Britain's Got Talent 2012 - Auditions Official Thread

in my humble opinion she's stronger on the pop one

Jonny

Hey good luck to your daughter! I am doing musical theatre too :) 19 M from London :) Where is she hoping to audition this year ? x

I auditioned twice but never got through to the first producers, once with X Factor and BGT few year back. Trying again this year. I think the problem is, when you see people on TV everyone thinks its their first audition. So 80% of people who never been before think they are singing in front of the actual judges. 

both are good but the pop one is stronger vocally 

Good luck Paula!

Can you tell me, did you get a choice of audition date/time or were you just allocated it?

I'm only asking because my daughter has applied and is waiting to hear.

Thank you!

Hello, we got through to Britain's Got Talent and our audition is at Manchester Central Convention Complex at 16:00.

Laura and Megan xx

I was there that date at 1pm..have you heard anything? :)

I was there that date at 1pm..have you heard anything? :)

have you heard anything back yet 

Hi. I have me audition on 12/12/2011 thats next Monday at 1.30pm at the NEC in Birmingham.

ive got wed 13th in birmingham 

Same here, but since the Manchester auditions are this weekend, Cardiff next weekend, and Northern Ireland two weeks after that, it could be the week before the NI auditions but who knows. 

Hi. I have my audition on 12/12/2011 thats next Monday at 1.30pm at the NEC in Birmingham.

Yes!  I got a phone call followed by an email 24 hours later for the Manchester auditions.  I also got another one for the Blackpool auditions.  So...apply for more than one venue.  I thought that because I had been to Manchester I wouldnt get one at Blackpool, but it seems that there are probably too many people (50,000 auditions from what we were told at Manchester) applying for them to check out each person individually.  This way, you get more than one chance!  Go for it!

We queued outside for about two hours, upstairs and through holding room to registration room (and to collect your sticky numbers), then into holding room where you sit in allocated sections (you'll be allocated a section when you register).  (all the time they are filming you in the holding room wihtout you realising with different cameras). Our group (the 1pm lot) was then taken outside to film opening sequences waving and shouting to cameras on an overhead crane, and under the tunnels etc that we walked through.  This took a good hour out of the waiting time in the holding room - about two hours.  Then our section was called upstairs (about 10 of us) where we sat in a corridor and waited and then each went in in turn.  Inside there was a guy with a cd player (casting director) and a cameraman filming you. I think it's more of a timed thing rather than sing more than one song thing.  I was allowed to sing 2 verses and 2 choruses.  (I even started wrong and was allowed to restart!)  Then out and you get a paper telling you to expect news around February.  Then home!!  That's about it really! The whole of the holding room is done out with special lighting and cameras are filming you all the time.  There werent any filiming the queue but maybe they did that to a previous group!  all in all, long queues...but tons of fun!

Could be good but don't get your hopes up. Last year I was filmed in the holding room and the producer asked lots of questions and loved my performance (I play flute), but I didn't get called back. One thing I've learnt is not to read into anything. 

I have to agree with you about the forum, when my daughter auditioned the first time it was great for being able to find out what exactly went on and manage her expectations and everyone is really friendly.

I can only really tell you what we've found when Sophie's auditioned in the past. She's been 4 times now and never made it past the producers audition despite their surprise at how old she is and being asked twice to sing a second song. The way she looks at it being asked to sing another song has got to be a good thing but then after that it's back to the usual numbers game. She's realistic about that especially as she's now only just turned 16 and understands that there are loads of girls like her, not old enough to audition for X Factor, so once she comes out of the audition room takes the good feedback and moves onto the next thing.It's never let it put her off auditioning again for BGT after all someone has to get through.

Fingers crossed for you and if you've already impressed enough to be asked to sing another song then you're already closer than if they only let you sing a verse and a chorus and you must have something that the producer was interested in for them to want to see something else.

They say February so people don't call them up asking for news before that. In fact, I know from this forum in previous years that people are contacted earlier, and the auditions themselves take place in January.

If the same follows as previous years you'll hear before Christmas or the first week of the new year if you've got through. Quite often the under 16's are contacted fairly early on because of sorting our performance licences and from what I've read on here in the past it doesn't necessarily follow the order of the auditions either. I've heard of people auditioning in Liverpool being told before others in Manchester even though the Manchester auditions have taken place first.

