Blind Auditions 1 The Voice UK

It's all on the strength of the voice.

It's uniquely about talent. It's about nothing else.

It's not like a traditional karaoke talent show.

It's not about what you look like or the package or your story.

It's about there and then in the moment.

Can you sing or can't you sing?

And if they can, I'll be the one to tell them so.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Welcome to The Voice. A singing competition unlike any other.

Because it puts vocal ability first.

Tonight, four of the most influential names in all of music

are on a mission to discover and develop Britain's next great voice.

With 140 million record sales,

hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide

and countless number one hits between them,

these are four of the biggest names in music.

..pop's hottest property.

With six top 10 singles, a double platinum selling debut album

and four MOBO Awards.

# ..down like I'm a domino. #

..founding member of global supergroup, the Black Eyed Peas.

# Let's get it started... #

Seven-time Grammy winner

and established producer who has collaborated with

music's biggest names.

..producer, songwriter

and lead vocalist for hit Irish rock band The Script.

He's had two global smash hit number one albums

and played sold-out stadium tours alongside U2 and Paul McCartney.

With a career that has spanned six decades,

sold over 100 million records worldwide,

seen him sing alongside Aretha Franklin,

the Beatles, Sammy Davis Jr

and Elvis Presley...

# Kiss... # Mama told me... #

..won him a Grammy, two Brits and a knighthood,

he's the Welsh godfather of popular music, Sir Tom Jones.

These four superstars have come together

to help nurture the next generation of artists.

But first, they're going to show us how it's done.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I got a feeling

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good, good night

# I got a feeling

# Woo-hoo

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good, good night, yeah

# Tonight's the night, hey Let's live it up

# I got my money, hey Let's spend it up

# Go out and smash it Like, oh, my God

# Jump off that sofa

# Let's get, get, woo!

# I know that we'll have a ball

# If we get down and go out

# And just lose it all

# I feel stressed out I wanna let it go

# Let's get way out, spaced out

# Losing all control

# A feeling, woo-hoo

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

-# Tonight's gonna be a good night

-Good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good, good night

# Tonight's the night, hey

-# Let's live it up

-Let's live it up

# I got my money, hey

-# Let's spend it up

-Let's spend it up

# Go out and smash it

-# Like, oh, my God

-Like, oh, my God

-# Jump off that sofa

-Come on

# Let's get it on, yeah Let's do it, let's do it

# Let's do it, let's do it

# Let's do it, let's do it

# Let's do it, let's live it up and do it

# Let's do it, let's do it

# Let's do it, let's do it

# Let's do it, let's do it Let's do it

# Here we come, here we go We gotta rock, rock, rock

# Easy come, easy go Now we on top, top, top, top

# Feel the shot, body rock Rock and don't stop, stop, stop

# Round and round, up and down Around the clock

# Cos I got a feeling Woo-hoo

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good, good night

# I got a feeling Woo-hoo

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be a good night

# That tonight's gonna be

# A good, good ni-i-ght. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Give it up for our coaches.

will.i.am!

Danny O'Donoghue.

-Jessie J.

-And Sir Tom Jones.

Wow! Now that is how you do it.

And this is how we would do it.

# And it goes like this. #

'Tonight, the coaches begin their search to find The Voice.

'They'll each choose a team of ten singers from a select group of the UK's best artists

'who have been invited to audition for our coaches.

'But, it won't be easy, because the coaches will have their backs to the artists, as they sing.'

-JESSIE J:

-'Our chairs are facing away from the stage, so we have no idea what's going on behind us.'

We are blind. This is all about the voice.

'How an artist looks...'

I've got more of a face for radio.

'..their size...'

Too short. Too fat.

-'..their age...'

-I'm 47. In the music business,

-that's pushing it.

-'None of that matters!'

That's what's amazing.

'Only the voice counts.'

This is how the show works.

When a coach likes what they hear, they hit a button.

Which turns their chair. And that artist wins a place on their team.

I can't wait to work with you.

I'm the one who can't wait to work with you.

Yeah!

However, if more than one chair turns, the power shifts,

and the artist can decide which coach they'd most like to work with.

You know we want you. Who do you want?

The coaches need to do everything in their power to persuade the artist to join their team.

-It's fisticuffs at dawn.

-Pick me!

CHEERING

AUDIENCE CHANTS

Come on!

'But, if no coach turns, the artist is out of the competition.'

What I need to stress, when we don't turn around,

it's not because you're not a great singer, you are.

It's just that we only get to pick ten.

'Each coach wants to discover the one artist who will win it all.

'A record deal with Universal Music, and the chance to be named The Voice.'

The potential that this could change my life is huge.

-JESSIE J:

-'This is their moment.'

-TOM JONES:

-'It's now or never.'

The blind auditions start now.

Our talent scouts have invited the nation's most gifted vocalists to the blind auditions.

And, as our artists begin to arrive from up and down the country,

the anticipation is building.

17-year-old Belfast schoolgirl Jessica Hammond is hoping

to swap teenage dreams for musical reality.

Songwriting's always been kind of a way out for me.

There's been a few incidences where I was getting picked on.

I'd always come home and play my guitar.

I used to say to her, "Jess, write down what you are worried about,

"and then we'll read over it."

So, now, she writes lyrics about it, and turns it into a positive.

'In my bedroom, I'm a superstar. And people are listening to me.'

And I just imagine the raindrops on the windows, they're clapping for me. And I don't feel alone.

'I've chosen to sin Jesse J, Price Tag.

'Whenever it's a cover, you have to really look in and do your research,

'and think about the kind of message of the song, and what you're trying to say to people.'

I definitely will put my heart and soul into this.

And hopefully she likes it.

