Louis Walsh seeks talent for new girl band

Celebrity band promoter Louis Walsh and a member of Westlife are to audition in Dublin this week for five talented young women to form Ireland’s latest girl band.

Walsh and the Sligo-born boyband heartthrob Kian Egan will co-manage the new band.

Open auditions will take place at The Pod venue on Harcourt Street in Dublin from noon to 6pm on Friday and Saturday July 25th and 26th, with call-backs on Sunday July 27th.

Walsh and Egan will judge the talent and all those who audition will be asked to sing a cappella.

The members of the five-piece band will be between the ages of 15 and 25, Walsh said.

Egan added: “I am really hoping we are going to see and hear some great talent from all parts of the country. I know how much an audition like this can change your life – so my advice is to go for it.”

Organiser and publicist Joanne Byrne said her advice for any girl coming to the auditions was simple.

“Know what you are going to sing, learn the lyrics and put some thought into your appearance”.

The Pod was also the venue for try-outs for Westlife and Boyzone, which both became massively successful internationally. Walsh also backs the Irish girl band Girls Aloud.

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