Live and Unsigned is a national music competition for unsigned bands and singers to perform live. With over 10,000 registrations in 2007 it is the biggest music talent search outside that certain ITV TV show. The difference with Live and Unsigned is that acts taking part are encouraged to do their own thing; be individual, original, perform their own genre and style Live. The competition’s aim is to find potential recording artists.

Enter Live and Unsigned 2008 to be the best female solo artist, best male artist, best vocal group or the UK’s best Live and Unsigned band of 2008 and win the opportunity to become the overall competition winner and win a recording and Management contract with up to £20,000 investment to release your single with Future Music.

All winners will have the opportunity to the tour with up to 100 gigs across the UK including some well known festivals. The 2007 competition was also broadcast on ITV (see ITV coverage option from Competition button).

Live and Unsigned is a competition that not only finds talent, but to give opportunities and exposure to bands, groups and singers. The competition offers the competitors the opportunity to perform live to large audiences and development throughout as the competition progresses if competitors so wish. The latter stages of the competition provide competitors with the opportunity to impress the judges and many guests from record labels, agencies and the entertainment industry.

To enter Live and Unsigned click additional info to submit your entry.

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The age categories for the competition are under 18 and 18 & over (adults). Your age on the 31st January 2008 will determine your age category. Groups and bands with members in both age categories enter the age category that the majority of members of the group or band are in. Under 18’s the minimum age is 5 and those who are under 16 will have to be accompanied by an adult to the open auditions. Thereafter if successful under 16’s will have to be accompanied by an adult at all further rounds of the competition and be responsible for them at all times.

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Auditions for the 2008 competition will be in the following places;

Sunday 2nd December 2007 Manchester; Platinum suite, The Willows Variety Centre, Willows Road, Salford M5 5FQ www.thewillowsonline.co.uk

Sunday 9th December 2007 Southampton; Southampton Park Hotel, Cumberland Place, Southampton SO15 2WY www.southamptonparkhotel.com

Saturday 15th December 2007 Guildford; Princes Hall, Princes Way, Aldershot GU11 1NX www.princeshall.com

Saturday 26th January 2008 Birmingham; Wulfrun Hall, North Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1RQ www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Sunday 27th January 2008 Newcastle; The Journal Tyne Theatre Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4AG www.thejournaltynetheatre.co.uk

Saturday 2nd February 2008 London; Ashcroft Room, Fairfield Halls, Park lane, Croydon, London CR9 1DG www.fairfield.co.uk

Sunday 3rd February 2008 Portsmouth; South Parade Pier, Southsea, Portsmouth PO4 0SW www.southparadepier.com

Saturday 9th February 2008 Sheffield; Montgomery Theatre, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 2LG www.britinfo.net/T/1004883.htm

Sunday 10th February 2008 Brighton; Shelley Room, Thistle Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton BN1 2GS

Saturday 16th February 2008 Bristol; St George's Bristol, Great George Street, Off Park Street, Bristol BS1 5RR http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/

Times:
10am Under 18 Bands & Vocal groups

11am Under 18 Male solo acts

12am Under 18 Female solo acts

1.30pm 18 & over Bands & Vocal groups

3.30pm 18 & over Male solo acts

4.30pm 18 & over Female solo acts

Please arrive 30 minutes before your allocated time and no earlier.

To enter Live and Unsigned 2008 submit your entry to guarantee your audition.


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Enter Live and Unsigned now by completing the form on the Live & Unsinged website and then forwarding a text with the word UNSIGNED to 88222 followed by your FULL NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS e.g. Unsigned (space) JOE BLOGGS (space) JOEBLOGGS@HOTMAIL.COM.

To guarantee an audition at the early bird price of only £3 (plus your standard network rate, thereafter you will receive two texts to confirm your registration).

This small audition fee is foremost as we only want people that are serious about their music applying for this competition and no time wasters, this we believe shows intent.
Having this fee will also help us to plan and organise the auditions better as places are limited.

See additional info to enter now.

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For the 2007 competition ITV commissioned a short series of programmes which proved to be great exposure for the bands, singers and competition.

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Mark has been able to retain public anonymity whilst successfully raising his professional profile, but, the winner of four prestigious Ivor Navello's concedes the time has come to put Mark Hill on the map.

