Lucky Voice, Islington, London

Expensive…but by God it’s worth it. Lucky Voice is chic and stylish and relaxed and fun. They have one of the best selections of tunes around, a brilliant bar area, but most of all they have a dressing up box in each room with comedy hats and wigs etc! Brilliant. It’s a great icebreaker and means you immediately get into character for your song and ‘act’ it out rather than just nervously warble along.

Lucky Voice also have a great website and they do an ‘at home’ service for parties etc too.

Recommended…especially for Karaoke virgins!

We have had really great night there together with my friends. we all enjoyed the place and the experience was amazing!

We had a great night out there! Eventhough it was karaoke… and im definitely no fan of it…
The drinks are good, but costy… Staff was friendly and ahe atmosphere was great, the people enjoyed themselves singing along to songs from 80s 90s and recent songs. Cool night!

I have a nephew who sings with a band. He went here, as well as other K bars, to get more confidence. The reception was good and staff should congratulated on how thry look after perspective “Pop Stars”. Well done.

Great place, one of my favourite karaoke bars

Would recommend to anyone

It takes a lot to get me to do karaoke. We're talking epic amounts of persuasion, threats and bribery. Or perhaps a bottle of ouzo. Trust me, my singing is like listening to cat being run over by a lawnmower. No-one needs that.

So although almost everyone I know raves on and on about Lucky Voice, I've still never been. But since they were kind enough to loan us one of their home karaoke systems for the Qype Summer Party last week, I got to experience the Lucky Voice magic first hand.

With the help of a laptop, sound system and microphones, we speedily set-up and the system was straightforward and simple to use. There was only limited number of songs available on the system we borrowed (much less than there are on their website, where the super-organised can browse the mammoth database and put together a playlist in advance of their singing session), but considering the quality of the caterwauling that went on, perhaps that was for the best!

Update 2 All I can say is that after my performance at the Qype Summer Party, I am expecting a phone call any moment offering me a residency....

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Update: After slick and sick spitting of Snoop Dogg's "What's My Name?" and then a barnstorming banging out of "Ace of Spades" with Tikichris last night, I can now die happy. Life no longer holds any more challenges for me.

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I had to leave before the singing started, which is particularly sad as I have the entertaining combo of zero vocal talent backed with bucketloads of confidence. Last night, I also suffered from the unfortunate affliction of a fair dose of '80s pop knowledge and a deeper love of competition than Milton Friedman. if you don't know me, I was the one looking smug. And wearing a skirt.

Overall, it was an excellent night and what a turnout for the middle/end of August! The Lucky Voice staff really help elevate the atmosphere; rather than skulk about moodily they sing and dance, shake tambourines and ring bells like a flock of Hare Krishna. Except minus the war paint. Considering that I kept getting in their way, they were also consistently charming and pleasant.

Being an Islington resident, I am already well aware of the excellent Euphorium bakery, and the quality of their wares last night was to the usual and expected high standards.

I do love a bit of karaoke. And it was nice having the private booths like they do in the east. This was the first sole karaoke bar I'd been to in England and I did really enjoy myself.

It's just a shame that it's so expensive. Doesn't really fit into a budget.

can be pretty expensive but well worth it

Bigger, cleaner and better than the Soho Lucky Voice, I had a fantastic night out here with all my friends. I don't know if there are more songs on the playlist, but it felt like it. This is my new favourite karaoke place in London.

I went here for my birthday and it was great!
Their webiste publishes their up to date songlist for advance selections and their system is easy to use and you can queue up songs to keep the momentum going! You can also turn the voice/backing/echo/reverb up and down which is very handy. There's a button in your room so staff can be called on for drinks which is very fancy and they provide a box of amusing dressing up props.

The only criticisms I would have is the slightly claustrophobic underground nature of their rooms and their bizarrely high levels of air-conditioning. That and some of their backing tracks and on-screen lyrics are dodgy (strange midi files for Bonnie Tyler and ridiculous rewriting of ruder Lady Gaga lyrics) but all in all the experience is great and this is a must for karaoke fans!

What a fantastic night out!

This is the poshest of karaoke clubs out there - no dingy dark rooms here. Lucky Voice has thought of everything you need for a brilliant time - lights, props, food, drinks and the most hi-tech interactive karaoke computer system I've ever seen.

Went here courtesy of the new Windows phone, I should mention. What a fun evening!

It's amazing how a mic in your hand can turn the music snob 'I'm not dancin to that!' into an 80s soft rock behemoth...Lucky Voice is a great nights craic, full of shredded vocal chords and bleeding ear drums.

The mullet will have its day in the sun once again; until then, just stick on the wig.

Low on cost, high on NRG as those lovely folks at Windows 7 Mobile hosted an interactive event where we were invited to sample their new fangled phone, while gorging on hoisin duck pancakes, snaffling mojitos and belting out glam rock classics. Possibly the best Wednesday I've had on a working week, I very quickly ditched my ahem modesty to embark on a musical escapade from David Bowie to Gaga.

