10 Questions with the Top 3Updated Tue. Sep. 2 2008 1:02 AM ET Sheri Block, CTV.ca Mitch MacDonald - Port Hood, N.S. 1. How does it feel to make it into the Top 3? Pretty overwhelming because I never thought I'd ever be this far. Top 10 was the goal but Top 3's pretty cool. 2. What was your 'KD Cups Hometown Tour' like and how did it feel to see all the support? Hometown tour was awesome. Did a lot of partying, kind of hard not to when you go home and you don't see your friends for a long time so it was nice. But yeah, pulling into the hometown and there was like 3,000 or more people there all shouting my name, it's again, overwhelming. The other day I was just the average 'Port Hooder' doing my thing, playing the odd tune but to have that kind of support, it's pretty outstanding. 3. What do you think has gotten you this far in the competition and what's your strategy to make it to the end? One thing that's definitely got me the extra push I guess is just being myself and the judges kind of comment on that quite a bit, too, how there's just some kind of relaxed grace or whatever they want to call it that comes across when I'm on stage. Of course, I try and play and sing my best each week and if I do or I don't, I'm still the same person so I think people kind of buy into that. I'm just going to keep doing my thing. This week's Bryan Adams and Bryan Adams is a great artist and I'm going to sing two of his tunes. I'm going to rock it out for one and mellow it out for another one. 4. What's one thing you've learned about yourself since being on Canadian Idol? I've learned a lot. It's hard to pinpoint the main thing. Obviously it's a really busy schedule and sometimes it can become to some people over the top and stressful at times but I just learned I can actually handle it. You know what I mean? I just try and be relaxed about it and it's nice I can remain that way because that's who I am with anything. I definitely, on the other side of things, too, got a lot of great tips from Byrd and Mark Lalama and a lot of the special guests, Anne Murray in particular, just teaching me how to breathe properly. And I think I've learned I have the potential to be a much better guitar player than I ever thought. 5. What has been your favourite performance you've done so far? I've got to say the Joel Plaskett tune. "Love This Town." I felt like I was in my kitchen, it was just like me and my guitar doing a song I love that means a whole lot to me and it was nice because it was a song that the general public probably doesn't know that well but I also think they found a connection with it. It's nice to perform stuff that you really like and means a lot to you but when you can perform something that you really like and the people that watch the show enjoy as well, it's kind of a special thing. 6. What's the best meal you've had since being on Idol? I love to cook. So does Drew, actually. We had a BBQ one day and we barbequed up nice big fat steaks and baked potatoes with bacon and sour cream on them and cheddar cheese, broccoli, grilled vegetables and Caesar salad. And we had strawberries and ice cream for dessert - that was the compliments of the gals. Back home my dad is kind of known as the king of the grill in my town, he does a lot of barbequing and it's something I like to do, too, so it was nice to put our love of cooking together and have a great BBQ. It kind of brought me back home a little bit. 7. What's your favourite piece of clothing you've worn on the show? The suits are pretty sweet and a killer pair of Ben Sherman sneakers I got on the show. 8. What's the funniest or craziest thing that's happened while living with the other Idols? Pushing each other in the pool with our clothes on. And Mark Day, he was a funny guy to live with. 9. Do you have a good luck charm or any kind of ritual you do before going on stage? I do have a good luck charm. It's a jade necklace. And I'll normally say a little prayer before the show just to some close friends up above. 10. What would make you a good Canadian Idol? I think I'd bring kind of a different vibe and a different style of music that's never been done by other Idols ... something along the lines of folk rock, or folk indie rock, kind of acoustic stuff, just a little more in-depth songwriting, songs that tell a good story. Theo Tams - Lethbridge, Alta. 1. How does it feel to make it into the Top 3? I would say besides really wanting to make it into the Top 10, the Top 3 was my next goal so I'm glad I was able to accomplish that. 2. What was your 'KD Cups Hometown Tour' like and how did it feel to see all the support? I was pretty nervous about going home just because I knew it was going to be like a smack in the face with reality, just like how far I've come on the show already and it was good. It was really, really exciting. It was just so much fun to rock out with the hometown. I never expected there to be that much support. It was just really, really touching to see. 3. What do you think has gotten you this far in the competition and what's your strategy to make it to the end? Just going out there and like Farley has said, I just have visions for my performances and I know exactly what I want to accomplish and whether that's the way I interpret the song or the way I perform the song or those two things together, I always know exactly what I want to do before I go out there. My strategy is just to really show what I'm about. This week with Bryan Adams tunes, I am completely re-vamping them and really making them my own. 4. What's one thing you've learned about yourself since being on Canadian Idol? To trust my instincts. 