GUITAR STARTS

CHEERING FROM AUDIENCE

# Seems like everybody's got a price

# I wonder how they sleep at night

# When the sale comes first And the truth comes second

# Just stop for a minute and smile

# Why is everybody so serious?

# Acting so damn mysterious?

# You got shades on your eyes And your heels so high

# That you can't even have A good time

# Everybody look to their left

# Everybody look to their right

# Can you feel that? Yeah We'll pay them with love tonight

# It's not about the money Money, money

# We don't need your money Money, money

# We just wanna make the world dance

# Forget about the price tag

# Ain't about the, oh, yeah Cha-ching, cha-ching

# Ain't about the oh, yeah Ba-bling, ba-bling

# Wanna make the world dance

# Forget about the price tag

# It's not about the money Money, money

# We don't need your money Money, money

# We just wanna make the world dance

# Forget about the price tag

# Ain't about the, oh, yeah Cha-ching, cha-ching

# Ain't about the oh, yeah, Ba-bling, ba-bling

# We just wanna make the world dance Forget about the price tag

# Yeah... #

AUDIENCE CHEER WILDLY

What's your name?

Mary Jessica Hammond.

-How old are you?

-17.

CHEERING

So, I would like to work with you.

The way I work with Macy and Michael Jackson, and...

He just drops it in there, the name. I'll give it up to you, if you want.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

So, I would like to have you on my team.

We need to make an album, and we need to put it out to where it's big, in the UK, America, Brazil,

Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Argentina...

AUDIENCE CHEERS

..Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Ireland.

-He's like a lobster, giving it all that!

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

I'm telling you, you need to come here, babes!

CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

-Do you want to put your guitar down?

-It's stuck to me.

-Hold on.

I'll be your roadie. I'll hold it for you.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

-I will be your producer and your roadie. Thank you.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

I don't mind carrying the guitar.

I want to talk to you as if I was you when I was 17.

There's things in your voice that remind me of me.

I'm not going to sit here as Will said, and go, "You're going to do this,"

because I don't surround myself with yes men. You need...

-AUDIENCE GASPS

-I'm being serious.

-That wasn't a yes man.

-Wait, wait, wait!

-No, no. She's blowing me up. Do you mind if I do something with your guitar?

-Let me talk.

I can understand where you're coming from. You're a female, you're young.

You don't understand how amazing it is for me to sit here

and have someone like yourself sing one of my songs.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What I will say is, number ones, albums, touring, all that stuff is a bonus, yeah?

Music is where it should stem from, and that's something me and you could enjoy.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-I can't compete with that.

-You can, you're Sir Tom Jones.

-What I can compete with is this.

This show is called The Voice, right?

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

And the thing we have to concentrate on, if you come with me,

is picking the right songs in order to win this thing.

And I feel I can help you with that. So, here I am, babe.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

I understand guitar playing and singing, something I've done since I was your age, even before.

And I really feel the musicianship coming from you.

I think we would work incredibly together. I really do.

You've got four coaches - you've got only one decision.

That's the beautiful part of the show, you've got artistic control.

I really hope you make the right decision and come with me.

APPLAUSE

AUDIENCE SHOUTS

SHOUTING CONTINUES

Um, Will...

Ssssh. Let her decide!

I appreciate everything you said.

Um, I'm a songwriter, I'm only 17 and from Belfast.

Number one hits don't matter to me,

making music and sharing my message is what matters to me.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Beautiful, beautiful.

Um...

I'm going to go with Jessie.

SCREAMS AND CHEERS

# It's not about the money, money, money

# We don't need your money, money, money

# We just want to make the world... #

WORDS DROWNED BY APPLAUSE

..It's fine, it's fine.

I can't wait to work with you.

I thought it was gorgeous when Jessie picked Jessie, you're coming out against a Jessie J song,

you know, I'm in for the pitch, she's Irish as well,

so I might've been in there but, ah well, didn't work.

She's so good!

While Jessica takes her first step into the spotlight,

some of our artists have already tasted fame.

A decade ago, 30-year-old Sean Conlon was at the top of the game.

Now he's hoping his voice will give him a second chance to shine.

-Hello, Sean.

-How are you doing?

Good to see you again, shall I say. Could you explain why we've met before, please?

I was in a band called Five.

# Get on up, when you're down

# Baby, take a good look around... #

It was kind of instant success, overnight.

We got a Brit Award. We played with Brian May,

he was playing his guitar...

That was pretty mad.

Obviously the band broke up, but if I remember correctly,

-you left first?

-I remember looking in the mirror and,

I just knew I had to go and find who Sean Conlon was.

I could just see this cartoon character Sean from Five and it just hit me really hard.

I had a gut feeling that I had to walk my own path,

and it was a really big decision at the time.

'I think the fact it's a blind audition really works in my favour.'

Sean from Five doesn't come into it.

If one of the coaches turns round, it's because of my voice.

'It's the consequences of doing what I'm doing that worries me.

'What will the reaction be?'

'I really want this.

'It means everything to me.

'Otherwise I wouldn't take the risk.'

# Oh, no

# I see... #

CHEERING

# The spider web is tangled up with me...

# And I lost my head

# And thought of all the stupid things I said... #

One light. One light.

# Oh no, what's this?

# A spider web and I'm caught in the middle

# So I turn to run

# And thought of all the stupid things I said... #

One light, come on, here we go, big notes.

# Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble... #

CHEERING

# I never meant to do you wrong... #

Oh, come on, I'm so proud of you. Please.

# Oh, I never meant to cause you trouble

# Oh, I never meant to do you harm... #

Come on, Will, push the button, mate! Come on. >

-One light, come on.

-Oh my God.

# And if I ever caused you trouble...

# Oh no, I never meant to do you harm. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Ah, so that's it then?

-No, it isn't. What's your name?

-Sean Conlon.

-Sean Conlon?

Yeah, I used to be in a boy band many years ago - about ten years ago...

-Yeah, you look really familiar.

-Five.

Five!

SCREAMS AND CHEERS

You were the first concert I ever saw.

-Really?

-Five!

-Thank you.

For one, thank you for singing for us, it was a wonderful song.

It sounded like you were blending in with the band instead of leading it.

-Yeah.

