[interactionfilk-discuss] Re: Notes from the SWiGGLe meeting

[rafe@xxxxxxxxxx (Rafe Culpin)]

Lynn Gold said:

> > Eurovision Filk
> 
> For those of us not from Europe, an explanation please?

There's an annual television show called the Eurovision Song Contest (it's 
on this Saturday). Someone's bright idea to promote European harmony by 
having a pop-song contest with one representative group from each nation.

The harmony works about as well as in the Olympics - massive tactical and 
political voting (each country casts a number of votes for each other 
country). So they cast "null points" for anyone they don't currently like. 
And the songs are all extremely bland.

In 95 we had a Eurovision Filk Contest - one song from each country 
including several imaginary countries. And then the judges awarded null 
points to *every* contestant, and declared the audience the winners for 
having sung Happy Birthday to someone earlier.

Generally an excuse for extreme silliness.

> > Filk Idol (hosted by Ninja?)
> 
> I don't know about this.  I think we want to encourage getting together 
> and
> discourage things that involve rejection.

I'm not sure myself what this was. Lissa?

> > Instabands
> 
> That's an iffy.  At Torcon very few of the better-known filkers signed 
> up.

We've had some very successful ones over here recently, but the biggest 
complaint was not having enough time to rehearse. So the idea was to try it 
when there's much more possible time available.

Different mix of people and experience I suppose, but I think it could work 
very well, especially if we get plenty of the Germans over.

> > GoH filks (convert or song-writing contest??)
> 
> I presume you meant "concert" rather than "convert."

I expect so - that's what was in the transcribed notes that I copied in.

> > Best Dressed Filk.
> 
> What do you mean by that?

Filk performed in costume related in some way to the song.

Happened a few times at early UK filk cons, though I don't remember it 
recently. For instance at the first one DJ won dressed as Inigo for a song 
about him, and at the second she won for doing the face paint for several 
people for a cat song.

Rafe