I've been attending trivia at Syberg's on Dorsett for about 3 years running, every Tuesday; I think…read moreI've missed maybe a half dozen times when I was out of town. It is by far the best trivia I've ever taken part in. The rounds are organized properly and coherently, the questions are varied and provide a good balance of challenge and fun, they mix up the categories regularly, each round is its own game, unlike some other annoying trivia nights where you need to know 95% of all the answers ALL NIGHT in order to get any sort of prize, and it's all free to boot.
One of the big selling points(for me at least) for this trivia night is that there are rules to the game, and they are actually enforced, which is a good thing unless you're pretty much an ass. As Murph has said on more than one occasion, "It takes a special kind of person to cheat for a $10 gift card." but at other trivia events there are, in fact, no rules about cell phone use, so the music rounds are more about who can more diligently press their Shazam/Soundhound to the ceiling than what people actually know. It's just so damn satisfying when you dig deep and actually come up with the answer for some of this stuff, I mean, no one else in my group was going to know that Nick Guilder sang Hot Child in the City, hell, they didn't even know it was a guy singing.
Now, aside from the trivia nights at Sybergs, this company does events and such, and I didn't really have much of a use for that until recently, I just enjoyed it at Syberg's. The event that we needed his service for happened to be a small charity event in town at a place called Deserts on the Boulevard. We pretty much walked up to Steve at Syberg's and asked if he was able to do it, exchanged emails and off we went. After he cleared up that he was free on the night in question we were locked and loaded.
Steve Murphy, or Murph as we call him, is the owner of the company and usually the guy behind the microphone. This is a good thing too, because the man has his shit together. When we were setting up our amateur event he was helping us along the way with little suggestions here and there to make things run more smoothly and efficiently, he has clearly done these sort of things and understands how it all works. Other than just making everything just a little better, even stuff that he wasn't directly involved in, he has something you just can't teach, he has the voice, and on top of that he just speaks in such a way on mic that is somehow better than other DJs, he has presence. This guy could announce for the Cardinals and no one would miss John Ulett.
Our event went off without a hitch, he arrived early and coped well with the venue's poor systems and could have easily brought his own if we had not been misinformed about the facilities we had at our disposal, though he did have some extra stuff anyway that made it better than it might have been. So he was more prepared than we had told him to be basically.
I encourage anyone having an event needing DJ services, Karaoke, Trivia nights, or anything involving a man with a deep sexy voice, to use Sound of St. Louis.
P.S. I *hate* writing reviews, but these guys deserve some exposure.
