The Voice

And in a surprise to nobody, the press are already running Voice v BGT stories with the BGT launch also pencilled in for that night.

A clash will hurt both but I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. It could be a bloodbath.

The Irish version had the first of it's live shows yesterday evening; I have to tell you that the production and sound quality particularly around the stage was quite poor in fairness.

The Male presenter Eoghan was not out on stage; his job possibly for every other week is actually is to interview the acts straight after their performances. He would mention comments from Twitter and Facebook to them.

Bressie and Brian Kennedy's Team performed for the first week. So; Kian and Sharon will be on next week.

If you can view through the RTE player; I will give you the link to the shows including the results show below.

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1138859 (LIVE SHOW)

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1138888 (RESULTS)

I hope you will enjoy it.

Those links don't work for people here in the UK, due to Territory Restrictions...

I understand that it doesn't apply to you because you live outside Northern Ireland. I know that there are two versions of RTE Player known as Domestic and International. The links were from the international version.

They do have an XL version as well. However; by looking through that version RTE don't allow people view the voice on that version either.

So, no opening titles - do we think that's a one off because they wanted to get straight into it or has it set the precedent for what we can expect for the rest of the series? Not that it really matters much in the grand scale of things, but this is a presentation forum afterall anyhoo from what I have seen from the international vids, the theme music is quite catchy, so it would be a shame for the titles to be chopped completley.

Perhaps the titles will come after the audition rounds.

I'm relieved there's no bombastic voice-over either.

Now the programme has gone live, please use the new thread.