Mark co-founded Artful Dodger in the late Nineties producing hit tracks such as 'Rewind', 'Woman Trouble' and 'Moving Too Fast'. He nurtured the fifteen year old Craig David, writing and producing Craig's hit Album, the massive multi-award winning and critically acclaimed 'Born To Do It'. Such was the huge success of their writing partnership that Wildstar (Craig's label) approached Mark to co-write and produce most of Craig's current album 'The Story Goes'.

Mark has worked with some of the biggest names on the scene including J Lo, Cristina Milian, Awa, Lemar, Corinne Bailey Rae and Liberty X, but one of his proudest experiences was working with fellow countryman and global legend Tom Jones.

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After training at The Central School of Ballet under the tuition of the late and great Christopher Gable, Tim went on to study for a further two years at The London Studio Centre. In 1994 he successfully gained a part in the original West End production of “Grease the Musical” at the Dominion Theatre.

He remained a cast member playing the role of “Johnny Casino” also making appearances as “Kenickie” and “Sonny” for the following four years, until being invited to join the production of “Starlight Express” at the Victoria Apollo Theatre in 1998.

In the year 2000 Tim was thrilled to obtain a place as a dancer within the Kylie Minogue camp and has since acted as her Dance Captain for the last five years, spanning her four hit albums.

Tim wrote, choreographed and presented the hit T.V. series, “A Chance to Dance” and since that time under the banner of his new company, PURE STAR PRODUCTIONS has developed formats for both U.K. and International broadcasters. He was recently dance Mentor/Choreographer for Pop Idol in Holland, choreographer for the Dutch band “Treble” in the Eurovision Song competition and will be judge and performance mentor for the forthcoming Dutch X-Factor T.V. series.

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Paul King has been an artist manager for more than 25 years.

Paul’s management career started when he was persuaded to help manage The Teardrop Explodes in the early eighties. As Julian Cope went solo, Paul helped Julian become an enormously credible solo artist. Julian enjoyed immense artistic control to the point of having a lucrative record deal with Island Records and being able to release some of his material on his own independent label at the same time! Two of Julian’s greatest fans were Curt and Roland from Tears For Fears. At their request, Paul became their manager just before the release of Mad World, which went straight to number 3 in the UK charts. 20 years on Mad World was the first UK number one for 2004. Songwriters take note.

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Bowers started out with the R&B boyband, Another Level, and went on to collaborate with True Steppers and Victoria Beckham. He also had a much publicised relationship with the glamour model, Jordan.

Dane anchored the R&B quartet Another Level. They had seven Top Ten singles in two years in the UK, including 1998's UK Number One "Freak Me"; and a platinum selling, self-titled debut album. 1999's Gold-selling Nexus followed, along with BRIT Awards nominations and the opening slot on Janet Jacksons European tour.

After the group split, Bowers wrote and fronted two UK Top Ten hits, for the UK Garage act Truesteppers in 2000, "Buggin'" and "Out Of Your Mind". The latter featured the first solo outing of Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham."Out Of Your Mind" reached number two, but was beaten to the Number one spot in a highly publicised "chart battle" by Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor with "Groovejet (If this aint love)".

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Things you need to know about Liz McClarnon…she loves her piano, she loves her mum and she loves cheese and broccoli soup. Another thing you might want to bear in mind – she’s about to hit the big time… big time! Since Atomic Kitten took a break, Liz has been on one big roller coaster ride of adventures, taking her from Liverpool to London, Los Angeles to New York and onto TV most famous deserted island, ITV’s ‘Celebrity Love Island’ in Fiji, where Liz became the show’s most popular star.

She has effortlessly made the leap from starlet to superstar, she’s been schmoozed by Hollywood hotshots, partied with pop royalty and recorded with the most sought after writers and producers in the world including with the legendary Robin Gibb on her recent single Woman in Love an amazing experience and one which she thoroughly enjoyed.

Among other new friends Liz speaks of are some clever chaps who write songs for the likes of Dido, Madonna, Cher, John Legend, Kylie and The Black Eyed Peas. In fact, on first meeting Liz, they decided they liked her so much they’d offer to co-write some songs with her. The result? Well, it’s genius of course! Picking up where the Kittens left off, Liz is ready to present you a smorgasbord of pop perfection. A smattering of all things great music should be, fun, sometimes poignant sometimes upbeat but above all very, very good.

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