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LIGHT RELIEF NGT - And The 2012 Winner Is...
This year’s Northumbria’s Got Talent kicked
off in true star style as hosts Laura Cropper
and Adam Young introduced the evening
and opening act; three piece male rock band
The Hairiest Men in Newcastle. Entering to a
Monk chant dressed in cloaks and hoods, they
introduced their piece as “the greatest story
ever told.” It soon became clear to many that
this was a Star wars reference fi tting in nicely
with the X-Factor: judges as Gods similarity of
the competition. Much to the delight of the
audience they even produced a light saber.
With their Don Mclean American Pie parody,
“Soon I’m going to be a Jedi” the band showed
U.S. infl uenced rock was alive in the City and
particularly at University.
The second act was performance student Andre Gwilliam
with a spellbinding performance of Michael Buble’s Cry Me
a River. Like Buble, Andre was a real ladies man, suited and
booted, with moves to match a strong voice. This man’s
going to go far!
The music and dancing we’ve become used to is broken up
as Smenchy Smench takes to the stage to provide a little
magic pulling out everything from his case of tricks from a
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feather bowa to ‘telekinetic’ (moving) balls. The act gathered
steam as he donned a blindfold and rotated another ball
around his hands. Oh yeah, and dressed in giant ‘Elton John’
style glasses. The audience and judges were enchanted as
he brought variety to the show.
Fourth on was male singer and guitarist Jez who began
by apologising to the judges in advance for his act not
being funny adding, “but if you like crying maybe it’s for
you.” Strumming a beautiful melody on his guitar he went
into a gorgeous re-working of MGMT’s Kids followed by Ed
Sheeran and Oasis covers. Following on the solo theme, the
next contestant was Kaisa a young lady with a powerful,
soulful voice and a superstar attitude and stage presence to
match. She treated everybody in the room to her rendition
of Etta James’ I don’t want to go blind, Afterwards receiving
a standing ovation from the judges!
Closing the fi rst half of the show was Northumbria’s Musical
Theatre society who created suspense and intrigue as they
entered the darkened stage. Performing an incredibly
strong and focused extract from Sweeney Todd with talents
shining through from the 17 membered cast.
As the interval comes around we have time to catch our
breath before opening performer Hayley Murray blows us
away with her vibrant rendition of Ollie’s Murs’ Dance with
Me Tonight. With a soulful, friendly voice injecting some fun
into the audience, a natural, charismatic performer who one