Music Match

Music Match
Tomas Morato, Quezon City

Vidoke Experience (5)
Food (3.5)
Ambience (4.5)
Space (5)
Convenience (3.0)



The best thing about this place is the interiors – it’s refreshing and the seats are so comfortable you can sleep in them for hours. The lounges are spacious and inviting – they have a bar on the first floor. The rooms are either for 6, 10 or 14 people – we got the largest room and paid P560 an hour. That’s really cheap if you brought the whole gang with you. The rooms are relatively spacious, meaning it has enough space left for three people to dance on. They serve liquors, beverages, pulutan, and anything you can think of. They sell sisig for P200. Haha.



Every room has a widescreen television and a separate monitor for putting in song codes. You can use three microphones for the large room, two for the smaller rooms. Great vidoke experience – they even have disco lights to indulge your clubbing fantasies.

Over-all rating: 21/25

Providence

Vidoke Experience (3)
Food (4)
Ambience (3.5)
Space (2.5)
Convenience (5.0)

If you’re stuck on the road in the wee hours of the morning with nothing to do, better go to belt your lungs out at Providence. If you’re anywhere near Taft, all you have to do is go to DLSU and find corner Estrada St. Leon Guinto St. This place is open 24 hours – that earned them a 5.0 for convenience.

Providence is actually what the building is called – the first two floors are divided into small rooms with one vidoke machine each. Some rooms are really small – just enough for two people. But if you have enough dough, they have a spacious VIP room for P10 per song, compared to a regular rate of P5 per song. The rooms are well-lighted but most of them have really bad ventilation. It’s hard to sing while you’re sweating like a pig, right? They should have two microphones per room but some are dysfunctional, making your vidoke experience less magical.

The food is okay, quite expensive if you’ve already spent most of your cash clubbing or something. They sell beer for about P35 to P45 each and pulutan for about P150 to P300. But they serve rad fruit juices. Swear. If you’re a freeloader, you can stop singing and nobody will even notice you, except when the waiters have nothing to do.

Of course, there’s a downside. Most of the rooms are filled up until 4 AM, since the area is near Malate and Makati. You can wait for your turn in the lounge, where there are tables and chairs but the heat from the air conditioning from all the rooms is on full blast. The heat is tolerable but I’d rather not stay there for more than 30 minutes – the whole thing might kill my brain cells.

Over-all rating: 18/25

I'm sure relate ka dito.

Almost everyone's into videoke nowadays. I knew it the moment Manny Pacquiao came out as an endorser for a magic mike. Anyway, this blog was especially created to survey places where you can sing your lungs out. :)

Highly Recommended.

Almost perfect.

Will do. Nothing remarkable.

Smells like crap.

A dingy hole with drunk geezers.

I'll be posting my first review in a couple of days after I get photos. :D
First up: PROVIDENCE (Leon Guinto St., near CSB)