Lazily copied & pasted from the press release:
Birmingham City Council has launched an ‘X Factor’ style hunt to find the city’s top undiscovered talent, offering them a chance to perform in front of many of the city’s most influential creative industry and media figures.
Entertainers of all genres, whether magicians, dancers, circus acts, singers, groups or comedians, are being invited to take part, with the winner claiming an exclusive performance spot at the 2008 Creative
City Awards Ceremony, being held on November 29th at the ICCAuditions will be held at The Custard Factory at the end of October. The successful candidates will be judged by the creative and events teams behind the Creative City Awards.
For more information, or to enter the competition, please send a short e-mail introducing yourself and your act to ed.king@bcguk.com, or alternatively call Ed at BIG CAT Group on (0121) 200 0910.
Thoughts? Anyone going to have a go?
**UPDATE** – actually, from the looks of the comment by Ed below, it looks like this isn’t happening. Or something’s happening but in a different format.
Thoughts? Sounds horrible, like all talent shows.
Maybe I should go with my uke and do a CIB report!???
Frankie – how about a bit of “when I’m cleaning windows?”
Just had hopefully a useful chat with Ed at Big Cat and presented one or two other ways of going about this. Ideally this won’t go any further.It hasn’t gone out to press yet so no damage done so far, other than spoiling a Tuesday morning for some of us…
Phew, thanks John. For a moment that I thought we were about to experience something toe curling and crass.
Hey all, thanks for your feedback on our comp. Especially John, very useful chat sir.
The offending release has been recoiled and amended. It had not been taken to any media and didn’t really represent what we were after. Your initial feedback has pointed out why this was the wrong approach. Much better to come form you all so again thank you.
The idea of the promotion was to open up a profile performance spot at the ceremony to get some really creative ideas to excite the crowd at the reception. The winners here would not be on the event programme but would be part of the pre show entertainment. John and I have talked through a few ideas, one in particular, and there are some really exciting prospects out there.
Please, please, please forget the letter X and the word Factor. A total misrepresentation and not how we want to position the ceremony.
As always, if any of you want to contact me about this the bat phone is always open (0121) 200 0910.
Thanks again, Ed
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