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Welcome to Karaoke Info's 21st Newsletter
Welcome to Karaoke Info's 21st NewsletterIn this month's edition you will discover the winners of our competitions, the new features on KI and all the current news that makes www.karaokeinfo.co.uk the premier Karaoke website for the UK!
This month we bring you a new feature in our newsletter, a monthly satirical look at the Karaoke World through the rather strange mind of Andy Nicklin!
The Prize Draw Winner For August:
Jemma (Flashyknickers) wins two hits discs from the Mr Entertainer range courtesy of Session Music
East Midlands Karaoke Competition
This month we have teamed up with our friends at East Midlands Karaoke to give you the chance of winning a FREE DVD Karaoke Player
To enter the competition you need to visit www.emkaraoke.co.uk and answer a simple question.
Click here to enter the competition now!
Latest News from KI!
BNO News
KI Regional Nights
Bristol and West Country Regional Night Out
Monday 27th October 2003
White Hart Inn
High Street
Iron Acton
Bristol
Avon
BS37 9UG
01454228228
Ian (Justice) and Hayley of You're The Star Karaoke will be our hosts for the night. Children are welcome on this night and the date has been chosen as it is generally a Half-term holiday. All members and friends are welcome but please let us know if you can make it so we can confirm numbers with the venue. Please check BNO room for latest details.
Please remember that anyone can organise a RNO. Our only criteria that we would ask for is that the venue is hosted by a KI member and that it has regular Karaoke. We would like to see some action in other parts of the Country, so get together with other members in your area and let us know when, we will try to attend as many as possible. Please check BNO room for latest details.
KI will be 2 years old on November 23rd!
To celebrate we are holding a Birthday Party
Monday 24th November
The Gun
83 Church Street
Croydon
Surrey
CR0 1RN
Jerry Baker is our KJ for the night We expect to see tons of you at this event in the home town of KI and we can guarantee one mega party will be had by all. All members and friends are welcome but please let us know if you can make it so we can confirm numbers with the venue. Please check BNO room for latest details.
Articles
Do you have an interesting Karaoke story to tell? Share it with Karaoke Info :-) Click here to read the articles already submitted.
Some ideas for articles
• Setting up a Karaoke business
• Upgrading or giving your Karaoke rig a makeover
• From Karaoke singer to gigging singer
• The first time I sung Karaoke on my own!
• My life as a Karaoke Addict
• The ups and downs of Karaoke Competitions
• How Karaoke changed my life!
• I met my partner at a karaoke
• My Funny Karaoke story
• My most embarrassing Karaoke story
So if you think you can write an article about the above topics or anything related to Karaoke please do so and send them to articles@karaokeinfo.co.uk we will review them and post them with your name as the author in our brand new articles database.
The Bader UK Karaoke Challenge
Karaoke Info is pleased to promote this worthwhile charity event in aid of The Douglas Bader Foundation.
15 finalists will take part in The Grand Final to be held in Fes - Morocco on December 4th - 7th.
The Bader UK Karaoke Challenge is really hotting up with House Finals taking place all over the place. There are still a few venues doing heats so please contact Roy ukkaraokeking@yahoo.co.uk to see if there is a venue near you.. The idea about the competition is to make it fun and to raise much needed cash for The Douglas Bader Foundation. Check out the The Bader UK Karaoke Challenge room for latest details.
The total raised so far is over £7,000 :-)
The rules of the Competition are as follows:
The way the winners from each heat are picked are as follows.
There are 2 judging methods.The first way is the audience choice. This is how the money is raised, it is very straight forward £1 equals 1 vote. So the singer that raises the most money go through to the next round.
The second method is the best singer based on ability, who will be chosen by a judge.
This system will apply up to the semi final.
Each House Final will produce 4 winners, 2 that are chosen by audience and 2 by the judge.
Then the regional/quarter final where we break the 60 venues down to 20. Each venue will have 12 singers where 2 will chosen. Creating 40 semi finalists
The 15 finalist will then be selected from the singers that attend the semi-final in Central London.
Singers Section
Stars in your eyes...
Have you always dreamed of being a famous pop star and seeing your own CDs on the shelves of record shops across the nation? Do you long to sing in front of thousands? Perhaps you've been inspired to start singing by family or friends who've recognised your musical talent or been spurred on by the wannabes on TV programmes like 'Pop Stars' and 'Pop Idol' and 'Stars inTheir Eyes'.
Click here for more information.
Recording studios
Take a look at Karaoke Info's very own Singers section to find out moreabout how you can produce your own CD with the help of professionals in
Click here to find out more about Songmaker Studios...
Click here to find out more about Pod Music...
