The 27 Hour Karaoke Challenge
Singing 27 hours worth of songs to raise £27K
6pm Friday 27th June until 9pm Saturday 28th June
What is this madness?
As some (most) of you will be aware I lost my best friend, the exceptional, extraordinary, brilliant, inspiring, compassionate, and resilient Kyle Jaggers, to a very aggressive cancer in November 2024. He was only diagnosed 6 months prior and it was already at Stage 4. Words cannot describe the hole this has created in our lives.
One of Kyle's symptoms was the amount of pain he was in and he was put in contact with St Clare Hospice, a local charity that help so many families locally. Whilst we knew about the End of Life care they give, we were unaware of all the other amazing things they offer people with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
Kyle had such an unpleasant and impersonal experience in the NHS Cancer system, he was completely blown away by the way he was respected and cared for as a human by the staff at St Clare's. They got on top of his pain medication and were there along side him right until the end. Not just while he was on site but even when he was home and needed someone to fight is cause or chase that next appointment.
Kyle was a prolific fundraiser and vowed to raise as much money he could for the hospice when he was better. It is in Kyle's memory that I take on this challenge.
So why 27 hours? Well, that was how long it took Kyle to walk from Harlow to Brighton in 2017. Non-stop. Without any sleep. The time is to honour what Kyle did on that particular fundraiser.
Why karaoke? I don't have the knees to walk 74 miles, or cycle from Whitehaven to Whitby, or do any number of Peaks - unlike Kyle. So this is (slightly) more in my skill set. All I have to do is sing on every song played (even if it is just a chorus) over a constant 27 hour period. Starting at 6pm on Friday 27th June and finishing at 9pm on Saturday 28th. Non-stop.
So how can you help me? Donate £27 and you can have one of the 400 songs dedicated to you or a loved one. If you're a business, £270 can ensure that your company sponsors one of the 27 hours of my challenge. I am looking at streaming the whole event so you can check in on how I am getting on. Alternatively, you can come into The Harlow Playhouse, who are graciously hosting and supporting me in doing this, when it is open to the public, buy a drink and take part in some of the other fundraising things I am doing at the same time!
I will be sharing lots of posts over the next few weeks sharing with you just what each target hit will do for St Clare Hospice - so it really is a case of every penny counts!!
The Song List
Some of these songs may change closer to the date. However, if you sponsor them or wish to sing them with me on the Friday or Saturday nights, let me know by donating £27 to the Justgiving Link and they will stay on the list!
artist song title
4 Non BlondesWhats Up
ABBA Fernando
ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme
ABBA Mamma Mia
ABBA Waterloo
ABC The look of love
A-Ha The sun always shines on tv
Alanis Morisette Ironic
alanis morrisette One hand in my pocket
Alicia Keys How come you don’t call me anymore
Amy Winehouse Rehab
Aqua Barbie Girl (duet)
Art Garfunkel Disney Girls
Art Garfunkel I only have eyes for you
B52s Love Shack
Barry Manilow Copacabana
Beautiful South Good as Gold
Beautiful South Old red eyes in back
Beautiful South Perfect 10
Bernard Cribbins Right said Fred
Beyonce Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Bill Withers Lean on me
Billy Joel She Always a woman
Billy Joel Uptown girl
Bjork It’s oh so quiet
Black Eyed Peas I got a feeling
Blink 182 All the small things
Blues Brothers Everybody needs somebody
Blues Brothers Gimme some loving
Blues Brothers Minnie the moocher
Blues Brothers Rawhide
Blues Brothers Sweet home chicago
Blur Country House
Blur Girls and Boys
Blur Parklife
Blur Song 2
Blur The Universal
Bob Marley Jammin'
Bobby McFerrin Don’t worry be happy
Bon Jovi It’s my life
Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer
Bon Jovi You give love a bad name
Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Boomtown Rats I don’t like Mondays
Britney Spears Baby One More Time
Brotherhood of Man Save your kisses for me
Bryan Adams Summer Of '69
Candido Jingo
Carl Douglas Kung fu fighting
Cee Lo Green Forget You
Chemical Brothers Hey Boy Hey Girl
Cher Turn back time
Chris Rea Road to hell (parts 1 & 2)
Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell
Cornershop Brimful of Asha
Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm
Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the dark
Culture Club Karma Chameleon
daft punk Get Lucky
daft punk One More Time
Dave Lee Roth Just a Gigalo
David Bowie Heroes
David Bowie Life on Mars
David Bowie Rock and roll suicide
David Bowie Sound and vision
David Bowie Starman
Dean Martin Volare
