I started a full con report, which I suppose will get finished eventually…but for now, I wanted to get this post up about our concert for any interested parties! It went really, really well overall and I once again would like to thank the concom, the guys working the sound board, Amy McNally for providing her awesome fiddling on a couple of songs, and just everyone in that audience. I wasn’t kidding when I said I wanted to hug you all. *hug*
So, this was our setlist for the ConCom’s Choice concert at GAFilk (with notes):
Heaven on Their Minds
really, seriously, just a straightforward cover of the song from JCS. (The Original London Recording is my preferred version. ymmv.)
Pandas/Jesus
A mashup of “Pandas” by Corky and the Juice Pigs and “This Jesus Must Die” from JCS
(Storybook) Love Story
A parody of Taylor Swift’s Love Story, about The Princess Bride (lyrics here)
The Princess Who Saved Herself
A cover of the Jonathan Coulton song (minus the phone call bridge)
Actually Ironic
A few years ago, College Humor or Funny or Die did a video that adapted Alanis Morrisette’s “Ironic” to make it, well, actually ironic. We didn’t think it went far enough and added some of our own little twists to it. This went over really, really well.
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Dear Seanan
With Seanan in the audience! Squee! This is a parody of Seanan’s song “Dear Gina” (lyrics here, by me and Merav Hoffman) Lyrics and video from our FKO concert here.
Real
from William Shatner’s album Has Been. (which you should totally check out if you haven’t already.) This song was a collaboration with Brad Paisley. I played the part of William Shatner. Amy played fiddle. It was awesome.
Tiberius Rising
Just a straight performance of Ookla’s song with Rand on lead vocals, Amy on fiddle, and me singing a bit on the chorus.
Little Red Riding Hood
Cover of the Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, featuring me on the ukulele, alone…I’ve done this in open filk a couple of times, but I was REALLY NOT PREPARED to do it on stage. OMG. My fingers forgot how to work, and it was almost a total disaster…but the audience seemed to have a good time anyway and everyone seemed to be on my side and nobody threw things or anything!
Cowboy Secret Space Detective
with two new girl-centric verses! And yeah, I screwed up the lyrics (both in performance and when I posted them to facebook) and I am super embarrassed.
Haven’t We Been Here Before
A cover of a Styx song from the album Kilroy Was Here
View Mistress
“View Master” with lyrics modified by vixy (and tweaked here and there by Rand and me)
Cliffs of Insanity
A parody of “Green Hills of Harmony” about (again) The Princess Bride, lyrics by me and Rand (lyrics here) And here’s a video from FKO.
Obviously, links for a lot of things are provided, both to lyrics and video…I’ll get lyrics for some of these other things posted at some point.
And just in case you need a reminder of how much I never ever EVER thought I would sing in front of people let alone on a stage, you can read more in my writeup from FKO in 2013.
Oh, and do let us know if you have photos, video, or sound recordings from the concert…we’d love to see/hear them! (er, well, I could maybe do without ever seeing or hearing that performance of “Little Red Riding Hood”…)