THE VOICE- It's audition number 5! Bring on the returnees...

[Raahh]

This week, apparently, sees the return of a bloke who failed last year, and a woman who was part of a duo- Nu-Tarna. Do we remember Nu-Tarna? Possibly only for having a rubbish name.

And here's a song list- to warn you all in advance.

Steven Alexander
Your Game by Will Young

Fiona Kelly
Rule The World by Take That

Chris Royal
Wake Me Up by Avicii

Nick Dixon
Home Again by Elton John

Elesha Paul Moses
Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift

Lucy Winter
Somebody To Love by Jefferson Airplane

Max Murphy
Electric Feel by MGMT

Joe Keegan
Keep Your Head Up by Ben Howard

James Byron
Cry Baby by Janis Joplin

Reece Bahia
What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction

Jolan
Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth feat. Emeli Sande

Yinka Williams
Paris (Ooh La La) by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Jade Mayjean Peters
Sweet About Me by Gabriella Cilmi

Femi Santiago
My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder

I doubt very much we will actually see much of all these acts. We will probably see more of the friends/family/pets.

And some lad does Riverdance with Bill.je.suis.

Bill Ich Bin has been wearing the same outfit for weeks. I expected more.

Sue - they have all been wearing the same stuff, I think. Either they recorded the whole she-bang in one day or they all had to wear the same stuff for continuity. I hope Rickaaay washed his lumberjack shirt in between.

Bill appeared to be wearing a skirt- but it might have been a shirt wrapped around himself. It's all a far cry from monogrammed pleather waterwall cardies

Oh- I've just realised 'someone' is doing that annoying 'title makes no bloody sense' Sande song.

I say 'someone' - i do now know if they are male or female, or (hopefully) a JoS couple style group- with a Jedward style name. Jolan- Jolie and Andy?

I like the ungrammatical nonsense of Beneath Your Beautiful. Like 'are we hoooman, are we dancer?', that one. Makes no sense. I like that.
Better than just stupidity. I heard that 'I'm Yours' Jason Mwxkraxz song earlier and he said 'it's our god-forsaken right to be lov-uv-uv-ddd'. God-GIVEN, shurely? God-forsaken makes less sense.

Signing in.

I'm sure Nu-tarna were the aggressive duo that lost out to her from Cleopatra (comin atcha). I remember the screechy over singing.

God-forsaken?

Mike- you are probably right. Let's hope it's the less shouty one who remains.

YY -Nudearna 'battled' CominAtcha and lost. They wore neon and tried to out-odd her hair. Failed. Shouty.

I just googled them. i kept the sound off- I remember the one with the hair, now. Like a big blue sponge.

That clip reminds me how much I dislike JJJJJessie J.

I'm not sure with hindsight that them shorts were a good plan

Arfing at O'Dodgems giving me The Rage even on mute :D

I'm finding the same outfits on the judges very annoying.

Has it started already?

There's a Voice thread - yay

I had a nightmare featuring Nu T - they were scary

7.10 Geraldine

Thanks raahh!

So is this the Poorly Staged but Much Hyped Battle Round? That's my bestest.

< Settles down with tea & cake >

Evening everyone

Sue- sadly not. We are still blindly auditioning.

Oh my, really? I thought cos you had songs and lists and all.

Well, we shall just have to MAKE it interesting Will S'Toma wake up in time to hit the buzzer? Will they Prime him into taking a token man (pref Welsh and Camp)? Will Rickaaaaay self-nominate as King of Oop North some more?

I kind of love Kylie. But I am ignoring the niggling suspicion that she is very, very dull indeed.

For some reason, they aren't even bothering to pretend it's live, and print song lists.

I am on the fence about Kylie. I need to like her, as surely, SURELY no-one can be worse than JJ??

But the Antipodean Pixie Princess of Pop is really quite annoying

I do too, I do want to. But she's not funny or particularly interesting, so I am straining to care tbh.

Oh god not shouty hair again .
How come The Voice Australia gets the Sex God that is Ricky Martin and we get Ricky the lumberjack? Huh? Huh?

Off to get my Mini Eggs and tea before it starts.

I hate her. I'd rather have JJ. Or Ricky Martin.

On the plus side, Mingehead is coming back to shore up the viewing figures for XF