Liam Payne Helps Aspiring Singers Make a ‘Connection’ in New ‘Building the Band’ Trailer

At long last, one of Liam Payne‘s final projects will get to be seen by the public next month.

On Tuesday (June 24), Netflix released the first official trailer for its new series Building the Band, which features the late One Direction star as a judge alongside Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland.

In the clip, the audience is introduced to 50 singers, each isolated in their own booths as they can only listen to one another “audition” for the collective, with fellow competitors pressing a button in their booth if they want to work with them. The show aims to have these singers form six bands out of the audition process sight unseen, before getting to “the real work,” as Scherzinger calls it, of putting together a cohesive aesthetic when they finally meet in person.

For Payne’s part, clips show the late musician working with a group of singers on their vocal performances. “You have a lot of work to do, vocally,” he says. “I need to feel that connection between you guys.” Another clip shows him appearing to console a group after a performance. “How these bands are put together is not normal; we weren’t put together that way,” he says, seemingly in reference to One Direction.

The new series, which is set to air on Netflix beginning Wednesday, July 9, wrapped filming just two months before Payne died last year, after he fell three stories from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Netflix announced in January that the show would be released as planned, with Payne included after consulting with the late singer’s family. A press release shared with the new trailer said that Payne’s family has watched the series and is “supportive of his inclusion” in the final product.

Watch the full trailer for Building the Band below: