Albury's Lisa Mitchell may well be the new Joni Mitchell, going on last night’s Australian Idol performance. Singing Coldplay’s See You Soon, flanked only by her guitar and a cello for depth, Mitchell wowed the judges.
“Bring on Tuesday night,” Mark Holden said. “I want to hear a Lisa Mitchell original. The guitar playing was reminiscent of an early Joni Mitchell: I could have listened to you for another hour or hour and a half.”
Holden said Mitchell always divided her audience. “Some people find you beautiful, some people find you boring,” he said. “I find you beautiful.”
Fellow judge Kyle Sandilands agreed. “I’ve been in the boring side with you for the past few weeks, but I loved it,” he said. "You’ve been talking up this night for weeks and you’ve come through. What you need to do now is have that same comfort level without that guitar to stay here to the end.”
Marcia Hines said Mitchell’s rendition brought tears to her eyes. “I loved it, it’s been a long time coming,” she said, adding Mitchell had hypnotised them with her guitar the first time they met.
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