Donning a blonde Bon Jovi-esque wig we ran through a demanding repertoire in booth 1, the boys duetting rhythmically with the girls, harmoniously in the first 20 minutes before it all got rather rowdy and the 'uncle at a wedding' dance moves busted out their seams. Phenomenal event, met some awesome people and got a taste of the mobile revolution, yeeha!

I love to sing, but I'm a terrible singer and very shy, so before this particular Qype event the closest I'd come to doing Karaoke, was playing Lips (on my lonesome) on my Xbox 360. But after last night I can't wait to go back to Lucky Voice!

We were welcomed by the friendly and very helpful Lucky Voice staff and served a fantastic array of canapes and drinks. Comfortably seated, watered and fed, we had My Kind of Phone's Diane give us the low down on the innovative and intuitive new Windows Mobile 7. I have to say, if this new OS is in reality, as good as it sounded last night, I'll no longer be a slave to apple!

Full on canapes and tech speak, my friends and I made our way to one of Lucky Voices's Karaoke booths. To our delight, we found a box containing wigs, a hat and a tambourine and having adorned ourselves with them, began our attempt at reaching notes that would leave us voiceless by the end of the night. We had some trouble with one of the mics, but without leaving the booth and with the press of a button were able to summon a staff member who happily rectified the problem. And just like that, we were also able to order more drinks too.

My friends and I had a fantastic night and we all want to go back to Lucky voice soon!

this is really fun!
Fernandez and I went here for one hour and got our rocks off!!

The drinks are on the expensive side but who cares when you can be Liam & Madonna!

I pass LuckyVoice every day but have I ever had the chance to sing? Not until last night!
I’m not the most confident singer in the world so I spent some quality time in the rather gorgeous main bar drinking their amazingly yummy cocktails. Fruity and long, I managed 3 before I was finally dragged off into one of the rooms. These aren’t any old karaoke rooms. They’re dark and sultry with long leather(ish) sofa’s. Above you is a patterned ceiling which I at first hoped was a depiction of pac man but turned out to be hearts and crosses.

The singing itself was a blast. With golden oldies such as Grease and current hits like Gaga’s Bad Romance, the sound quality was a lot better than the singing. The best bit? The dress up box brought to the room by our ever-smiling waitress. Inside were two wigs (one pink!), a toy microphone and two BLOW UP GUITARS! Clearly a step up from air guitar.

Would I go again? Definitely, particularly since I discovered this morning they also run Cocktail Masterclasses. Any excuse for a party.

Though my singing skills are terrible my half Japanese part can't be more than happy when hears the word k-a-r-a-o-k-e. So I was thrilled when I had the opportunity to sing along at Lucky Voice last night in one of the Qype events.

I had been there before, but only this time I could have the whole karaoke experience and was as a karaoke should be: really fun. I was really surprise with the range of songs, that goes from classic 80's to current TV shows' tunes (they have a Glee set). In our booth you could hear from Total Eclipse of Heart to Flight of the Conchords' Most Beautiful Girl in the Room, all intensely sung.

Even if you're not keen about karaoke I'm pretty sure their amazing cocktails (they all seem very sweet from the menu, but once you try they're just perfect) and shots will worth the effort to hear you're friends loosing their voices all night long.

Said that Lucky Voice is guaranteed fun.

And to think I nearly braved going home to get some hats and tashes - private booth karaoke becomes extremely special when you have a 'thirsty' button with a useful waitress who appears in the blink of an eye and a box of dress-up paraphernalia.

Now I likes me some Karaoke, it's true. In the past I was used to seedy PA systems at restaurants, caterwauling on street corners and even whispered lullabies to sleeping babes (none of mine own). Nothing prepares you for a private session though, in luxurious surroundings, with a fully stocked and prepared cocktail bar with delightful canapés and such friendly and charming hosts.

My visit to the Islington branch of Lucky Voice was courtesy of Qype and Windows 7 Mobile and possibly I wouldn't have ventured so far north to check out this venue. After spending a roaring night of rapping, singing and laughing I have so many good memories that I really would consider dragging my pals to do it, not because the central London venue is booked. Even when I wandered away from the bar to munch on more Hoisin Duck pancakes (folded elegantly like a seaside chip wrapper cone) to find my Mohito delivered to a charming young lady, nothing bothered the bar staff. He was already making a replacement for me, rather then leave it to melt on the bar edge - a sign of good training and thoughtfulness.

Being of Mediterranean blood, I tend to generate enough heat to power a small island and I would have preferred more air-conditioning in the booths - not to say it's rubbish - but as I danced more and got even hotter, I felt the need to take the occasional mulligan in the sumptuous bar area to cool down at times. Aside from that, top times all round!