Britain's Got Talent heading to Stornoway

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The nation’s favourite talent show, Britain’s Got Talent, is coming to the Western Isles this month.

The show is holding two sets of auditions when it visits Stornoway from Friday 31st October to Saturday 1st November.

There will be an open mike night over over eighteens in Era nightclub on the Friday night.

Between 12 noon and 4pm the following day, auditions will be held in the Bridge Centre, Bayhead, Stornoway. The producer is willing to extend the closing time if there is local demand.

The show is open to any performer of any age, from any background, with any talent - all they need is a skill and star quality which they think will impress. Anything goes from comedians to contortionists, dancers to drag acts and acrobats to animals.

Anyone who thinks they have the talent to follow in the footsteps of previous finalists should take a chance and come to one of the Stornoway auditions .

Executive Producer, Amelia Brown, told Hebrides News: “We can’t wait to see the talent that Stornoway has to offer.”

She added: “Britain’s Got Talent has an amazing record of celebrating amazing talent and changing people’s lives – from Susan Boyle and Diversity through to Paul Potts, Ashleigh and Pudsey and this year’s winners Collabro. They all took a chance and applied for the show and that’s what we want the people to do this year.

The Stornoway auditions will run in tandem with the open audition tour which is visiting larger cities across the UK.

This year’s Britain’s Got Talent winners, musical theatre boy band Collabro, who were crowned in front of an audience of 13 million viewers at home, have gone on to amazing success having secured a No.1 hit with their debut album Stars. The band will also be touring next year alongside fellow 2014 finalist Lucy Kay, who is set to release her debut album Fantasia this month.

Other success stories from this series include musical duo Bars & Melody whose single, Hopeful reached number 5 in the chart in July, and swing band Jack Pack, who have recently signed a deal to release their debut album in 2015.

To date Susan Boyle has sold over 23 million records worldwide, Diversity have had five sell-out nationwide tours, Paul Potts, who has sold 27 platinum records worldwide and Ashleigh and Pudsey stared in their own movie earlier this year.

Britain’s Got Talent returns to ITV in 2015.

Simon Cowell and Collabro

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