It's our last night in Tokyo
And so far we haven't done any karaoke on our trip
Because I had a poorly throat
But tonight is party night
So we're going to go for it!
We're at karaoke!
We're at Big Echo in Ikebukuro
And we've got a karaoke room for 2 people
It's quite small...
There's the screen
The speakers at the top
The door
A music system for controlling stuff down there
A bench seat here
And here's the phone
Which you can order drinks on
Or attempt to order drinks in Japanese, if you can!
This is Big Echo. It's one of probably thousands in Tokyo
You see them everywhere
We've been to one in Kabukicho
Which was a little bit bigger
But we came with 4 people
And here's the controller
It's a touchscreen
Look for the flags at the bottom
You can press english for it all to be in english
So you can understand what's going on
If you go for English songs, you're not limited
to the typical pop songs, or chart songs, or anything like that
It's got a really good choice
So if I show you....
Green Day
You've got 81 songs!
81 songs by Green Day
I suppose they're quite a big band
But then you've got your slightly more obscure ones, like...
Less Than Jake
You've got Look What Happened there
Which I don't think you'd ever find anywhere in england
It's got Reel Big Fish
Goldfinger
99 Red Balloons
You come here by the hour
What we paid for, you get a drink...
included in the price
And I think it's something like 1200 yen a person.
There only seemed to be non-alcoholic drinks included
So I've got a nice melon soda
You definitely can get alcoholic drinks
They didn't speak much english at the desk
But they had a card with all the common questions translated
And one of them was "Do you have tambourines?"
And we know the answer to that now...
The answer is indeed yes!
We do have tambourines!
But anyway, you come here by the hour
And you pay whatever it is for the hour
I guess most places work like this
You pay at the end
Once you're done, either go downstairs and settle up your bill
Or just stay in this room, keep singing
And they add it up by the end
So you just stay for as long as you're having fun
And it's a lot of fun!
It's far more fun than you'd think it might be
Everyone has fun
It's great, you don't have to be good at singing
Although we're fantastic
Of course!
But you're not watching!
*music*
Man! There's no proper music videos!
The video is of a ferry!
That was really fun!
We just did an hour but it went really quickly
It's really good, you've definitely got to do it when you come here
My arm hurts!
Phil's trying a new strategy with the hamsters
I will win the hamsters!
Phil won!
For the first time ever!