Jamie Archer has given a candid interview to UnrealityTv where hi spills out his beans about the X Factor, Simon Cowell and his future as a performing artist.
Unlike other ex-contestants that seem to be air tight sealed when it comes to talk about their experience during the X Factor, Jamie seems to be sincere and candid in his interviews. Perhaps the most revealing interview he has given so far is the one published by UnrealityTv on November 20th.
Jamie seems to be a bit relieved of being out of the show and being able to perform freely the way he wants:
I did my first show yesterday in Rochdale and it was amazing! I felt really natural on stage because I wasn’t under the constraints of the show – I could really be myself.
yet he doesn’t diss the X Factor contest and actually regards the show as a great platform that has given him opportunities that otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to access.
I’d been playing for a long time. I’d tried to get record companies and A&R people down to gigs. I’d tried everything to get people to take note and just give me a chance. But nothing was working…
It’s funny, because people keep having a go at the X Factor and Simon Cowell because it’s plastic pop. But I have to say, it was Simon Cowell who gave me my break after all these years of people not giving me a chance, so I’m really grateful to him for that.
Jamie also talks about how he clashed with Simon Cowell during the show over song choices and how that was blown out of proportion by the media
It’s like that thing with me and Simon having arguments. We just disagreed over song choices and we disagreed with passion. That was it, but it got turned into “We’d fallen out, we’re not speaking” It was ridiculous. Sometimes the nucleus of a story might be right, but it gets blown out of all proportion…
Simon Cowell took a chance on me when no-one else would, and I love him for that, I respect him for that and I thank him for that.
When it comes to talk about his future, Jamie Archer is very confidant that X Factor allowed him to get noticed and that something will come up along the way, as for the immediate future he has live gigs until the X Factor tour. On the subject of signing with a record label he is still in the unknown, same as other fellow X Factor rejects.
Well at the moment, everything goes quiet until the end of the X Factor show. No-one knows what’s going on with that. None of the X Factor contestants do. We don’t find out until between one and three months after the show.
You can read more of this interesting Jamie Archer interview here.
