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

[Chris Croughton <wcfilk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:59:46PM -0400, Andrew Barton wrote:
> > > Best Dressed Filk.
> > 
> > What do you mean by that?
> 
> Rafe:
> > 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. 
> 
> How could you forget Brian Biddle's GoH set at a fairly recent UK filk con?

XIlophone in 2000, 4 years ago.  I don't think that's very 'recent' in
UK filkcon terms (it is, of course, in the sense in which I tend to use
'recent', meaning "since the death of Elizabeth Queen of England").

Has any been seen since, especially from anyone else?  The nMC have done
a very limited amount (dressing up more for the set than for the
individual songs, but with occasional changes for a song) but Brian is
the only person I remember doing it with a different costume for each
song in the set.

>  He did a whole series of quick changes, matching his costumes to each
> song.

Indeed, and it was impressive (well, it impressed me).  However, I
don't recall any other people doing it much on a per-song basis ("Father
Zander" at Fourplay came close, but the costumes were not totally varied
during the set).

"Best Dressed Filk" as a specific program item where lots of people
dress appropriately for their own performances (and all of them do so),
however, I haven't seen done since (I believe) Fourplay, at which Miki
and Melusine almost won "Best UNdressed Filk".  Which is definitely
/not/ recent by UK filkcon standards.  Seceral conventions since
(notably Decadence and ConThirteena) have tried to encourage "dressing
up", but with limited success.  If I remember correctly, Dixseption
intends to do the same...

Chris C