ELECTIONS - Northumbria Students Union - Northumbria University

After long pauses of suspense
as one by one an act left
the stage, Kaisa was named
winner of Northumbria’s Got
Talent 2012.
judge stated, “turned the stage into her own”.
Next up, Kate Bradshaw and Sarah Urwin giving us a touch
of Disney in the form of Lobster Sebastian and seagull (fully
costumed!) from The little Mermaid performing Kiss de
Girl. As the song reaches an end the audience and judges
marvel as the pair evolve into diff erent species as they peel
off a layer of costume to reveal underneath they are dressed
as The Lion King characters Timon and Pumba. And then
what’s this? Another costume change, for The Jungle Book
classic I Wanna be Like You”.
Staying in the comedy mood, Fernando took to the space
and (eventually) got up on stage to… wait for it… make a
grated cheese sandwich! Quite the food expert he knew
chocolate is the way to a girl’s heart and was quick to off er
one lucky member of the audience a Lion bar in exchange
for letting him give her his number.
Returning to music for the penultimate act was Rag and
Banjo, a three piece guitar, bass and banjo band with
attitude and inspirational lyrics sang with heart, “run
chicken run, don’t you lose your step”. This was folk done
well. Despite some negative feedback from judges, the
band commented by saying “We’re just happy to be doing
something for Alzheimers”.
Final act Luke Westgate dazzled everybody with his hot to
trot street dance moves even fl irting with judge Frizzle! A
comedy element to his moves which displayed a sense of
humour and an ability to engage with an audience on an
intimate level.
After the acts had performed Judge Frizzle (fresh from his
recent fl irtation) took to the stage to entertain the audience
with a medley of comedy parodies of popular songs.
Included in his megamix was Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger
transformed into “Moves for Jenga”. Lady Gaga was also on
the hit list as Edge of Glory became “Hedge in Hockney” and
Bad Romance now “Bad Romans”.
After presenters Laura and Adam drew the raffl e and
revealed the winners, they crossed centre stage and
welcomed back the contestants with the most votes from
the audience to narrow them down and announce the
winner. Tensions were high for the remaining fi ve acts;
Andre, Hayley Murray, Kaisa, Luke Westgate, Kate bradshaw
and Katie Urwin. After long pauses of suspense as one
by one an act left the stage, Kaisa was named winner of
Northumbria’s Got Talent 2012.
With the discovery of new talent from the acts entering
and the revelation that over £800 had been raised for
Alzheimer’s Society, the fi nal ended on a high. Next year’s
competition countdown begins now!
By Jacob Turner.
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