-For a person that's stepping out of a group to go solo,

and you were in a group and you're trying to go solo. You want to be the maestro.

Take the reins and conduct.

I kind of disagree, I really enjoyed it and the only reason I didn't turn around is I was thinking,

"What can I do for you?"

Your voice to me is beautiful how it is and I...

-I would happily listen to you like, at home, all day cos your voice is...

-Really?

-Yeah!

-It completely chilled me out.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

-Darling, nice to meet you.

-Cheers.

-Nice to meet you, amazing voice, seriously.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Well done, well done.

-Not to be. Pretty gutted.

I would've loved to have gone on but it's not to be.

Today was definitely a step in the right direction.

For sure, yeah. Ten years away, you know, you just come back

and it wasn't a small stage, yeah?

-LAUGHTER

-Pretty big one!

-Yeah.

Nothing like putting yourself in the lion's den.

I did it and who knows what the future's going to bring, eh?

Something good though, Reggie!

LAUGHTER

Phew, just take me heart out...and throw it on the ground.

Yeah, it's hard to know what to say to a person like that, isn't it?

Sean's voice wasn't enough to get the coaches turning, but with

a standard so high what exactly will it take to push their buttons?

I've always been into tone, and technique and breathing.

I want to hear someone's personality in their singing.

Rock, folk, country, whatever,

doesn't matter, man, it's all in.

I'm just looking for someone that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Doesn't necessarily have to have vocal gymnastics...

# Ooh-ooh! # I'm not looking for that.

I'm looking for...just uniqueness.

I like to listen to raw talent.

As far as I'm concerned, you have a voice or you don't.

And that's from a man who knows.

Keen to prove that he has a voice worth listening to

is 20 year-old Brummie Samuel Buttery.

I am Samuel Buttery, I'm 20.

I'd describe myself as being relatively happy,

quite jolly but that's what people usually use for the word "fat", don't they?

"He was jolly."

I have never entered anything like this before

but the fact that it is about the voice appeals to me.

If the coaches saw me beforehand, they might get a totally different impression of my voice cos...

I might be wrong, but I don't think my voice necessarily matches...me.

Tom Jones is like a massive icon to me.

When I was in primary school,

I used to sing: # What's new pussycat... #

And no-one liked it really.

I think I'm ready.

-Is this family Buttery?

-Yes, this is the family Buttery.

-I'll take some credit for that! >

-This is my dad, Mark.

-Hello.

-Hello, nice to meet you.

-Pleased to meet you.

-My little sister, Beth.

-Hi!

-And this is my best friend Grace.

-Hello.

Who do you want to turn around?

They're all like phenomenal, and I would like, obviously, anyone. Amazing!

But Tom Jones I think is the one that I'd like to impress.

-Well, good luck.

-Thank you very much.

-I think you're fabulous already.

-Oh, thank you.

Through that door are four of the biggest artists in the world...

'I'm really nervous.'

# I let it fall, my heart

# And as it fell You rose to claim it

# It was dark and I was over

# Until you kissed my lips and you saved me

# To stand in your arms

# Without falling to your feet

# Cos there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew... #

ALL: Come on!

# ..All the things you'd say they were never true, never true

# And the games you play You would always win

# Always win

# And I set fire to the rain

# Watched it pour as I touched your face... #

-CHEERS AND SCREAMS

-# Let it burn...

# ..I heard it screaming out your name

# Your name

# And I set fire to the rain

# Watched it pour

# As I touched your face

# Let it burn as I cried cos I heard it

# Screaming out your name

# Your name

# Let it burn! #

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Oh! Oh!

Oh my God!

-Yes!

-HE LAUGHS

Ohhh!

-Sorry, I'm a bit hysterical!

-LAUGHTER

What's your name?

My name's Samuel Buttery.

And I'm... I'm 20.

I am really, really happy you turned round.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERS

What brings you to The Voice?

I loved the sound of the programme because it is all about the voice

and, I don't think I'm necessarily the package like, J-Lo or Beyonce!

AUDIENCE: Aw!

Yeah, but I'm still fabulous but just not J-Lo or Beyonce!

CHEERING

But it brought me to The Voice because I just wanted to sing and I really...

and it's just amazing.

Oh! I've been singing and listening to Tom for...

Sir Tom! I'll just do a little...

LAUGHTER

I am just so happy you turned around.

-CHEERING

-I am not going to lie, I was really surprised when I turned around.

Honestly, I was expecting to see a female.

-Really... Really.

-Me too. Me too.

But again, people have made that mistake about my own voice too.

Look, I think you are in great hands you have a very strong, powerful voice.

Who better to pair you up with than the legend himself. Fantastic.

APPLAUSE

I heard a bit of me there, to be honest with you.

You've inspired me a lot, so that's probably why.

There you go, I really did, there were a few notes in there that sounded like me.

Sounds like me in my head anyway.

-You've got a great voice.

-Thank you.

-I think we'll work really good together.

So do I.

APPLAUSE

Come down, come down.

-Lovely to see you.

-Thank you.

Don't worry, good luck.

Ah!

CHEERING

Well done, son.

'You can see, I don't really know what to say.'

That is who I wanted to turn round and he's Sir Tom for a reason.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

-Amazing.

-Swear to God, I thought it was a girl.

-Me too.

-I turned around and I was like...

-Really?!

-I thought it was a girl.

-Really?!

-Yeah.

-Didn't sound like a girl to me. Do I sound like a girl?

-No, not at all!

-Oh.

-You're the manliest sounding man I know!

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

# You don't have to be beautiful... #

So, Samuel is the first addition to Team Tom,

and as the other coaches are realising, going up

against music's equivalent of Muhammad Ali won't be an easy fight.

-I'm afraid of Tom Jones.

-Number one, 1965, by the way!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That dude has knowledge! What?!

'65, '66, '67, '68, '69!

I slackened off a bit in 1970, but hey!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Out of the 150 years of experience that you have on stage,

I think a lot of that belongs to him.

I think most people know that I've been around a long time.