We also have a range of books for singers, songwriters and music fans, FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) for singers and a forum to share newsand views with like-minded singers.
Birthday present and gift ideas
If you know somebody who would love to have the opportunity to spend time with the experts in a recording studio recording their favourite trackor a composition why not purchase a gift voucher for them for SongmakerStudios or Pod Music as a surprise gift or birthday present.
Good books for singers and music lovers
Karaoke lovers and fans of all kinds of music can choose from a selection of music books which are available to buy online through the secure online shopping basket facility at Amazon. Simply click on the book of your choiceand it will be added to your online shopping basket.
You can find music books, reference titles and encyclopaedias coveringa diverse range of musical eras and styles including R&B, soul, metal,rock and pop music from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Click here to find out more…
Are you considering a career as a professional singer?
The singers section is the ideal place to find books to help you train your voice, improve your singing technique and learn how to sing wellwith a number of guides on vocal training and professional singers' handbooks.
Click here to find out more…
Songwriters
Are you a budding Tim Rice or Burt Bacharach? Would you like to know more about how to write a best selling song and how to become a successful composer? For top tips, hints and advice on writing song lyrics browse through our selection of essential books on how to make it in the musicindustry.
Click here to find out more…
Karaoke Info Top 10 charts
We now have the facility to enter your Top 10 karaoke tracks of all time! (please note we are looking for the songs you hear week in and week out sung at different karaoke venues) We also have a Top 10 Worst songs (these are the personal karaoke songs that make you cringe and you really never want to hear again!) You can submit your charts by clicking on the Top 10 link on every page.
The Top three on both charts remain solidly out in front with the remainder jockeying for position, your votes do count so if you haven't submitted your chart please do so ASAP :-)
| Current Top 10 | |
| 1 | Angels Robbie Williams |
| 2 | My Way Frank Sinatra |
| 3 | Summer Nights John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| 4 | Paradise By The Dashboard Light Meatloaf |
| 5 | Mustang Sally The Commitments |
| 6 | Words Boyzone |
| 7 | Mack The Knife Bobby Darin |
| 8 | Daydream Believer The Monkees |
| 9 | I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor |
| 10 | Build Me Up Buttercup The Foundations |
| Current Worst 10 | |
| 1 | Paradise By The Dashboard Light Meatloaf |
| 2 | Never Ever All Saints |
| 3 | My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion |
| 4 | I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor |
| 5 | Mustang Sally The Commitments |
| 6 | Angels Robbie Williams |
| 7 | The Drugs Don't Work The Verve |
| 8 | American Pie Don McLean |
| 9 | Bohemian Rhapsody Queen |
| 10 | Think Twice Celine Dion |
Karaoke Books Online
Karaoke Info is proud to present www.karaokebooks.com. You can create your Karaoke book online for as little as £10 for a month's subscription or only £30 for an entire year!
Remember you can assign all your discs and check you have a full listing before you subscribe. We only ask you to pay once you have decided that you want to print your full book!
If you spot a mistake in our listings please please let us know, we spent weeks collating all the listings but we are only human! If we are told about mistakes we can rectify them quickly.
If you have discs that are not listed let us know the manufacturers code and first and last track listing, in most cases we can track down the disc listings and have them listed within 24 hours! If not we will liaise with you and make sure they are added.
Website owners, we have an affiliates scheme where you can earn money. Click here for more information.
Stats
We have now had over 185,000 visitors to Karaoke Info since November 23rd 2001!
The amount of visitors that www.karaokeinfo.co.uk have been getting in the last few months have been growing at an amazing rate! We are now averaging over 3400 visitors a week.
According to our stats, the busiest time on KI is between 1pm and 3pm!
Mystery Singers
We still need more Mystery Singers, if you would like to be a mystery singer (you must be a registered member) please send us an email with your name phone number (land line preferably) to i_want_to_be_a_mystery_singer@karaokeinfo.co.uk (we would especially welcome singers from north of Watford and anywhere outside the London area!!)
Our Mystery Singers report that they have great fun being incognito. (Sorry this is not open to our KJ members as they tend to be a little biased ;-))
Venues
In our venues database we list over 1400 karaoke venues nationwide from Scotland right down to Cornwall!
We still have plans to go global soon so you will be able to check out karaokes outside the UK, please keep a note of any venues you visit on your hols ;-)
Remember it is free to list a venue on Karaoke Info and you can add them yourself.
Please let us know if a venue changes their regular night or stops doing karaoke, we like to keep our database as up to date as possible, this can only be done with your help, email us at venues@karaokeinfo.co.uk with the venue name and area and we will change the details or remove it from the listings.
KJs
We have aprox 380 KJs in our database covering the country. We know there are plenty more KJs out there - we list over 1400 venues!
