Rock Con! \m/

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be awesome if all the fictional rock stars, pop stars, bands, entertainers, lounge singers, rappers, wedding singers, hip hop artists, interpretive vocalists and other musicians had a place to congregate for a weekend? Together?

Well, isn't it fortunate that Fandom can provide that for them?

The weekend of June 19th-21st, Fandom will be hosting yet another fun, fun convention. In the grand tradition of Merc Con, Cop Con, and RoboCon, we bring you...Rock Con.

(Say it aloud. GET IT? That's all peter__parker's idea.)

Much like its predecessors, this weekend will be about fictional musical artists/entertainers coming to Fandom to learn at the feet of their peers during workshops, panels, and a Saturday night battle of the bands-type showcase at Caritas.

Guest characters will be able to host and attend panels on appropriate topics at the convention as well as mingle with the populace of Fandom in town. (You are not required to have the character host a panel by any means.) Characters already in game with musical prowess are welcome to participate in workshops and the convention as well, of course, and can sign up for the showcase as well if they'd like.

The app post is going up shortly, and the deadline for those is June 17th.

Any questions? Comments? Et cetera?

Comments

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

[thatsamilkshake]

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[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

WHY DO YOU HAVE AN ICON FOR EVERYTHING?

[thatsamilkshake]

SHUT UP, BURLAP KILT.

[thatsamilkshake]

Actual answer: because I have 14 years worth of canon and an unhealthy addiction to photoshop.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

If we needed an icon for Francine and Katchoo dressed up for Rocky Horror, she would have that too. Or in the back of a limousine. Or in line at a con.

Not only does she have an addiction to Photoshop, we also have a cartoonist who will never stop drawing random one-off sketches of these girls. :D

[bitten_notshy]

Oh, hey, I have an actual question! Can groupies attend?

They'd make the musicians so happy :-).

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.

I'm kind of thinking no, unless they're specific groupies for a specific band/musician who's coming, and it's all a matched set.

[tyler_gone]

Gotcha, thanks.

(... I don't suppose anyone is desperate to play Russell Hammond? You can claim to be a Golden God!)

[withoutverona]

OK, LJ won't let me log in as Tyler to edit that, but I actually really kind of disagree? Not just in the "OMG PENNY LANE IS AWESOME WOE" way, but any good gathering of musicians is going to have a few unaffiliated groupies floating around. I can see where we don't wanna open this up to, like, every TV character ever who spent an episode pining after a rock star, but I think a serious groupie is as appropriate for this con as a serious bass player.

... and Penny Lane is awesome.

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

See, I have to disagree with that, because the convention is intended for musicians, and not for groupies at all. One might consider this a professional environment for said musicians to escape their groupies, even. Like all the other themed conventions, it's for networking and such within the musical world, and groupies would be considered an outside product of that. I know there aren't cop groupies or robo-groupies or villain groupies or merc groupies (...that I know of) but had there been any, they wouldn't have really had a place at prior cons, either.

(Penny Lane is, indeed, awesome, though.)

[withoutverona]

I don't really remember the guest lists for prior cons and I'm not up to tracking them down, but I'll take your word for it that there weren't, e.g., henchmen at the Villaincon. And since this is your con and not mine, your call goes. Either I'll find a stray Stillwater member to drag Penny along, or I'll pick somebody else to play :-).