Jesse Sludds

Absolutely fantastic, but nerve-wracking at the same time.

I wouldn't define myself solely country, but yeah, I do have country roots.

I did indeed, yes.

That went fairly well, I believe.

Like, I got good reviews back off the judges there, so I was happy enough with how far I got and the experience I had.

Yeah, it was a lot different, especially when there was big fat cameras in my face.

Yes.

So I had one of my friends on the meet a whole time about learning Kingfisher.

And I was like, no, no, no.

But the one day I learned this and the day after I played it and Eddie Keogh from Kingfisher came up and we had a whole conversation and posted on TikTok.

He came up and he was like, man, your version is absolutely amazing because I sing it slightly different.

And he was chatting to me saying, oh, yeah, if I get five of my own songs this year, I might be able to support him at some point.

Not going to lie, absolutely nerve-wracking.

It only kicked in yesterday when I got the email for the whole, how the day's going to go.

I was like, oh no.

Even today I'm a little bit shaky.

Yeah, it's probably I'm just getting in my own head too much.

But once I get on the stage, we'll probably be fine.

It's usually how it goes.

Well, I seen it online and I was like, I'm not going to do it because it's probably just looking for country.