Deep Blue Something Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Dire Straits Brothers in arms
Dire Straits Money for nothing
Dire Straits Walk of life
Dizzee Rascal Bonkers
Dolly Parton 9 to 5
Don Maclean American Pie
Donovan Mellow Yellow
Elvis Presley Love me Tender
Eagle-Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Ed Sheeran A Team
Ed Sheeran Castle on the hill
Ed Sheeran Shape Of You
Elbow One day like this
Electric Six Danger High Voltage
Elton John Can you feel the love tonight
Elton John I’m still standing
Elton John Your Song
Elvis Presley Love me tender
Elvis Presley Always on my mind
Elvis Presley I can’t help falling in love with you
Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds
Eminem Stan
Evita Don't cry for me Argentina
Faithless Insomnia
Faithless Mass Destruction
Fatboy Slim Praise You
Five Keep on Moving
Frank Sinatra It was a very good year
Frank Sinatra Love and Marriage
Frank Sinatra My Way
Frank Sinatra New York New York
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Relax
Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
Barbra S. (Funny Girl) Don't Rain On My Parade
George Ezra Blame it on me
George Ezra Budapest
George Ezra Shotgun
George Michael Faith
George Michael/Aretha Franklin Knew you were waiting
George Michael Freedom 90
George Michael Outside
Gershwin I got Rhythm
Gershwin Nice work if you can get it
Gershwin Someone to watch over me
Gershwin Summertime
Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
Grease Grease Lightening
Grease Summer Loving
Green Day Basketcase
Guns N' Roses Live and Let Die
Harry Nilsson Everybody’s Talking
Harry Styles Treat people with kindness
Harry Styles Watermelon sugar high
Hue and Cry Labour of Love
Ian Dury & The Blockheads Hit me with your rhythm stick
INXS Need you tonight
Jake Bugg Lightening Bolt
Jake Bugg Two Fingers
James Brown I feel good
James Taylor You’ve got a friend
Jason Mraz I'm Yours
Jerry Rafferty Baker Street
Jimmy Buffett Margeritaville
Joe Cocker You are so beautiful to me
Joe Dolce Shaddap you face
Joe Jackson Is she really going out with him
John Legend All of me
Junior Senior Move your feet
Kaiser Chiefs I predict a riot
Kaiser Chiefs Ruby
Kate Bush Babooshka
Kate Bush Cloudbusting
Kate Bush Jig Of Life
Kate Bush The man with a child in his eyes
Katy Perry California Gurls
Katy Perry I kissed a Girl
Katy Perry Roar
Kelly Marie Feels Like I'm in Love
Kid Creole Annie, I’m not your Daddy
Kid Creole Stool Pigeon
Kings Of Leon Sex Is On Fire
Kings Of Leon Use Somebody
Kool & The Gang Celebration
Kool & The Gang Jungle Boogie
Kylie Minogue Can’t get you out of my head
Kylie Minogue Spinning Around
Lady Gaga Poker Face
Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven
Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lenny Kravitz Fly Away
Les Miserable I dreamed a dream
Lewis Capaldi Someone You Loved
Lily Allen Alfie
Lily Allen Smile
Lily Allen The Fear
Lisa Stansfield Been around the world
Little Shop of Horrors Skid Row
Little Shop of Horrors Suddenly Seymour
Lou Bega Mambo No.5
Lou Reed Perfect Day
Louis Armstrong What a wonderful world
Loving Spoonful Daydream
Luther Vandross Never Too Much
Madness Baggy Trousers
Madness I like driving in my car
Madness Must be love
Madness One step beyond
Madness Our house
Madonna Crazy for you
Madonna Hanky Panky
Madonna La Isla Bonita
Madonna Like A Virgin
Madonna Material Girl
Madonna Vogue
Amy Winehouse Valerie
Bruno Mars Uptown Funk
Men at work Down Under
Michael Buble All of me
Michael Buble Cry me a river
Michael Buble Feeling Good
Monty Python Always Look on the Bright Side of life
Monty Python Every Sperm is Sacred
Monty Python Not the Noel Coward Song
Monty Python The Galaxy Song
Nancy Sinatra These boots are made for walking
Nat King Cole Unforgettable
Neil Diamond Beautiful Noise
Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline
Nickleback How you remind me
Nickleback Rockstar
Nina Simone Ain’t got no/I got life
Oasis Champagne Supernova
Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger
Oasis She’s Electric
Oasis Wonderwall
Otis Reading Sitting on the dock of the bay
Outkast Hey Ya
Paul Simon Boy in the bubble
Paul Simon Call me Al
Paul Simon Under african skies
Paul Simon Graceland
Pet Shop Boys Suburbia
Peter Gabriel Games without frontiers
Peter Gabriel Here comes the flood
Peter Gabriel In your Eyes
Peter Gabriel Mercy street
Peter Gabriel Red Rain
Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel That voice again
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush Don’t Give Up
Pharrell Williams Happy
Pink Floyd Shine on you crazy diamond
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pinkfong Baby Shark
Prefab Sprout King of rock and roll
Prince Anotherloverholnyohead
Prince Cream
Prince Darling Nikki
Prince Do me baby
Prince Gold
Prince I could never take the place of your man
Prince Pop Life
Prince Purple Rain