It is free to list your services as a KJ.
Advertising on KI
Advertise with www.karaokeinfo.co.uk for as little as £40/year.
Karaoke Info is the first karaoke site to offer an all round information package to the whole of the UK. Venues, KJ's, Karaoke links, and a very active forum.
Karaoke Info now has an average of over 3,000 visitors per week with an average of over 5000 page views per day!!
We believe your business would benefit from advertising on Karaoke Info!
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To place an advert, please email advertising@karaokeinfo.co.uk or call us on 020 8405 2484.
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**We implement a system to ensure that all ads are displayed at the top of the page an equal number of times
Advertising on Karaoke Info works! give yourself an added advantage over everyone else, contact us today!
Piracy
Thanks to all the people who have joined the crusade to stop pirates wrecking the legit KJ's business! Our very own Karaoke anti-piracy investigator Ged Stenberg tells us that since Karaoke Info has been launched he is getting a great deal more information. (Pirates beware you will get caught!) If you have any information on Piracy you can email Ged directly from www.karaokeinfo.co.uk either openly or anonymously. If sending anonymously, the email is sent from anonymoususer@karaokeinfo.co.uk meaning that nobody will know who you are. Ged asks that if anyone does send him information that it should include as much information as possible. Check the legal room for more information.
New Feature!
This month we bring you a new feature in our newsletter, a monthly satirical look at the Karaoke World through the rather strange mind of Andy Nicklin!
Andy Nutter and The Chamber Pot of Secrets
Chapter One - The Sign
It was a warm summer evening in Privot Drive, the birds were singing, hardly a leaf was moving on the trees, the sound of children playing with spray cans down at the local park was barely audible - just as well really, 'cos lying behind a hedge, with a microphone held firmly in his hand was a slightly rotund fellow snoring softly - punctuated occasionally with a slight murmuring… "We…snore…are…snore…the…snore…cheeky…snuffle…girls…"
Why was he lying behind that hedge?
Why did no one complain about the kids with the spray cans?
Why?
Our story really begins some hours earlier - actually quite a few hours earlier to be fair - at a place known to many as simply London Village…a small town in the south of England, a bit to the left of the sea, but not that much...well, far enough that you can't walk to the beach…unless you drove to Southend, and parked up within walking distance of the beach - or caught the train perhaps…
There were many people in the village public house that fateful night - known to many as simply "The Hole" - the kindly, welcoming landlord Mister Spence was particularly generous on this occasion as, being keen on the beautiful sound of the human voice, allowed a tribe of entertainers from places far a field, and some actually came from fields too, to sing to his regulars.
The entertainers had bizarre names - possibly made up, some might say - Chow, Muvver Cockney, ukkaroakeking…
And the mysterious Timbo X.
The leader of the tribe - Benzo The Eighth, seemed to hold some power over the others, as he would call them by name, and hand them the microphone - which meant that they were allowed…to sing.
And how they sang - locals would cover their ears in disbelief that such sonic perfection could be performed by so few - at least that's what I think they were doing it for…
Ahh, at this stage of the proceedings, I should introduce myself as AndyN - an observational observer, and like my namesake Samuel Pepys, I chronicle the observations I make - a bit like a diary, but without the Bank Holidays, and National Don't Pick Your Nose In Traffic Day type stuff…and the Centigrade to Fahrenheit conversions…and an out of date tube map…
As Benzo called out each name in turn, and as the sun slowly drifted down below the horizon, nobody seemed to notice that the mysterious Timbo X was behaving…in a peculiar manner…except that is…me…
There could have been a thousand and one explanations for his behaviour - perhaps it was normal, perhaps he was "not himself" - nevertheless my suspicions were roused enough to investigate - so I did…
Was it too late, had He Who Should Not Be Ashamed come back, in a guise that fooled everybody, was the day of reckoning approaching faster than a fast thing being thrown extremely fast?
All of a sudden, suddenly everything seemed to suddenly move in slow motion - the voice of Benzo the Eighth became distant and deep - "Next Up - Timbo giving us a little bit of the…"
I was distracted, like someone had just distracted me, and I felt a wave of nausea coming across me like a big wave in the sea, in the middle of winter…what could it mean - my scar was hurting now, hurting in such a way that it hadn't hurt before; was it a sign? A sign the He Who Should Not Be Ashamed had returned…or had I just fallen off my chair?
Coming up next month - Chapter Two - Sing, Sing, Sing
Stay tuned :-)
Don't just sit there, visit www.karaokeinfo.co.uk today and be part of the action!
Best Wishes
Joy, Chris & Hazel
(The Karaoke Info Team)
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