Hi there my name is Adam Smith I am a 23 year old inspiring singer song writer who plays guitar, at the beginning of this year my  girlfriend entered me into a competition called Live and Unsigned. Having only been playing guitar and writing for around three years mostly only performing in my bedroom I was totally scared when I found out the first audition was in the Glasgow Royal concert hall.

I went to the first audition expecting the worse and hoping for the best, unexpectedly I got threw the first auditions and then the seconly. I started looking through the Live and Unsigned web page's looking for help and tips, that's when I really noticed about advertising yourself and getting your music out there as much as possible was crucial.

So next was the area final in Newcastle once again expecting the worse and hoping for the best but this time with a little more confidence because of how happy I was with my performance in Glasgow. Some how I'd managed to scrape through the Newcastle auditions and made it to the grand final at theLondon O2 arena. I was totally amazed 3 year's ago I'd never played a guitar and on the 23th of July 2011 I was going to be playing at the O2 with the chance to win a record contract, by this time I had realised that I loved being on stage and the O2 didn't faze me at all its where i wanted to be.

I put together the best mix of a cover of an original song that I could with the most meaning and soul behind it I could give. When I saw some of the acts doing there sound check I realized that the level of competition was unbelievably good and the diversity of the acts that where playing was unbelievable, everything from metal rock to RnB. 

So I performed my song not far from the best I could to be totally honest, I thought that I would have at least made the final twenty but my name never got called. I spat my dummy right In the Thames and headed for the bar to watch the final's,  some of the acts I thought were really good and some not so but that's music I guess everyones got they're own taste.

Any one thinking of entering next years Live and Unsigned should definitely do it as it was a great experience and has really opened my eyes. This is just the start for me I am going to master this art and get some help to try extra hard and take my music to the next level. I am now advertising and playing as many gigs as possible. Thanks  very much to everyone at Live and Unsigned it was a blast.

c ya again some time soon   

Adam Smith cheers 

Here's a wee link to my home page demo's getting done soon   www.theadamsmith.webs.com