Episode 3 The Voice: Louder on Two

Here I am again, still not allowed near those chairs. Another brilliant

show for you tonight. I will be having a catchup with Mr Hot stuff,

Ricky Wilson. He will be bringing his posse with him, Christina Marie

and Chris. Plus further expert analysis with superstar vocal coach

Ali Tennant. Hello and welcome to The Voice: Louder on Two. Before we

crack on, livly tonight, it's time to look at the world of news and

social media for today's Daily Gossip. First up, exciting news. It

seems like our singers are enjoying their very first taste of chart

success. After Saturday's live show, no fewer than six acts made it into

the download charts. Nice! Congratulations to all of them.

Another craze that has swept the internet The Voice Meme. If you are

like me and didn't know what a meme was, it's caption for a funny photo.

Educate as well. You have been giving your captions for this lovely

picture. Gaz said, "OK, who has put glue in my pockets?" It's better if

you had a drink. Sandra from Copenhagen gave us, "where is Kylie!

We're so doing that scene from Titanic." Better received. Another

favourite was from Lisa from Milton Keynes with, "these new urinals

aren't very private." Cheeky. That was the best one. If you want to get

involved give us your caption ideas for this week's picture. It's Kylie

and Jason Derulo. To have a look, all the details can be found online.

I will reveal some of our favourites next week. That was your Daily

Gossip, thank you. Over the course of the series a certain indi rocker

has secured his place as the nation's latest sweetheart. Don't

believe me, there is evidence. I really like Ricky. He is energetic.

He's good -- it's good to have a rock star on the show. Fantastic.

Brings a little bit more indi to the show. Is rather nice. I think he is

gorgeous. # Something about the boy... #

He has a great sense of humour. Funny, just cute as well. He always

gets up and dance. They didn't do that before. He is quite a cool

character. Did he leave you hanging? If I was on the voice I would choose

Ricky, definitely. We like Ricky, northern and honest. I will play the

game my way. I think he could win this year. He is backing all the

way. Give it up for the delightful Mr Ricky Wilson. I'm clapping

myself. Do that, it's bad. You are one of the new coaches, how has your

experience been, has it been tougher than you anticipated? It has been

tough. I found it quite rewarding, this is quite serious. I've learnt a

lot more than I thought I would learn. Yeah, it has been great. I

like the fact you are learning as well? I'm learning more than they

are. This is brilliant. I'm taking a lot away from this. That is what we

need. You had to make the big decision on Saturday, a Fast Pass,

how tough was that? I can see them there. I can't tell the truth, can

I? How tough was it? It was really tough. It it ruined the night for

me. I wanted to enjoy it. All I was think being was this horrible thing

I had to do. It turned out OK. Yeah, I think so. I'm pretty pleased with

it. It was always on my mind for the week leading up to it. I didn't

sleep much. It's a big decision. It is live. Is so important to them

much you said that any of the team could have won it. Why do you think

Emily went home that night particularly? That is, thankfully,

is not my decision any more. That was the last decision I made was the

Fast Track, after that it was the British public decided. It gave

Christa real confidence boost when they verified him, in a way. Then

unfortunately Emily didn't make it through. It doesn't mean she is not

still around. She sent me her original stuff the other day. It's

great. I know she will go on. She said up there, it's not the last you

will see of her. It won't be. I strongly believe. That we will hear

frommer later on in the show as well. Cool. You have been having fun

on the show. It's emotional, how does it feel to get involved in

these people's lives? I didn't think I would learn as much as I had done,

I didn't think I would care as much as I do. You sign up to the TV show,

it's fun, this big set. Centre of it is these people's lives. I didn't

know that I was going to get that involved in it. And how these people

would become... I would become that close to them and care so much.

Every week a few of them have to go. This week is no exception. Someone

has to go. Auto I've told them, you know, it's up to the public now. I

promised them both I would take them as far as I could. I haven't gone

back on my word on that. Exciting stuff. We are particularly loving

your way with words. Are you? Yeah. Let us remind ourselves. Come to

Ricky. He has 99 problems, but his pitch isn't one. I want you on my

team. I think I would be in the lead if I had you. I feel I'm the closest

to you artistically than anyone else here. You complete my team. You

complete me. Ricky is getting tricky. I have no hope against Ricky

and his dazzling blue eyes. I've fallen for. It I'll go Ricky. He

seems like a ninja, it seems falls he has something up his sleeve all

the time. I will not give up until you have won this. You are the

reason I made the decision to come on this show. Ricky, Ricky. Ricky.

