Kodaline wouldn't audition for X Factor

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.

As X Factor auditions get under way, Jason Boland, who plays bass in the band, revealed: “I don’t think The X Factor would really suit us very well. It’s just all about doing covers, and we’re very much about playing our own music.”

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.”

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