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Big band - LIVE
Awesome, awesome, awesome. The TV studio wasn't as intimidating as I thought at all. Quite friendly and cosy, actually. The hosts worked so hard! It was fun spending half the night reading their autocues. Heehee. Plus, I'm deaf and mute from all the screaming! Of course, I voted for Paulini, though tonight, I thought the order was...

1. Paulini - Pretty on par with Shannon - different kind of performance really. Paulini was just so professional and she looked and sounded gorgeous. Her scatting was amazing. As our sign said - she blew them away!
Edited 11:36pm: Just watched the video of the show. Paulini was the only one who sounded as great if not better live as on TV. How good was she? Man! "At Last' (Etta James) was just sublime, as Dicko said and "Almost like being in love", with the sassiness and the scat was even better.

2. Shannon - wow. The moves, the crooning, the BIG band BIG key change. Wow.
Edited 11:33pm: Shannon was a close 1st over Paulini when I first blogged tonight, but on 2nd viewing, Paulini definitely took it out. Please let me tell you that he was 100 times better live than on TV. He was actually a little off pitch, but being there in person, I didn't doubt that he 100% deserved that standing ovation for NY, NY. He's a little more subdued and with little facial expression on screen, though.

Then, a long way to...
3. Guy - pretty good all round, though he didn't win me over with "The way you look tonight" which is normally one of my favourites. Even watching him do it live didn't help. Probably going first didn't help either.

4. Cosima - poor girl still sounds sick. Her first song, L.O.V.E. was cute and boppy. The 2nd song was a little bit *yawn*. Sorry, Cosima. I know the judges loved it, but we must have been watching different performances! Still, you tried.

Apparently, you can see Ves everytime the judges commented (we were sitting right behind them). Haha! After all that effort trying to hide, you got on TV after all! And embarrassingly, my big cheesy grin was shown right at the beginning of the show. Luckily the focus was on our cool Paulini poster, which took us *ahem* a couple of hours to make. Ves cleverly managed to push me to the outside edge of the queue while we were waiting to go in, which led to another embarrassing Vron moment when I was interviewed and revealed my true obsession with Australian Idol by talking about the messageboards. Let's hope that doesn't make it onto Inside Idol on Thursday!

Edited 9:58pm
Did a quick run of the messageboards. Based on initial opinions and my own theories, I reckon Cosima's fans have their work cut out for them keeping her in. They will vote like CRAZY and they might be able to do it, though she wouldn't have won any extra votes tonight. Shannon was great, but did he WOW people enough to make them vote for him? I thought he did great tonight, but I still voted for Paulini. Plus, I thought his fans might go crazy trying to keep him in, expecting him to struggle with big band, but since he did so well, will they feel the urgency as much? Guy is the toin coss - don't know will happen there. No predictions for tomorrow night from me. Overall, based on the previous weeks and tonight, it should be either Cosima or Shannon to go.