Good pitch. You smooth operator. You should do the vt of the ones that

said other names. There are a lot of them. We will do that. Obviously,

there is a great sense of camaraderie between you and the

other coaches, you get on great. It is a competition. How much do you

want to beat the others? It's weird. It is changing. At first I really

wanted to win, I was thinking about it from my point of view, that I

wanted to win. The the more and more it goes on, and the more time I

spend with my final two over there, it's not really - I know this sounds

disingenuous, it's not about me any more, I want them to win. It's a

nice side benefit, if they win, I win. It's not about the coaches any

more. It's about the person who wins the whole thing. So much - For not

answering that question properly. Well done. We chatted to the Chief

it's time to meet the mini Kaisers, Christina Marie and Chris. Here's

how they nailed it on Saturday. I know I say great a lot, but that

was great! You sounded amazing. Thank you so much. Really. The

person I'm taking through to the semi-finals next week is Christina

Marie. # I see the light... #

You were warm and your soulful voice, you keep giving. The song

choice was brave. It you sang it amazing. You are a bona fide star

tonight. The artist from Team Ricky with the most public votes is...

It's Chris! Please welcome Christina Marie and

Chris! Well done to both of you. Powerful stuff on Saturday night.

Christina Marie I heard you were sick with nerves before going on the

show. You would never know that watching you, how was it for you?

Yeah. It was a massive, massive day. Unlike anything I'd ever done before

musically and just... I was a little bit sick. That was the first time

that happened to me. I was like, "what is happening to my body?"

Luckily, aisle managed to get through the day. Yes. It was good.

It's really difficult dealing with nerves like that. What advice do you

give them when they are nervous? I was harsh with you on the day I was

- get on with it. Get a grip? There are times for just saying - look,

get it together. She deals with her nerve Secretary of State well

usually. This was the biggest thing. I think, to an extent sometimes, you

bottle it up, that is why it came out like it did. I think you can use

it more than you do. What people like about nerves is, if you are

nervous it shows you care and it shows you want it to be good.

Nothing wrong with that. Also, Chris, you were overcome with

emotion out there. How was Saturday night for you? It was crazy. It was

just like... Iowa -- I was so excited to gn October stage for the

first time I wasn't nervous. In that spur-of-the-moment everything

went... , I'm here, I'm doing. It after my performance I actually

couldn't talk. Speechless. Did you have to have a lie down? I'm not at

all surprised. Let us talk about Everlong. Let's remind ourselves of

Saturday. Awesome. # For ever... #

Kimberley said online, "it was like a moment out of a movie". It was

huge. How much did you get swept up in the emotion of the song, of the

frock, of the staging? It was just obviously you could see that the

production of it was absolutely amazing. I felt like Cleopatra in

that dress. Everything coming off of me and the projections. It was like

something out of a movie. I got caught up in the emotion. I felt

like I was singing the story of me, my journey. Yeah, it was very, very

big moment. Were all caught up in it. I'm glad she did. Sometimes she

is so professional and on, it you are flawless, sometimes you forget

to use the emotion and the real stuff that is going on. On Saturday

night she blew it away. That lovely moment, as you finished tomorrow

turned to you... Was it like the seal of approval from Sir Tom. I'm

always looking for approval. He gave it to me that night. Did. Chris,

your Elbow classic. We will play a little bit of it and remind

ourselves. Hair standing on end as we listen to. This Josh said, "your

performance made him and his mum cry, you even had Ricky in tears".

How did you feel? Going through the journey a lot of people have

commented and intrigued about how I use the emotion and portray it in a

song. I don't know how I do it. If I didn't I wouldn't tell anyone. It to

yourself. It's overwhelming and nice to connect to the people. If you

don't touch somebody when you are singing, you are only entertaining

yourself. If you do, you get in trouble! You got a shout out at Old

Trafford last night. I did. I got a call saying, "you have been on

United's ground" - I was like "what." Semi-finals on Saturday. How

did the rehearsals go today? I think they went rather well. I shouldn't

say this, I will not say it then. I think it went... Leave it at that.

Not compared to any other teams. All I can talk about is what I think

about my team, I think it went well. Is secretly chuffed. Christina Marie

you are are doing Bang Bang. Here is the David Guetta version that we can

hear. It travelling the charts. Here is that version. This is Christina

Marie in rehearsals. # Bang, bang, you shot me down

# Bang, bang, I hit the ground # Bang, bang, that awful sound... #

I am glad they didn't give too much away. Don't give too much away.

