drinkin' buddies

[waider]

So we're in a karaoke bar (what the hell am I doing in a karaoke bar? Oh, yeah. cherchez la femme) and we get talking to these two Italian guys sitting next to us. One of 'em's got flaming red hair, an artifact of some Irish ancestry, and the other looks a bit like Jeremy Irons. I get talking to Jeremy Irons guy and it turns out he's a music producer. I've just now googled, because, you know, you can't believe everything you hear in a bar, and lo, I was indeed drinking with the guy behind Robert Miles, Planet Funk, Spiller's Groovejet, and hugely influential in the '80s and '90s DJ scene in Italy. Yeesh. Should've asked for a business card or something...

Comments

It's Pretty Standard

[odaiwai.livejournal.com]

That arrangement seems pretty standard. In Hong Kong, a Karaoke establishment will have lots of rooms with couches around three walls, a big TV on the 4th with mikes and music[1], tables for snacks and a phone-line to the staff for emergencies like running out of beer.

[1] The music in these places is usually streamed from a central server via what appears to be a simple juke box style web-application.