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

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That was at Contabile-Fortean, when we sang "Evil Overlords Anonymous".

ISTR that the origin of the "Best Dressed Filk" was a suggestion by Gytha to encourage people to perform their songs in the 
appropriate costume. If people are to be encouraged to bring costumes with them to Glasgow, they have to be sure of an 
opportunity to perform their filk in costume. 

Re Eurovision Filk Contest, my memory of this from last time (1995), apart from the fact that I wore something very pink 
and frilly to compere it, was that it was great fun and attracted a widely European audience and participators - no bad thing 
as it taps into a very European tradition. But very few North American filkers came along. Perhaps something could be put in 
a PR...?

cheers

Valerie

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> 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)

There was the set where the NMC all dressed as Evil Overlords, presumably
inspired by one of the songs they did.

> 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").

In an Oxford context, a recent college is any of the ones that didn't
already exist when the university got its charter.  New College, of course,
is not recent.

Andrew