Thursdays @ Tooting Tram & Social
Thursday ROCKAOKE NIGHTS @ Tooting Tram & Social!
Starts thursday april 21st 2011. Sign up to sing online @ www.rockaokenights.com/tooting
Free entry!
Band on stage from 8.30pm til midnight.
news
BRIDES Magazine – Twist of Fete
“TWIST OF FETE” – Louise & Diego’s “Real Weddings” feature in BRIDES MAGAZINE, april 2011.
Japan Tsunami Fundraiser
Please join us in our efforts to raise money for all those affected. We are having a fundraising evening packed full of great entertainment
The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March have caused widespread destruction and suffering. More than 8,000 people have died in the disaster, thousands are injured and at least 12,000 are missing. Many people are living in evacuation centres as 14,000 homes have been destroyed and around 100,000 are damaged.
Wednesday 30th March at Karaoke Box Smithfield from 7pm onwards
Kwadjo & the Stars will be back playing their classic blend of funky tunes!
The Rockaoke Band are back for our usual last Wednesday of the month night and are looking forward to helping us raise as much as possible on the night. They will be on stage from 9pm – 11pm ready for you to get up and be the lead singer for a song or two
Sing with the Rockaoke band
A live backline of drums, bass and guitar and you singing vocals from a selection of 200 songs.
Sign up to sing @ www.rockaokenights.com/karaokebox
Band on from 9pm – 11pm
Entrance Fee £10 (includes a drink and some nibbles)
Drinks on special offer on the night! All proceeds to be donated to the relief effort.
For more information about Rockaoke or any of our Wednesday events please contactafandi@karaokebox.co.uk or call us on 020 7329 9991.
ROCKAOKE @ Hard Rock Cafe – party like a ROCK STAR!
It’s always party night at HARD ROCK.
ROCKAOKE are an integral part of Hard Rock’s “Party Like A Rockstar” offering and have done many corporate events at the original Hard Rock Cafe on Old Park Lane in London and also in Manchester. ROCKAOKE are featured in the “Corporate Events” section of the video below.
Events include:
- SEGA ROCKS – xmas party 2007.
- AUTOSPORT AWARDS – aftershow party 2009.
- JOHN LEWIS – various parties.
- TESCO – xmas party 2010.
The thing about Hard Rock is that all their parties ROCK – very HARD!!!! And everyone gets treated like a ROCKSTAR! Whether they are Bruce Springsteen or not.
“These guys know how to Rock the house! Always great fun, always professional, pure genius.”
– Niki Henville (Sales Manager, Hard Rock Cafe)
ROCKAOKE @ The Camden Crawl 2011
FRINGE PROGRAMME LINE UP & EVENING VENUE CURATORS ANNOUNCED
In very different fashion from the coinciding Royalist festivities, Gaymers Camden Crawl, scheduled to take place Saturday 30th April and Sunday 1st May 2011, will celebrate its 10th birthday edition since its inception in 1995 on the May Bank Holiday Weekend.
Swift on the heels of selling out its early bird weekend tickets, the Crawl is pleased to reveal the first stage of its line up announcements for 2011. Over the past four years, the festival’s daytime fringe programme of cutting edge arts and music has continued to flourish on a par with its legendary rock & roll evening extravaganza. During the daylight hours the main thoroughfares of Camden will literally burst at the seams with a vast array of comedic talent, visual art and crafts exhibitions, spoken word and performance theatre, interactive events & games and, of course, live music.
Sprawling across more than twenty venues, the Crawl daytime schedule of events kicks off from midday on both days of the weekend and runs until 6:00 pm when the evening live music scramble begins. Upon arrival at the festival each ticket holder will be presented with an all-access wristband, programme guide, timetable and free download album to help plot his/her day’s adventure. ‘Crawlers’ will be granted unlimited access to all official daytime and evening venues and parties capacity permitting.
The 2011 confirmed daytime fringe line up includes the UKs 2 coolest karaoke shows:
HIP HOP KARAOKE (Saturday @ The Ice Wharf)
Putting a fresh twist on the ancient art of karaoke, the legendary Hip-Hop Karaoke lets you get on the mic and act out your rap fantasies to the fullest. With over 150 songs to choose from the set-up includes everything that an authentic hip-hop live show does,. DJ Rob Pursey and comperes Marc Choice and Bobby Champagne Jnr.. Lose yourself!
ROCKAOKE (Sunday @ The Ice Wharf)
The ultimate rockstar experience that is Rockaoke first hit the road in 2003 and have since performed with an estimated 24,000 individual lead singers. Rockaoke has slowly been taking over the world residencies in some of London’s most prestigious clubs to high profile appearances at festivals and of course the 2010 Crawl aftershow party.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL FRINGE LINE-UP
Alan Shearer’s 40th birthday – Sunderland Echo, 18th August 2010
Recently, ROCKAOKE had the great honour of performing at Alan Shearer’s 40th birthday bash. Superstar guests included Alan Hansen, Iain Dowie and Ant & Dec, and our own guitar hero Dan Richardson got a mention in the paper!
