer :-p and pressed the fourth too! I think Christian wasn’t sure of how to react the first few seconds there, I would have been like “so, am I through or not?” :p If I’m not mistaken this was the first year with the golden buzzers. At first I would have buzzed too, but I was also glad for him because he reacted very nicely, and although he’s not a good singer he did better in the semi-final and he’s a fun enterteiner.
-Innova Irish Dance Company, the group of girls in red, I loved them!
-The Cartel group was good, the five guys, four boys and an older guy :-p
-Kings and Queens with their latino dance were very good, the guys in black and the girls in red.
-17-y-o Kieran danced “the tin man”, very good.
-Terri and Lisette were very good pole-dancers
-Emma Haslam was another pole dancer, the 27-y-o big lady who did prove that she’s good at her job, very good indeed.
-The Addict Initiative, a group of dancers in black with a very interesting routine during their audition, about a witch hunt, with a girl in white appearing towards the end for the final battle. Impressive. It’s annoying when they cut the videos, not showing the presentation an the comments, anyway on another, longer video (not by BGT) I heard Simon say that they are refreshingly evil..
Jon Clegg did impersonations, I guess he was good but not my style.
The stunt riders were really good, but I wonder if the judges have ever watched FMX before, some riders can do amazing things.
Violinist Lettice Rowbotham’s audition was incredible, really good, but I think she was drunk :-p and her sober semifinal wasn’t as good because she just stand still and played. She still played very well of course, but it wasn’t as impressive for an audience of people who are not experts. The final was cool though.
Francine Lewis did impressions, people I didn’t recognize of course, but she was likeable and funny and good. At the semifinal she was funny too, although I couldn’t understand a word :lol:
Luminites, a group with three boys and a girl with a very sweet singing voice. One sang with her, one played the guitar and sang a little, the other did beatbox, and they were nice and good.
Dancers:
Martin and Marielle, he was throwing her all over the place.
Joseph Hall who started a very classical dance and ended very modern.
Poppin Ron, unfortunately the audition video was so short, like 30 seconds :-/ but seemed good, and yet his act at the semifinal was rather boring, maybe there was some choreography that I didn’t understand.
Philip Green the comedian, the tall wobbly guy doing impressions - I didn’t understand half of what he said during his act, but he was funny anyway
Rosie O’Sullivan sang It’s a man’s world greatly.
Little Arisxandra sang Whitney Houston amazingly at the semifinal
Richard & Adam were indeed very good, big voices, although not my favs.
Illusionists Stevie Pink made a girl levitate very well, only the girls buzzed too early but he finished anyway, and James More, who did an amazing act involving a sword through his body.
The a cappella group Band of Voices singing Price Tag
Beautiful singer Aliki who sang Wake me up and who battled encefalite
Modupè the girl with the guitar. At the semi-final she had no guitar though, and played it popstar. I liked her audition more.
Young Gabz, I didn’t really like her singing at the audition but I liked the song The One and she said she wrote it herself, and she was only 14! Wow. That’s impressive! Specially since I sometimes think that there are much more singers or wanna-be-singers than there are good songs! But she sang it much much better at the semifinal! Less scared and with the look of one enjoying it! Thumbs up girl!
Finally we have Alesha, David, Amanda and Simon. Good. Do not change that.
Singers:
-Sam Kelly, sweet singing from this 19-y-o guy, good.
-Charlotte & Jonathan, the opera duo, 16 and 17, were great! Great! And I’d like to compliment Jonathan’s pronunciation! Very good, the best I’ve ever heard on BGT! Really, has he got some Italians in the family? He pronounces the words right and he knows where to pause unlike all the others!!! Really good!!! But let me say that when she sings in English she’s really good too, different but really good, I like her voice.
-The Welsh Choir Only boys aloud was really really good! And they sang in Welsh (I guess) and it was awesome.
-The Mend were four guys, rather good.
