SODAs Perpetual Karaoke featured in National Archives Highlights of the 2024
The Bryan Adams Perpetual Karaoke project invited people to perform karaoke versions of the hit 1991 song Everything I So, I Do it For You and featured in the National Archives Highlights of 2024
It’s wonderful to see School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University academics Maria Ruban and John Lloyd in the National Archives, UK Highlights of the Year for the North West.
The Perpetual Karaoke project has been in development using a series of interactive events where people are invited to perform karaoke versions of Bryan Adam’s song Everything I So, I Do it For You.
Participants responses are then recorded and discussed and memories of that period in time explored.
This was based on newspapers, magazines, media footage and testimony from a specific period of 1991 when the hit song was No1 for a record 16 weeks. The accompanying exhibition featured films from North West Film Archive and images from Bolton Archives.
Past events took place for 4 hours then 12 hours during the MeCCSA conference in July 2024, and a future event is planned for March 2025, coincidentally when Bryan Adams will be touring the UK
Explore the highlights here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/our-archives-sector-role/celebrating-archives/a-year-in-archives/a-year-in-archives-2024/highlights/north-west/