I think I've sung with most people. Aretha Franklin, for instance.

Yeah.

-Can we have our fun?

-No!

I sang with Frank Sinatra and Janis Joplin.

Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, I mean the list goes on and on,

so if I can put that to good use, then I will.

-It's the truth!

-Wow, that's Tom Jones right there.

I want to do a song with him. Oh, that's right,

we're here for The Voice. I'm competing against him!

And ready to compete for her place on one of the coach's teams

is 34-year-old Toni Warne, who's been waiting years to be

judged on her voice and not her appearance.

My name is Toni. I'm 34 and I work in a bank in Great Yarmouth.

I've always gigged. Bars, pubs, clubs, cabaret,

that was pretty much my work.

I've suffered with alopecia since I was a young girl.

But then at 21, I lost all my hair completely.

And it had quite an impact...on me.

You sort of... You sort of lose confidence.

There's no question about it.

I didn't think that I could gig the way that I am.

And I got a 9-to-5 job.

£197. Did you pay some money in, did you?

-So, what's different about now?

-This feels right,

because it's called The Voice. It's not about having to cover up.

Just to be herself, I know that she will feel comfortable with that.

Especially the fact that she's not going to feel judged

with the way she looks initially.

She's going to go out, she's going to sing amazing,

and then they're going to turn around, and be knocked out.

It's time now to sing, and if they turn their chairs around,

of course it would be the most amazing possible thing.

I'm looking forward to walking on stage

and being me for the first time ever, really.

It feels good.

# Well I'm here just like I said

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-# Though it's breaking every rule

# I've ever made

# My racing heart is just the same

# Why make it strong to break it once again

# Mm-mmmm

# And I'd love to say I do

# Give everything to you

# But I can never now be true So I say

# I think I better leave right now

-Come on, turn around.

-# Before I fall any deeper

# I think I better leave right now

# I'm feeling weaker and weaker

# Somebody better show me how

# Before I fall any deeper

# Think I better leave right now

# You may never know why

# Once bitten twice as shy

# If I'm proud perhaps I should explain

# I couldn't bare to lose you again

-Hit that button!

-Come on! Get the button down!

-Do it!

# Ooh, yeah

# I think I better leave right now I'm feeling weaker and weaker

# Somebody better show me how Before I fall any deeper

# Think I better leave right now. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Before I ask your name and why you're so amazing, YOU!

And little tactics! You see him? "You should press the button".

-And then I turned around, and there you both are!

-Hello, Jessie! Hello!

-We were waiting for you. Ladies first!

-You pushed your button,

-it's fine!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-What's your name?

-Toni.

-Toni. And what is your inspiration, Toni?

I sung for a living but I'd suffered with alopecia

since I was little girl, but I lost all of my hair.

And it really just knocked the stuffing out of me, really,

you know, and I felt that I couldn't pursue what was in my heart

because I didn't believe in myself.

The last couple of years, I've had two beautiful,

beautiful children and, sort of, you realise that life is short,

you know, and music is my absolute passion beyond passion.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I'm blown away.

I thought, you have an old soul. You know, as I was listening,

I could tell you'd been through something,

been through pain, you'd been through the wars.

And that's what really moved me, emotionally, to hit my button.

But if you pick me, honestly, I will fight to the death for you,

because I think you're fantastic. You're amazing.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Your tone is so old school, that I feel like you could

-teach me something.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And I love the fact that you didn't go # Woooahhhhh! #

Right at the beginning, you went and let it grow,

and that was what may be fall in love with your voice,

so please, please, let's hang out and make music and have fun.

-Thank you, Jessie.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You are what I call a real singer, you know?

I mean, you are a real, REAL singer.

-You sound fantastic!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I'm just overcome. I can't tell you how overwhelmed I am.

-This is just unbelievable.

-You deserve it.

-Thank you.

You deserve it. You really deserve it. Really.

Hey, look, you've got creative control, this is all up to you.

Just know the right person is over here, he's Irish!

AUDIENCE SHOUTS ENCOURAGEMENT

Four years ago, somebody said to me, "Check this out, Toni, listen,

"you're not going to believe what you hear," and I heard Jessie J

for the first time and I'm telling you, Jessie,

I would love to choose you.

I'm so excited!

I said I wouldn't cry.

SHE SOBS

Come here, Toni.

Well done.

Toni's voice takes her to the next stage

of the competition as part of Team Jessie.

And while Toni's success sinks in, indie guitarist Adam Isaac

is arriving, hoping that he too will strike a chord with the coaches.

I'm Adam. I'm 28 years old.

I've lived and breathed music for the last ten years of my life.

# Dreaming of another world. #

I've always done OK around my little gig circuit that I played for years,

but this is the first time I put myself out there on this scale.

I have got a fear of failure,

which has stopped me from going for something like this before.

While Adam gets ready to face his fears head-on,

our next artist can't wait to hit the stage.

Again.

I spent a lot of years doing backing singing.

I sang for people like Puff Daddy, R Kelly.

And then when I had my children, I stopped. Now, it's mummy time!

-What am I going to be?

-A rocket star.

-Yay!

You guys seem to have some pretty strong support,

-so who do we have with you today?

-Here's my mum, Tricia. My bestie!

This is my beautiful daughter, Tian. And this is Talia!

-Can I hold Talia, please?

-Go-ahead!

You're lovely. Hello, gorgeous.

OK, well, you've got four amazing coaches sat in front of you

when you finally get on that stage.

What have you done to prepare for the show?

I got my daughter and my auntie and I made them sit

in the living room facing backwards.

I was like, "Don't turn around, until you feel it!"

And if you turn around before, no dinner for you!

THEY LAUGH

-OK, well, good luck.

-Thank you.

-I can't wait to see you on stage.

-Thank you, I can't wait!

-And see you soon as well, all right?

I'm glad that they're not going to see me straight away.

I like the way I look.

But, you know, it's just being a big girl,

you always get put in this box.

I am about to go out there

and sing like it's my last performance.