5. What has been your favourite performance you've done so far? My favourite would be "Sweet Ones" by Sarah Slean. I think that one was just closest to me and what I'm about. That groove, that feel, something really piano-oriented but still fun and serious all at the same time. 6. What's the best meal you've had since being on Idol? There was this one day in the Top 24 that they catered stuff to the theatre and there was a butter chicken and it was soooo good. Now all the time I'm like hoping on show days they're going to have that butter chicken. 7. What's your favourite piece of clothing you've worn on the show? I have a shirt with Miles Davis on it, which I really, really like and I would say the shirt that I wore for the results show this past week is also one of my favourites. It's like some old scientist and he's sitting at his desk and it's in black and white and then you see all of these thoughts come out of his head and then that's when they start throwing colour into it. It's really cool. 8. What's the funniest or craziest thing that's happened while living with the other Idols? (Last week) I woke up around quarter to five in the morning and I thought I smelled smoke and Earl had left a pizza in the oven and it was just burnt to a crisp. He had fallen asleep on the couch and then he woke up and he was complaining how he was still so hungry so he put in another pizza. I had to set the timer on the oven and he slept through the timer again so I had to get out of bed again to help him with his pizza. And then he tried to offer me some and I was not having it. I was like, 'I need to go back to bed.' That was pretty funny. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard. 9. Do you have a good luck charm or any kind of ritual you do before going on stage? If I'm not singing with the piano then I don't really do anything but if I am with the piano, then I try to just sit at the piano for like 5, 10 minutes. I don't know what it is; I've just always just done that. I always just sit with my hands on the keys and just sit there and warm up the keys. 10. What would make you a good Canadian Idol? I already know the things I want to do and the things I want to accomplish and I'm just really, really driven and somehow I find a way of making those things a reality. I would just say I'm passionate, no matter what I do. If I'm making my bed or writing a song, I treat it like it's the best thing that I'm doing that day. Drew Wright - Collingwood, Ont. 1. How does it feel to make it into the Top 3? Fantastic. The pressure kind of feels off now. It feels like we don't really have to prove anything to anybody anymore at this point. 2. What was your 'KD Cups Hometown Tour' like and how did it feel to see all the support? It was unreal, kind of unexplainable. I know I've said this a thousand times but it's worth saying again. You can't tell everybody enough how much I understand and appreciate that it's them that are doing it. It's them that pick up the phone on Monday night and there's people that vote over 1,000 times so it's just insane to think someone takes the time to do that and that's what's keeping me here. The hometown tour was unbelievable. The support and just the people who came out. You can't really explain it. 3. What do you think has gotten you this far in the competition and what's your strategy to make it to the end? I don't really know (what's gotten me this far). I've been an avid musician for a long time and player and I think it's just a combination of having a lot of hometown support and maybe people are actually enjoying what I'm putting out there. I'm not really strategizing. I'm just taking it one performance at a time, the same way I have every week throughout the competition and just trying to do the best that I can with the songs that I have that week and just perform to the best of my ability. 4. What's one thing you've learned about yourself since being on Canadian Idol? I've definitely bettered myself as a performer. Usually when I perform I have my eyes closed and I'm just kind of into the song but here I've learned how to come out of my shell a lot more and actually perform a song so I think that's been a good thing. 5. What has been your favourite performance you've done so far? "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," I really liked that one, but I think "Creep" was probably my favourite. 6. What's the best meal you've had since being on Idol? Prime Rib that was catered at the show. 7. What's your favourite piece of clothing you've worn on the show? Probably my leather jacket. 8. What's the funniest or craziest thing that's happened while living with the other Idols? Just sharing a room with Mitch was kind of funny. We were both in this bedroom with two single beds, like kids' beds. That was a blast, just both chuckling about the fact that we were in these little beds. 9. Do you have a good luck charm or any kind of ritual you do before going on stage? I have a good luck charm. It's a necklace that my girlfriend gave me with a little spiritual prayer inside and it's just kind of wishing you well and wishing you safety and health and all those good things. 10. What would make you a good Canadian Idol? I just like music and I like to play and I like to perform and I think that's what the show's all about.
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