I called at Glasshoughton WMC where there was a talent show going on; the show itself runs on until the Final on December 1st with £1,000 for the winner.
Tonight my good friend Harry Turnstyle compered the show. He is very good at this. The first act on stage was Kerry Cormack, she has a lovely voice and opened her part of the show with an Etta James song, ‘At Last’. the song I liked for this young lady was an Elvis Presley song, ‘Love Me Tender’.
The next act was a young man who played acoustic guitar. I didn’t really recognise some of his songs but he has a good voice and can play that there Geetar. One of his songs was an Oasis song, ‘Wonderwall’.
Next please, this was another young lady, Jadie Sutcliffe who has a sweet voice. In her set she sang, ‘Cry Me A River’, in the Julie London style. Another was a John Legend song, ‘All Of Me’.
After a short interval Harry Turnstyle opened with, ‘ Tainted Love’; He just loves this song. He went on to introduce a very smart looking Ryan English, he sang, Neil Diamond’s, ‘America’, that went well, another song in his set was, ‘Human’ a Killers song.
The final act was another young lady, Azelia Lily, she too has a good voice, she sang in her set, ‘Hero’, a Beyonce song and Whitney Houston’s, ‘I Have Nothing’. Unfortunately I had to leave at this point.
Going through to the next round, in no particular order; Azelia Lily, Keri Cromack and Dylan Brierly
The Nash, Albion Street WMC, was pretty busy tonight, the artiste on stage was a young man called Joe Hodgkinson who hails from Doncaster. He looked smart in a suit and shirt, his sound equipment was good. Joe opened his show with, ‘Run-around Sue’, this was an oldie by Dion, then we had, ‘Love Is All Around’, a big number one from Wet, Wet, Wet. Many more followed and Joe closed his set with a song from Les Miserable, ‘Bring Him Home’. Well done Joe.