For me and my girls,

this could be the first step to a really big change.

So, yeah, this is big, this is big.

Come on, Aundrea.

come on, I want to push it!

# I remember when, I remember I remember when I lost my mind

# There was something so pleasant about that place

# Even your emotions had an echo In so much space

Come on! Come on! Press that button!

# And when you're out there without care, yeah, I was out of touch

# But it wasn't because I didn't know enough

# I just knew too much

# Does that make me crazy?

# Does that make me crazy?

# Does that make me crazy?

# Probably

# Oh, oh, oh

# Come on now, who do you

# Who do you, who do you, who do you think you are?

# Ha ha ha! Bless your soul

# You really think you're in control

# Well, I think you're crazy

# I think you're crazy

# I think you're crazy

# Just like me

# Woah, oh, oh, oh

# Yes-ah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So what's your name?

I'm Aundrea Nyle.

-Why The Voice?

-Cos you couldn't see me!

AUDIENCE: Aaw.

I'm fabulous. Don't get too serious.

I just wanted you to see all of this afterwards!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

SHE LAUGHS

-So...

-Hey!

-How are you doin'? I believe you have a beautiful voice,

but you just need to learn to control it.

-It kind of splinters all over the place, a bit.

-Thank you.

-But you have a powerful, beautiful voice.

-Thank you.

-Hello, darlin'.

-Hello.

Can I start by saying "yes" to the purple hair?

Hello, hair!

Team Purple!

A-ha! I didn't turn around, not because I don't think you have

an amazing voice - I think you do -

but I think you're vibrato. I don't know if it was nerves,

but I thought it could just chill out.

-But I think you and Tom are going to have a wild time.

-Yeah.

-Very excited!

-Oh, yeah?!

-Yeah, baby!

I loved your vibrato.

I think it's spot on. You give it the full Monty

and I'm looking forward to working with you and having you on my team.

Thank you.

Let's start the way we're going to continue.

Give us a kiss, sweetheart.

Thank you so much. You've made my dreams come true.

# You make me feel like... #

THEY ALL SCREAM

'With a mentor like Tom Jones,'

I think the sky is the limit, so I'm so ready for whatever he's got.

I'm like a sponge, ready to soak it all up, so you'll see more

of all this!

So Aundrea got the result she wanted, but the enormity

of the competition is weighing heavy on Adam's mind,

as he heads to the stage.

'Taking part in The Voice is a really big thing for me,

'because I am being judged'

on the thing I love to do.

'My biggest fear is to get a "no".'

MUSIC INTRO

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I've been down and I'm wondering why

# These little black clouds keep walking around with me

# With me

# I look around at a beautiful life I've been the upper side of down

# Been the inside of out

# But we breathe, we breathe

# Maybe tomorrow

# I'll find my way home... #

-Yes!

-Yes!

-Tom! Tom!

# I'll find my way home

# So maybe tomorrow, I'll find my

# Way-y-y-y home. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-So, what's your name?

-My name's Adam Isaac.

That was a great performance.

It was a really great performance.

I hope you take that through the next stages, after two of the biggest artists in the world

-turned around to you, fantastic.

-Thank you very much.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You have a great voice. You remind me

of cats that I hang out with at home,

that just love and eat music.

Your voice is warm.

It seems like star quality -

the kind of voice you hear when you are in a restaurant

and your girl's telling you something and you totally ignore

everything she's saying,

because the song's playing in the background.

As far as I'm concerned,

I've sung with a lot of people and recorded a lot of different kinds of song.

I need somebody with a strong voice,

because we're going to have a lot of different kinds of songs to do...

when we win this.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's creative control at this stage. It's down to you now.

This is one of the toughest decisions I've had to make - ever -

in my life.

Can I say one other thing?

I was with Elvis Presley in Hawaii...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

..and I was invited over to his house. When I got in there this day,

Elvis wasn't there, so I said to Priscilla, his wife,

I said, "What happened to Elvis?"

And she said, "He's realised that we don't have guitars here and you are coming over

"and he is very excited about it, so he's gone out to get two guitars."

And Elvis Presley - and this is hand to God - walked into a music shop

and told the girl behind the counter, "I've got Tom Jones coming over to my house today

"and I need two guitars." The girl fainted.

LAUGHTER

Anyway, he got the two guitars

and he came back to the house and we played and sang together all day.

So, I know when I hear somebody singing like that and playing like that.

If you want experience, you're looking right at it.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wait a second. Can I say one more thing?

There was one time I was living in Ireland, with Michael Jackson,

and we were recording...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

This is why I didn't turn around, cos I can't compete!

-I met Justin Bieber once! Woo!

-I was making this track, right,

and the beat was real mellow and he said,

IMPERSONATES JACKSON: "I want you to make the beat a little louder. It's too slow." So I was, like,

"You want it harder, Mike?" "Yes, if you could make the beat a little more aggressive.

"I want a tasty beat, a beat that when people hear it, they just want to eat it."

LAUGHTER

So...yeah, that was my little thing.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK.

Thank you very much, both of you.

It's amazing.

I think...will.i.am.

CHEERING

No, hang on, right?

I was going to say, will.i.am,

I'd like to say, that I have much respect for what you do.

-I jumped the gun!

-You're amazing...

-That's classic!

-..but I'd like to go with the legend that is Tom Jones.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# A little less conversation

# A little more action, please

# All this aggravation ain't satisfying me. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Na-na-na-na-na-nah!

'And the winner is...Tom Jones!'

That was good.

Still to come on The Voice tonight...

-..an internet sensation...

-I've had over one million hits,

which is quite substantial in the YouTube scene.

-..a Strictly star...

-Last year, I stood in for one of the singers on Strictly Come Dancing.

..and the coaches go all out to get what they want...

-Temper, temper!

-Oooh!

-Come on!!

-I remember the first time we had success. And the second time, the third time, the fourth time.

Eugh! Where I come from, I'm known as "The Voice".