-Ryan O’Shaughnessy, still in college, sang a beautiful song that he wrote himself! No name, very nice song. To a mysterious girl.. I was actually glad he didn’t name anyone when Simon insisted, in a way it made it more ‘real’, if you know what I mean.
-Tony Roberts the pub singer was good, but the audition video was so short I don’t know why Simon stopped him... and then I found a longer video and yet I still don’t know what he had against him because David didn’t let him speak :-p
-The Showbears act was funny and entertaining; they didn’t ‘really’ sing so well, and yet any event they were performing at would be the better off because of them :-p To be funny and entertaining is a great thing, and then the audience will sing loudly along :-p
-Hope Murphy, the teenage girl from Essex already singing locally; she sang well, and I’m glad Simon made her change song because even if I don’t know what she was going to sing before, I find it annoying when they start with the noises, the huh! and such, I find it annoying unless you’re already a superstar and the crowd is yelling before the music even starts.
-Lauren Thalia: I mean, a 12-y-o playing the guitar and singing well at the same time, wow.
Dancers:
-That ‘Sugar Dandies’ couple, the two married men, were very good at ball-dancing, but they both wore black and it was hard to see one from the other’s legs at times..
-United we stand, a dance group, was good. Much like many other groups, and yet it’s always nice to see on BGT that some people can actually dance together in a synchronized way, it’s a rare thing on tv outside this talent show..
-The couple with the woman on the wheelchair were something, thumbs up! They managed a pretty nice routine, with classic and modern music, well done.
Ashley Elliott (a boy) played the xylophone, and it was a rather fascinating performance, I liked it.
Ashleigh (the 16-y-o girl) and her dog Pudsey were lovely, they were good and it was adorable to watch the adoring dog following her.
I loved the basketball acrobatics team!
I loved impressionist Marea Smithson, she was really funny, and for once I could recognize someone, the hot of the Weakest link, and it was perfect.
Violinist Analiza Ching was impressive, too bad I didn’t see the audition, only the semifinal.
Geisha Davis.. a black girl with the face white as a geisha, who did a very bizarre routine on humpty dumpty, she even had a book “rip humpty dumpty”, and her singing was terrible.. but when instead of singing she spoke at the end of the act, it was better, it was impressive, there was something about it.. I think she may have been right when she said she was an artist.. had she spoken with an important tone of voice instead of singing, she would have done great, and with a clearer ending..
Mention to contortionist Lucky, the “I don’t know what to do with myself” kicking her head with her foot.. unfortunately the video was so short I saw very little of her audition :-( Her semifinal was really good though!
What happened to the panel, where is Simon??? I like David Hassellhoff, but... and the comedian McIntyre, I want David Walliams as soon as possible.. Anyway, at least Simon joined them at the semifinals, he only missed the auditions. They had some rather dull things at the semifinal, and he buzzed a lot, I wonder if he had any part in deciding who would get through. I was certainly surprised that he didn’t buzz more. This year’s BGT was like a mockery here and there, with absurd comments (make your eyes pop out more... seriously? you want them in your hand Simon? come on..)
My favs were Jai McDowall, Out of the blue, Les Gibson and of course Donelda and her dogs.
Donelda Guy and her two dogs were really good. At the semifinals they were even better,
Impressionist Les Gibson was good and also did Dec :-p basically the only one I knew :-p
Singers:
-Michael Collings and his guitar were very very good, I liked his voice a lot, what was the song, Fast cars?? Not sure..
-Edward Reid sang very well what I think is the Ba ba sheep song...
-Out of the Blue, the guys from Oxford, did something very original, some crazy and funny version of LadyGaga I think
-Jay McDowall did very well, some big song I didn’t know.
Dancers:
-Razy Gogonea was good, mechanic in the best way, I can’t describe it, the guy all in black.
-Two and a half men, three guys with black shirts, had a good act, funny :-)
-Michael and Razy, they danced separately with no audience.. but they were both good. Michael was cuter but I liked Razy’s act more. Glad they both got their shot at the semifinal. There was sure plenty of space for them both..
