Last night’s The X Factor semi finale was a show full of double whammys. Each of the remaining four acts didn’t get to demonstrate their talent just once but twice, and they got to change their clothes not only once a week but twice in a day.
We also learned that young people don’t know s**t about rock music, heard a bit of a heartbreaking story and some rather heartbreaking performances.
At times the atmosphere was a bit like on a shopping channel where we’re constantly drowned with calls to “buy, buy, buy”, only here it was “vote, vote, vote.”
Host Dominic Bowden informed us that the two categories tonight will be first: Love and Heartbreak and the Best of Rock.
First up was Jackie Thomas with Sarah McLachlan’s Angle (her mum’s all-time favourite).
Big blue beams were growing out of her body and she was accompanied by a choir holding torches to their faces. Like when you have a power cut and tell ghost stories to scare your little sister.
Speaking of scary. Did anybody see Bedingfield’s facial expression
Daniel Walker told her she looked beautiful (never a good omen if that’s the first thing that springs to mind in a singing competition) , Ruby Frost missed a bit of a climax and warned her she might end up a one-trick-pony
