Sonntags Karaoke im Mauerpark

18/09/2022

Hm. Don't have us spell it out for you... what the hell, here it is - short notice, folks but outdoor karaoke is not a go-er today. See you all back next week with bells on!

14/09/2022

Day 2. We shouldn't have set the bar so high at the start. Maybe you should send us potentially viral bearpit-karaoke-related content to share. https://www.instagram.com/bearpit_karaoke/

13/09/2022

Ahoy! Finally got an Instagram page! There are already plenty of other ones with footage and snaps from the shows, but this one is bottled at source. Give it a Follow! https://www.instagram.com/bearpit_karaoke/

12/08/2022

Ahoy! Bearpit Karaoke London! Tomorrow, Saturday! We're starting later AND GOING LONGER to avoid the mid-afternoon heat. Swing by! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bearpit-karaoke-august-tickets-339856137857

07/08/2022

Folks no karaoke today, back next weekend with bells on!

31/07/2022

Aloha folks! There is no karaoke today. But watch this space for information regarding our imminent return :)

31/07/2022

Aloha folks! There is no karaoke today. But watch this space for information regarding our imminent return :)

15/07/2022

Suncream? Check. Water? Check. YouTube vocal warm-up exercises? Of course not! We start London on Saturday and, if all goes to plan, finish Berlin on Sunday. But LONDON FIRST! Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens! Tomorrow from 3pm! Get in!

19/06/2022

Mad dogs! Englishmen! Hosts of outdoor karaoke shows! Heatstroke prevention is easier than heatstroke recovery, see you three-ish at one of the numerous shady spots...

12/06/2022

And hey presto! Back in town. Bearpit! Mauerpark! Three-ish!

11/06/2022

LONDON BABY! Weather's perfect for 2022's first Bearpit Karaoke at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens! Three-ish this afternoon! Bring questionable musical taste, vocal cords and pals!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bearpit-karaoke-june-tickets-329584926387

09/06/2022

Lads & Ladies! This Saturday! The emotional rollercoaster that is Bearpit Karaoke LONDON kicks off again at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens from 3! Excited, not gonna lie.

05/06/2022

Aber Hallo!

11/09/2021

Vauxhall Bearpit Karaoke | Saturday 11 September

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vauxhall-bearpit-karaoke-saturday-11-september-tickets-162065744003 Ridiculously central location, ridiculously promising weather outlook, ridiculously high potential for an emotional rollercoaster of instrumental-fuelled mayhem. Bearpit Karaoke in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London TODAY! Do come!

Bearpit Karaoke is back for 2021, so come down to the Pleasure Gardens and show us what you got...

10/09/2021

Notes of Berlin | Trailer (with English subtitles) ᴴᴰ | Darling Berlin

https://youtu.be/HOn_TsUQEGE Two pieces of news! I'm in this, and you can watch it in various German cinemas as of today. The nudity is at all times tasteful, not gratuitous.

Also, if you're in London, tomorrow afternoon Vauxhall Gardens has BEARPIT KARAOKE! Affably Hosted™ by Yours Truly! Get in!

Kinostart: 09.09.2021 | https://ucm.one/de/notes-of-berlin | Ein Tag und eine Nacht in Berlin: Das Karma fährt einen elektrischen Rollstuhl, ein WG-Casting e...

12/08/2021

... meanwhile, with colossal assistance from the local authorities, we bring you... Bearpit Karaoke! At Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (London, England) this Saturday!

30/07/2021

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Howdy folks! Heard this one on the radio just now, had to think of our man Eugen and it occurred to me that unless I'm mistaken, today's his anniversary. 7 years. https://youtu.be/bDyd6oaafOM

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29/01/2021

Polizei löst Karaoke-Party in Berliner Hinterhaus auf

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2021/01/berlin-lichtenberg-wohnung-bar-club-karaoke-party.html Same crew as last time? Surely not! Lichtenberg seems to be crying out for a post-Lockdown karaoke bar. Must talk to my bank manager ;)

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06/12/2020

Polizei löst Karaoke-Party in Berlin-Lichtenberg auf

Naughty naughty! They didn't even invite me! Like, I'd have said no thanks but still.

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04/12/2020

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09/08/2020

By the way, radio eins is doing a top 100 embarrassing fave songs day and it sounds very familiar.

09/08/2020

THIS IS NOT A RANT. Howdy strangers!

You may have noticed that the Bearpit space in Mauerpark is currently (okay maybe today’s too hot, but work with me here) in what could be more or less described as full use on Sundays.

You may have also noticed that there are no solid fences or barriers surrounding the entire area to control the influx and departure of spectators to the steps.

On top of this you may have noticed the absence of a private ten-man security team controlling human traffic and ensuring social distancing both inside and OUTSIDE these non-existent fences.

And you may have noticed that among the various things occurring onstage, outdoor karaoke is not one of them (Jesus, I certainly hope not anyway haha).

