![]() Happy hour rates are pretty snazzy, with partying before 8pm on a Friday and Saturday, (or anytime from Thursday to Sunday) costing from $8 an hour to $20 for two hours in the VIP room with four microphones – plus four non-alcoholic drinks. Rooms range from five people for $68 an hour to 40 people for $248, which are the prices for Friday and Saturday nights. The sound system is killer… and you can have four microphones per room for those latter-career Spice Girls moments. The selection is decent, and there are some original clips – just look at Kylie and Robbie getting all grabby in ‘Kids’ – but K1 rates a zero on our ‘Where’s the Johnny Cash-o-meter’. Updated and renovated audio-visuals mean a far more fluid song search process than ever seen before. The rooms are big and uncluttered, making for a good amount of dancing space, and the seats and tables are sturdy (not that we’d encourage getting on them… ahem). This collection of 18 rooms up a few grungy flights of stairs off Dixon Street is sprinkled with a wee bit of neonified futurism, with glowing tables, pink padded walls and glossy leather lounges. ![]() Their happy singing hour starts at $8 per person, per hour, and the rooms can accommodate up to 22 people. If you want to prove something about how this karaoke game is won, then this is the arena in which to do it. Want to start randomly changing a song’s pitch because it’s Depeche Mode’s ‘People are People’ and you’re bored? Good news! They’re all keyboard backing tracks, which might sound like a minus but it is in fact an awesome plus, since you can adjust the pitch and tempo. Echo Point has Sydney’s greatest and largest range of tunes, hands down. On Time Out’s visit, we would have raised the roof for some more bassy oomph beside the plinkity-plonkity synths coming out of the speakers.Īmazing. ![]() Not immediately intuitive but you’ll work out the touchscreen and stylus set-up for pointing to your fave tunes. The staff are friendly and you can get snacks, sushi platters and booze, but this isn’t a place to cuddle up and dine: you’re here to work. Either way, this is where the karaoke devotees are separated from the karaoke noobs. Others will equally accurately add that the rooms smell like a teenage boy’s poorly supervised sock. Fans will fondly describe its battered ’80s aesthetic as careworn, like a favourite coat. Proper Sydney karaoke enthusiasts swear by the Point. Rooms range from $8 per person per hour to $268 for a party room that’ll fit around 25 screeching singers. It’s gaudy, shiny and over the top, with statues on everything, one-way mirrors in the private rooms, unisex toilets, touchscreen tabletop games if you get bored with the singing and generous jugs of Hennesy and green tea. Still, you can only send out good vibes in an uplifting group rendition of ‘Unwritten’ by Natasha Bedingfield or Kilye’s ‘Spinning Around’.įor a proper rager of a night, this rules. The selection is adequate in the department of ’80s ballads and Brittney Spears hits, but we were missing bangers from the last decade or so. Videos are mainly the original clips, allowing you to either sing along if you’re a timid little k-coward (koward?) or mute out the vocal. Touchscreen, and it’s the familiar system used by many of the K-rooms around town. You’ve got a choice of either private rooms or taking your chances on the big main stage, and staffers here seem to think that if they keep you fed and watered, you’ll stay all night. ![]() Mariah Carey’s ‘We Belong Together’ makes an appearance, and we reach a perfect 100 for a very cheesy rendition of ‘Beautiful Soul’.Īn unobtrusive doorway in the middle of Dixon Mall in Chinatown leads to an elevator, and then you walk into a Blade Runner -style idea of the Shanghai wine bar of the sci-fi future: pulsating screens, mirrors, giant ads for Hennessy and serious terracotta statues. There’s a gorgeous contingent of Korean songs in the thick tome, but in the smaller English section, we also find some fresh flicks that we know will get us top points in the room's scoring system. You can’t be shy here: the sound system is loud, the reverb is intense and the backing vocals are mostly inaudible. The novelty of having to flip through an actual song book is kind of charming, even though the tracks are alphabetised by song name (artist is always best for a tipsy crowd), as is the oversized Game Boy-style remote. But we’re happy to abandon our tech obsession if it means we get those little free dishes of soy crisps and popcorn and tambourines upon request. ![]() The booth seating is pretty bare, the mics are more school assembly than Lizzo concert, and you’re required to operate a giant 18th century calculator to select songs. If you’re all about the glitzy Sydney singing experience, this might not be entirely your style. ![]()
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