Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (cover by Barry John Evans)

Hi everyone, this is my first live cover where you can properly hear my voice! A lot of you have followed my journey over the past few years so you'll know how hard I've worked to get to this stage. I thought it would be best to show you a raw version where there's no autotune or any of that rubbish, just a microphone and a karaoke backing track! I'm always looking to improve and I've come a long way from not being able to sing a note in tune a few years ago. All feedback appreciated! Bless you all x

April update + video links!

Hi everyone, it's been a while!

I started updating the blog again when x-factor was on towards the end of last year but to be honest I lost interest towards the end. I couldn't take it seriously with an act like Reggie & Bollie making the final, nice guys but couldn't sing very well... it's amazing how far it's fallen since those exciting early days. It's just become more obvious each year as to how manipulated the whole thing actually is...

Anyway, so what's been going on with me musically?

In the past month, not very much at all! I've been bogged down with coursework which is due in in 2 days so it's straight back to that after this has been posted.

Towards the end of the February, I got a merit on my grade 3 exam! The hard work had paid off and I'm just waiting to get started on my grade 4 after this other coursework is done and dusted.

I had to sing 3 songs as well as completing some theory, the whole thing was around 30 minutes. The 3 songs I sung were Crazy by Gnarls Barkley, Love me again by John Newman and Heroes by David Bowie. In fact I posted a clip of my version of Crazy sung during the exam on youtube, I kept my phone in my pocket on record... it wasn't perfect but considering it was my first time performing in front of anyone then I'm pretty content with how it went:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0P1QmdINU&list=PLvX-06vtGjR4Nks2KGGAgC8JCdWUslCBi&index=1

I will tell you more about grade 4 when I have time but it's looking like I will be singing Town called malice by The Jam, Broken Strings by James Morrison and Let her go by Passenger!

I've also uploaded an old clip to youtube of me hitting the soprano C which you've probably seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5q-9338oI&list=PLvX-06vtGjR4Nks2KGGAgC8JCdWUslCBi&index=2

That's all for today but soonish I will be back to update you on what else is happening!

Barry x