Some things should stay where they were created, like Frankenstein’s Monster, “American Football” and deep-fried confectionary, and that’s definitely the case with karaoke.
16 July 2015
Dr Desperate
Literally, my favourite word. From the Japanese kara (empty, as in karate ’empty hand’) and Ĺkesutora (from the English ‘orchestra’). Empty orchestra. Brilliant. On the other hand, I’d rather die than do it.
16 July 2015
EXXO
People are rightly free to do this at private gatherings; I do feel that for public spaces there should be some kind of qualifying rounds (which would held somewhere in the cellars of the town hall and could even be televised for those who like that sort of thing, thus earning the local council a bit of extra cash to pay for lobsters at twinning dinners).
I myself would breeze through such niceties of course, and take my rightful place, foot held low, at Europe’s top table of karaoke crooners.
Seriously though, I do actually think that HMHB are exactly the kind of band that karaoke settings on your stereo were invented for (nd I’m fairly sure that our front man himself, with his typical self-deprification, would concur.
16 July 2015
brumbiscuit
Apart from a Gary Glitter number done in Brum once, I have only ‘performed’ once. I was angling for redundancy from an employer in Budapest and another colleague was having a leaving do at a karaoke bar. Lo and behold, they had Release Me by Engelbert Humperdink and I belted it out, in my mind, brilliantly. That was it, my cherry popped, and they had to wrest the mic from my grasp after The Clash, Bowie and Blondie had been ruined. 9 years have passed and I’ve hidden my light under a bushel since then. Oh, and I got my redundancy.
16 July 2015
Dawlishian
Introduced to the UK by a Frank Chicken?
16 July 2015
peter mcornithologist
Stumbled upon one in local hostelry last night. It seemed to be exactly as the one I stumbled upon decades ago. Gloria Gaynor, Celine Dion,Tina Turner Sufficient to leave but I thought how wonderful it could have been if Brumbiscuit had been belting out Engelbert. Followed by Dickhead warbling Positively 4th Street, Steve sadly crooning Kansas, Eric attempting Peking O,Exxo screaming out Evening of Swing and then Bobby Svarc growling Neon Meat Dream of an Octofish.
9 August 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@PMcO you’ve got a lot of nerve!
9 August 2015
bobby svarc
Tubes, Tubs, Bulbs………it’s meate, man. Surely Brumbiscuit would be belting out “Funky Moped?”
10 August 2015
Dr Desperate
Since you raise the subject, Bob, it’s also ‘A Octafish’.
10 August 2015
Bobby SVARC
Yeah, what a cnut.
10 August 2015
brumbiscuit
Funnily enough I did belt out Funky Moped at a mate’s wedding reception, but without accompaniment. Save for 25+ drunken Brummies that is. It was at the Parkstone Conservative Club, near Poole, and we also got the DJ to play Anarchy in the UK. Rather pissed off the blue rinsers, but that was the intention.
10 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
@PMcO – I was the lead vocalist in an air band in college, which, perhaps understandably, some might confuse with karaoke, but is actually an entirely different animal. Because the purpose of our “gigs” was dancing and having fun, we did not do any Kansas.
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Some things should stay where they were created, like Frankenstein’s Monster, “American Football” and deep-fried confectionary, and that’s definitely the case with karaoke.
16 July 2015
Dr Desperate
Literally, my favourite word. From the Japanese kara (empty, as in karate ’empty hand’) and Ĺkesutora (from the English ‘orchestra’). Empty orchestra. Brilliant.
On the other hand, I’d rather die than do it.
16 July 2015
EXXO
People are rightly free to do this at private gatherings; I do feel that for public spaces there should be some kind of qualifying rounds (which would held somewhere in the cellars of the town hall and could even be televised for those who like that sort of thing, thus earning the local council a bit of extra cash to pay for lobsters at twinning dinners).
I myself would breeze through such niceties of course, and take my rightful place, foot held low, at Europe’s top table of karaoke crooners.
Seriously though, I do actually think that HMHB are exactly the kind of band that karaoke settings on your stereo were invented for (nd I’m fairly sure that our front man himself, with his typical self-deprification, would concur.
16 July 2015
brumbiscuit
Apart from a Gary Glitter number done in Brum once, I have only ‘performed’ once. I was angling for redundancy from an employer in Budapest and another colleague was having a leaving do at a karaoke bar. Lo and behold, they had Release Me by Engelbert Humperdink and I belted it out, in my mind, brilliantly. That was it, my cherry popped, and they had to wrest the mic from my grasp after The Clash, Bowie and Blondie had been ruined. 9 years have passed and I’ve hidden my light under a bushel since then. Oh, and I got my redundancy.
16 July 2015
Dawlishian
Introduced to the UK by a Frank Chicken?
16 July 2015
peter mcornithologist
Stumbled upon one in local hostelry last night. It seemed to be exactly as the one I stumbled upon decades ago. Gloria Gaynor, Celine Dion,Tina Turner
Sufficient to leave but I thought how wonderful it could have been if Brumbiscuit had been belting out Engelbert. Followed by Dickhead warbling Positively 4th Street, Steve sadly crooning Kansas, Eric attempting Peking O,Exxo screaming out Evening of Swing and then Bobby Svarc growling Neon Meat Dream of an Octofish.
9 August 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@PMcO you’ve got a lot of nerve!
9 August 2015
bobby svarc
Tubes, Tubs, Bulbs………it’s meate, man. Surely Brumbiscuit would be belting out “Funky Moped?”
10 August 2015
Dr Desperate
Since you raise the subject, Bob, it’s also ‘A Octafish’.
10 August 2015
Bobby SVARC
Yeah, what a cnut.
10 August 2015
brumbiscuit
Funnily enough I did belt out Funky Moped at a mate’s wedding reception, but without accompaniment. Save for 25+ drunken Brummies that is. It was at the Parkstone Conservative Club, near Poole, and we also got the DJ to play Anarchy in the UK. Rather pissed off the blue rinsers, but that was the intention.
10 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
@PMcO – I was the lead vocalist in an air band in college, which, perhaps understandably, some might confuse with karaoke, but is actually an entirely different animal. Because the purpose of our “gigs” was dancing and having fun, we did not do any Kansas.
11 August 2015