There is a lot more. Specially from you we would expect no less. , your

turn. An absolute classic by Nat King Cole.

# Smile though your heart is aching... #

This will be a moment on Saturday night. Let's see you in rehearsals

today. # Smile though your heart is aching

# Smile even though it's breaking # When there are... #

Josh, you and your mum will be in pieces again on Saturday. Stock up

on tissues. We have another Over The Rainbow Moment. This time it will be

me as an artist that you will see. You get up and sing together, the

three of you! Ricky, what song have you choosen? We are doing The Kinks,

You Really Got Me. Who starts? Moo me. To get it out of the way. I will

stand back and go - all right. You have joked on the show that your

acts might show you up? I haven't joked about it. I'm serious about

it. Technically, I've never been to singing school, if there a singing

school. It was learnt on the road. It was learnt over a long period of

time. These guys are technically far superior than I will ever be. I bow

down to that. I can't wait for you to hear it. Your face is making me

excited. I have a treat for you. Here is your old team-mate, Emily,

in the studio earlier on in the week with a swansong, acoustic

performance of Happy. This is beautiful.

# It must seem crazy what I'm about to say

# She's here you can take a breath # I'm a hot air balloon that can go

to space # With the air, like I don't care

# Baby, by the way # Clap along if you feel like a room

without a roof # Clap along if you feel happiness

is a truth # Clap along if you know what

happiness is to you clap along if you feel that's what you want to do

# Give me all you got, and no holding back.

# I should probably warn you, I'll be just fine

# No thanks to you, don't waste your time

# Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooh... # 48 minutes she held that note. I

don't think that is the last we will hear from Emily. Ricky, good luck on

Saturday night. Yeah. It will be spectacular. They don't need it. I

need it. Ricky will be with his other band The Kaiser Chiefs on BBC

Breakfast tomorrow morning. No staying up late. Give it up for Team

Ricky. Some behind-the-scenes access for you now. It's time to meet the

man who ensures every performance looks as good as it sounds. I'm

Nathan Clarke the Creative Director and choreographer for the voice.

It's my job to make Saturday night spectacular. Now we are into the

live shows it's a whole new world. The stage is almost twice the size.

We have dancers. We've got LED screens everywhere. It's big!

Everything starts right here in this room. This is where the ideas come

to life. The coaches have a lot of input in the creative process for

their contestants. It's, basically, my job to make their vision come to

life. It's something we work together on. Series three coaches,

four very individual people, with very different ideas. Kylie, very

straight-forward. She knows what she wants to see. Not dancers. Like

facing the other way or doing something a bit more abstract. Ricky

thinks bigger. Let's go for it. Big hair, exciting outfit. I think it

needs to be a proper extreme. Tom likes a stripped back feel.

Everything needs to be easy and more about the emotion. It's tender

there. You show a lot of emotion. Will, Will has some crazy ideas. You

want to come out of a cake like Grace Jones. You want trampoline,,

you can freak them out. Finding a balance with Will. What will work

and what's just so crazy. You want to come out wrapped in a borrito,

singing Mexican style. Now, it's crunch time this is the rehearsal

day. The contestants seeing the dancers around them and getting a

feel for their performances. It's tough trying to get the contestants

into a situation they are not used to. They have to learn choreography

and remember it. Go away and practice it. It isn't something they

do every day. I don't know what I'm doing. I cannot dance. There is a

difference between not being a dancer and not moving at all. Yeah.

Little things like when the band are going

# Bang, bang, bang... # You need to feel in your body. It

comes naturally to some performers and that others. Everyone has left

with a smile on their face. I will see you when you have the whole

production. I'm excited. Rehearsesals going great. We are

going to smash it. Feeling very nervous. This is the last day before

the Live Finals. I have forgotten what to do with the walking bit.

