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Talent competition in Newcastle, Open Mic UK, has provided Industry feedback for singers at the Newcastle auditions. Singing auditions in Newcastle saw more than 150 auditioning in front of the Open Mic industry experts. Judges included vocal coaches, music journalists and A&R managers. The talent competition feedback on selected acts can be seen below.

Find industry feedback below. Please be aware views expressed by Judges are opinions and subjective to that particular judging panel. These views in no way reflect the views of Open Mic UK, and are published with a view to being beneficial to the performing acts. Please take the feedback on board with a view to helping in the future.

The feedback is selective and not provided for all audition acts. The judges have selected to give feedback to the acts that stood out for the right, or wrong reasons.

Talent Competition Newcastle Feedback 

Lucy Curry – Wrong song choice for voice. Nerves won the day.

Charlotte Lewis – Felt the song which was nice and made it her own. Needs more performance from body rather than just her arms.

Adam Hodgkinson – Decent performance tried to make it his own but lost his way a little near the end.

Christian Chomse – Missed a few notes but good stage performance. Confidence is a good quality to have.

Tara Richardson – Strong image could have been more expansive in vocal range but a solid performance.

Grace Taylor-Clarke – Poor song choice, pick something that’ll make you stand out it’s so overdone. Needed more performance.

Jamie Welch – Take your hands out of your pockets! A bit casual to begin with. Big voice though!

Sky Costelbe – Great image and a good voice. Original. Like it!

Jolene Jarvis – Pick a more original song to stand out. Try to control nerves.

General note – Adele’s Someone Like You is so overdone and not a great song for audition! Build up is too slow.

The Peppermints – Very cute but work on harmonies should be more given there is 5 of you.

Evie Plumb – Nice original song and good range in voice.

Shannon Mares – Well choreographed. Decent song and a good performance.

Louise Devlin – Adele again! A bit crokey. Maybe needed to warm up vocal chords beforehand. Nice style but work on breath.

Ashleigh Walker – Warm up properly and avoid nerves. Song too big for her.

Jess Wilson – One of the best of the day so far. Image, voice, performance.

Tom Hall – A bit of a clichéd image and performance. Needs to work on originality. Has a decent voice.

Talent Competition Newcastle FurtherFeedback

Shauna McQue – Great image and nice playing style.

Kira Chan – Needs more stage performance and expression but she has a good voice to develop. Watch breaths.

Jackie Rogan – A bit flat in places. Put her own stamp on the song though.

Martin Hall – Guitar should have been tuned before he went in, but it was worth the long wait, good style and song.

Brett Ellery – Clichéd image work on it to give you an edge. Performance is ok but very karaoke work on your own style.

Janine Andrews – Great voice make sure it’s not too gimmicky.

Courtney Dixon – Very American, need to develop your own style.

Chloe Watts – Changed key several times. A great calm and well-paced performance. Great image.

Olivia Walker – Looked like a little pop star! Great image.

Chloe Robson – Really calm performance. Just work on your presence and image.

La Voir – Strong harmonies. With some help on image they could be great.

Jobe Riordan – Why Adele? Nicely sung but the song let you down.

Sheona McQue– Great guitar work, nice tone. Could have shown us more range?

Berri Mae Handy – Great voice and vibe. Could really develop into something.

Jessica Harrison– Lovely voice. Will do well with more confidence.

Tonicha Donaghey –Powerful with good control. Keep an eye on accuracy.

Lily Brooke Widdowson– Nice song. Very talented. Would have liked to have heard more range though.

Peter Skeen– Passionate performance, well sung.

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