I auditioned at the Sydney venue on the Friday. My friends
and I left Newcastle at 10pm Thursday night and drove
the few hours to Sydney all excited and hyped up. We arrived
at the end of the freeway and notice smoke coming out
of the car, we start to panic, our minds go wild- oh my
god we are going to miss them, but lucky it was nothing
major we continue our journey to the uni.
We get lost and start to panic again we are driving everywhere
through out the uni looking at the signs which weren't
much help only to know were right next door all we had
to do was drive the car over the road and we would have
been there but we drove around and around in circles and
then we found it all excited we sat in the car and was
trying to make the decision of sitting in the car or joining
the line. We decide we will join the small line we got
changed in the dark did our hair and make up and gathered
all our blankets and pillows and joined the line at this
point we look at how watch and realise it is only 2am
and we thought we will just sleep but boy were we wrong
we were about the 20th person in line and sat there for
a while and then 3 girls turned up and we just started
talking to them. These girls were great we chatted and
shared our things and then it happened it started to rain
and we thought- 'oh no'. Only the smart ones bought their
umbrellas- that did not include us. Then a kind security
guard named Adrian told us we could stand in his little
office then so I and a few other put our belonging in
there and kept warm. Then it stopped raining and everyone
was happy again slowly we joined the line.
A few hours passed we looked at the line it was huge at
least a 1000 people, we thought- 'lucky I would hate to
line up that long'. It was about 7am and the production
crew came out and started setting up and got all excited
film crew and photographers then we were spoken to about
how the day would run. Everyones nerves ran wild with
anticipation everyone was singing and warming up. Then
the guys from Channel V arrived and we were ushered onto
the grass (only a select few) and we filmed the beginning
with them we screamed and cheered then back to the line,
then it was time they ushered the first 30 people in,
this included myself. We handed in a our registration
form and got our hand tags- I was number 50031 after all
the people pushed in but they never went in order people
forms were missed placed, then we sat down and waited
for our number to be called sitting all nervous I hear
my name I stood up and walked up the stairs and waited
to be heard. I chatted to a few hours and seen a few people
who had made it. The door opened and in I walked all excited,
said my name and said I was singing Craig David's "What's
your flava". I belted it out and they looked at me, I
knew then that I had not made it. I was disappointed but
the experience was great. I met my friend outside, my
friend did not make it either, so off we went and left
the venue for home.
We were going but we never made it home for many more
hours, we got lost in the city for about 2 hours and then
just passed Gosford my automatic transmission blew up
so we were stuck finally at about 6pm I get home, after
having no sleep in more than 26 hours my bed felt great.
Brett, from Newcastle
Laura's message
I want to get it off my chest that I sung in front of
all the people in the Suncorp stadium, and won a jar of
coffee for scoring a soccer goal, and if I'm not on TV,
I'm gonna scream. I'm not a media junkie, I just know
I am a good singer and cant believe I didn't make it in.
Some ugly, short, can't sing Christina Aguilera chick
made it to the next level, and I didn't, that sucks!!!!!
Laura.
Karen's message
Hi I actually auditioned for Australian idol and loved
every minute of it except for the way the judges disrespected
talented young people. By saying stupid comments like-
'you're too fat' when really she was a size 12, and passing
judgement on the colour of the shoes he was wearing when
now the audtioner is releasing an album and in the making.
I felt that all though it is a TV show and I understand
when they bag people who are terrible but for ones who
actually have it and they criticise rather then say- 'yes
you have talent' but not what we want on this show. Because
you wouldn't want us to own you. I just think they need
to keep it real because the talent I saw at Melbourne
auditions were absolutely outstanding and blew me away.
They thought I was a ray of sunshine and almost put me
through but I wasn't what they wanted. Which I respected
but I didn't respect the way some of my other friends
who I made during the auditions were treated appalling
just for ratings. Come on pick up the act.
Regards,
DIVA
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