Well, yes….but that’s hardly the point.
We’re 3 weeks into the new series of Britains Got Talent and the whole world knows who Susan Boyle is following her 25 trillion You Tube hits, but the group that caught my attention last night was one cruelly treated by the judges, and given only scant airtime: The Synth Sisters
For those that missed it, The Synth Sisters are an all-female keyboard troupe who attempted to bontempi their way onto the bill of The Royal Variety Performance with a display of synchronised, instrumental music. By way of spectacle they occasionally engaged in some vaguely disinterested ‘one-hand-in-the-air’ keyboard moves, whilst not a single one of them looked up from their keyboards towards the audience. It was pretty piss-poor, but somehow compelling, and worth a place in the next round.
If you’ve seen the movie Donnie Darko, imagine what might have happened had when the members of Sparkle Magic hit their teenage years, lost interest and only stayed together in the regional entertainment business to please their parents. Talking of which, there is only one video online at the moment and it appears to have been uploaded by one of the Synth Moms, and it looks to have been recorded by pointing a video camera at the telly. Without the sound on.
When a better one appears online, and it will, I’ll post it here. In the meantime….behold:
UPDATE: Thanks to Sasha for providing the following link to a better video. Unfortunately, the poster has disabled the embed function – so you’ll need to CLICK to view.
Tagged: Britains Got Talent, Donnie Darko, Sparkle Magic, Susan Boyle, Synth Sisters
14 Comments
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS SO FUNNY
ITS NOT HER MUM THAT UPLOADED IT, IT WAS JESS, ONE OF ALICES MATES. (ALICE IS THE ONE WITH THE BLONDE HAIR) IM ONE OF HER MATES ASWELL PMSL.
Thanks for pointing that out, Laura, and apologies to Synth Moms everywhere.
Please let us know if and when The Synth Sisters make any further appearances on You Tube, or elsewhere online.
There’s a better quality video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTdWpON_Ktc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqU1CuWTK88
I would have liked to hear more – I love that tune and it sounded great. They should have been given more of a chance.
Thank you, Shasha!
I’ll amend the post later to include the better videos.
Can i Just say as a member of the synth sisters, we went on BGT to try and show simon cowell how good keyboards can be if he gave them a chance. There was a number of different sounds in the song which unfortunately we didn’t get to play. We were given a second chance to start again but they stopped us in exactly the same place. The song wasn’t meant to sound like we were all amazing because it was a peice that worked together with 3 different parts and as you can imagine 10 people to 3 parts which was hard enough to get the right sounds. But we were all proud that we got through just one round becasue it took us many weeks and alot of planning and we really appreciate the fact we had the oppurtunity to try and perform.
thankyou for all the people that did enjoy the only 20 seconds
Thank you, Synth Sister!
I’m glad you had fun on BGT and wish you all the best. If ever you put any more videos online, please let us know.
I know it sounds like I was taking the mickey (and to be fair, I was…. a little bit), but I do think you deserved to get another shot in the 2nd round and genuinely wish you all well, and hope you stick at it.
As AC/DC said, ‘It’s a long way to the top if you wanna Rock n Roll’.
Perhaps this song could go into your set?
lol at danii blonde curly hair
HAHAHA!!! RYANS BIRD (alicia) and georgia love hahaha gutted idiots
can i just ask who looks up? its very hard coz u cant see wich notes ur playing. please answer the question and i will apologise. . . hehe
Loz & Calum – Please refrain from making personal attacks on here. Thanks.
Anon – Lots of piano and keyboard players look up at the audience when they play – Go to You Tube and look for Carole King or Elton John. Or Billy Preston, Brian Auger or Jerry Lee Lewi and also look up Stevie Wonder: he couldn’t look at his keyboard even if he tried.
Sorry, yes these ppl do look up, but they’re singers and they’ve been playing for years and years. . .
and i already knew, stevie wonder is blind, my mum has a blind friend that can play piano
Well, anon, keep at it and one day you’ll be able to play AND look up.
lol