Ci6 Top8 Part1 Sebastian Pigott Canadian idol 6
Ci6 Top8 Part2 Earl Stevenson Canadian idol 6
Ci6 Top8 Part3 Amberly Marc Mitch Canadian idol 6
Ci6 Top8 Part4 Mookie Morris Canadian idol 6
Ci6 Top8 Part5 Drew Wright Canadian idol 6
Ci6 Top8 Part6 Theo Tams Canadian idol 6
Video courtesy of igrecman.
Idol announces musical guests
Canadian Idol announced another exciting line-up of musical guests this summer.
Gavin Rossdale – ‘Unplugged’ week
Tom Jones – ‘Best of Britian’ week
Simple Plan – ‘Canadian Rock’ week
Bryan Adams – Competitors perform selections from the Bryan Adams songbook
Anne Murray
More guests will be announced in the coming weeks.
Canadian Idol 2008 : Episode 616 : Touring the Idol Mansion Video
Get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of the Top 10’s new digs!
Tams Safe in Canadian Idol’s Top 8
- Location: Students’ Union Ballrooms, 3rd level, Students’ Union building, University of Lethbridge
- Free admission
- Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
NOTE: Guests are encouraged to bring signs and be prepared to scream and yell for Theo’s efforts to be the next Canadian Idol.
Mookie’s Mom Takes It To The Streets
“Election-style signs urging people to “Vote Mookie Canadian Idol” have started popping up on the lush and exclusive lawns of Rosedale in the last few days.”
“The signs are part of Mookie Morris’s Mom’s campaign in favour of her son, one of the final nine contestants on this season’s Canadian Idol. According to the Globe, her campaign includes placing signs in store windows and driving the Mookiemobile—the family’s minivan adorned with “Vote Mookie” stickers—around the town. And, by our count this morning, at least a half-dozen lawns in Rosedale are participating in Mookie Madness. The signs have also been spotted across the Don Valley in Leaside.”
My mom can get more votes than your mom – Globe and Mail article
DAVE MCGINN
July 19, 2008
Mookie locks up the cool category
Toronto’s own Mookie Morris rocks Idol judges
Jul 21, 2008 (The Toronto Star)
I don’t understand why everyone keeps mentioning that “The Man Who Sold the World” as a little-known song, that’s ridiculous! Nirvana made that song even bigger (than Bowie) in the 90’s. It was huge!
All video courtesy of igrecman.
Top 9 Eliminations
Katherine was eliminated this week.
Ci6 Top9 Part1 Theo Tams Canadian Idol 6
Ci6 Top9 Part2 Mitch Earl Stevenson Macdonald Canadian Idol
Ci6 Top9 Part3 Sebastian Katherine Drew
Ci6 Top9 Part4 Mookie Morris Canadian Idol 6
Ci6 Top9 Part5 Amberly Thiessen Canadian Idol 6
Ci6 Top9 Part6 Mark Day Canadian Idol 6
Video courtesy of igrecman.
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”
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.
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.
Theo Tams – Silly Boy Blue
I didn’t recognize this Bowie song, but it was a good choice for Theo. He is so talented, and his voice is so suited to this song (I was really wondering song what he would choose). He totally proves again that he is quite a talented musician with this song choice.
Adam Castelli – Rebel Rebel
What an entrance!…very cool (and a bit crazy too!). This is one Bowie song that just completely suits him, great song choice Adam!
Sebastian Pigott – Let’s Spend the Night Together
Just terrible. I was really hoping for ‘China Girl‘, ‘Blue Jean’ or even ‘Jean Genie‘. Very disappointing performance from him. Is he just trying to get voted off now that his brother is gone?
Earl Stevenson – Rock n’ Roll Suicide
This is similar to his performance last week, but I would like to see more performances similar to ‘All Along the Watchtower‘(which I loved).
Amberly Thiessen – Space Oddity
What was she thinking? Zack seems to be quite stuck on her, I think he would even stick up for her if she had done something like Under Pressure.
She isn’t memorable and should ONLY sing Norah Jones. I’d like to see her sing “Sunrise” by Norah Jones, if she could handle that one, then maybe I might actually vote for her.
Drew Wright – Five Years
Good drummer, bad singer. Seriously, I just don’t get it. What does everyone see in this guy?
Mookie Morris – The Man Who Sold The World (Nirvana version)
Very cool song, I think he’ll get by on his cool factor. He was lacking a little vocally but this is still a good choice for him. He wanted to show the judges that he could do a song without the Mookie dance.
Katherine St-Laurent – Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
Well, it looks like she’ll be back next week, 80’s rocker Katherine. Such a great choice for her.
Mitch MacDonald – Moonage Daydream
So boring as usual. Please finally take this guy off the show.
Mark Day – Dancing in the Street
I was hoping for a great (hilarious) show from this guy…I was thinking he might come out dressed ‘in drag’ in some totally outrageous outfit and start into ‘Space Oddity’, or ‘Scary Monsters’ dressed in a Monster outfit. That would make my day, I may have HAD to vote for him just to see what he’d come up with for next week.
Poor guy, I really do feel bad for him when I watch his performances, he really does seem to believe that people think he’s talented. I didn’t think he could top last week’s terrible ’Against All Odds’ performance (which just has to prove that he thinks he can sing), but this week the dancing in ‘Dancing in the Street’ topped it off. Please Canada, put this poor guy out of his (and OUR) misery.
Links to the Top 10 performances, I’m just writing my Top 10 show review and I’m hoping to get it up here soon.
CI6 Top10 Part1 Drew wright Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part2 Adam Castelli Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part3 Mookie Morris Mark Day Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part4 Amberly Thiessen Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part5 Sebastian Pigott Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part6 Earl Stevenson Katherine St-Laurent
CI6 Top10 Part7 Theo Tams Canadian idol 6
CI6 Top10 Part8 Mitch MacDonald Canadian idol 6
Plus, a bonus video ‘Wierdest Canadian Idol Audition’
Hilarious! Either staged or the judges were really ready for a break.
All video courtesy of http://www.dailymotion.com/igrecman
Here’s a video of Earl and his band in the studio:
http://www.borderrock.com/8Gallery/VideoGallery/tabid/64/VideoId/8/Earl-In-Studio.aspx
“Lloydminster’s own Earl Stevenson stopped by the studios to talk about his experience with Canadian Idol so far, and perform a song with “The Earlybirds”.
Earl from Idol
So, you watched local boy Earl Stevenson on Canadian Idol on Monday night and heard his rendition of All Along The Watchtower? You only heard the half of it! Earl and his band “The Earlybirds” stopped by The Goat studios a couple weeks back for an interview, and while here they recorded around a dozen songs in what our producers are calling “Studio 106″.
Here’s the full mix of All Along The Watchtower. Tell your friends, and vote for Earl!
A life of music for Lethbridge’s Top 24 Idol hope, Theo Tams
A couple of exerpts from the article:
“Lethbridge’s Theo Tams is definitely a unique soul, born and raised in and around Lethbridge. This young man has been trained to sing opera of all things.”
“The university student, who spent four months in India volunteering at an orphanage, cites Mother Teresa as a role model in his life.
“The first two weeks in India was horrible, I’d never seen that poverty,” said Tams. “But one of my last days there, I got to go to the convent that Mother Teresa stayed at and I got to read through some of her journals . . . it was an amazing experience.”"
