We have quiet a few evens coming up at Thursday’s Lounge this winter, infact we have something every night, be it a contest, give away or party. Suicides are also back. Fpr those of you who do not know what those are, it is were I pick a theme and you get a random song that even I do not know what it is. If you impress Will (the bartenders) or myself enough you get a free drink. Simply write “Suicide” as one of your songs on your karaoke slip. Now for a list of upcoming events -

Feb 3 – The Rick Roll Show for our regulars. Same concept as the gong show, except now we use Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up to let you know you are out. Anyone who make’s it through their song get’s a free drink. At the end of the contest the 3 best wing money, $25 for best, $15 for 2nd, and $10 for 3rd, choosen by the audience. The catch, you are not allowed to do a song you normally sing at Thursday’s. Contest starts at Midnight and goes until 1:30am

Feb 10 – DJ George Birthgay Bash – A night of complete chaos with free food and many guest DJs including DJ Nemo (My brother) and Micah T and possible appearences by DJ Larry and DJ Mario. Did mention free home made Food?

Feb 17 – Mardi Gras Party. Technically it is Ash Wednesday, but Mardi Gras is more fun to celebrate. Tons of beads, need I say more?

Other nights – Tin sign give away. I have a collection of nice looking tin signs that I will be giving away each night that there is not a special event. some are Beer signs, some Movie, and some are just random. Included in there are some 3 Stooges, Budweiser Clydesdales, Monty Python, Pepsi, ect… all worth about $10. I will also be rading the Dollar store every so often so there will be more prizes that will be given out how I see fit.

It is going to be a fun winter at Thursday’s Lounge, so make sure you come out. As usual there are over 30,000 songs and $3 Long Islands. Night starts about 9:30 and goes until 2am. 306 E. Exchange St, Akron, OH, 44304

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It will still be some time before I can get them on YouTube, but in the meantime I have the so you can download them.  Warning they are huge files (over 1.5 GB each)

http://www.djgeorgen.com/westmarketidol/Round1.zip
http://www.djgeorgen.com/westmarketidol/Round2.zip
http://www.djgeorgen.com/westmarketidol/Finalwinners.zip

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For those of you waiting to see the videos from the West Makret Idol finals, the should be up in the next few days.  There is almost 5 gig of videos so it is taking some time to get everything in order.  I hope to have a zipfile that you can download with all the videos uploaded in the next 24 hours, but once again because of the size it could take longer.  To give you an idea of how big this is, it is 4 times larger than a normal DVD movie would be to download

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December 19th will be the finals for this year’s West Market Idol at Frank’s Place on Market.  There are 12 finalist competing for $2,000 in prizes ($500 Cash & $500 Gold Jewlery from Ohio Gold and Diamond Exchange for the best male and best female).  These are 12 of the best singer in North East Ohio, so you do not want to miss this show.  You can hear them warm up from 5-7 and then the final round starts at 7pm.  Their will be 2 rounds and then the judges will decied which 2 people will walk away with $500 cash and $500 gold each a week before Christmas

Hosted by Fank’s Place On Market
MCed by WONE’s T.K. O’Grady
Music Provied By DJ George
Sponsored By Ohio Gold & Diamond Echange, Midcap and Company, Adolph Optical, Milich’s Village Inn, Liberty Tax Service, Philly Connection, DeVita’s Italian Market

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To clear up a few typos from the WONE press release, here is the proper info -

Qualifying round are ever saturday until DEC 12th.  The Finals are DEC 19th

Warmups are Saturday 5-7, the actual tournament is 7-9.  You must be there and entered by 8pm.  We will be limted to about 14 singers a week (WONE will make the call on the cut off)

Sings will be automatically fade out after 4 minutes.  Not a good idea to pick one with a long intro.

The Best Male and the Best Female singers each week will qualify for the finals on Dec 19th

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Starting Saturday Nov. 7th I will be part of the team running Market St Idol at Franks Place across from the Tangier.  This is a huge contest that runs until Dec. 12th and is Sponsor by Fanks Place, WONE, and many others.  Here is the offical right up from WONE’s website http://www.wone.net/rfeed.asp?key=westmarketidol09

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It’s my favorite time of the year, Halloween!  And I am doing one of my biggest contests at Thursday’s lounge yet.  Halloween “Spookyoke” karaoke and costume contest.  So start work on your costumes now!  There are prizes not only for singers but everyone could win prizes.  We have $100 for our best costumed singer, and we will be giving away $50 to the best costume and also the most creative costume.  We may also be adding more in if  I can get more funds.  I am also working to secure door prizes that will include free drinks,  and hopefully gift certificates to Mr. Zubs Deli (Mario’s New Deli).  I am also trying to get ahold of other sponsors for prizes and give aways

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Every Wednesday at Thursday’s Lounge we will be holding a 50/50 style karaoke contest.  You can enter one or more of your songs for just $2 each (You can still sing for free without entering the contest if you wish).  Then at about 1:30am The Bartender (Will), Bouncer (Micah), the DJ (Me), and the Audience will decide who the best singer was and that person will get half the money from that night.  The remain will be save for our larger contests so that we no longer have to charge entry fees.  Voting will be based on tickets, with Me, Micah, and Will each getting 5 “votes”.  The Audience members can by votes for $1 or 6 for $5.  The votes will be tallied up at 1:30

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So after a very close contest, Thursday’s Lounge beat Matinee in the Battle of the Bars with a score of 301 to 209.5.  That’s right, just 1.5 points separated the teams.  and here are the individual standings

1st – Ted – Any Man Of Mine – Shania Twain – Matinee – 105.5 pts
2nd – Kevin – 18 & Life – Skid Row – Thursday’s Lounge – 102.5 pts
3rd – Bruce – My Girl – Temptations – Thursday’s Lounge – 101.5 pts
4th – Jessica – Mother – Danzig – Matinee – 101 pts
5th – Jim – Without Me – Eminem – Thursday’s Lounge – 97 pts
6th – Gabe – Without You – Harry Nilsson – Matinee – 93 pts

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This Wednesday is the final of the Matinee vs Thursday’s Lounge karaoke Battle of the Bars.  It will be held at Thursday’s Lounge at midnight and feature 6 of the area’s best singers from the Matinee and Thursday’s Lounge.  On the Matinee team we have Gabe, JC, and Ted facing off against Kevin, Bruce, and Morgan from Thursday’s Lounge.  Make sure you come out and cheer on your favorite bar and see who will win the battle.

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