Karaoke, A Hosts view.....

Fortunately for me, The owner pretty much has given me free reign on how I run the Karaoke. He had some strange rules, but how much of that was his doing and/or the previous Host, i don't know. I was to share hosting, but the patrons hated her so much, when he got feedback from the patrons, he fired her and put me on both days. She liked to give her friends preference over all others. To the point of trying to make them sound better, moving them up the list, etc. She also would sing a minimum of one song per rotation no matter how busy it was, and many times two songs per rotation. They also had reserved songs for certain people. So we were losing patrons because they were told they could not sing that song even though it had not been done and was not up right away. So that was a change I insisted on. She was also rude to the singers she didn't like or if they complained.n In May, our Karaoke show was rated as the No#2 show in Edmonton by the local Entertainment Mag. So I guess I can't be doing too bad..lol. Because of the number of Karaoke clubs that were running, we ended up with a ton of wanna be hosts doing very bad Karaoke shows. Now that it,s down to a more reasonable number of clubs, we have soooo many hosts to choose from. MOST of them pretty bad. So many of the owners, have started making all the show decisions and not letting the Hosts do their job. That may work out better when you have a bad Host, but it also gives the whole business and Hosts in general, a bad rep. So rebuilding a clubs Karaoke clientele, can take a while, and trying to get the owner to let you do so, is like pulling teeth with no freezing. But then again, some of our Karaoke Singers are getting upset at the fact that the rotation is getting longer. Unfortunately, that's just a situation they have to live with if they want a better Host. As we are a smaller club, it's not too bad, so they stay. Complain, but stay...lol