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| - It was my first time at a "Karaoke House." In fact , I didn't know such awesomeness existed!
We were sitting through Cappyoke last night and there are only so many times I want to see large groups of girls get up on stage and butcher "You Outta Know," or "Sweet Caroline," before I want to slit my wrists. The place gets so packed you never get to sing, and oh yeah--it is PACKED! I love my fellow Pittsburghers but I dont like being wedged shoulder to shoulder with them in a tiny bar.
My friends fiance leaned in and said, "I know of a place, where we can get a private room. And we can sing all we want, in our private room." This sounded like some sort of black market deal so naturally I was in.
Kbox is on Craig street, where Phantom of the Attic used to be. There were six of us, and the karaoke room was $60 for an hour. My initial reaction (based largely on consuming three Troegs perpetual IPAs beforehand) was: "$60? Is there champagne and a stripper in the private karaoke room?"
No champagne or strippers.
But I dont think $10 a person for an hour is bad at all. You get to sing all you want, its not smoky, and if you were in a bar you'd be spending at least double that on alcohol while waiting to sing.
We had so much fun! The rooms are nice, and maracas and tambourines are provided--i didnt think they were going to be needed but then we sang Hips Dont Lie and it turns out I did need a maraca for that one.
their target audience is clearly Asian. This isnt a downside, but the karaoke machine was in Chinese and also you need a computer science degree to work the karaoke machine.
They have a limited number of songs and half of them are in Chinese.
Another downside: All the doors have windows and I was totally busting out my busted version of the Gangnam Style dance and turned around there was a crowd around the window laughing at me. Whatever, they clearly hate fun.
I will DEF be back, this was soo much fun! Hopefully they will have more english songs available.
Oh--one other thing-- you can buy snacks there and also there appeared to be sushi menus in the rooms? I dont know that I'd go to a karaoke bar for sushi, but the pringles we ordered were fantastic.
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