It's on the "i." As well as doing the choreography with the

contestants and the dancers, I'm being looking at screen graphics,

floor graphics, then lasers. If the raidsers are static, when it kicks

in we need to go somewhere with it. We need to put everything together

for the package I had in my mind. We are throwing them together in the

mix for a one group number. Have the time of your lives. Mix the teams

up. As excited as I am for the live shows I'm very nervous, but I just

can't wait for it all to happen and sit back and see what these guys

bring. They all love Nathan. He is a dude. Yesterday, the delightful Yvie

Burnett talked me through soft of the weekend performances. Tonight we

look through the Highs and the Lows of the remaining acts with the

voice's other vocal coach. Ali Tennant. . With JLS and nurturing

new stars from the rehearsal studio to the world stage. That is what

it's about for me. Let's hear it for Ali. You are a one man music

machine. You have worked with Labrinth. I'm flattered. Yes I

worked with Labrinth. I've worked with JLS, with Jessie J. One

Direction. A lot of others. They all speak very highly of you. You and

Yvie work together. How do you decide who goes with who? What we

do, after the blinds, what we do is we split them up down the middle.

All the coaches, I get half, Yvie gets half. That is how it goes on

throughout the show and through the stages. Have you ever tried to pinch

someone? I tried. It doesn't work. We will start with Chris from Team

Ricky. Let us remind ourselves of his performance.

# So pull those curtains wide # One day a like this a year will

see me right... # Such a great song to sing from

Elbow. The big build at the end. Why is Chris so good at selling a song?

First of all, I like to call him the Urban Buble. I love his voice. You

know, Chris has the gift of being able to connect with a song

immediately. He is one of the one that is you give him the piece of

paper with the lyrics on, it he is like, yeah, I've got it. You feel

it. It's a gift. He is great. He has a really big range as well. I don't

know if that is the technical term - big range... He has got a great

range to his voice. He goes from falsetto to his chest voice. We will

explain some of that. This is you guys working on theon song together.

# I see the light... # You are on chest at that point?

# I see... # # I see... #

# I see the light... # Come back down to change.

# The light... The light... # Chest.

# The light, light... #. It's like being stroked when you

hear that. What is the difference between a head and chest voice? OK.

I want to get you to do it. Don't make me do it. It's horrific. You do

it. You are the singer. The chest voice is an extension of your

talking voice. If I were to go # And... #

I'm talking. Working for me. Same voice. Your falsetto, your head

voice. If I were to do an impression of a female opera singer I would go

will being laaaaa... # That's in my head voice. OK. Do an

impression of a female opera voice and that is your head voice. On to

Team Will and a bit of treasure from Jermain.

# You can make my wish come true... #

He is something else, isn't he? Stunning. In there there had to be

the Jermain moment. Absolutely. Let us remind ourselves.

# Yeah, yeah... # You can see the effect it had on

Will. How do you train a voice like that? I love a sing we are a great

vocal range. He goes down to his baritone. Now, you have to train the

full width of their range with that one. You have to do a lot of scales.

A lot of stuff like that. To expand the bottom of his range. Then you

get it. As long as you can pick the points in the song to give him that.

When Jermain does that it makes my knees go funny. Jamie from Team

Kylie. Here he is on Saturday. # If I could fall into the sky

# Do you think time would pass me by # Because you know... #

What a gorgeous boy. We have seen him doing R'n'B, rock and female

pop. Is there anything he can't do? Which is he most suited to? He has

done a range of songs. I think, you know, the shock of Jamie is when you

see him do, you know, an Essex boy coming out doing a soul song. A

soulful vocal. That is where his voice is really suited to. He can do

anything with that range and that passion. I think that is part of the

wonder of the show. You see the face, they sing, you didn't expect

that. Sophie May for Team Will. Here is a reminder of her performance

# Can I just have one more moon dance with you, my love

# Can I just make some Morrow mans... #

Jazz Sophie May does. It is about delivery, I'm informed. What make it

is different as a style? With jazz you have to be behind the beat, but

be on time. A lot of it has a drol to it. The annunciation --

pronounceation is slurred. If you think of the performances of

Winehouse wine, it was slurred, but at the same time you felt it. Jazz

is very much behind time, but on time. Sophie had a head voice moment

herself, did she? Absolutely. Here it is. Her head voice moment.

# Ooooooo-oooh... # Beautiful. Difficult was that to do

that? She is so young. She is 17. To know your voice like that. It take

as lot of work and practice. She naturally has it. We had to work,

coming from the chest voice, going up to the head voice. You know, it

gave her more range to it. She went in and she did a great job. I love

the faces you pull when you go to your head voice. Give it up for Ali.

We will see you next week. Thank you so much for watching tonight and to

all my guests, Ricky, Christina Marie, Chris and Ali. Tomorrow I

will be joined by the great man himself, Sir Tom Jones, she will be

bringing Sally and Bizzi with him. Good night.