Bigga Fish & vInspired present the 'Just Talent' tour

February – May 2013

London – Birmingham – Liverpool – Newcastle

Sheffield – Newport - Leeds – Manchester

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Visiting 8 cities across the UK, Bigga Fish's ‘Just Talent’ tour will seek out and shine a light on the best up and coming musical talent from around the UK, in association with vInspired and GRM Daily.

Not-for-profit events youth organisation, Bigga Fish, has been running for 12 years. It's objectives are to provide a performance platform for young creatives, and offer education in events and marketing management to young people across the country.

Launching the 'Just Talent' tour in 2013, the programme will begin in February holding open auditions (for 14-25 year olds) in 8 cities across the UK; London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Newport, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester. The auditions will give young people the chance to showcase their skills to a band of 4 industry judges comprising of booking agents, A&Rs, Marketing professionals and a representative from the Bigga Fish street team.

From the open auditions, 10 semi-finalists will be chosen in each city. Through profiles set up for each of them on the ‘Just Talent…’ website, each act will be given a fact sheet on PR and marketing and need to encourage people to vote for them.

These 80 semi-finalists will be invited to return and perform at a showcase event within their city in April, where a special guest performer will also take to the stage and regular Bigga Fish residents Jazzie and DJ Policy host proceedings in front of the 4 judges and a small audience. The judges will choose one overall winner per city, taking into account the voting that has taken place prior to the event.

The 8 finalists will be invited to attend a development weekend during May half-term where they will receive vocal coaching, take part in stage presence workshops, and rehearse with a live band. This will prepare them for the Grand Finale in London where the 8 finalists will perform to an audience of 500 people. The top 3 acts chosen by the judges will be rewarded with a great selection of industry prizes including studio time, a professional music video, a PR package and song-writing workshops.

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