Karaoke Forums

It'd be kinda nice to have a database of karaoke venues with info on the kind of show, times and location along with information such as whether they play customers' discs, type of crowd, etc.

I know there is the club directory listing already (which doesn't seem to be used), but this seems to be able only to list the basic address, time, phone number information. I know there are more venues than one can find doing a google search of a city too.

I feel what would be very useful is a database that could be searched by state or city, where registered members can update information of venues they have attended or know about.


EDIT: , I never knew there was a City in Washington State called Nelson New Zealand until I came across it in the "Club Directory" listing!

Here's a site started by a local friend that doesn't include quite that much info, but she's very open to suggestions. Use the contact link at the bottom.

http://www.findkaraoketonight.com/

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There's a site in NY called MURPHGUIDE that happens to list Karaoke venues. Unfortunately, Sean doesn't keep the site updated very well. I have e-mailed him from time to time, and I once asked him to include that type of information, but he said it was too much to add.

When the JOLT Forum used to exist, I tried to stay on top of where there were places to go in NYC (within the 5 boroughs). I used to list every show that I knew of, and would add information such as...
The place serves food,
Drinks were over-priced,
Parking is available/Parking is scarce,
The KJ is Computer based and can/can't play personal CDGs.

I used to call up every place that I listed about every 6 months, just to verify if they still had Karaoke, and if the same Host was there.

I have traveled all over the country doing karaoke. The state of venue information is generally poor. The best I have seen are in the Cocoa Beach area, spacecoastkaraoke.com, Philadelphia (Tom Boutell's page), and Chicago (some page I forget).

The biggest problem with a lot of the web listings is stale information. And to be honest, the diligence of KJs maintaining their listings.

I believe the best way to do it would be to require hosts to re-authorize the listing every 4-8 weeks. The system should send them an email saying "click this link to continue the listing". This should be triggered automatically after a period of time, or upon someone from the outside clicking a button saying "this show is no longer there".

It would not be difficult to do such a listing, and if it were done under the aegis of karaoke-forum.com it could get some good coverage. Obviously the current listing at this site is completely hopeless, so it would make sense to let someone else have a shot at it.

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[color=#ffff55]Mickey J.[/color]
Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them.
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Most people are dilligent in posting information when they get a new show but don't show the same sense of responsibility when they lose a gig. I guess that they feel that they don't want to waste their time when there is nothing to gain from it. What they don't realize is that if a customer drives to a show that has been canceled, they might just hold it against the KJ or the venue for them wasting their time driving there.

Here in the northwest corner of Wa State we're lucky to have a very, very good karaoke paper. Occasionally listings will be stale but a quick e-mail to the publisher would take care of that. Unfortunately many venues, including mine, aren't far enough into the black to take out ads, but a free listing is available that only lists the venue, address, and the night(s) karaoke is available.

I belong to a Meetup.com locally for Karaoke. The organizer for the Meetup is a woman who goes out singing 5-7 days a week. She compiled a complete list of all the local Karaoke on a PDF file and she uploaded it to the Meetup site. It has two files, one by the name and other by the day of the week. It's a great resource for me personally when I don't go out too often to sing.

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