Friday night was karaoke night in Taylors restaurant in Elhovo. Pete & Kerry Taylor have been experimenting with different entertainment ideas recently -remember the darts blog entry - and Friday was the first karaoke evening. Food on offer was Chinese and Indian – bound to draw a crowd – and so it did.
It was a really fun evening. Jim (who supplied the karaoke machine and himself as the MC for the evening) did a cracking job of getting everyone started, then to my horror, got me up to do the first “audience participation” number. It took me a few beers to recover.
Jim gets things started
People had come from villages as far as 30+ KLM’s away for the chance to get together.
Some of our friends drove over from Haskovo region – a mighty 3 hour trek in a camper van – but we all agreed it was a really fun night and worth the trip.
The karaoke machine is Phillipino made, and has a background screen showing pics of lots of places there – but unfortunately the machine text has a habit of speeding up - and slowing down - the lyrics, which meant that a few struggled bravely to keep up, or simply got the giggles and lost the plot entirely.
Young Tommy Greenaway, unfazed by the fact that he only really knew the chorus of two of the songs he picked made up for the shortfall by rapping the lyrics! This went down very well – it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Radio Gaga as a rap song, but if the karaoke nights continue I suspect it won’t be the last. Who knows, it could catch on!
Our new online newspaper The Elhovo News had their team there taking pics of the night’s fun and games and there certainly wasn’t a lack of things to photograph as almost everyone got up – good or bad – to do their thing!
We are all hoping this was the first of many good nights.
The last pic is of the fridge the morning after the night before, as between us we drank the bar dry of Burgasko beer and vodka – now THAT was a good night!
As usual, Tony and myself were among the die hard handful who were the last to leave – no change there – and we happily staggered home at around 2.30am…
I hope you enjoy the pics. Here’s what a happy crowd of partygoers can do to decimate a once full fridge!LOL
