It’s Eye of the Tiger time for our dedicated Islington chariokers. A countdown of ten days to the big marathon day. All over London, people are limbering up their vocal chords, flexing their playlists, and pleading with their dearest and dearest to liberate that extra tenner in aid of charity.
Posts Tagged ‘fundraiser’
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: For The Love Of Money
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: We are the world, we are the people
Monday, October 19th, 2009Given that we’re not by definition an arts charity, or a singing charity, or a music charity like some of the charity friends we know and love, Refugee Action surprisingly does have more than a touch of Fame Academy about it.
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: The Birdie Song
Friday, October 16th, 2009Yes, yes, the much-vaunted power of Twitter. Blahblah,##whateva.
Or so I used to think a few days’ ago, unreconstructed technophobe that I was. I just didn’t get why people would want to be updated about other people’s minute-by-minute brain vomit. Surely your random musings are best kept to yourself? Best to retain a bit of mystery, no?
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
Monday, October 12th, 2009Working for a charity has a touch of the Oliver Twists about it.
You feel as if you’re perpetually scurrying around with a large begging bowl, whimpering at companies, friends, journalists, celebrities…
‘Please, Sir? Can I have some more?’
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: I get by with a little help from my friends
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009There’s a certain danger attached to being too friendly with people that work for charities. A danger that’s not quite of the magnitude of being too friendly with undercover CIA agents or people that rob banks, but a clear and present danger all the same.
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and 3/4: Monday, Monday – a poor choice of day to charioke?
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Lucky Voice sends out an email newsletter to the 30,000 karaoke evangelists on their database. The newsletter goes out at 16.32. By 16.39 I have ten emails saying ‘Charioke?! Who? How? Where? Can I come?’
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and ¾: I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky
Monday, September 21st, 2009For a karaoke addict, an invitation to meet the team at the Lucky Voice HQ is a bit like being invited for tea with Queen. Awe-inspiring but terrifying in equal measure.
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and ¾: Wishing on a (Lucky) star
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009So, with inspiration ringing in my ears, I hastily scribbled down the formula:
Karaoke + Lucky Voice + charities like Refugee Action + singers + sponsorship + singathon = charioke marathon
Eureka!
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The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and ¾: All I have to do is dream (dream, dream, dream)
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and karaoke together, shoulder to shoulder.
I have a dream that one day in the streets of our great metropoles, people from all walks of life will unite under the colourful flag of karaoke.
Posted by Esme Peach
The Secret Diary of a Karaoke Addict Aged 31 and ¾: When the going gets tough, the tough get karaoke
Sunday, July 19th, 2009There is an ancient Zen master saying in Refugee Action’s Fundraising and Communications Team that sayeth, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get karaoke’.
Posted by Esme Peach