Karaoke

I was shocked to discover I don't seem to have done a karaoke blog post. I think it is time I quickly rectify that! My friends and I have probably been karaoke-ing for close on a decade now. We almost always go to the same booth at the Lucky Voice in Soho. I realise that when I tell people I am going to karaoke, the assumption is that I will be singing in a bar. And I couldn't think of anything worse!! Whereas being in our own booth with our own choice of music blasting out and dancing around is one of my favourite things! 

I love that we are all so into it now. I still feel I probably love it the very most but it's not like there is one person feeling awkward or joining in less. I also love that I really really can't sing and two of my friends in particular have lovely voices, but I feel accepted and am pretty happy to belt out terrible vocals anyway. We consider ourselves quite pros now. We skip songs if they aren't going very well or if we feel we've had enough from a few verses and choruses as we know the time goes quickly. We have a set of standard songs but we also try out a few new ones each time. I consider it quite a two hour workout as we dance away and would consider it quite appalling to leave a gap between songs.  We do have certain numbers that certain combinations of us do as duets etc such as:

Elton John and Kiki Dee

Gangsta's Paradise

Fat Bottomed Girls

Wuthering Heights - quite a masterpiece!

I also love that we have songs that probably no one else would do - namely Cliff Richard's Saviour's Day - which we did last night 79 days before Christmas! 

Some new ones we enjoyed last night were:

Under the Sea

Truly Madly Deeply

Wannabe

Here is a list that was sent round before this session and clearly was compiled at some point in the past. I feel it's the sort of thing I would have written but as it isn't on the blog then I am confused!! 

Must do

Far bottomed girls

Wuthering heights

You can't stop the beat

Like a prayer

Grease

Islands in the stream

Eye of the tiger

Bat out of hell

Time warp

Backstreet boys

Holding out for a hero

Saviours day 

For the album

Ring of fire

Don't go breaking my heart

Just can't wait to be king 

Maybes

Call me maybe 

Hey ya

Moves like jagger

Tiny dancer 

Crocodile rock

Don't stop me now

Suspicious minds 

Total eclipse of the heart

One way or another 

Everything I do 

Love shack

Wake me up before you go go 

Hangman style 

 Today 

Barry White

Year 3000

Love story

Let it go

All about the bass

Uptown funk

Sweet Caroline

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Rasputin

China in your hand 

Africa 

Boots walking

Don't you want me

Ice ice baby

Rocking all over the world

Teenage dirtbag 

Fame

Shaggy

Paloma faith 

Brown eyed girl 

Bed of roses 

That's what makes you beautiful

And here are a few extras that I remember doing last night:

Never Forget

I got a lovely combine harvester 

East 17

I'm not sure if it was during Like a Prayer or maybe Don't Stop Me Now that I looked round and thought how much I love having these friends that I can do such silly things with and know I've got them and they've got me. I also felt the words to Hmmbop were highly highly appropriate - very surprised to discover it actually had words, and meaningful words at that!! I had the odd thought that if I died I would want the three of them to go do karaoke at some point and now I think I'd like them to sing Hmmbop!