Tag: Karaoke

It’s been a while

So tonight or this morning it is 3am and I am back at home after a night out at a karaoke bar in Plymouth I have not written a post for nearly a month but all is well I have my health and I am doing ok.

So why am I up so late or early well I have just got back from a bar called the Walkabout in Plymouth and I am still feeling wide awake after the night out it normally takes my friend an hour or so to drive back from Plymouth and drop me off at a place that I then walk back home from.

Tonight was our last ever visit to the walkabout pub as it is closing down which is a shame but as they don’t seem to get as many people in to the pub anymore I guess its struggled to pay its way in the world or in Plymouth anyway.

As soon as I arrived tonight there I was told that there was no Guinness which is normally my tipple of choice so I had a pint of lager and then after a second lager they they then ran out of lager. The pub does a quiz first before the karaoke so its along night from about 7.30 to 1am and by the time the karaoke started I was drinking lemonade.

We were asked to try and sing an Australian song or two so I had chosen two songs that I hoped to sing. My First choice called Follow the Sun by Xavier Rudd is a great uplifting tune and my second choice was called sweet disposition by the temper trap. Chris the karaoke DJ who I think I have known from as long a time as when he worked in a Crediton Weatherspoon’s as a manager was the DJ tonight he’s a great guy and also a bit of a practical joker too. He also runs a quiz and karaoke night in Exeter and I tend to see him more in Exeter than Plymouth.

Tonight I did get up and sing two songs the sweet disposition one and also chasing cars by snow patrol. I look so serious in the picture below for many reasons I was nervous and had not sung the song before and also drinking lemonade is not as relaxing as drinking a Guinness but I gave it my best shot and it all went well I like to think.

Below is the song I was hoping to sing there is a Karaoke version but Chris does not have it – great song though.

Xavier Rudd – Follow the sun

Well its now 3:30am and hopefully time for me to go to bed – sweet dreams.

Karaoke Nights: Finding Connection Through Music

Clocks went back by an hour over the weekend so its now gone 10pm instead off 11pm on Monday night. It feels more like a Sunday night as I had the day off today. I went out to a city called Plymouth to a bar called Walkabout to sing Karaoke with some friends on Sunday. I hope we all had a good night and got up and sang our little hearts out.

Some of my favourite songs that I sing relate to a connection between my head and heart in the songs concerning such unspoken matters such as unrequited love, past lovers no longer with us and love lost as well as other other things that are also important to me such as the loss of my father and brother or what will happen to us all on this planet in the future (all good deep and meaningful issues on my mind of coure).

I got to sing three songs last night – the first was ‘the Blowers Daughter’ by Damien Rice. The next song I sung I was ‘Fields of Gold’ by Sting and finally I sang a song by the killers called ‘All the things I have done’. I bit of drunken crowd participation took place too which was aq lot of fun and also late night out as the bar shut about 1:30am and I got home just after 2:30am so lucky to have the day off really as  a means of recovering from such a late night.

It’s a big venue with a big stage but does not really get that full so feels quite intimate to sing there and there are lots of other really good singers that also get up and give it their best. Since lock down back at the beginning of the 2020’s I have met so many good and new friends due to singing at Karaoke bars and it really has brought so many great opportunities too and a new lease of life for me.

I really do enjoy meeting new people and getting to know who they are and what makes them tick. I don’t know if this is a natural curious state of mind or brought on even more due to having lost people through them passing away and so searching for ways to meet other new and lovely people as a means to try and compensate for those that have been lost. This will be my first Christmas without my Dad which is strange and even though it’s still nearly 2 months away it is nonetheless a though on my mind.     

The Blower’s Daughter · Damien Rice

Little clip of Karaoke Huw

I was out at my local bar in Exeter on Friday and I asked a friend to take a photo of me singing and she also caught a small clip of me singing a song for a few seconds and I thought I would post that clip up here as a memento of that night I was singing the Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice.

Huw Edwards – The Singing Series!

I don’t know if you have seen these action figure designs yet anywhere on the internet or more specifically Facebook but people have been using AI to design there own action figures I had a go with Chat GPT. I used a template to fill out a description of what I wanted and then after a few minutes the design was created, very clever and lots of fun. The face does not look like me but I think my character definitely comes across in the image.

Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars – a favourite song to sing