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New weekly karaoke night @Duck Yao in Worcester

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My friend and her family opened a vegan Chinese restaurant after being an underground, backyard/living-room restaurant for several years and getting busted by the City of Worcester.  It’s called Duck Yao and it rules.

This has to be one of the first attempts at BYOB karaoke in the history of karaoke.  The night starts early: 7:30 PM or so, running to midnight. And it happens every Thursday.  I’m fascinated by the idea of BYOB scorpion bowls / mai tais / piña coladas.

I’ve been running the set using my full karaokecrime setup (4 wireless mics > MOTU 828 > Ableton) so I can do on-the-fly effects (spontaneous autotune last week on Annie and Mariah’s “Cher – Believe”) and live recording of individual mics.

If you’re ever in Massachusetts on a Thursday you should come and check it out.

Karaoke Death

Sometimes people in Asia get stabbed or shot for singing badly or hogging the mic, reports the New York Times: Karaoke Killing.

According to the Guardian:

Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” has reportedly generated so many outbursts of hostility that some bars in the Philippines now do not offer it on the karaoke menu anymore. In Thailand this year, a gunman shot eight people dead after tiring of their endless renditions of a John Denver tune.

I wonder what country has the thugginest karaoke bars?