KARAOKE CHAMPIONS
07.08.08 THE BRITISH ARE COMING Christine ("Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen)
Victory prize: custom mix
07.01.08 WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND Matthew ("The Pretender" by Foo Fighters)
06.24.08 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Jared ("Fat Bottom Girls")
Victory prize: more Muse
06.17.08 C IS FOR COOKIE Davey ("Miss Me Blind" by Culture Club)
Victory prize: custom mix
6.10.08 COLOR ME MAFIA Penni ("Jealous Again" by the BLACK Crowes)
Victory prize: Zeppelin disc
06.03.08 AIN'T NO CURE FOR THE CRUE Hans ("Home Sweet Home")
05.27.08 AIR GUITAR HERO
05.20.08 US FESTIVAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY Alex ("You Really Got Me" by Van Halen)
Victory prize: CHEAP TRICK Legends series
05.13.08 TOO COOL FOR AMERICAN IDOL Butch ("Since U Been Gone" by Kelly C)
05.06.08 ONE HIT WONDERS CONTEST Jude ("What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes)
04.29.08 BEAT POETRY CONTEST Kneeko ("You Could Be Mine" by GnR)
Victory prize: Hits of Slade & T Rex
04.15.08 DALTRIEST IN WHOVILLE Jon Kanis ("Won't Get Fooled Again")
04.08.08 LET IT B Fiorella ("Twist & Shout" by the Beatles)
Victory prize: Beatles disc to be named soon
04.01.08 DEARLY BELOVED PRINCE CONTEST 2 girls ("Manic Monday", written by Prince-DUH). They clinched the "1999" tiebreaker by dancing better than two other contestants could sing (they admittedly didn't know ANY Prince)
03.25.08 PIMP N HEY HO RAMONES CONTEST Butch ("Blitzkrieg Bop")
Victory prize: 10 song Sunfly mix

- Good Times by Chic (perf.)
- The Way I Am by Eminem (perf.)
- Epic by Faith No More (perf.)
- Pretender, The by Foo Fighters (perf.)
- I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner (perf.)
- I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney, Houston (perf.)
- Could You Be Loved by Bob, Marley (perf.)
- Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5 (perf.)
- Addicted To Love by Robert, Palmer (perf.)
- Apologize by Timbaland Presents One Republic (perf.)
03.18.08 ISLE OF THE 80'S Hans (Journey "Don't Stop Believin") click for photos
Victory prize: THE SONGS OF QUEEN (includes "The Show Must Go On")
03.11.08 GUILTY PLEASURES Joah (Goo Goo Dolls' "Slide")
02.17.08 ELVIS VS COSTELLO Jon Kanis ("Peace Love & Understanding") click for photos
Victory encore: "Love Me" (Presley)
02.03.08 THE A TEAM Paloma (Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes")
Victory prize:
Silly Sing-Along Songs - Vol. 3 (includes Take The Skinheads Bowling, Big Bottom, The Lumberjack Song, Tangerine Speedo and more!)
01.20.08 YOU'RE THE STAR, MAN BOWIE CONTEST Tie: Henry ("Ashes To Ashes") and Pants ("Rock & Roll Suicide"). Unsuccessful tiebreaker: "Changes".  Co-victory duet: "Rebel Rebel". click for photos
Henry's choice: Hits of Stevie Wonder, volume 1, Pants' incoming karaoke mix:
1 She's Crafty - Beastie Boys
2 Veronica - Elvis Costello
3 Something So Strong - Crowded House
4 Rain King - Counting Crows
5 Novocaine For The Soul - The Eels
6 Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
7 Natural One - Folk Implosion
8 Are You Ready For The Sex Girls? - Gleaming Spires
9 Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
10 Orange Crush - R.E.M.
11 Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
12 Anarchy In The U.K. - The Sex Pistols
13 In The Meantime - Spacehog
14 Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
15 Undone-The Sweater Song (Radio Version) - Weezer
01.06.08 GIRLS JUST WANT TO SING SONGS Eric "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt, "It's Oh So Quiet" by Bjork plus "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper
Victory karaoke prize choice: RAP CLASSICS (16 songs)
12.16.07 METALMANIA Molly Kirby "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison click for photos
Victory karaoke prize choice: SPICE GIRLS HITS (12 songs)
12.02.07 MIDNIGHT MORRISSEY Molly Kirby "Everyday Is Like Sunday" by Morrissey
Victory karaoke prize choices:
Juicebox by The, Strokes (perf.)
- Danger High Voltage by Electric Six (perf.)
- Cold As Ice by Foreigner (perf.)
- Hot Blooded by Foreigner (perf.)
- Juke Box Hero by Foreigner (perf.)
- Naive by The, Kooks (perf.)
- Last Train Home by Lost Prophets (perf.)
- United States Of Whatever by Liam, Lynch (perf.)
- Starlight by Muse (perf.)
- Shiny Happy People by R.E.M. (perf.)
- Alright by Supergrass (perf.)
- Must Be Missing An Angel by Tavares (perf.)
- Africa by Toto (perf.)
- Is This Love by Whitesnake (perf.)
- Blue Orchid by The, White Stripes (perf.)