Prince Sometimes it Snows In April
Prince Take Me With You
Prince The cross
Prince Under a cherry moon
Pulp Babies
Pulp Bar Italia
Pulp Common people
Pulp Do you remember the first time
Pulp Sorted for Es and whizz
Pulp Something Changed
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen Don't Stop Me Now
Queen Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen I Want To Break Free
Queen Save Me
Queen Seven Seas of Rhye
Queen Sleeping on a sidewalk
Queen These are the days of our lives
Queen We are the champions
Queen We Will Rock You
Queen Who wants to live forever
Radiohead Creep
Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Randy Newman You gotta friend in me
Ray Parker Jnr Ghostbusters theme
Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the bridge
REM Losing my religion
Rent Take me or leave me
Rick Astley Never Gonna Give you up
Ricky Martin Living La Vida Loca
Right Said Fred I’m too sexy
Robbie Williams Angels
Robbie Williams Feel
Robbie Williams Go Gentle
Robbie Williams Rock DJ
Robert Palmer Mercy mercy me
Roberta Flack The first time ever I saw your face
Rocky Horror Show Sweet transvestite
Rocky Horror Show Time Warp
Ronnie Hilton A windmill in old Amsterdam
Roxy Music Jealous Guy
Roy Orbison You got it
Rudimental Feel the love
Rufus Wainwright Hallelujah
Rupert Holmes Escape (the pina colada song)
Scissor Sisters Everybody wants the same thing
Scissor Sisters Land of a thousand words
Scissor Sisters Laura
Scissor Sisters Mary
Scott Walker Jackie
Shania Twain Man! I Feel Like A Woman
Simon & Garfunkel My little town
Simple Minds Don’t you forget about me
Simply Red Holding Back the years
Sinead O’Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
Sophie Ellis Bextor Murder on the dance floor
Spandau Ballet Gold
Spice Girls Wannabe
Spice Girls Who do you think you are
Stealers Wheels Stuck in the middle
Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
Steps Tragedy
Steve Harley Come up and see me
Steve Miller Band The Joker
Stevie Wonder I just called to say I love you
Sting 7 days
Sting Feilds of gold
T Rex 20th Century Boy
T Rex I love to boogie
T Rex Metal Guru
T Rex Telegram Sam
Take That Rule The World
Take That Shine
Talking Heads And She Was
Talking Heads Psycho Killer
Taylor Swift Shake It Off
Tears for Fears Everybody wants to rule world
Tenacious D Dude I totally miss you
Tenacious D F**k her gently
Tenacious D Tribute
Tenacious D Wonderboy
The Animals House of the rising sun
The Bangles Manic Monday
The Bangles Walk like an Egyptian
The Beatles A Day In The Life
The Beatles Day Tripper
The Beatles Hey Jude
The Beatles Ticket to ride
The Beatles When I'm 64
The Beatles With a little help from my friends
The Beegees Staying Alive
The Boo Radleys Wake Up Boo
The Cars Drive
The Champs Tequila
The Clash Should I stay or should I go
The Commodores Easy
The Cure Love Cats
The Doors Alabama Song
The Doors Break on through
The Doors LA woman
The Doors Light my fire
The Doors People are strange
The Doors The End
The Eagles Hotel California
The Foundations Build me up buttercup
The Four Seasons December 63 (oh what a nght)
The Human League Don't You Want Me Baby
The Jungle Book Bear Necessities
The Jungle Book Wanna be like you
The Killers Mr Brightside
The Kinks Lola
The Kinks Waterloo Sunset
The Lion King Hakuna Matata
The Lion King I Just Can't Wait To Be King
The Little Mermaid Part Of Your World
The Little Mermaid Under The Sea
The Monkees Daydream Believer
The Police Every Breath You Take
The Police Roxanne
The Proclaimers I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Rembrandts I'll be there for you
The righteous brothers Unchained Melody
The Rolling Stones Paint It Black
The Scaffold Lily The Pink
The Streets Fit but you know it
The Village People YMCA
The Weather Girls It's Raining Men
The White Stripes Seven Nation Army
The WHO My Generation
They Might Be Giants Birdhouse in your soul
Thin Lizzy The Boys are back in town
Tim Minchin Inflatable You
Tom Jones Deliahla
Tom Jones Its Not Unusual
Toni Basil Hey Mickey
Toy Dolls Nellie The Elephant
T'Pau China in your hand
Tracey Chapman Fast Car
Trio Da da da
Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl
Ween Buenes Tardes Amigo
Ween Mister wont you please help my pony?
Ween Voodoo Lady
Wet wet wet Love is all around
Wham! Baby I'm your man
Wham! Wake me up before you go go
Wham! Club Tropicana
Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag
Whitfield Saturday Night
Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally
Yello Oh yeah
Goo Goo Dolls Iris
Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
Spin Doctors Two Princes
Ugly Kid Joe Everything about you
Jarvis Cocker Black Magic
Backstreet Boys I want it that way
Eric Carmen All by myself
Gerry Rafferty Baker Street
Is your favourite song not on here and you would like to sing it on Friday or Saturday night? Let me know using the email link here