Hey everybody !
This is Jasper (aka Power2All) and we will be at J-popcon upcoming weekend.
Me and Aran (friend of mine) will be flying tomorrow 11am to Denmark and will be setting up our system there for anybody that wants to sing their lungs out (not for real, ofcourse xD).
We don't know exactly when we boot up the Karaoke session, but it might be Friday evening or something close to that.
More information will be posted here when we return.
Ofcourse with tons of pictures ^^.
See you perhaps there !!!
- Power2All, Aran, Dale (Chibicon) and Maeve
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Mental Maniacs and Chibicon 2009
Too much time has passed since we last updated, but here goes.
The past couple of months had us hosting the karaoke at Animecon 2009, just weeks after Kitacon. The venue was still the Theaterhotel in Almelo, but this time we were located next to the lobby, in the former dealer room. With extra space and even some sliding doors to provide much needed cooling to all of you who sang to your heart's content. It also showed us that a one hour queue maximum might not be the best thing out there, but it sure shortens the wait. And it is a bit more fair than people filling up the playlist for the rest of the evening during the first 10 minutes.
Kudos also to Hen3, Kaj and the Strawberry AV crew for the lighting and sound.
After that, we went to Chibicon 2009, at their new venue in Houten.
Although we were a bit apart from the rest of the convention, people did come to see us and the sweet setup that the tech staff had provided. (then again, being in the same room as the cloak room tends to draw people to you)
Karaoke was running non stop from eleven till eight, with a playlist that actually never exceeded the 90 minute mark.
We noted down every song you requested that we didn't have available and hopefully we'll find the time to get them finished for the next big event.
The past couple of months had us hosting the karaoke at Animecon 2009, just weeks after Kitacon. The venue was still the Theaterhotel in Almelo, but this time we were located next to the lobby, in the former dealer room. With extra space and even some sliding doors to provide much needed cooling to all of you who sang to your heart's content. It also showed us that a one hour queue maximum might not be the best thing out there, but it sure shortens the wait. And it is a bit more fair than people filling up the playlist for the rest of the evening during the first 10 minutes.
Kudos also to Hen3, Kaj and the Strawberry AV crew for the lighting and sound.
After that, we went to Chibicon 2009, at their new venue in Houten.
Although we were a bit apart from the rest of the convention, people did come to see us and the sweet setup that the tech staff had provided. (then again, being in the same room as the cloak room tends to draw people to you)
Karaoke was running non stop from eleven till eight, with a playlist that actually never exceeded the 90 minute mark.
We noted down every song you requested that we didn't have available and hopefully we'll find the time to get them finished for the next big event.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Kitacon 2009 - England
Alright, where do I start.
Oh yah, our band got invited, the reason why we we're in England at all.
The karaoke was arranged by me (Jasper heh), since the rest of the crew was either or too tired, dead, burned out, or they wanted to see some guy after our concert.
So I did the honour to arrange the Karaoke setup.
They first wanted us to set us up in the big hall, which was, not good.
Since the AMV Disco was also a little further ahead with big boombass boxes, it was impossible to sing against that, so they decided to plant us at the gamesroom.
Terrible, since that room only fitted for around 30 people, but the airco was great though.
When the karaoke started up, people joined and they started singing.
Fantastic sight ofcourse, but then more and more people tried to enter the room, and suddenly we had 50 people in a room for 30 people... obviously not good...
So we tried to manage the people, keeping only the people that would going to sing.
This worked, for a few minutes, but it was impossible in the end.
The karaoke kept playing till 1am and then rum (the founder of Kitacon) told us to better quit the Karaoke since it was impossible to maintain it at the current state, and so I agreed.
All by all, the karaoke was fun, but too bad we had to quit too fast.
The Karaoke was only at the saturday evening (I don't know why, cause Karaoke seemed there to be a huge success, next to DDR).
Perhaps next time better, but atleast the people who sung had their joy, and me a little too :)
Oh yah, our band got invited, the reason why we we're in England at all.
The karaoke was arranged by me (Jasper heh), since the rest of the crew was either or too tired, dead, burned out, or they wanted to see some guy after our concert.
So I did the honour to arrange the Karaoke setup.
They first wanted us to set us up in the big hall, which was, not good.
Since the AMV Disco was also a little further ahead with big boombass boxes, it was impossible to sing against that, so they decided to plant us at the gamesroom.
Terrible, since that room only fitted for around 30 people, but the airco was great though.
When the karaoke started up, people joined and they started singing.
Fantastic sight ofcourse, but then more and more people tried to enter the room, and suddenly we had 50 people in a room for 30 people... obviously not good...
So we tried to manage the people, keeping only the people that would going to sing.
This worked, for a few minutes, but it was impossible in the end.
The karaoke kept playing till 1am and then rum (the founder of Kitacon) told us to better quit the Karaoke since it was impossible to maintain it at the current state, and so I agreed.
