How I lost my karaoke virginity

The rather nice Stuart Waterman of awesome music site My Chemical Toilet and the Lucky Voice karaoke blog invited me to scribble on his websites, so I started by writing a guest post about how I learned to stop worrying and love karaoke...

My introduction to karaoke was also my introduction to my boyfriend’s friends. It was early in our relationship, and I was petrified. Not just because I’d be singing in front of total strangers (who had been merrymaking for some hours before I got off work), but also because I thought I’d have to get up on a bar and strut up and down, wiggling my bum while I sang.

I think I’d seen Coyote Ugly and had got confused as to what karaoke actually was.

But it was far worse than I could have imagined...

Read the full post at the Lucky Voice blog.