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Karaoke Update

Winner!

My assault on the Karaoke World Championship continues. Last night my cheer-posse and I descended on the Rex Hotel, for the venue finals. A great night of song and fun, and the hosts have to be commended for putting on a great show. End result, I came 2nd for the night, and along with the winner I will be competing in the State Finals in a couple of weeks.

First time I’ve competed in this level of singing, and I quickly learnt a couple of things. It’s SOP to have a change of costume between your songs (serious!). It’s also a bad idea to stick to only the one artist/group. Variety and versitility can have an effect on your final score. One kind soul also suggested not looking at the screen so often, and learning all of the words. True, and a quick squiz at the offical KWC Youtube clips (world champions at the international finals) proves that these folks are more or less singing as pros – entertaining the crowd, dancing, and belting it out with full confidence. Turns out it’s serious business!

Next, the State Finals await. Bring it on 🙂

The Once and Future (Karaoke) King

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In my non-writing life, I’ve sometimes been known to assemble a posse of the like-minded and take over the nearest karaoke bar. It started off as dutch courage and ten people crowded around a microphone, to going it alone and improvising strange poetry in the middle of “Stairway to Heaven”, even committing crimes against harmonica accompaniment. Finally I went along to regular karaoke seasons at my old local, the Rex Hotel. My 25th birthday (approx 10 years ago!) I rented out the entire sports bar and we belted out the karaoke until the small hours.

One of my favourite memories of Clarion South was when most of the class took over a Brisbane karaoke bar and we blew off six weeks of stress in one night of crazy tune-crankage. Good times 🙂

Some years back I made the finals of a local karaoke contest, but bombed out in the last round. Fast-forward to now, and I’m leafing through the Messenger, when I find out about this thing called the Karaoke World Championship. The Australian winner gets to represent our country in Finland, and apparently it’s a massive deal.

http://kwcaustralia.com.au/

Local heats were being held around SA, including the Rex Hotel. Rounded up the posse, cranked it out, and now I’m in the venue finals 🙂 if I can manage to get through the next round, then it’s onto the state finals for Team Fisch.

Onward! 🙂