Cornuda, Bengala Fire third at X-Factor: “The best evening of our life”

At the Assago Forum, the Treviso band passes the duet round, not the medley round. For the group of Cornuda, the revelation of the Sky program, it was however an extraordinary evening. In the village the cheering of supporters in front of the TV

CORNUDA. “The best night of our life, performing in such a place had always been our dream. Now we will do the c … even more than before to return ». Mattia “Mario” Mariuzzo, the frontman of Bengala Fire, comments on the elimination of the Treviso group (Andrea “Orso” Orsella, Davide “Borto” Bortoletto and Alexander “Lex” Puntel his band mates and adventurers) after the second heat of the final evening of X Factor 2021.

They are third parties, an unexpected goal when they presented themselves shy and at the same time bold at the first auditions, to grow exponentially, in safety, likes and positive judgments, up to the live shows and the final of the Forum. The first step of a magical evening, however, was that of duets with the respective judges. Then Bengala performed together with their mentor Manuel Agnelli: they sang and played with great energy a rock classic like “In beetween days” by The Cure.

A performance that convinced the audience of the Forum, but especially those in homes, if it is true that, after the highly anticipated mini-concert by Coldplay, the superstars guests of the final with the Maneskin, Ludovico Tersigni, the conductor who in this edition has worthily replaced his historical predecessor Alessandro Cattelan, opening the envelope of the first verdict he eliminated Fellow, Mika’s thoroughbred horse, making the Cornudese boys continue their journey. In the second round the Bengala performed first: it was the medley round of the three chosen songs that marked their path in this edition of X Factor. These are “Making plans for Nigel (Xtc),“ Girls & boys (Blur) and “Sunny afternoon” – Chelsea dagger ”(The Kinks – The Fratellis).

“We chose them because they are the best synthesis of what we wanted to bring to X Factor”, explained “Mario” in the presentation clip. A real energy bomb, as Emma defined it. They put us on fire, as Mika said, the judge who in the course of the various episodes was always the most severe towards them. “You’re a real frontman, you’ve conquered the stage,” Hell Raton told Mattia, who finished singing literally lying on the ground.

And Agnelli, very proud, at that point greeted Cornuda «the small town in the Veneto region from where this band that is surprising Italy comes from». The envelope opened by Tersigni in this case, however, gave a negative verdict: they did not go to the last heat, that of the unpublished, which was instead landed by the Marches Baltimora and Gianmaria from Vicenza. However, it was a great party for the fans, who arrived in Milan from Cornuda with a bus that left the Marca in the afternoon. It was a great party the same for all the friends gathered at the Dam bar in Cornuda in front of the TV. It was a great party for a band “we will hear about”, in the words of Agnelli.