New Karaoke Bar in Belconnen

Actually, I’ve been. I took a wander on Saturday night out of boredom and stopped in. It was pretty quiet (just its second weekend open) and the woman running it was very happy to give me a substantial tour and demonstration.
The karaoke bar is 12 rooms. Some are much larger than others. You rent the rooms on a per hour basis. On the busier nights it’s $50 an hour. On the quieter nights you rent on a $10 per person per hour basis I think.
The food is delivered to your rooms – there’s no central place to gather or eat. The bar is pretty minimalist and reminds me a lot of how the bar at Bogart’s looked.
The song system seems pretty cool and you can choose the decibels of your music. If you wanted to just listen to the music with the words attached you can, or you can completely mute the words. There’s a bit of confusion with how many songs they have. She first told me 5000 and then wrote 50,000 on a piece of paper, noting that 40,000 of those were Chinese, and 5000 are English. There are also Japanese and Korean songs.
The catch is… everything is currently in just Chinese – there’s no English menu, and the system is entirely in Chinese. If you can understand the symbols it’s pretty easy to work but otherwise…
She said that she’s hoping in 1-2 weeks it will be able to cater to English speakers.
Ultimately, it seems like a cool idea and I’ll be watching closely to see how it takes off. There were about 3 rooms being used when I was there. The place seemed quite clean, the couches and tables in the rooms seemed pretty decent quality, though one thing I saw definitely looked second hand/was chipped. I can’t report on the menu, obviously, because it was in Chinese.

What was I thinking? That was so long ago now…for sure their arthritis would be playing up by now.

Are the Ugly Sambucca Brothers not around anymore?

Sorry, havent been that p*ssed recently to want to visit such a place! Actually the last time I was that ermmm plastered it was about 1992.