REPORTS FROM THE PAST

ABC'S OF KARAOKE: LET IT B
a-ha, B-52's, Clash, Dramarama, Electric 6, Fleetwood Mac (as sung by Billy Corgan), Green Day, House of Pain, Information Society, Joy Division, Kingsmen, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Nena, Roy Orbison, the Pogues, Queen, Ramones, Smiths, Justin Timberlake, U2, Vapors, White Stripes, XTC, Young MC, Zager & Evans. Erica & Matt from U31 sang "Let It Be". Adam sang "Letter B" by the Sesame Street Beetles. Contestants sang Beatles, Bowie, Berry, Bon Jovi, Blondie, Bowie, Buggles & the Band. When it came time to decide a winner, Adam put on a Beasties/Let It Be mashup and joked that the contestants would have a dance contest to decide the winner. That's what happened & Fiorella was declared the Queen Bee. Fun. "C Is For Cookie" coming in June!

DEARLY BELOVED PRINCE CONTEST

Yes, Pants made that just for the contest and had someone hold up a sheet to project his silhouette onto (sadly, no photo avail)

ELVIS VS COSTELLO

CHECK OUT BUTCH'S PICTURES AND CAPTIONS!

Thanks to a big party next door to Kava, being a night before President's Day and guest KJ Pants offering up 8000 songs on his laptop, this was our biggest/best night yet. A great way to end our run of Sundays (moving to Tuesdays next month!). Pants did a great job of MC'ing and pressing play all night, leaving Adam free to run down to the Casbah to sing with Roger the regular, celebrating his one year anniversary of getting married to Sara (with Adam officiating) onstage at the Casbah. He formed a band just for the anniversary show and bassist Jon Kanis came down to Kava afterwards and promptly won our Elvis vs Costello contest with a stellar "Peace Love & Understanding".

Too many highlights to name. Well.....Mark the bartender finally sang. Paloma and Davey did God Save The Queen with Paloma scowling up front and Davey on one knee behind her like he was her Flava Flav. Adam was a kid in a karaoke candy store and went alphabetically instead of trying to figure out what he wanted to sing most (Lily Allen, Beasties, Bee Gees, Benatar ("Hell is for hell!"), Black Crowes, Irene Cara...). Some girl took off her sweater and managed to get it caught in the mic cord which took 5 minutes to remove. Laura Jane kept stealing the show. First, she brought an Elvis wig, shades and scarf on a mannequin for public use. Then she finally lived her dream of singing Soundgarden karaoke (twice), crawled onstage to grab a married man's balls to help him hit high notes and threw her bra at Pants, which fit PERFECTLY over his head. Pants brought a cowbell and refused to take any money for his services. "Just buy more karaoke," he said with a grin. He is truly the patron saint of TCFK. Come by next time to sing more of his 8 trillion songs while Adam's player is in the shop.

