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X Factor 2009 - Auditions 2

Saturday night saw the second group of auditions taking place, all hoping to make it on to the X Factor stage to be the next winner.

The girl group ‘Miss Fitz’, who only formed 6 months ago after one of the three girls had previously auditioned on the 2006 show as a solo artist.  Gemma, 26, sang ‘Summertime’ and made it through until the final four were selected.  Not to be beaten, she met the other two girls at another audition and together they decided to become a group.

They sang the Britney Spears song ‘Toxic’ but with a bit of a twist, and the judges love it.  The girls received four yes votes and are through to the next round.

Daryl Markham, the 40-year-old Cabinet maker from Sussex, who applied for the X Factor competition last year, but it was the same day as he was to be Best Man at his brothers wedding.  Just after the wedding his brother was diagnosed with lung cancer and died six-weeks later.  David and his 37-year-old brother Gary, not only worked together side-by-side but they were best friends and is now a father figure to his brothers 9-year-old son.

He sang the Rod Stewart song ‘I don’t Wanna Talk About It..’, and after such an emotional audition, he made it through with four judges voting yes, didn’t you just want to give him a great big hug.

Then there was ‘The Stunners’!  not only were they not stunning, as the tactful Simon Cowell informed them, but they also couldn’t sing.  Lisa and Zoe, Zoe claimed that they had call themselves ‘The Stunners’ because they were stunning looking but they could also stun people with their voices, well I was definitely stunned!

They were going to sing ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ by Whitney Houston, but it wasn’t any sort of singing that I had heard before.  The judges were in absolute hysterics, can’t understand why!  Thankfully, Simon was too the rescue once again and stopped the howling, he then informed them that he could understand how they had come together, as it’s rare to find two people as bad as you.  The girls asked for another chance until Simon informed them that they didn’t hit a single correct note.

The talented Jamie Archer, or as he’s know to his friends Jamie Afro!  The 33-year-old’s passion has been music for as long as he can remember and he thinks could be his last chance.  His choice of song was ‘Sex On Fire’ by The Kings of Leon, and what a great choice, he had the audience eating out of his hands.  The cool dude had a concert all to himself with the judges and the audience enthralled, Simon Cowell was also seen singing along!  As Cheryl herself said, “a natural born entertainer”.  He’s definitely got the X Factor.

Every pack has a joker, and today’s joker was Alan Walton, the 50-year-old from Birmingham who fancied himself as a big of a rock star.  Alan confirmed that he had developed his singing from karaoke, where he said he goes down well!  Bless, he stood on that stage with his shirt buttoned-up wrong, wearing a cap and gave Simon directions to his home, it just got worse from there!  The song started but unfortunately Alan didn’t, he stood looking at his watch, of course, by then I thought it was part of a comedy routine.  After a couple of minutes he began to sing ‘No Matter What’ by Boyzone, before Simon stopped him.  Simon pointed out that he was out of time, when he explained that he was timing himself in with his watch, you couldn’t make it up could you.  He set his watch again and the audience cued him in, it was terrible and a deserved four no votes were given.

The bubbly Rozelle Phillips from Trinidad & Tobago, had been sent to the auditions by her grandmother after the two of them had watched the X Factor programme back home.  Rozelle was raised by her grandmother who sent her to England a year ago in order for the 21-year-old, to fulfill her dreams of becoming a singer.  Rozelle chose to sing the ‘One Night Only’ by Jennifer Hudson.

What a voice, the girl did good and put on an incredibly emotional performance.  The audience and judges loved her and Simon told her to phone her grandmother and tell her she got four yeses.

Behrouz Ghaemi, what can I say, he certainly didn’t lack confidence.  After bigging himself up, this cocky young man, strutted onto the stage in his tight leather trousers, showing what looked like an acorn in his front pocket, black shirt and leather waistcoat, convinced that the audience and the judges were going to love him.

The 29-year-old, informed Louie that he would like to go as far as Elvis!  Good to know he’s not setting his sights to high then.  He had choosen to sing the song ‘Take Your Mama Out’ by The Scissor Sisters’ but once he started the expressions on Simon’s face were priceless.  Well, he was certainly entertaining but as for getting three votes, unbelievable, Simon told him he was through to the next round but made it quite obvious what his vote would have been.