Tag Archives: auditions

What’s In a Name? The Perils of Naming an Act

Anyone who, in their youth, has gathered together three or
four of their adolescent  friends in the
garage of their parents’ house to form a band has no doubt been faced with the
toughest question of all – not “What should we wear?”, “Who should be the
singer?” or even “What will we sound like?” No, the most important question of
all is “What should we be called?”

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The Art of the Audition

Got Talent

Being in the entertainment business, or at least the business of entertaining, we often get the opportunity to slip on our high waisted trousers, put on a low cut black T-shirt and audition some new acts. Everyone in the office enjoys an audition and thankfully we get a lot of very talented people coming through our doors to show us their acts. So there are actually relatively few opportunities to make snide comments and snigger at the hapless audition-ees that you might see on a talent show. And even if we did get a Ken Lee or an Onka Judge, it’s unlikely anyone here would cut them down in quite the manner a TV judge would.

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