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!”
ROCKAOKE were featured in the october 2009 issue of COMPANY magazine in the “a night less ordinary” feature on page 113.
click here to view the feature in full.
A little excerpt from the Daily Star playlist page featuring ROCKAOKE in the Gaymers Cider Garden at Leeds Festival 2009.
“We invested £4m in an integrated marketing campaign last year and reached 650,000 consumers. The overall Gaymers brand experience grew by 200%.
On Friday 26th September live on stage at BANGERS & MASH @ PUNK Soho, join us for the launch of ROCKAOKE!
From 7.30pm till 10pm join us on stage and perform one of your favourite tracks with a live 3-piece rock band! Join your host for the night Roxy for karaoke, as you have never seen it before!
The infamous ROCKAOKE, the band supporting your performance, made front-page headlines after a performance at IBIZA ROCKS when they were joined onstage by KAISER CHIEFS Ricky Wilson (singing his own hit “I PREDICT A RIOT”) and New York rockers WE ARE SCIENTISTS. Rockaoke have performed at other major festivals all over the UK V2007, O2, Hard Rock Calling and Rockness!!
Take the stage and perform in the shoes of Alex Turner, Amy Winehouse, Sting, Axl Rose, Madonna, Bono, and many many more…
Come down to infamous PUNK in Soho, and take to the stage, sign-up on the night from 7.30pm, from 10pm BANGERS & MASH take the floor with their eclectic sounds, expect live jugglers, bubble blowing drags & the usual face art, face painters & games. Dj’s Emilia & Jimmy Napes spin a perfect mashup of tunes alongside Olivia Joyce with the treats & Rodolfo with the live art.
Don’t miss out!
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See the Beam Blog for more about the party.
ROCKAOKE are please to announce a series of Rockaoke Nights as part of “HAPPY ACCIDENT LOVES… SUNDAY’s” at the new Proud Galleries in Camden. The launch night is 06 april 2008.
See below for HAPPY ACCIDENT’s press release
Happy Accident Loves… Sundays
New Night, New Proud
Happy Accident is proud to announce a new weekly residency at the new Proud Galleries, opening up in April 2008. Continuing its huge success at the Camden mainstay in 2007, Happy Accident is taking over Sundays at the new 700 capacity venue, providing 3 separate areas tailored every sort of Sunday crowd imaginable – chilled out booths for those who have partied too hard, a dancefloor for those who want to keep going and a games room for the energetic yet clear-headed. Happy Accident will be hosting new and established bands, big name DJs, team games and quizzes with special guest hosts and the fantastic Rockaoke, making sure Proudsters are entertained from afternoon until midnight.
Proud’s new booths are ideal for a relaxed Sunday afternoon. Order your favourite food, watch DVDs, pre-order Sunday papers and catch the big game – all in the unique surroundings of Camden’s favourite venue and under the watchful eyes of your favourite hosts, Daisy Quin and Anne Kapranos from Happy Accident.
Later on, the best from London’s music scene will be performing alongside UK and Internationally known bands and for those in the party mood, Happy Accident’s resident DJs will be keeping the uplifting vibe going with the best electro London can offer. Happy Accident at Proud will be the answer to sad Sundays of hangovers, boring family events and Monday looming.
Launching on Sunday 6th April, Happy Accident Loves… Sundays will welcome Jodie Harsh as the Quiz hostess with the mostest and the ever popular Rockaoke. Special guest DJs will include The Rakes, Stunners International, Death Can Dance and Lillica Libertine.
3pm – 12am
At Proud
Stables Market
Camden
NW1
Last night four of thelondonpaper’s musical minds converged on the Albany pub for the annual music quiz to celebrate the NME Awards nominations. There were reps from many of the broadsheets, radio stations, TV stations and shows.
We kicked ass and came joint third (with The Sun), out of twelve (I think, I can’t quite remember in the blur of chip and cider scoffing). MTV2 were knocked from their perch of two-times winner by joint winners The Guardian and BBC Radio 1 who then had to battle it out for the ultimate prize – the NME Awards middle finger – by doing rockaoke (that’s karaoke with a live backing band).
Radio 1 were clearly better singers – hello attempted harmonies on Bon Jovi’s Living On A Prayer! – but the Guardian won out with the largest cheer. Losers the Independent knocked back tequila shots and sloped up to sing the Zutons Valerie as their forfeit.
Click here for full article and list of nominations
