SHOW FORMATS
Pick Your Show
Every format includes a full live band, professional sound and lighting, video projection, on-screen lyrics, and the Entire Crowd Singalong finale. Every note is played live — no backing tracks, no Muppet Karaoke. These are the different ways we can run the night.
Core Formats
Our tried-and-tested show types. Available for any booking.
Standard Show
Best for: bars, breweries, private parties, any crowd
Open queue, all genres, the crowd picks the songs. Energy builds all night and the show closes with the Entire Crowd Singalong. Our bread and butter — if you've never booked us, start here.
Theme Nights
Best for: recurring venue nights, special events, holidays
Setlist built around a theme. Formats we run:
- Decade Nights — All 80s, all 90s, all 2000s. Pick an era and own it.
- Genre Battles — Rock vs. pop, country showdown, punk vs. emo.
- Divorced Dad Rock Night — Exactly what it sounds like. The dads go hard.
- Emo Night — Black eyeliner optional but encouraged.
- Holiday Specials — Halloween (sing in costume), holiday parties, New Year's Eve.
Have a custom theme idea? We'll build a setlist around it.
Championships
Best for: venues that want 4-6 weeks of packed rooms
Bracket-style singing competition over multiple weeks. Singers compete in rounds, audiences vote, two finalists face off. Contestants bring fans, stakes bring everyone back.
Intimate / Seated
Best for: dining rooms, listening rooms, upscale venues
Same live band experience, calibrated for refined rooms. Lower volume, hosted transitions, concert-style flow. Think piano bar meets live band karaoke.
Game Show Formats
Live band karaoke meets competitive entertainment. These formats add stakes, strategy, and a reason to stay all night.
Don't Forget The Lyrics
Best for: venues, corporate events, themed nights
Based on the Fox TV game show. A singer performs with the band, but at a random point the lyrics disappear. Keep singing from memory to advance; forget and you're out. Rounds get harder.
Fun fact: our guitarist Tom was a contestant on the actual Fox TV show.
The Gong Show
Best for: high-energy bar nights, competitions
The crowd can gong a singer off stage mid-performance. Survive the whole song and you advance; get gonged and you walk off to a hero's exit. The tension is addictive — and sometimes the worst singers get the biggest cheers.
Battle Rounds
Best for: competitive events, team-building, venue nights
Two singers, same song, audience votes on who did it better. Head-to-head format creates instant drama. Works as a bracket tournament or a one-night event.
Name That Tune + Sing It
Best for: trivia crowds, music nerds, competitive bar nights
The band plays the first few bars. First person to identify the song and rush the stage gets to sing it. Part music trivia, part karaoke, part foot race.
Party Formats
These ones turn the whole room into the show.
Live Band Karaoke Bingo
Best for: bar nights, brewery events, fundraisers
Everyone gets a Bingo card with random songs. As singers perform, players mark them off. First Bingo wins a prize. Gives non-singers a reason to stay, pay attention, and cheer for specific songs.
Duet Roulette
Best for: icebreakers, corporate events, social nights
Two strangers randomly paired, given a duet, no choice in partner or song. The awkwardness is the point — and it always turns into a bonding moment. The ultimate icebreaker.
Mystery Song
Best for: adventurous crowds, themed nights
Pick a genre or decade but don't know the song until the band starts playing. Recognize it and jump in — or stand there for eight bars in pure panic. Both outcomes are great.
Karaoke Roulette
Best for: bar nights, parties, anyone who's indecisive
Spin a wheel of song titles. Whatever it lands on, that's your song. No vetoes, no mercy. The randomness replaces the pressure of picking with the thrill of chance.
Crowd Control
Best for: competitive nights, audience engagement
The audience picks the song for the singer (one veto allowed). Do they give their friend an easy win or throw them into the deep end? Keeps the crowd invested in every performance.
Iron Mic
Best for: late-night energy, bar nights
One singer holds the stage as long as the crowd keeps cheering. After each song the audience votes: encore or next? How many songs can you hold the stage?
Coming Soon: The Magic Mic
We're building a gold microphone with built-in vocal enhancement that makes anyone sound incredible — the Magic Mic. Available as a show feature, a competition prize, or a Gong Show "save" instead of getting gonged.
Follow us for the launch: @LeadSingerWanted
Mix and Match
These formats aren't mutually exclusive. A typical show might combine several:
- Run a Standard Show for the first hour, then switch to Battle Rounds for the second half.
- Distribute Bingo cards at the start of any format — it works alongside everything.
- Start a Theme Night (all 90s) and add Gong Show rules for the last hour.
- Use Karaoke Roulette as a tiebreaker round in Championships.
- Add Duet Roulette as a mid-show segment in any format for an energy boost.
Every show ends with the Entire Crowd Singalong regardless of format.
Book a Show
Tell us what you're planning and we'll recommend the right format.