Friday, March 16, 2007

Karaoke - 15th Mar 2007

It's that time of the week again and without wanting to sound repetitive, it was yet another quiet night in the hotel for a Thursday. I got there at just before nine and there was not one person in the main seating area. Where has everyone gone? Have they all been hit by cars and transported back to 1973, are they in another pub somewhere or are they just plain skint?

Whatever the answer, the show must go on and albeit a little later than usual, the karaoke kicked in to sort us out with our weekly fix. Song-wise, I had a go at a new one, The Feeling - Never Be Lonely which went ok, Tina & Hayley attempted Sophie Ellis Bextors catchy (no pun intended) new track "Catch You" (off-topic: have you seen how chronically thin she looks in the video to this song!!) and Scott never fails to suprise by singing Goldfrapps' - Ooh La La, inspired of course by it being the Fratellis live-lounge cover and live show finale.

Any night out where I'm not on-call and not working the next day usually sees me getting a little tipsy and tonight was no exception. Once more the mixes of Carslberg, Sambucca and Jack Daniels did me no good (apparently I passed out in bed!) and the head hurt once more today. Comedic moment of the night belonged to me (unfortunately!) when Scott treated Andy and myself to a shot of sambucca straight. Having been talking earlier about how to drink them when they've been lit I immediately proceeded to grab Tinas lighter and set fire to my drink. I let it burn for a few seconds, may have been longer, before blowing it out and put the glass straight to my mouth.....OUCH!... it was hot. very hot. Much to the amusement of those around me I'd seriously underestimated how hot a glass can get having been set on fire for a short period. Fortunately I managed not to spill the sambucca everywhere and necked it a few moments later after it had cooled down :)

Modesty award of the night goes to Scott, who after singing Elton Johns - I Guess That's Why Call It The Blues rather well, responded to my "That was quite good" comment with "I know"! He later had to be let out via the fire exit doors. :p

And so onto the songs sung this week:



** New Song **
The Feeling - Never Be Lonely - Chosen as I was pondering on whether to go see them or not in June (which I'm not). I like The Feeling and this was a fairly straightforward song to do although I probably won't do it again. I'm struggling at the moment to find new songs to do although the new Sunfly is out in two weeks with a couple more to keep me going. In the meantime I think I'm going to have to delve through some old 'Now' disks for inspiration. If the worst comes to the worst I could always sing Rick Astleys Never gonna give you up! :o


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3 comments:

Louise said...

How's your burnt lip and sore head? lol
Managewd to sort the counter out for my blog so feeling quite smug and clever now!!!

Captain Jack said...

I must say I was only commenting on the actuall son and not my singing mate although this has opened us up fo some great banter!!!!

Shaun said...

hehe, you know I only jest ;)