Author: Chris North

Jamie Mayne from Leeds Student Radio rounds up the first half of Demo Factor 2023. Her demo on her appearance on Capital received 5 buzzes from the judges by 38 seconds, due to the demo not fulling showcasing her as a presenter.

Fly Live’s Becky Slade has a tough act to follow. However, her dad joke demo goes over well only getting 2 buzzes from Paul and Aled.

Another update: Aled has left the stage to shake the hand of his golden buzzer

VAR update from head judge Chris, turns out it was Aled who got there a smidge quicker.

Our next demo is Chris Howard from Spark Sunderland. His Sam Fender inspired demo gets the golden buzzer by Paul though challenged by Aled after asking if it’s normal to race strangers in the street. Paul listens to the rest of the demo in the audience, loving all 2 minutes and 48 seconds of it.

Jenna Shamash from Leeds Student Radio is number 7.  She gets 5 red buzzers after 42 seconds.

XpressionFM’s Joseph Terry is our following demo. His rugby commentary gets buzzed by all 5 judges by 35 seconds, with Calum wanting to hear the most

Manny Singh from Scratch Radio comes next.  A demo focused on female artists keeps the judges engaged for the entire 60 seconds. It looks like we might get a golden buzzer for a moment, but the judges decide against it.

Up next we have Gurlina Heer from Leeds Student Radio… she recieved 4 buzzes for her music based demo with Head Judge Chris North staying til the end

Our Third Demo is from Amelia Garrett – Forge Radio! Her R&B Demo gets 4 red Buzzers, but Pandora wants to hear all 60 seconds.