Coaches! As a great man once said, where is the love? It would appear

there is no love lost between our next hopefuls - boyfriend and girlfriend, Max and Twinnielee.

My name is Max Milner, I'm 20 and I'm a singer-songwriter.

'I just love writing. Singing music's my passion.

I'm Twinnielee Moore, I'm 24 and I'm a performer.

'I've never been that confident as a singer, but this is always what'

I've wanted to do.

So are you two auditioning together?

-No.

-No.

-No.

-Separate artists.

-Have you thought about that horrible situation, if one goes through and one of you doesn't?

-Yeah, yeah.

But I would obviously be massively happy for Twin if she got through, even if I didn't.

I'm still going to be 100% behind her.

I just love her so much. She's brilliant.

# Why do birds... #

I will be nervous to watch Max. He's amazing, he's brilliant.

I'm incredibly proud of him.

My girlfriend's obviously going to be supporting me, as I will her.

I didn't tell anyone that I applied.

Not even my boyfriend.

-I didn't know that she was applying.

-It's just an opportunity that you can't turn down.

It was a bit of a shock. She was speaking to me like it was my thing.

Then, all of a sudden, it was ours.

I suppose it's because I wanted to do something for me.

It's cool. I like it. I'm excited.

I think we're going to be there for each other. I'd always be there for her.

Obviously, I want to be there for him, but I don't know whether I can.

Like you say, we've entered the competition separately.

# Here come old flat top

# He come groovin' up slowly

# He got joo-joo eyeballs

# He one holy roller

# He got hair down to his knee

# Got to be a joker He just do what he please

# You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

# You own it You better never let it go

# You only get one shot Do not miss your chance to blow

# This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

# You better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it

# You better never let it go

# You only get one shot Do not miss your chance to blow

# This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

# His palms are sweaty, knees weak Arms are heavy

# There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti

# He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

# To drop bombs But he keeps on forgetting

# What he wrote down The whole crowd goes so loud

# He opens his mouth but the words won't come out

# He's chokin' how Everybody's jokin' now

# The clock's run out Times up, over, blaw!

# Snap, back to reality Oh, there goes gravity

# Oh, there goes Rabbit He won't give up that easy, no!

# You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

# You own it You better never let it go

# You only get one shot Do not miss your chance to blow

# This opportunity comes once in a lifetime... #

THEY CHEER

# He say one and one and one is three

# And got to be good looking cos he's so hard to see

# Come together, right now Over me. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE INTENSIFIES

Wow!

-Phew. Hi!

-Well done!

-Thank you.

I forgot to push my button, didn't I?

-That was great, anyway. What's your name?

-Max Milner.

-Max.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

What I loved was you got those two songs together and mashed them in. You've made them yours.

To be honest, I didn't know what to expect when I turned around. I was so glad you were there with

the amp, the guitar, just like you walked in off the street. And I think you're great.

Thanks a lot. Cheers. Thanks.

I think you're someone very special and I think that what you did with

the two songs was very, very interesting and that's what having a voice is all about.

It's about exploring things. That's why I would want you on my team, to make sure we can do that more.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Max, you don't just have a voice...

You're an artist.

It's different. I worked with Macy Gray before she was big.

She toured like this in LA, with her band.

He dropped another name over here!

It's not a name drop.

Macy Gray was signed to my label. That's not a name drop, I'm just saying I know artists.

And you belong with somebody that can take you that p-lace, up in s-pace.

CHEERING

I've got to say, for me, coming from a fellow guitar player.

I'm doing anything I can here! Do you have any Irish in your family?

LAUGHTER

-No!

-Can I just say,

I'm an artist out right now. Does that count as anything interesting?

LAUGHTER

I know how it is "right now"!

Eugh! I didn't know Macy Gray before she got big.

LAUGHTER

But we did do a gig together a couple of weeks ago in Brazil.

You can tell that there's going to be a feeding frenzy over you,

but now it's your choice, to see whose team you want to be on.

CROWD SHOUT SUGGESTIONS

Come on!!

SHOUTING AND CHANTING INTENSIFIES

I...I know who I'm going with.

I'm going to go with this person because

I think they're very similar to me.

So I'm going to go with Danny.

Yeah!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh! Come here.

Give it up, come on!

DANNY: Smokin'!

Oh, that made my whole day, that did.

-A-ha!

-SCREAMING HOLLY: Yeah!

I'm so proud of you!

That was a tough decision to me. How did you choose?

-I just feel as if we were very... I don't know, I think we'll get on very well.

-Yeah.

-I'm excited.

DANNY: Max picked me,

even though Will was dropping names left, right and centre.

WILL: I think he picked the wrong choice only because

I think he picked a choice based on what he's comfortable with.

Comfort isn't always the best thing.

You could be comfortable in hell,

you could find a cosy spot next to a hot rock.

Don't mean it's the place to be.

-You're done.

-Yes.

-Twinnielee's not, however.

-Good luck, sweetheart.

-Oh!

Find out if Twinnielee can match the success of her boyfriend, Max, soon.

But first Ben Kelly is dressed and dicky-bowed to impress

but on our stage, only his voice can do that.

# I'm just waiting for my chance to come. #

My name is Ben, I'm 22 years old

and I come from a place called Derry in Northern Ireland.

You know, a lot of people there have traditional, real jobs

and it took a long time for my parents to realise what I actually wanted to do

and even longer to accept that I want to be a pop star.

Probably about two years ago I started putting

all these covers on YouTube.

In that time I've had over a million hits which is quite substantial if you're on the YouTube scene.

'But The Voice offers me what I need next which is the recording contract and that's what I really need.'

Opportunities don't come along like this very often, I must admit.

I am trying to prove to myself, to my family, to everyone knows me

that I'm doing the right thing, I'm on the right path.

This feels like the big moment.