I am explicitly forbidden under threat of whopping fines from setting up for karaoke in Mauerpark without the attendant paperwork signed and stamped by City departments. But it appears that nobody else is, which is why I suppose there is still stuff happening there each week in front of big crowds, just without the patrolled fence that I’d be personally required to come up with.

It’s not the first time over the years that I’ve had to point out what I see as bureaucratic absurdities in relation to how and when Bearpit Karaoke gets the all clear, and hey, few people have more sympathy than me for anyone who has to try to negotiate the daily-mutating minefield of rulings and regulations that involve public strategies for battling a pandemic. Here comes the but.

But one rule for me and literally no rules for every other f**ker on the planet who fancies fetching up in Berlin on a Sunday afternoon and pulling a crowd? To a spot I’ve been using since 2009? Thanks. Apparently there are elections next year. Watch this space. X

21/06/2020

Fil live aus dem Festsaal Kreuzberg (zweiter Stream)

https://youtu.be/4IoFI0tr378?t=1714 E-scooters, food delivery, Nazis, seems like this guy has a harsh opinion about everything!

30/05/2020

Die Freunde des Mauerparks sind sich der Geschichte des Ortes bewusst. Die Versammlungsbehörde, die die Demos der KDW für das Pfingstwochenende genehmigt hat, wohl nicht.

Auf dem ehemaligen Todesstreifen, dort wo zu Zeiten der Deutsch-Deutschen Teilung bewaffnete Grenztruppen unterwegs waren, wird es ausgerechnet an Pfingsten ein starkes Polizeiaufgebot geben - mit Polizeihunden und Polizeipferden.

Wir distanzieren uns ausdrücklich von dieser Zweckentfremdung als Kulisse für politische Grabenkämpfe.

#WirSindNichtEureKulisse
#WirSindMauerpark

28/05/2020

Mauerpark wird zum Hotspot der Berliner Corona-Proteste

Saturday and Sunday. Ungeil.

Im symbolträchtigen Mauerpark sollen am Wochenende gleich zwei „Hygienedemos“ stattfinden. Anwohner und Bezirksamt wollen das verhindern.

27/05/2020

KaDeWe? Sure! KDW? Not so much. Seems they want to spout guff in the Pit this weekend. That hurts.

Der #Mauerpark steht für Vielfalt und Toleranz

Wir positionieren uns gegen Rechts, gegen Antisemitismus, gegen Verschwörungsunsinn, gegen Corona-Leugnung

Wir distanzieren uns ausdrücklich von Demos der KDW im Mauerpark

#WirSindNichtEureKulisse
#WirSindMauerpark

26/05/2020

Der #Mauerpark steht für Vielfalt und Toleranz

Wir positionieren uns gegen Rechts, gegen Antisemitismus, gegen Verschwörungsunsinn, gegen Corona-Leugnung

Wir distanzieren uns ausdrücklich von Demos der KDW im Mauerpark

#WirSindNichtEureKulisse
#WirSindMauerpark

24/05/2020

Bill Withers ~ Lovely Day 1977 Disco Purrfection Version

Aloha sports fans! Today isn't really suitable weather-wise for outdoor karaoke, sorry. But hey, if anybody is familiar with a longer held note than the 16-17 second long "da-aa-aa-aay" in this then I want to know about it. Do tell!

Now streaming on Apple Music https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lovely-day-djdiscocat-unofficial-remix-bill-withers/1370075580?ls=1 Bill was the youngest of s...

18/04/2020

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When pandemics and crap weather aren't standing in the way, the fine people of Frau Else Mittenmang make the logistical nuts and bolts of Mauerpark shows way more doable for me than they'd otherwise be.

Their existence literally eases the gruntwork involved by a factor of about 1200 - I'd probably cry for an hour every Sunday morning without them. Seriously.

If you're in the area have a think about treating yourself this weekend.

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9€

12/04/2020

High Culture-ometer Readings Were Off The Chart.

What can I say?

Way things are right now, a Bearpit show in Mauerpark would involve something like fencing off the entire amphitheatre, letting about 12 people in behind the fence to sit on the steps at a respectable distance from each other and, I dunno, parachuting face-masked people in from a continually circling plane to sing?

There'd inevitably be a bit of a hold-up between songs while we unstrapped the parachute and cleared it away. Although maybe we could fire people onto the stage out of a cannon from, I dunno, Spandau? That might prevent delays between songs. Yes! Hm.

Of course we'd also need burly security on the outside of the fence to chase away any huddled gawkers with a big stick or something. Ouch!

And we'd also need city permits, which on a less frivolous note you can believe are happily already literally sorted, and figuratively waiting to explode out of the notional starting blocks so soon as the metaphorical pistol fires. Boom!

You can also believe, on an even less frivolous note, that right now any sort of close gatherings are just bad news all round, and they push the likelihood of close gatherings for all of us just further and further into the future.

Which is to say that, for example, If somebody is using the Mauerpark stage today to draw a crowd in their capacity as musician, dancer, acrobat, juggler, whatever, it's not to get money, or to make other people feel good in these strange times. It's because that somebody is an attention junkie.

