Adam Tribute – Adam You Rock!

Adam’s performances on Canadian Idol and articles from his hometown newspaper ‘The Hamilton Spectator’ and one from ’The National Post’.

Adam’s first Audition for Canadian Idol

Adam Castelli – Canadian Idol Top 200 Show
Adam starts the Top 200 show off with a Rockin’ a rendition of a Ray Charles tune.

Adam Castelli Top 22 – Final Audition

Adam Castelli Canadian Idol – Top 24 Performance – “Mess Around”

Adam Castelli – “Gone till November” by Wyclef Jean

Adam Castelli – “If I Were A Carpenter”

Adam Castelli – Rebel, Rebel

Our Adam eliminated from Canadian Idol
The Hamilton Spectator
July 16, 2008

Castelli: perhaps too much the rebel
July 17, 2008
The Hamilton Spectator
“The St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School grad has been performing in bands since his teens and also does carpentry work for the family construction business, founded by his parents, George and Linda, and now run by his brother, Ryan.”

Canadian Idol: One-on-One with Adam Castelli
July 17, 2008

I had high hopes for you Adam, I also thought you had better taste. Amberly is your pick for Canadian Idol?! Tell me, does she sound better live or something?…because it certainly isn’t translating through to my TV.

Next Week the Top 9 competitors perform on Rock ‘n Roll Heaven week! Season five Idol runner-up Jaydee Bixby will perform on the July 22 results show.

So long Adam, we’ll miss you.

Adam Castelli was voted off tonight. I knew he wouldn’t make it to the top five, even though he’s probably my personal favourite. It’s so unfair, he finally puts in the performance all of his fans knew he could, with the entrance to end all Canadian Idol entrances, and he gets voted off. If he was going to be voted off in favour of Mark Day, and Amberly and Mitch (who even giving his best performance by far was still BO-RING) it should have been last week for his uninspiring performance of “If I Was a Carpenter.”

This brings me to my personal pet-peeve of the moment, “worsters.” For those of you unfamiliar with the term, these are the people who “vote for the worst,” this season the designated worst being Mark Day, as a kind of joke on the producers and viewers of Canadian Idol. This is what passes for humour with these people, watch an hour and a half of a show you profess to hate in order to obtain the number to vote for a bad singer so that this person will continue to progress and the show will be made to look stupid. Of course, the producers are having the last laugh as they’re paid by advertisers based on the number of people watching the show (or more importantly the commercials) whether it is to laugh at the show or to actually enjoy it doesn‘t affect their revenue. That’s right “worsters,” your doing exactly what CTV and Canadian Idol want you to do, watch and vote, they don’t care why or what-for. But more importantly, why do this? Why ruin others people’s harmless fun? I personally hate hockey (and most professional sports) but I don’t have a website that advocates people buy tickets only for the worst teams so that the league is made to “look stupid” or that people throw rock-salt on the ice in order to disrupt the proper progression of the game. Why not you ask? Because other people’s innocent fun is their business and not mine. I don’t enjoy hockey so I don’t watch it, I don’t destroy someone else’s wholesome fun.

So, “worsters,” (many of whom I am sure are probably laughing as you read this ‘cause you’ve irritated some fans of an admittedly un-cool but nonetheless fun show), you need to get lives and ignore an otherwise inoffensive summer distraction if you do not enjoy it. If you are pressed for summer fun you’re going to have to get back to the bear-baiting, all midget mud-wrestling or finger-painting you used to fill your time with.