# She packed my bags last night, pre-flight

CHEERING

# Zero hour, nine AM

# And I'm gonna be high CHEERING

# As a kite by then

-SHE LAUGHS

-Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

# I miss the Earth so much I miss my wife

# Gets so lonely out in space Ooh, yeah

# On such a ti-i-imeless flight Oh, ooh oh

# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

# Till touchdown brings me round again to find

# I'm not the man they think I am at home... #

-Jessie's think about it now, isn't she?

-Come on, Jessie! Come on.

# I'm a rocket man

# Rocket man

SCREAMING

-Do it!

-Come on, press the button.

# Whoa

# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

# Till touchdown brings me round again to find

# I'm not the man they think I am at home

# Ooh, noo noo, no

-# I'm a rocket man

-Yeah!

# Yeah, yeah

-# Rocket man, burning out his fuse up her alone

-ALL: Yeah!

# And it'll be a lo-o-ong time. #

RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE

Thank you.

-What's your name?

-My name is Ben Kelly.

CHEERING

The reason why I turned around - FIRST,

and I was trying to disguise my turnaround

but then Danny got hip to my moves!

Hey, I had my eyes closed, I had my eyes closed.

-I went off the feeling. Sorry, continue.

-Lies!

LAUGHTER I can tell that you're singing for something.

You're not just singing cos you have a great voice.

I can tell that there's passion and you have a vision of where you want to go

and music is the vehicle to get you there.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hi.

-Hello.

-As soon as I heard you sing, I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and I sat forward like this and I was, like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was kind of imagining what you'd look like

and when I turned around it was all or more than I thought it was going to be.

Your licks are mad clean, your tone is there. Your range is there.

You're a risk taker and that's what I look for in vocalists.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I know a star when I see one. Seriously, you're an absolute...

Out of the box, out of the box. We can say that we want to work on stuff with this guy

but this guy is the finished article right now.

-JESSIE: Then what's the point in him being on your team?

-LAUGHTER

In fairness... CHEERING

WILL: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. To that point there,

we could dream together, toward the things we come up with...

We can go and eat together(!)

Hold on, wait, let me finish.

Really, interrupting, seriously? Are we interrupting, seriously?

LAUGHTER

The things that we could dream together will be taught

in the future to other people and she's going to be teaching

the style that we dream up to somebody else, right?

-That's all I'm saying.

-Can I also say I could teach you how

to put out a record worldwide and it be successful?

LOUD CHEERING

One second, please. One second.

False information coming from the second chair.

LAUGHTER

If we're going there, I can do it consecutively in every country on the planet.

I don't want to pull that out, but...hello.

WHOOPING

You know, I know everybody wants you on their team

but what I have to say is where I come from,

I am known as "The Voice". You know what I'm saying?

CHEERING

And this show is called The Voice so you come on my team, right?

And we can win this.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The best part about this is you have the artistic control.

You get the chance here to pick any of us.

CROWD CHANTS

I want someone who can help my voice progress.

Someone who can help me with my songwriting which I do a lot of.

Someone who can help me pursue the creative person I want to be.

And...the boys are great but I think this girl's for me.

CHEERING

-Yeah! Thank you.

-Thank you so much.

-Don't worry.

-I know, I know.

-Come on, let's go and high-five them together.

-Yeah, yeah.

-In your face!

-Thank you. It's an honour.

-Oh, in-your-face.

-All right, all right, all right!

-One more, one more.

-Oh! No, well done. Congratulations.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Jessie!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I think he didn't really know what he was doing.

I think he was faced with the batting lashes

and he went straight for it. That's the problem, it's like a black hole.

He'll get sucked in, he won't come back out again.

CHEERING

It was such a great moment.

The kind of moment I've been dreaming of my whole life.

The kind of moment I've always wanted and it did feel like a dream.

-Ben, did that really just happen?

-I don't know, you tell me!

It felt pretty cool to be picked over the other three coaches.

Female power.

So Jessie's on a roll bagging her third team member.

# Back to reality... #

Earlier Max Milner became the first member of Team Danny.

-So I'm going to go with Danny.

-Yeah!

But can his girlfriend, performer and dancer Twinnielee, match his success?

Especially when she knows looks count for nothing in a blind audition.

This is what I've always dreamt of.

In my industry, everything's kind of based on what you look like.

I'm quite excited for them just to hear my voice. And only my voice.

-Here she is, OK, this is it.

-This is my pretty baby.

# I can almost see it

CHEERING

# That dream I'm dreaming

# But there's a voice inside my head saying

# "You'll never reach it"

# The struggles I'm facing

# These chances I'm taking

# Sometimes may knock me down But no, I'm not breaking

# I...

# I'm gonna be strong

# Just keep pushing on, yeah

# Always gonna be another mountain

# Always gonna wanna make it move...#

Come on!

# Always gonna be an uphill battle CHEERING

# Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

# Ain't about how fast I get there

# Ain't about what's waiting on the other side... #

CHEERING

Oh, Danny, come on!

# Oooh aahhh

# Keep on moving, keep climbing Yeah, yeah... #

-Push, come on, push.

-You all right?

# It's all about It's all about the climb. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I knew I should've pressed the button. What's your name?

Twinnielee Moore.

Personally I didn't press my button

-just because I thought you were quite pitchy in places.

-Yeah.

I do think a lot of it was nerves, to be honest.

I felt like you didn't open up as much as I felt you could've done.

You need to own it. You know, you sang it really well.

But I didn't feel it. I didn't feel like you got inside it and...

You know, and made it your own. Nice, though.

-Thank you.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Cheers.

FRIENDS CLAP

-I felt it.

-Oh, it's all right.

I mean, I think my main focus was kind of on it all

so I probably should start focusing more on my singing

and I just totally agree with what they said.

Yeah, and everything they said was correct so I can't argue with that. It's fine.

-You must be so proud of her.

-Ridiculously. She's amazing.

-And now you know what you have to do, you've got to go and win it for her.

-Absolutely!

With four superstars to impress, you need top talent and big support

so Phil Poole has brought his biggest fan - his Nan.

My name's Phil, I'm 27 and I'm a delivery driver.

