Newmarket girl headed to Britain’s Got Talent

A NEWMARKET girl could end up on hit TV show Britain’s Got Talent very soon.

Clodagh Lawlor is 16 and in fourth year at St Flannan’s College. Last Wednesday, she got a call telling her that her application to appear on the Simon Cowell-fronted show had made some progress.
“About a month ago, I saw this video up from Simon Cowell saying that anyone who wants to audition for Britain’s Got talent can send in a video now via YouTube. So I did that and I hadn’t heard anything for about a month and then I got a phone call saying I was short listed for it, meaning they had taken so many out of the hundreds that auditioned for it. They’ll go for the public vote and the top five or six will get the audition with Simon”.
Regular auditions are being held in London on Monday and after that people can vote online.
“Ant and Dec will play the videos to the London audience and after that people can vote for the ones they like. Anyone can vote for me but I think they have to have a Youtube account.”
She says she has watched Britain’s Got Talent in the past but sent in the video (which is of her singing Beyonce’s If I Were a Boy on a whim).
“I said I’d send it in for the craic, I was doing nothing at home.”
Clodagh likes “poppy stuff” and would love to make a career out of singing, something she already puts a lot of work into.
“I’d spend two hours in the evening singing. If you want to do well at something, you have to work at it. I get my voice trained every week with Marietta O’Hare out the Kildysart Road. It helps you with breathing and stuff, it’s hard to explain but for me I can hold notes longer.”
She has a number of videos on youtube and is just after winning a major prize.
“I was in a competition in December and January and the prize was worth €3,500 for music and I won it. I’ve been doing stuff with a band called Keywest and things like that, but nothing as big as Britain’s Got talent.”