What the kebab?*
I got slayed by my cold and also Chris's mate Jared (is that one or two Rs? cos his certificate said Jarred but then the signs said Jared. that said, there was also at least one sign saying Jard, which is a great name), who (that's Jared not the cold) did a piano acoustic version of Numb by Linkin Park and it was hot and swoony-like but he was boring to watch. I'd like to think I wasn't boring to watch! I started out with the stand then started wandering around and I think I actually skipped a few times, which is slightly terrifying. Jared spent the vast majority of the song sitting down looking soulful. My voice was breaking and I kept losing the bridge. But it was fun!
Two girls sang Hero by Mariah Carrey, which made me infinitely glad I did High School Musical (which after all did get the crowd clapping, or maybe that was just sympathetic friends) after automatically rejecting anything by Mariah and Celine. One of them went to semis. There were these two little must have been twelve?-year-olds who did a duet to 4Ever - the Veronicas, by which I mean they sang along off-key with the CD (Kiwi/Ozzy stuff is hard as kebab to find on karaoke I swear) and looked confused. It was heartbreaking. A trio of also rather young girls did Are You Happy Now - Michelle Branch; as soon as the first three-odd notes went on, I was all "OMG that's my song!" They tried to dance, the only one who could actually move couldn't really sing, which was sad. There was a barbershop quartet of PI boys, they got through. And there were these four little boys in matching outfits who did Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte, badly but it was rather cute in a pat-them-on-the-head way. :D
EDIT: And there was some chick who did Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You. I think the fact that I forgot about her says it all, really.
Ah well. Goes to show how a cold can stuff everything up. Next year's my last go (hopefully we don't go to New York in July), shall hopefully go out with a bang and not with a cough. XD
* Kebab is now a synonym for hell. Johanna's kebab was "dripping like hell" and after my confused little "hell drips?" we came to the conclusion that her kebab was hell.
Two girls sang Hero by Mariah Carrey, which made me infinitely glad I did High School Musical (which after all did get the crowd clapping, or maybe that was just sympathetic friends) after automatically rejecting anything by Mariah and Celine. One of them went to semis. There were these two little must have been twelve?-year-olds who did a duet to 4Ever - the Veronicas, by which I mean they sang along off-key with the CD (Kiwi/Ozzy stuff is hard as kebab to find on karaoke I swear) and looked confused. It was heartbreaking. A trio of also rather young girls did Are You Happy Now - Michelle Branch; as soon as the first three-odd notes went on, I was all "OMG that's my song!" They tried to dance, the only one who could actually move couldn't really sing, which was sad. There was a barbershop quartet of PI boys, they got through. And there were these four little boys in matching outfits who did Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte, badly but it was rather cute in a pat-them-on-the-head way. :D
EDIT: And there was some chick who did Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You. I think the fact that I forgot about her says it all, really.
Ah well. Goes to show how a cold can stuff everything up. Next year's my last go (hopefully we don't go to New York in July), shall hopefully go out with a bang and not with a cough. XD
* Kebab is now a synonym for hell. Johanna's kebab was "dripping like hell" and after my confused little "hell drips?" we came to the conclusion that her kebab was hell.