Swedish Idol Auditions

Swedish Idol has been running on tv for a couple of weeks now. I enjoy the auditions more than the programs afterwards, the mix of great singers and people that can't understand that they can't sing.

This year it's a new panel of judges. I love the new judges. They leave people with critism not personal attacks. Andreas Carlsson is my favourite of the judges, really competent and consistent.

Here are a couple of my favourite auditions this year:

Robin Bengtsson - Bring it all home


Kenny Lundström - That's alright with you



My favourite in Australian Idol 2007 was Carl Riseley (listen to those crazy judges with the wonderful accent!)


One of my favourite performances was by Matt Corby though, with a great song by Evermore - It's too late

Australian Idol

Tonight the last part/group competition for Swedens competition to choose the alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest. One of the performances tonight started off with a trumpet player (rest of the song was crap) and I started thinking about Australian Idol 2007. My favourite Carl Riseley had only been playing trumpet until just a short while before I auditioned for Australian Idol. His mission was to bring swing back. This is one of my favourite perfomances from him (he finished on third place):



And in the first round when the people in Australia could choose their favourites by voting, he definatly opened my eyes for him by singing Home with Micheal Buble:




Another really good artist was 16 (!) yo Matt Corby. He sang more or less the same sort of songs until he sang Evermores - It's too late. I loved that song before. I reckon he do a better job of it, believe it or not. Matt ended up on second place after Nathalie. Here is It's too Late by Matt corby: