THE DAILY MOJO by Adam Daniel

I’m back! I’ve been a bit lazy on the blogging side of things this week, with work and a new writing project preoccupying my mind. But I thought I should put a bow on my Idol blogging for the year. A belated congratulations to Wes Carr on his Australian Idol victory. I was planning to [...]

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Last night’s Australian Idol ep began with the thankfully-not-prolonged verdict. G reminds us that to not make the Final 2 is going to be “devastating” for whomever misses out. He also shares with us that “no matter what happens from now on, you are already winners.” Except for the loser who gets booted tonight, of [...]

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And then there were three! Last week Teale was finally taken down by the snipers leaving three talented remaining artists. Last night’s Australian Idol was the biggest of the season for those three… one is leaving tonight and, going by recent results, the opportunity for either of the remaining two to win will be wide [...]

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You may have noticed I didn’t post about the Final 5 Verdict Show, the result of which was the departure of Chrislyn Hamilton. My reaction: Yes! Finally! So now we have an all-XY-chromosome Final 4, with only one weak performer to cull to make a very talented final 3 (cough*Teale*cough). So let’s do a quick [...]

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It’s Michael Jackson week on Idol as the field really starts to narrow. Tonight’s special guest: Jermaine Jackson, Michael’s older brother and member of the Jackson 5. The night starts with the first group performance in a while – thought we might have escaped more of these wince-inducing “productions” for the remainder of the season. [...]

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I left my last Idol posts with the bad feeling that Roshani was going to be in trouble after Stones week… Bottom three in this week’s verdict: Luke, Teale, and….. Roshani. Uh oh. My brief feelings on their second chance performances? Luke is least deserving to be booted. Very strong performance. Teale doesn’t seem to [...]

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And then there were six…. Last night’s The Rolling Stones show was pretty damn good overall. The Usual Suspects (Wes, Mark) were standouts, but everyone was batting a pretty high percentage. Thanks to some improvements to the official Australian Idol page, I can now embed clips straight into the blog, so enjoy (and a big [...]

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Better late than never, my rundown of the Final 7 Verdict show from Monday: Here’s the voting results: Luke, Chrislyn, Wes are safe. Teale is in the bottom 3, as is Sophie. It comes down to Roshani and Mark, and Roshani is safe. Wow. It definitely wasn’t Mark’s genre, and I guess someone had to [...]

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Here’s my thoughts on last night’s Motown night: Mark Spano Mark’s working the choreography extra hard tonight with his version of ‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’. The song as a whole is pretty good; a little camp but the judges all respond positively. Speaking of judges, tonight they welcome back Guy Sebastian as a guest [...]

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N.B. With the aforementioned wedding, I missed the show as a whole and had to watch the performances via the great official Australian Idol website. So I missed the judge’s reactions and the addition of the INXS guys to the panel unfortunately. Here’s my thoughts anyway. Luke Dickens Starts the night off well with a [...]

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