All by all, the karaoke was fun, but too bad we had to quit too fast.
The Karaoke was only at the saturday evening (I don't know why, cause Karaoke seemed there to be a huge success, next to DDR).
Perhaps next time better, but atleast the people who sung had their joy, and me a little too :)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tsunacon 2009
Hey all,
it might be a bit late, but the SMM crew would still like to wish you all the best for 2009.
This Sunday, Power2All and I attended Tsunacon, a new one day event. Huge responsibility for us, as it was the first time without any of the founding/senior members accompanying us and Power had to supervise the DDR. After some minor technical difficulties, we could finally begin when the crowd started swarming to the dealer/event room. The playlist slowly filled itself as the requests started pouring in, with many a song that had not been heard since the heyday of the orange jump suit ninja, as well as some oldies that never cease to go out of style.
Luckily, I had some very pleasant gophers to keep me company as well as making sure everything was running smoothly whilst I took a gander at the other sights.
All in all, there was a very good time to be had at the convention and hopefully it will be even better next time around.
it might be a bit late, but the SMM crew would still like to wish you all the best for 2009.
This Sunday, Power2All and I attended Tsunacon, a new one day event. Huge responsibility for us, as it was the first time without any of the founding/senior members accompanying us and Power had to supervise the DDR. After some minor technical difficulties, we could finally begin when the crowd started swarming to the dealer/event room. The playlist slowly filled itself as the requests started pouring in, with many a song that had not been heard since the heyday of the orange jump suit ninja, as well as some oldies that never cease to go out of style.
Luckily, I had some very pleasant gophers to keep me company as well as making sure everything was running smoothly whilst I took a gander at the other sights.
All in all, there was a very good time to be had at the convention and hopefully it will be even better next time around.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
J-PopCon 2008!
Hi all! We had a blast at this year's J-PopCon in Valby! We met so many of our good friends from Denmark and we karaoke'd till we dropped, till over 4AM on Sunday morning.On Saturday we did a little experiment, where we only took one hour of requests and let these finish before we got an hour of new requests. In this way we hope everyone gets a chance to do some karaoke without the machine going up to over 2 hours of material. We think it worked out pretty wel, despite people queueing up for a whole hour! We're gonna try it again some time we think, but make sure we have better places for people to queue. What did you think of this method? Let us know!
When it got less busy we opened up for good, and we karaoke'd till the morning.
We've already found two video's of people singing Soramimi Karaoke. Check it out!
Found anymore cool pix or video's? Let us know!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Soramimi at J-popcon 2008
See you all this weekend in Valby, Denmark again at the J-popcon 2008! Ryo, Power2all, Lindy Rose and me will be there and give you the best in anime and J-pop music for you to sing over.
For more (Danish) info on the con, visit www.j-popcon.dk
Take care,
Joost.
For more (Danish) info on the con, visit www.j-popcon.dk
Take care,
Joost.
Friday, October 3, 2008
2008 news
It's been almost a year since our last message online, so here's a little update to let you know that Soramimi Karaoke is still alive and kicking in 2008!
Firstly, we had succesful Karaoke nights again in Holland at this years Animecon in Almelo, in May, at the Chibicon in Utrecht in July and last weekend at the succesful Abunai convention in Zwolle. It was all great!
Secondly, the volunteers of Soramimi are happy to welcome Hugo, Power2All (Jasper) and Joost to their ranks. Now the crew is 7 strong, and we were even able to do the Abunai con without our 'founding father' Ryo there. With almost 1000 songs in the database, Soramimi is stronger than ever.
To give you some tastes of how Soramimi has done, here's some Youtube clips of this year.
Here's Power2all singing his heart out on this Beserk tune during Abunai 2008.
Innocent Sorrow by abingdon boys school, at Abunai 2008.
Fans enjoying the intro tune to Samurai Pizza Cats at Chibicon 2008.
We hope to have a special surprise for some of the foreign fans for the end of this year, to be showing up at a special convention! As soon as we know more, we'll let you know!
Firstly, we had succesful Karaoke nights again in Holland at this years Animecon in Almelo, in May, at the Chibicon in Utrecht in July and last weekend at the succesful Abunai convention in Zwolle. It was all great!
Secondly, the volunteers of Soramimi are happy to welcome Hugo, Power2All (Jasper) and Joost to their ranks. Now the crew is 7 strong, and we were even able to do the Abunai con without our 'founding father' Ryo there. With almost 1000 songs in the database, Soramimi is stronger than ever.
To give you some tastes of how Soramimi has done, here's some Youtube clips of this year.
Here's Power2all singing his heart out on this Beserk tune during Abunai 2008.
Innocent Sorrow by abingdon boys school, at Abunai 2008.
Fans enjoying the intro tune to Samurai Pizza Cats at Chibicon 2008.
We hope to have a special surprise for some of the foreign fans for the end of this year, to be showing up at a special convention! As soon as we know more, we'll let you know!
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