That involves driving all around the country.

Thousands of miles here, there and everywhere.

I'll put my own music on and many times I think customers have heard me singing

as I'm pulling up outside warehouses and they can hear me belting something out, yeah!

-How good a singer is he then?

-Brilliant.

-Do you think he'll do well today?

-He's been brilliant.

-Since he were at school, ain't you?

-OK, if you say so!

-How close are you guys?

-I'm so proud of him.

What makes you so proud of him?

Well, he's loving. Ain't ya?

-How well do you think he'll do?

-Good, I hope.

-Keep my fingers crossed.

-I'll do me best for ya.

'I do feel a bit of a fish out of water, I suppose.

'I've never auditioned for anything before,

'I've never put myself out there on such a scale.'

'I'm a delivery driver at the moment, but if I get a yes,'

there's going to be a chance to really take something forward

with singing, achieve something with it.

I'm not sure I've ever been this nervous before in my life.

# She's back in the atmosphere

# Drops of Jupiter in her hair

# Yeah. #

Yes!

# She acts like summer and walks like rain

# Reminds me that there's time to change, yeah

# Now that she's back in the atmosphere

# I'm afraid that she might think of me, yeah

# Plain old Jane told a story about a man who was too afraid to fly

# So he never did land

# Tell me, did the wind sweep you off your feet?

# Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?

# Head back to the Milky Way

# Tell me, did Venus blow your mind?

# Was it anything you wanted to find

# And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself?

# La la la la la-la. #

# Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day?

# Oh

# Did you fall on a shooting star?

# Fall on a shooting star

# Whoa. #

Come on!

# Did you fa-a-a-a-ll? #

-What's your name?

-My name's Phil.

-I'm from Leicester, delivery van driver.

-Delivery van driver?

Yes, indeed.

Thank you for singing for us,

and I didn't press my button because I wanted Danny to press his button.

Throws the blame over here again.

Seriously, I was like, "Danny, hit it, this guy is amazing,

"you could really help him to make your team a better team."

Thank you very much.

CHEERING

Unfortunately, we toured with Train over in America,

and I've heard that version and Pat Monahan singing it every night,

and he goes hell-for-leather on it with the emotion.

I was looking for that fire in my belly, and I didn't hear it.

Not to say it wasn't a great performance, it was,

but not enough for me to finally hit my button.

APPLAUSE

When you try to do a song like that, that is so well-known,

that you have to take it somewhere else.

I mean, you have the voice for it,

there's nothing wrong with your voice.

-That means a lot.

-You just need to take it to another place.

APPLAUSE

Thank you for coming along, it was great.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

It's OK.

Amazing. It was amazing.

As long as these people are proud of me, that's what matters to me.

Hey, come on. As long as I did you proud.

I know you done me proud, darling.

With one performance left to go, Tom, Jessie

and Danny's teams are taking shape.

But Will has yet to secure his first artist.

I'm not annoyed. I have a strategy

with what I'm doing here. Mwa-ha-ha!

Could our next artist become part of Will's masterplan?

My name's J Marie Cooper, I'm 27 years old.

Music's a huge part of my life.

My mum always heard me singing, so she decided to send me

to Saturday classes, because she realised how much I enjoyed it.

My mother passed away four years ago.

Since then, it's given me a drive to just really go for my career.

I've sang at weddings, birthday parties,

but the work isn't consistent enough, just dribs and drabs.

Last year I stood in for one of the singers on Strictly Come Dancing.

CHEERING

I haven't really done a gig ever as big as that,

so it was exciting for me.

The only sad thing about it was it was only a one-off.

What I really want now, especially without my mum around,

is to build a life for myself.

I'm singing Jessie J, Mama Knows Best for my audition.

I miss my mum, so today's performance will be for her.

# Whoa, there is something going down

# Like the storm in the sky

# I ain't gonna be played by your behaviour

# How can I trust someone who's lying to me?

# Mama knows best when times get hard

# And Papa always has a joke to make me laugh

# Mama knows best when I feel down

# To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground

# See, no, I ain't no old rag doll

# That you can pick up and drop

# Hey, and all of this inconsistent love

# I think it's time that it S-T-O stops

# So bow out, go

# Now I said bow out and leave

# I said, take your bags and go

# Cos you're not for me

# Mama knows best when times get hard

# Papa always has a joke to make me laugh

# Mama knows best when I feel down

# To bring me up and always keep my feet on solid ground, sing it

# Ye-e-e-e-e-e-eah. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That was insane.

Thank you, you're insane. Not insane, insane!

CHEERING

-I'm so nervous right now.

-Why The Voice?

Because I've been trying to do this for 10 years, I'm 27 now.

I love it and I want to share my gift with everyone.

CHEERING

-Your voice is re-donk-u-loso.

-What, re-donk-u-loso?

-Re-donk-u-loso.

-I love it.

I would write songs like that for you all day,

so be on my team, please.

CHEERING

There's lots of singers that can sing and do the runs

and flips and tricks.

-Not like that.

-I come from a gospel family.

I've seen all the flips in the world.

The power, really, was when you weren't flipping.

Bob Marley didn't do flips but you felt his pain.

I felt it from the first couple of notes.

I saw a pain, a love for the craft,

and that's why I turned around and think you're a star of an artist.

CHEERING

-For me, you were on fire.

-Thank you.

I was the last to turn around because I was listening.

-I wanted to hear the whole thing. It really was great.

-Thank you.

You kicked it.

Personally, I thought you killed it. It was amazing.

If you go on Jessie's team, you'd cancel each other out.

-You're that good. I'm just saying!

-AUDIENCE: No!

I think we're very different, the two of us.

-I think that would work very well together.

-Thanks for that.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Oh, gosh!

I'm stuck between you two guys at the moment. I don't know what to do.

-I'm just like...

-Am I number one right now?

Am I number one right now?

-Jessie J! Jessie J!

-This is the voice coming from above.

-So, Jessie J, she's hot right now.

-She is hot right now.