The highwaymen, a band of royal marines playing drums, with a black mask and hat, were good, but they got two no and only one yes. I know there’s not much room for entertainment but they were really good. People shouted a lot, and Amanda and Michael withdrew their no.... and it was all in vain, such a big scene and then they weren’t accepted to the semifinal.. well they should have!
Pianist Paul Gbegbaje was very good, and I loved his piece at the semifinal; it was the Earth Song, wasn’t it?
Joe Oakley did stunts on his bike, and he was good, not the best but good.
Reece Daly was a 15-y-o ventriloquist, he was good but I think he should learn to keep it cool, more calm and controlled, but the ventriloquism was good, hope he goes on with it. (well, went on, since this was seven years ago :-p ). He kind of made me anxious.
The Britney Spears impersonator, or tribute act, however it’s called, Lorna Bliss was a really beautiful girl, but not a good enough singer, she should have concentrated on the dance and let go of the singing, and yet they were unfair to her I think. She was basically naked at the audition but did very little otherwise and they put her through to the semifinal and then they smashed her, told her she should have done more, that she should have gone a step further, what did they want, for her to come on the stage completely naked this time? At least Amanda commented on her act. When she spoke I thought she was nice, and I wonder if she went on with this act, maybe focusing on the dancing..
Dancers:
-Tobias Mead was great, with the joker face on the back of his head, dancing backwards as if he was facing forward.
-A.K.A. dance group, a lot of them all dressed in gold.
-Twist and pulse, two boys doing a strange rather funny dance routine, good.
-I liked the Ice group of girls, and also their teachers, well done all.
-Peridot, very good.
-Diversity; very good because they didn’t just dance, they created a show.
Tina and her beautiful dog Chandi, actually danced together a real routine! And Simon was not among the judges..
Spellbound, gymnastics, very good, and good choreography.
Singers:
-Christopher Stone who sang Maria Maria Mariiiia, who was petrified.
-Connected, five boys from 13 to 15 years old. They were good, but what Simon said was also right, although it’s difficult to create a new fashion or a real identity at 13.
-Young Olivia Archbold singing ‘in the arms of the angels’ had a very melodious voice.
-80-y-o Janey Cutler from Glasgow had a powerful voice, she must have been really something a few years back - too bad I only understood half of what she said while not singing.
-Liam McNally was 14 I think, and sang opera beautifully,
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Different dreams were two girls, best friends, and I felt really bad watching that video because for the first time after watching lots and lots of videos I thought the judges had been really cruel, splitting the girls and then saying no anyway, they should have said no from the start, they had heard her voice already. It was true that one can sing and the other can’t, it’s not the end of the world, lots of amazing people can’t sing, and yet to be able to say that they had heard both of them already, there was no reason for making one girl sing again without the other, I don’t know why Simon asked her to go solo. I really hope they’re still friends.
Myztikal were very goodat the audition up to a certain point, when the second girl started to sing Wonderwall, because she couldn’t sing - or maybe she was too exhausted from the dance, anyway they should have thought about it before. They were given a chance and did better in the live show (still some things to polish though). I don’t know if these videos, auditions, ecc are completely real or if they are sort of fabricated, and everybody is just playing a part, but if this video was real and things happened exactly like this, then I wonder why they risked it, well why she risked it, unless she didn’t understand it was mainly about her, but if she did get the message then she should have said something, like ‘If my singing is the problem I won’t sing anymore and only dance’.
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A woman gave Amanda some sort of bunny-ears and she looked so cute :-)
2009:
Susan Boyle of course, that was outstanding
Jamie Pugh, he was terrorized but sang Bring Him Home beautifully, really. I think he made a wrong song choice at the live show, something sounded very wrong there.
12-y-o Callum Francis who sang and danced Consider Yourself as if in a Oliver play.
Shaun Smith, 17, one of my favourite voices. The one Simon said “nothing to do with the money?” to.
Violinist Sue Son. 12-y-o Kieran Gaffney, great drummer.
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