Dan was no doubt thrilled to perform alongside the England footballing legend at this exclusive gig, but there was only one problem – he’s a Sunderland AFC fan! Dan spoke to the Sunderland Echo about his reservations when it came to stepping into Newcastle territory, saying that it was “hard to swallow at first”. Thankfully, he was soon put at ease when he saw that Steve Bruce had been invited too.
For this special occasion, we were joined onstage by BBC Radio 1 producer Matt Fincham, who filled in on keyboards. Matt had worked with us before when we were on tour with Chris Molyes Live in 2009.
Alan had no idea that our guitarist was a lifelong Sunderland fan, but he nevertheless joined us onstage to belt out a rendition of Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon. We gave him a big intro and he absolutely smashed it!
You can see more pics from this incredible gig by visiting our celeb/high-profile events page. You can also see the full article from the Sunderland Echo here.
The Best Wedding Band Ever!
Sorry this isn’t a beauty post (but there’s a tenuous link to fitness somewhere!): I have major post-wedding blues after helping organise a brilliant wedding last weekend so I had to write something about it to keep me sane. My friends Louise and Diego hosted the most beautiful, colourful, fun and personal wedding I’ve ever been to: there were home-made decorations and cakes, pretty tables laid with floral runners, rainbow bunting and some seriously good-looking guests (half were Spanish: think tanned, wild and fabulously dressed). It was very special and such an honour to help them with all the prep.
A big highlight was the evening’s entertainment. A few months ago, the bride and I (who have a penchant for karaoke) came across a brilliant act called Rockaoke. The band, of four fun male musicians on lead, bass and drums, belts out rocky classics and dancefloor fillers whilst YOU sing. They have a list of over 100 songs that you can sign yourself up for, with all the lyrics in a book on the stage. So there we were, in a bar in Soho full of complete strangers, singing our little hearts out with a rock band. Watching Louise perform, I knew we had to get them involved in her wedding.
And it happened: Rockaoke was their wedding band and they went down a storm. The first act – one of the bridesmaids – performed a Tina Turner number with all the signature moves, which got the whole crowd signing up for songs. It’s the ultimate limelight fantasy and it doesn’t matter whether you’re good or bad, everyone will sing along and be on your side. The band themselves were brilliant – prompting each performer with their cue to start singing and filling in the lyrics when some guests were too (ahem) excited to follow the words on the book. Everyone was dancing (there’s the fitness part) and most of the guests got to sing, including the Spanish aunties with a lengthy Hey Jude and an 11-year old screaming Kaiser Chief’s Ruby. It was mad and the crowd was electric.
I’ve been to a lot of weddings and this was by far the best band and entertainment I’ve ever seen. If you’re looking for something original, fun and memorable, get clicking and book www.rockaoke.com .
by Alice diParcq – Alice is Brides’ Beauty and Features Editor and has been at the magazine since 2005. She got married to John du Parcq in June 2007 at Ramster, Chiddingfold, and lives in South West London.
Click here to read the article in BRIDES MAGAZINE.
“Summer With A Twist” in THE TIMES
“ROCKAOKE NIGHTS are offering aspiring rock stars the chance to strut their stuff. This year SOHO, next year GLASTO…”
THE TIMES’ roving rock star / reporter Dominic Wells recently took to the stage with ROCKAOKE @ PUNK, Soho. Click here to read about how it went in THE TIMES ONLINE.
“..the Rockaoke night is the most fun you can have without getting arrested…”
See gigs page for forthcoming ROCKAOKE NIGHTS at a venue near you. You can also jump the queue by signing up to sing online @ www.rockaokenights.com.
ROCKAOKE @ The Boardwalk, Sheffield
“This is the future. FACT!”
Even though ROCKAOKE had performed around 1,000 gigs with an estimated 25,000 lead singers, the band had never performed in their hometown.
SHEFFIELD
This all changed on 5th may 2010 at around 8.30pm when the mighty ROCKAOKE hit the stage @ The Boardwalk.
Here (see below) is Carl Reid’s EXPOSED Magazine review of ROCKAOKE’s hometown debut. And he’s gonna book the band for his birthday – it’s all down here in black & white!
SEXY versus SAD – Cosmopolitan March 2010
The phenomenon that is ROCKAOKE was featured in the March 2010 edition of COSMOPOLITAN (see below).
Featured on the “Sex & the (not so) Single Girl” page (p. 25), ROCKAOKE was deemed the sexyest thing of the month. Spare a thought for our old mate JLC who who’s album release was judged to be the saddest!
“ROCKAOKE. It’s cheesy karaoke’s cooler bro, where you sing with an actual live band behind you. Hello rock Goddess!”
