08/03/12….Thame talent shines in UK’s biggest original music competition!
A YOUNG singer-guitar player from Thame, has wowed the judging panel of the UK?s biggest original music competition and sailed through the audition stage of Live and Unsigned.
Samantha Jayne, (better know to Music In The Park fans as Samantha Hoare) will be competing against the most talented bands and artists in the country at the Regional Final Showcase of Live and Unsigned 2012 on April 15 ? all in a bid to make the Grand Final at The O2!
Samantha Jayne battled against hundreds of auditionees to secure a spot in the live shows. Acts that made it through auditions will now take part in a live Regional Final Showcase in front of hundreds of spectators. The best acts will also get the opportunity to play at some of the biggest festivals in the UK from over 100 Festival slots including Beach Break Live, Boardmasters, Bearded Theory, Strawberry Fields and Osfest. This year?s competition also offers acts an extra chance for exposure as being filmed for broadcasting on the Sky TV Network in an exclusive fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Sam told ThameNews.Net: “I’m an acoustic singer and guitarist; I am seventeen years old, and I go to Lord Williams’ Sixth Form. Under performances, I go by Samantha Jayne, simply because I prefer it to Samantha Hoare, but I’m ususally referred to as Sam by most people.
“I write a lot of my own music, and when I cover things, I specialise in taking very overproduced songs and turning them into something more acoustic. Either that, or I do songs that I just love. I’m influenced by artists like KT Tunstall, Florence + the Machine and Ed Sheeran, and I love every kind of music from heavy rock to soul. I’d say my genre was acoustic overall.
“I play a lot of things at school, having won Singer of the Year (school singing competition) in 2010. I played at Music In The Park last year, and hope to again this year, and played at the Thame Food Festival in September. I also did Thame’s Got Talent last year, and as a more trivial fact, I have a habit of dying my hair insane colours, and it pretty much changes all the time !
“I generally just love all music, and I’m trying to raise as much support as I can for Live & Unsigned. The thing itself in on 15th April, in Sub89 in Reading, at 12:15pm, and the tickets are
