The Voice UK (2012–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - Blind Auditions 1 - full transcript

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.

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.

♪ I got a feeling

♪ 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. ♪

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.'

'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!

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.

'This is their moment.'

'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.

♪ 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... ♪

What's your name?

Mary Jessica Hammond.

How old are you? 17.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Beautiful, beautiful.

Um...

I'm going to go with Jessie.

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

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

♪ We just want to make
the world... ♪

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... ♪

♪ 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... ♪

♪ 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. ♪

Thank you.

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!

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.

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?

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!

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... ♪

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... ♪

♪ 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! ♪

Oh! Oh!

Oh my God!

Yes!

Ohhh!

Sorry, I'm a bit hysterical!

What's your name?

My name's Samuel Buttery.

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

I am really, really happy
you turned round.

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!

Aw!

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

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...

I am just so happy
you turned around.

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.

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.

Come down, come down.

Lovely to see you. Thank you.

Don't worry, good luck.

Ah!

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!

♪ 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!

That dude has knowledge! What?!

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

I slackened off a bit
in 1970, but hey!

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.

Come here often? 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

♪ 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. ♪

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!

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.

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.

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

teach me something.

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.

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

I mean, you are a real, REAL singer.

You sound fantastic!

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!

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.

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!

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! ♪

So what's your name?

I'm Aundrea Nyle.

Why The Voice?
Cos you couldn't see me!

Aaw.

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

I just wanted you to see
all of this afterwards!

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... ♪

'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".'

♪ 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. ♪

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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,

"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."

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

OK.

Thank you very much, both of you.

It's amazing.

I think...will.i.am.

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.

♪ A little less conversation

♪ A little more action, please

♪ All this aggravation
ain't satisfying me. ♪

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... ♪

♪ 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. ♪

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.

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.

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.

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?

No! Can I just say,

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

I know how it is "right now"!

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

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.

Come on!!

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!

Oh! Come here.

Give it up, come on!

Smokin'!

Oh, that made my whole day,
that did.

A-ha!
- 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.

Max picked me,

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

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

♪ Zero hour, nine AM

♪ And I'm gonna be high

♪ As a kite by then

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

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
Yeah!

♪ And it'll be a lo-o-ong time. ♪

Thank you.

What's your name?
My name is Ben Kelly.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

In fairness...

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?

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?

One second, please. One second.

False information coming
from the second chair.

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.

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?

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

And we can win this.

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

You get the chance here to pick
any of us.

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.

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.

We love you, Jessie!

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.

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

♪ 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

♪ 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... ♪

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. ♪

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.
Cheers.

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.

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.

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.

Thank you for coming along,
it was great.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

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.

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. ♪

That was insane.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!
- No!

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

I think that would work very well
together. Thanks for that.

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.

She's hot, current, right now. Oooh!

And that's great. Ooooh!

I remember the first time
we had success, and the second time,

third time, fourth time, fifth time,
sixth time, seventh time.

The thing that's making me stuck
here is the fact you were saying
about pain.

I'm not trying to be dramatic
or anything like that,

but I like someone that can feel
that inner voice.

Believe me,
that's why I wrote the song.

Erm...

I think... I'm going to cry
if you don't pick me.

Oh, my gosh! This is so hard.

Flip the whole thing on its head
and go with Team Dan.

I will fight for you.

Erm, oh, man...

Come on! Come on!

OK, this is probably
going to surprise people

but I'm going with Will
because he turned round first.

Oh, I really wanted her.
It's on, now. Argh!

Temper, temper!

Ooh!

So, after a night
of hard-fought competition,

the coaches' battle to build
their teams has begun.

Tom has three artists.

Jessie has also secured three.

I didn't start this show
thinking I'd be competitive,

but I'm feeling a little burn
in my stomach.

Danny has one artist.

Will matches him with one artist.

I already know what I got,
and I know what I need.

Then I'm going to get what I want.

Next week,
the blind auditions continue.

More incredible artists fight
for their place in the competition.

You're going to beat these people.

As the battle to build their teams
intensifies,

the coaches go all out to win.

I can do it consecutively in every
country on the planet.

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

Everybody's in it to win it.

Pick me!