{"id":1955,"date":"2012-09-25T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2012-11-30T01:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:37:48","slug":"lucy-spraggan-served-up-tea-and-toast-at-x-factor-bootcamp-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1955\/lucy-spraggan-served-up-tea-and-toast-at-x-factor-bootcamp-audition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Spraggan served up Tea and Toast at X Factor Bootcamp audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"lucy spraggan tea and toast\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/x2012\/auditions\/lucyspraggan.jpg\" alt=\"lucy spraggan tea and toast\" width=\"472\" height=\"303\" \/>Lucy Spraggan impressed earlier this year at her first audition singing one of her own composition that saw her through to bootcamp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, at bootcamp she appears to have got off to a bad start singing covers of songs she did not know so well. At one point we even thought Lucy would be on the next train home, but the 20-year-old singer song-writer turn things around when she launched into another of her own songs called \u2018Tea and Toast\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Before singing the track Spraggan warned the panel that she had a sad song up her sleeve. She revealed that she had written the song after watching an elderly couple in the street.<\/p>\n<p>She said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was busking in town and this elderly couple walked past holding hands. Then the lady collapsed in the street and was unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the look on the husband\u2019s face was like he\u2019d never lost her before and he\u2019d just lost her then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt inspired me to write the song \u2014 after I got them into an ambulance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her performance of the track reduced a 5,000 strong audience to tears, who packed Liverpool\u2019s Echo Arena and they gave her a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7uKoMU5qSz4?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"580\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* blogsmalllink 468x15, created 6\/7\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6221751502\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Spraggan impressed earlier this year at her first audition singing one of her own composition that saw her through to bootcamp. &nbsp; However, at bootcamp she appears to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2012\/09\/lucyspraggantest.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}