Kodaline wouldn't audition for X Factor because there's no chance for original songs
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Kodaline may have first come to public attention almost a decade ago on Ireland’s You’re A Star – an X Factor alike talent contest – but the band don’t think they’d take their chances on The X Factor today.
Kodaline, originally called 21 Demands, competed on the 2006-07 series of the show on RTE, where they performed original songs: “For us that was really the draw, it was the chance to get out and just practice playing our music in front of people.”