Jpopcon 2007

We have gotten invited to host our usual Karaoke event at Jpopcon in Denmark. And of course we had fun. It is the first time we went that far >_<.

Because it is the first time we do this here, the people didn’t know how it all goes. So we got many same request songs after each other. But after a bit, we encouraged people to sing with each other.

Also this is the first time ever we could do the Karaoke whole night long. At first we were kinda optimistic, there won’t be people that crazy. But people kept coming and leaving so we finally stay all night X_X.

Location

It is something different that we are used to but it was great. But because of the structure of the room we are we always have a lot of empty space, and boy did we needed those.

Equipment

Because we couldn’t bring all of our own on the plane, Kaj of Strawberry AV has provided us with great stuff. A beautiful beamer, mixer and everything we needed to do our stuff. Thanks Kaj. \o/

Abunaicon

Abunaicon 2007 Aftertalk
Sorry we are all a bit busy, so we are late with updating the blog. But here is that of Abunaicon 2007. Abunaicon was at Enschede on 7-9 October. Sorry we didn't make any pictures.

General
As always, when stuff is finally running, it was lots of fun doing the Karaoke Cafe.
The only things we had difficulty with were the poor tech support and the bad scheduling.
The tight schedule allowed us to run for a long time, but at the wrong times.
It wasn't scheduled during cosplay, but it was on during the Slightly Spring performance, which was after the cosplay.
Because Ryo is in the band, he couldn't be in two places at the same time, so poor young Max Robo had to fill in.

Tech support
Something that Abunai lacks is proper tech support and thus also a proper direction for all those technical bits that we ourselves can't provide.
What happened on Friday was that we didn't get the Amplifier and speakers on time.
Even when we *did* get them, the Tech dude had to run off again for something else, leaving us with stuff we had no experience in hooking up properly.
Also, for some reason we were assigned 5 large televisions we couldn't put anywhere, so we ditched those.
Saturday was a bit difficult since Ryo couldn't check all the equipment
Sunday was no problem. We gotten kind of used to the PA set over the past two evenings ^^;

Karaoke competition
The competition went great, aside Max Robo had to run everything. Also many contestants thought that it would be later because Ryo is at the concert. There was also a contestant that want to join but don't know any song we had, he enters with a song he thought to know but really didn't and we lost some time ><;. And thanks for the Haruhi Bunnies for doing the "act" again because Max Robo had to miss it XD.

ChibiCon 2007 aftertalk

So, the first ChibiCon is over and we had a blast!
Thanks to people who helped out and moreover, thanks to you all who sang those 4 hours.

Ryo and jopped went over to do our usual Karaoke Cafe again. Unfortunately, due short notice, we were unable to re-print the entire list again so I just printed a little changelist on top.

The location was an actual cafe that's part of the sports complex, so the layout was perfect. After some puzzling we put ourself in the back right and set up all our electronics.
For some odd reason the cable to the cafe's audio equipment were crap, leaving us with only the left channel, so we turned everything mono... Ohwell, as long as people can sing.

Some songs have even been requested more than once, the big winners this time are:
Death Note - What's up, People
Minimoni - Strawberry pie
One Piece - We Are
Ouran High School Host Club - Sakura Kiss

Things that could've been better...
The beamer really didn't do it in that bright room. Next time we need something like curtains or whatever to blind those glass walls. At least to show some stuff on the screen.
...Or a better beamer.
Because the list is being stuffed right when we've just started for a few minutes, people wanted to know when their song was coming up. The problem is, that although it shows an time in the playlist, it might not be accurate on the dot. Especially when people don't show up and we have to cancel a preceding song.
This led to some irritation for those who came after we cancelled their song. But we solved it by re-adding their song and bumping it up to the 3rd entry.
Also, not having a big screen with all the announcements on it didn't help at all.

Finally, some pictures for your viewing pleasure.




And to wrap things up, a final picture of people having a go at the Lucky Star opening:

New songs!

ChibiCon is drawing near, so it's time we added some new songs!

Final Fantasy XII - Kiss me goodbye
Kiddy Grade - Junpaku Sanctuary
Nanoha A's - Eternal Blaze
Busou Renkin - Makka Na Chikai
Kiddy Grade - Junpaku Sanctuary
Nanoha A's - Eternal Blaze
Akazukin Chacha - Kimi iro Omoi
Angela Aki - Kiss From a Rose
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan - Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
Death Note - The World
Death Note - What's up, People
Gaogaigar - Yuusha-oh tanjou
JAM project - Freedom
JAM project - Gong
JAM project - Oneness
JAM project - Soultaker
Magipoka - Senketsu no Chikai
Magipoka - Shichaimashou Suggestive
Nadeshiko - Geki Ganger III
Romeo X Juliett - You Raise Me Up
Romeo X Juliett - You Raise Me Up (Karaoke)
Saint Seiya - Pegasus Fantasy
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Sorairo Days
Violinist of Hamelin - Magical Labyrinth
Witchblade - XTC
Samurai Pizza Cats - Samurai Pizza Cats
Bokurano - UNINSTALL
UNINSTALL (Karaoke)
Kami-Chama Karin - Ankoku Tengoku
Sola - colorless wind
Sola - colorless wind (Karaoke)
Sola - mellow melody
Complete Song list / Recent changelist

Soramimi.nl launch & ChibiCon appearance

Yes, it's finally here!
We've managed to register www.soramimi.nl and we've started a blog so you can read all the latest news here.
(Why .nl you ask? Because all the Soramimi members are Dutch.)
Slowly we're trying to get rid of the old soramimi website. More people started using it and after we felt it was time for a change.
We'll do our best to provide you with useful information concerning the Soramimi Karaoke developments.

So, what's what?
As a starting point www.soramimi.nl is your first stop for info. From there you should be able to find your way to our other resources.
Help, tuturials and other useful things will be available on SoraWiki but as we're busy people, most stuff is still on the old help page.
The downloads are still available in the old download section, but is prone to be moved to a different location in the future.
The YouTube channel is not doing much at the moment, but we're planning some video tutorials there, so keep tuned.

Chibicon public appearance
As a side note, we will do our usual Karaoke Cafe (unannounced) at the Chibicon convention coming 7 july (Tanabata) held in Utrecht. We are scheduled for 4 hours of karaoke madness!
See you there! (well maybe)