Certainly sounds good.  I've never heard of anyone being recalled the following day.  If they want you on the Televised auditions I can't imagine they would discount you for not doing the extra filming. After all if they need more they can do it at the judges auditions.  Don't get your hopes up though.  I've learnt that it never goes as expected.

Sounds very promising, I haven't heard of anyone being called back so soon either and I can't imagine that they would hold it aganst you that you couldn't go the next day, there's never been anything in the contract you have to sign that says you have to be available the next day at all and if they were that interested to want to see you again I can't imagine that would suddenly change.

Good luck we'll keep our fingers crossed for you

Mandy

Do they film you individually at these auditions?

HAVE THEY TOLD YOU THAT YOU ARE ON THE SHORTLIST YET, I HAVE HEARD OF 2 ACTS WHO WERE AT EDINBURGH BEING TOLD THEY ARE ON THE SHORTLIST.

are you colin from kilmarnock i was sitting with the wife waiting to be filmed  what did you do they were wanting to film you the next day a can vouch for that but dont worry they wont hold it against you you have a weapon the killie pie that would put a sile on there face lol  

Hi Helen,

We've been for the last few years and so far the format has been pretty much the same. I hasten to add it isn't me that auditions :)

There seems to be no way to know how much they will let you sing sometimes though they will ask you to sing another song and Sophie got caught out the first time because she was so sure that all they wanted was a verse or chorus she couldn't think of another song that she knew. So be prepared just in case. If your song is longer that the time they are going to allow then they'll stop you so I wouldn't worry.

As for the rest of the experience always best to make sure you have something warm on, last year we queued outside for over 3 hours in the freezing cold but in previous years we've been straight inside. Take food and drink with you if you can because in the venues it is usually expensive and you usually end up waiting around for a long time.

Despite all that we have met some lovely people and had a great time getting to know people sharing stories etc. So far Sophie has auditioned 4 times this will be her 5th and she has never made it through to the judges. Everytime she has sung, with the exception of the first because she was just so nervous, she has had great feedback of the producer in the room but she has always understood that BGT is a numbers game. If anything the best advice I can give to anyone is enjoy the experience asnd no matter what the feedback is that you get in the audition room try not to get too hung up on waiting for the phone to ring. Some people on here tie themselves up in knots trying to second guess if they are going to get through. I know that's easier said than done, Sophie may only be 16 but somehow she manages to get through the audition accept the feedback and move onto the next thing, I find it much harder lol

Good luck and don;t forget to let us know how you get on

Mandy xx

Hi Helen

Good luck with your audition on Friday!  I'm going tomorrow (Thursday) in the afternoon!  Never auditioned for BGT before.  I am very nervous as at 42 yrs old, i may feel a bit past it!

Does anyone know if they give you a microphone to audition with, or do you just get to sing without one?  it would be interesting to know!

Also, my audition timeslot is 4pm, I wonder what time I'll be away for to catch a train home?

Good luck everyone! xx

Hi Helen

Good luck with your audition on Friday!  I'm going tomorrow (Thursday) in the afternoon!  Never auditioned for BGT before.  I am very nervous as at 42 yrs old, i may feel a bit past it!

Does anyone know if they give you a microphone to audition with, or do you just get to sing without one?  it would be interesting to know!

Also, my audition timeslot is 4pm, I wonder what time I'll be away for to catch a train home?

Good luck everyone! xx

Hi, Same Day For Me,

There Is A Producer There And After A Certain Ammount Of Time They May Stop You If It Is Long.

Yeah! I applied in october and they said the same to me but I haven't heard anything yet:( unless their just running behind but I'm getting nervous sense it's now November  and the auditions in Belfast are In 19 days ;O can you just go even if you haven't got an email in time?

There are no open auditions, you have to have been invited by phone or email. However I've always had the impression that as long as you apply before your venue is full, you'll get seen. I could be wrong though. Last year I didn't hear until well into November, because Cardiff was visited in December.  If your city is one of the later ones to be visited, that would explain why you haven't heard yet.

emails are now going out for these auditions

I had a phone call apparently, although they called my home number while I was at work and my landlord took the message.  I missed a call from an unknown number on my mobile so that might have been them I suppose.  Apparently they just said something about an email, so I imagine they were just checking that I had received the email about my audition.  See you tomorrow maybe.  I'll be the one with the flute.  What are you doing?

thanks for this, I put in an application for the liverpool auditions and i was just wondering if anyone else has and if so have you received a call or an email yet? Im just wanting to know because my friend who i'm auditioning with is getting a bit frantic!