When every impulse we have as people is pointing in the other direction, the strongest good signal I can think of sending out to each other on a day like today is a picture in my mind of empty amphitheatre steps.

First day back was going to be today :( but here's Enzo on our first day back last year, and here's to more times like this in the very near future, who knows. X.

29/03/2020

Hey don't judge, the term Social Distancing hadn't been invented yet. Not a clairvoyant but first Sunday back should be quite a day out, feel free to put a song choice in the comments! In the meantime use the head :) X

08/03/2020

Destiny's Child - Independent Women (Karaoke)

Is there ever a bad time for this? You go, girls!

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29/12/2019

Magnum's Pictures of the Year, 2019

Even without the magnifying glass that I got as a Christmas present and left behind in Dublin, I can see some familiar heads jumping out at me.

Karaoke performance, at the former death strip, Mauerpark. Berlin. Germany. 10.2019

10/12/2019

Der Berliner Mauerpark

Totally forgot about this! Case you missed it, nice bit from ZDF earlier in the year about Mauerpark.

Früher Todesstreifen, heute Touristenmagnet und heiß umkämpfte Freifläche. Der Mauerpark in Berlin.

05/12/2019

In Berlin, Karaoke in Front of Thousands

We're everywhere this week! Thanks, CNN. London tomorrow!

This stretch of land in Berlin was once a militarized zone separating East and West Berlin, dotted with watchtowers and guard dogs. Today, it’s a beautiful p...

04/12/2019

Belt out some Christmas bangers at these festive singalongs in London

But don't take my word for it, feel free to go ahead and ask the good people at TIME OUT LONDON y'all! what you should be doing in the English capital on Friday night.

28/11/2019

Image: Bearpit Carol-oke at Vauxhall Food & Beer Garden - Vauxhall

London. Getting AMPED for next week. Your first big night out of the silly season - Friday 6th December, Bearpit Carol-oke! We have tinsel, we have singing (not just Christmassy stuff, but some Christmassy stuff for sure), we have screens, and we also have a ROOF. Get down there. Bring a posse!

Found on Google from beinvauxhall.com

27/11/2019

Been a while since I gave it socks to some Roland Kaiser on a Saturday night down on Chaussee or Karl Liebknecht. But as we say back home, what's seldom is wonderful. See you soon and Happy Birthday Hafenbar!

Unser alter Partykutter wird heute 52 Jahre alt. Am 27. November 1967 öffneten wir erstmals die große Kajütentür. Seitdem pflügt sich unser Bug durch das wogende Berliner Nachtleben, allen Moden und Strömungen zum Trotze.

26/11/2019

Phew! Back from Finland in one piece, just about. Here some pics from the Slush party on Friday. Amphitheatre-style space, roulette format. An absolute blast! Videos to follow!

10/11/2019

Michael Bublé feat. Christian Thiel; Come fly with me ; Oberhausen 06.11.2019

Worth another look. The full story behind our man Christian's triumph in Oberhausen last week with Bublé!

Year after year i dreamed to sing for once in my life with Michael Bublé. On 06.11.2019 this dream really come true. Come fly with me was the song which brou...

09/11/2019

Poison Rock Karaoke Berlin

What a week! First up Christian shows Buble how it's done at BUBLE'S OWN CONCERT, and now there's a new singing shop opening in Berlin! Tonight! So if you've ever wondered how appallingly an open air karaoke show host can behave when the tables are turned and he's begging someone to pick him, make a beeline for Flughafenstrasse from 8pm!

https://www.facebook.com/PoisonRockKaraokeBerlin/?__tn__=HHH-R

The infamous Rock Karaoke Bar from St. Petersburg finally in Berlin!

07/11/2019

Michael Bublé in concert surprise

You may know Christian from occasional Sundays in Mauerpark. Here he is crooning with Buble last night, what an operator!

Fly me to the moon by Christian

27/10/2019

All done for the year folks! Last Sunday was the last Sunday. But between now and spring 2020 feel free to book me to come do a party somewhere. Xmas, birthday, singing telegram, whatever. COMING SOON : a comment-section-generated list of things to do in Berlin on a wet Sunday. I'll kick it off with...

21/10/2019

Missing It Already.

Say hi to Scott, a digital nomad from Texas, tugging at the old heartstrings early yesterday. As if our last 2019 show wasn't reason enough to be getting emotional!

14/10/2019

Back with a Bang!

As an offering of thanks to the Karaoke gods for returning my stolen gear I was going to sing Bootylicious yesterday. But I chickened out at the last minute. So thanks Omed for stepping in with another feelgood Beyoncé number to appease their ravenous appetiites.

12/10/2019

Joe Hatchiban kann weiter singen

Actually, the coffee can did get whipped, but on the upside Lidl are doing gaffer tape for €2.49 a roll at the moment. Another Bearpit Karaoke miracle!

Dem Karaoke-Mann vom Mauerpark wurde die Ausrüstung gestohlen. Auf wundersame Weise bekam er sie zurück.