- Thin Lizzy, the Undertones, ... ..and Snow Patrol in game
- Competitions and event ... ... .broadcasts on 2FM
- 115,000 PSPs sold in Ireland
- PlayStation Schools Cup ... ... .launched last month
- Set list for SingStar Rocks!
Sony’s SingStar karaoke game for PlayStation 2 is to branch away from its pop beginnings with ‘SingStar Rocks!’. The company is linking with RTE 2FM to see the game promoted for two weeks on the Dave Fanning show from this week.
SingStar Rocks and previous SingStar releases come with and without two microphones that connect a USB port on the front of the PlayStation 2. The karaoke game includes music videos, and an on-screen display compares singers’ pitch, tone, and rhythm.
A competition will run on Fanning’s show with the overall winner winning “the ultimate live music experience” of European Rock festivals, which includes the ‘Roskilde Festival’ in Denmark, and ‘Rock AM Ring’ in Germany.
Included in the partnership is the 2FM Roadcaster broadcasting from SingStar Rocks events in retail outlets, 2FM DJ’s Cormac Battle and Jenny Huston appearing in the game’s intro, and a Top 100 Rock Tracks weekend on the radio station.
The relationship “offers RTÉ 2fm a new and exciting way of connecting with our target audience” said 2FM boss, John Clarke, “SingStar Rocks in association with RTÉ 2fm is full of songs our listeners constantly request & now they can have fun singing their favourite tracks in their own homes and having their performance rated by the SingStar technology”.
The release follows ‘SingStar’ (early 2004), ‘SingStar Party’ (before Christmas 2004), ‘SingStar Pop’ (spring 2005), and ‘SingStar ‘80s’ (Christmas 2005). The game originates for Sony’s ‘London Studio’, and overall has sold has 3.6 million copies as of the end of last year.
At the start of the year, Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland also ran a music competition with Dublin radio station Spin 1038. The winners 'Exit 15', had their track, ‘Come Shot’, added to a website as a download for the PlayStation Portable game WipeOut Pure. The competition ended at a live final at the Village, Wexford St, in Dublin, judged by DJs David Holmes and Johnny Moy. The PSP launched here on September 1, 2005, it has sold over 115,000 units in Ireland.
Last month Sony launched the PlayStation Schools Cup, a European five a side football league that includes 32 schools across the island of Ireland. With regional heats in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, and Galway, the winners will get an all expenses paid trip to the Champions League Final in Paris on the 16th of May, and a the chance to play in the European PlayStation Schools finals in Paris.
Full list of songs in SingStar Rocks follows...
The Undertones, Teenage Kicks
Hole, Celebrity Skin
Stereophonics, Dakota
The Killers, Somebody Told Me
Snow Patrol, Run
Bloc Party, Banquet
Franz Ferdinand, Do You Want To?
Kasabian, Club Foot
Razorlight, Somewhere Else
Jet, Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
Rolling Stones, Paint It Black
Nirvana, Come As You Are
The Bravery, an Honest Mistake
Blur, Song 2
Hard-Fi, Hard to Beat
The Offspring, Self Esteem
Keane, Everybody’s Changing
Kings of Leon, the Bucket
Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now
Scorpions, Wind of Change
Gwen Stefani, What You Waiting For?
Bowling For Soup, 1985
Coldplay, Speed of Sound
KT Tunstall, Black Horse, & the Cherry Tree
The Hives, Hate To Say I Told You So
Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water
Queens of the Stone Age, Go With the Flow
The Cardigans, My Favourite Game
Thin Lizzy, the Boys are Back in Town
Maximo Park, Apply Some Pressure
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