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Lisa Mitchell


Lisa Helen Mitchell (born March 22 1990 in Canterbury, England) placed 6th on the reality television show.

Born to parents Angus and Ruth and with one sister (Nicola, a year younger), Lisa moved to Australia at age 3, growing up in Albury, New South Wales. Beginning guitar lessons at 12 and leaning towards the folk and rock genres, she played in local cafes and events as well as with the cover band Chrome, taking inspiration from artists like Missy Higgins and Clare Bowditch.

Australian Idol

Lisa auditioned in Albury-Wodonga singing Howie Day's "Collide", with Kyle Sandilands immediately giving his yes-vote and Mark Holden saying "I'm in love" (three times). She then performed an original song entitled "See it in Your Eyes", to which Sandilands responded by calling her "a true star" and Marcia Hines adding that she "explemplif[ies] what Australian Idol is about." On the Australian Idol 2006 DVD is shown an extended audition featuring Lisa singing a longer version of "Collide" and an acoustic version of the song "What I Like About You".

Her semi-finals performance (top 24), "Diamonds on the Inside", by Ben Harper, got much praise from the three judges, most notably from Sandilands who stated that Lisa could be "the best thing musically that has ever came out of this country". Lisa advanced to the final 12 because of this performance.

In the Top 12 finals, Lisa received mixed comments from the judges in her first two performances, but received positive comments from all three judges in the following two weeks, after performing Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" in the 'Number Ones' theme night and "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band in the "Year You Were Born" theme night. The next week, her disco night performance of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" was highly criticised by Holden, saying that she was now "hanging in there by the skin of [her] teeth".

Mitchell's performance of Coldplay's "See You Soon" in Week 6 for her long-awaited acoustic theme, brought positive critiques from all three judges, with Holden calling her guitar playing "reminiscent of an early Joni Mitchell". This was generally considered to be her best performance on the show. For the 'Up Close & Personal' week Lisa sung an original song entitled "Too Far Gone" which she says is "a little bit about love" and "when you're doing something and you think 'I'm no good at it, but what the heck'."

Lisa was eliminated from the competition on October 23 after her final performance of The Veronicas's "Revolution", which got a positive response from Holden and Hines but with Sandilands calling it a "boring version of a great song". She was joined by Ricky Muscat and Dean Geyer in the bottom 3. Hines told Lisa that she thought she was "ready to go", with which Lisa since agreed, citing lack of control over her craft and frustration with the television medium.[1]

Performances

Post-Australian Idol

Lisa has stated that (despite having received interest from record labels[1]) she will be going back to school to develop her songwriting and improve musically and also to get more experience perfoming, not wanting to be rushed into making an album; saying that "if you're at school and had to promote an album it just wouldn't work", "it would just be too manufactured"[2] and that she will wait until finishing school before recording an album.

"I want to get some experiences. You know the more things you go through the more you have to write about. I am young, I’ve got a bit more life to live"[2], she has said, also expressing interest in backpacking.[1]

On December 26, 2006, thewest.com.au reported that Mitchell will, in the future, be signed to Sony BMG, although this was later revealed as untrue. She will be, however, releasing her debut EP, later this year. Starting in March, Lisa performed live from her own home, which can be viewed on her Official MySpace page, and will continue doing so in the first week of every month until June 2007. Following this, she will release her debut EP, with one confirmed song title being: All I Know, as revealed and perfomed on her May 3 MySpace performance.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Audio: "Lisa Mitchell criticises the whole Idol Television process", Tim Brunero Australian Idol podcast, October 25, 2006
  2. ^ a b "Evicted Idol Lisa Mitchell: in her own words", Who Australian Idol blog, October 26, 2006
  3. ^ "Time for some new Aussie faces to emerge", thewest.com.au Entertainment, December 26, 2006
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