After the not so shocking exits of Ryan and Gavin two weeks ago, Bressie and Brian's teams of 5 each are now readying themselves for another performance infront of the live audience at The Helix as they try desperately to get through to yet another week of the competition. Standouts from the last Bressie/Brian performances were Claire and Kiera/Connor for Teams Brian and Bressie respectively so let's hope those three and the rest of the acts can keep up that high standard for tonight's performances.

Recap and videos after the JUMP ...



Pat Byrne

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'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' (Jet) - 6/10 - Sorry but this was a very cheesy and almost cringeworthy performance due to the poor staging. The song itself comes across as something of a karaoke classic and this just came across as being an average pub rock performance. The whole skimpy female dancers thing has been done many times on 'The X Factor' before and whilst it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for us male viewers, it did come across as very 80's and almost quite Eurovision? I just don't think that this particular song really showcased his vocal talent at all which is a shame as he is actually really quite talented.



Gari Deegan

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'Next To Me' (Emeli Sandé) - 6.5/10 - This was a lot better than the frankly pretty rubbish performance last show and I'm glad that Gari is actually letting himself get lost in the performance as it really works well for his soulful, bluesy voice. With that said, his pronunciation is slightly Britney Spears esque bizarre as he seems to pronounce me as 'may' which makes the performance a little bit weird. However, fair play to him for clearly taking the weaker aspects of last week's performance and working on them, this was a million miles away from that.



Jessica Pritzel

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'Walking On Broken Glass' (Annie Lennox) - 5/10 - Argh, I know that she had the best Battle Round performance of the series arguably but she can't continue to fall back on it and she was completely lost by that performance, the song just didn't work whatsoever for her, she seemed a little bit intimidated by the song and overall, despite landing in the bottom two last week, it was a lot weaker than last week. Unfortunately, as the mainly female voting public generally value male acts more than female acts, Jessica will be lucky if she makes it through tonight.



Kiera Byrne

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'Stay' (Shakespeare's Sister) - 7.5/10 - This was fantastic vocally once again, really quirky and unique as always with Kiera who in my opinion is one of the best performers in the competition in terms of consistency and originality and deserves to go really far in the competition. Although it was vocally fantastic, I think I preferred her more low-key performance last week as opposed to this mainly as her outfit was quite distracting and whilst I liked that she got into the performance, some people may have been a bit unnerved by the way she got into the performance. With that said, it's still the best performance so far from Bressie's team.



Conor Quinn

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'Lonely Boy' (The Black Keys) - 7/10 - This is quite a nice performance from Conor, it's nice to see him doing something more uptempo and actually seeming to shed the weird facial expressions and bizarre stage posture in favour of a more relaxed stage persona. With that said, I'm not sure if the funkiness and fast pace of the song suited Conor as at times, he was quite hard to make out although it didn't stop the performance from being one of my favourites of the night, a really cool performance that I thoroughly enjoyed.