FEBRUARY 3RD
ABC'S OF KARAOKE: THE A TEAM
Despite the rain and lure of Super Bowl Sunday, history was made at our first ever edition of the ABC's of Karaoke. The night started off with songs by ABC, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Charlie Daniels Band, ELO, Freddy Fender, Grandmaster Flash, Whitney Houston, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, the Kingsmen, Liam Lynch, Muse, Naughty By Nature, Oasis, Pixies, Queen, Bonnie Raitt, the Smiths, James Taylor, U2, Van Halen, Whitesnake, XTC, Young MC and ZZ Top. Phew! After that, it was all about the letter A. The Angels and Paula tried to win like the NY Giants but it was Paloma's Adam Ant that proved victorious. Stay tuned for the next ABC's of Karaoke, "Let It B", coming in 2 months!
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JANUARY 20th
YOU'RE THE STAR, MAN BOWIE CONTEST
Eight Bowie wannabes (and two actual Davids) squared off last night in fine "fashion" behind a Labyrinth backdrop. It came down to Bowie experts Henry, who showed up in shiny pants and crooned "Ashes To Ashes", and Pants, who showed up with third eye makeup and a sharp late 70's era Bowie vest-suit and hypnotized us with "Rock & Roll Suicide".  A Zoolander style Bowie-off was called but after the two traded off ..s", there was still no clear-cut winner.  The two were BOTH declared the Bowiest-Of-All, prizes and drinks were bestowed upon both contestants and they celebrated with a "Rebel Rebel" duet complete with dance party.  Other highlights included our first black man doing rap (ironically, Marky Mark), birthday girl Tricia's debut (complete with 3 piece Rush airband) and not one but TWO performances by a group of girls who became the first folks to pay $10 to sing songs from the Dreaded Ten ("Black Velvet" and "Friends In Low Places").

ARTSY-BLURRY PHOTOS! (by Tricia and Ginger trying to figure out Adam's new/old camera)
 

JANUARY 6TH
GIRLS JUST WANT TO SING SONGS
In true TCFK fashion, a male won our female songs contetst.  Eric didn't win over the crowd with a Bonnie Raitt song we didn't know but came back strong, astounding us with a screamy Bjork classic right before the big vote.  It came down to Eric and friends Suzanne and Nilo, who all faced off in a "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" tie-breaker.  Suzanne and Nilo won points for incorporating "Girls just want to sing songs" into the lyrics and some dance moves into their performance but their friends' hands got tired clapping for both of them leaving Eric free to win by a nose.  Suzanne and Nilo want a rematch.  Eric picked a 16 song rap disc as his prize choice, which will add some much needed hiphop to our catalogue.

DECMEBER 16
In this Sunday's Metalmania contest, Molly Kirby won yet again with a performance of a song by the most brutal and evil of all metal bands: Poison. All of the contestants hailed satan with fierce readings of Sabbath, AC/DC & Dio tunes but, apparently, nothing is more rawking than "Talk Dirty To Me". A group of local citizens is banding together with local government officials to have Kirby banned from Cover Me Badd events altogether, alleging that her winning streak might fall under the definition of a monopoly.

PS Thanks for upping attendance by close to 400% since our premiere! It was getting a little lonely.

2007 Spelling Bee Finals Report (click)

(pictured above: Domo Arigato, Kipper Roboto)
Paloma's pics

Dec 2nd
San Diego House Parties' Golden Years' party went OFF. It was my first time attending and they have a very cool thing going on. Regular themed parties with live bands and other fun stuff. The girls are nice as heck to open their house to the masses and they've been problem-free enough to keep 'em going for close to a year! Unreal. Bands play in their basement, a ton of people pack their backyard and everyone else was up in the house listening to the debut of Too Cool For Karaoke. Lots of kids dressed up as senior citizens and Adam resurrected his Geezer outfit, even bringing back the oven-mitts, cookies and pockets full of Worther's.

Keith from Vision Of A Dying World (our favorite band in town) was our first singer EVER with his lovely rendition of Oasis' "Wonderwall". What was supposed to be a quick 90 minute preview night turned into over four hours of drunken nutiness. Too many highlights to name. Obscure gems were mostly shunned to make way for big Madonna, Journey and Kelly Clarkson singalongs though large gangs crowded the mics for a block of Smiths and Morrissey songs. Great fun and still going strong at 3am when we pulled away. Whoa.

Our official debut at Kava Lounge was quite a bit less crowded. Starting something new on a Sunday night during the holidays might be crazy but aren't we all a little crazy? After last night, the Kava is now, without question, the coolest club in town hosting karaoke. Great vibe, stage, lights, raised DJ (KJ) booth and staff. Local podcasters, spelling bee champs and karaoke hosts flocked by the half-dozen to sing their way into the history books at our inaugural party. An anonymous Eastern European earlybird was our first singer with a gutsy choice of Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" and knocked it out of the park. The Midnight Morrissey contest was won by female Morrissey impersonator Molly Kirby. Rumors of her friend Aaron getting a lung enlargement operation to cheer louder have been greatly exaggerated. Adam closed out the night with Annie's "Tomorrow" to cheer up the Smiths fans and remind us that it's all uphill from here.