music for a broken mind

[reverancepavane]

Important gigs for the upcoming next few months (for my reference because otherwise I'd forget).
10 May	The Graveyard Train The Gov ($20) Melbourne horror country drunken bearded stompy chain smashy madness band. (with Bearded Gypsy and The Bakers)
19 May	The English Ale (& Spiral Dance & Damh the Bard) Mylor Oval ($15) [Found a way to get up there.]
22 May	Damh the Bard Sponsors Concert The Wheatie (-)
9 June	Clare Bowditch ACF Space ($40)
14 June	Lisa Mitchell Flinders St Baptist Church (?) The bvenue means I probably won't be going. Breaking down in screams of pain three-quarters through the performance is not the best way to appreciate music).
16 June	Dandelion Wine (& Leigh Stardust) The Wheatie (free)
20-23 June	Tripod ACF Banquet Room ($40)
30 June	Spiral Dance Yule Feast Port Adelaide ($45) Sci-Fi theme. Would try my Space Pirate Harlock costume again except someone has run off with the cloak... Makes me less enthusued to appear. That and the distance and cost to create a new costume. I don't think my Starblazers costume would fit any more. And I'm not shaving my beard again to do a Buck Godot again. Besides I'd have to fins a new Winslow since it has also transmogrified. Hmmm. <sigh>
15 July	Spiral Dance CD Launch The Wheatie ($15)
21 July	Sophie Koh The Wheatie ($?)
24 July	The Tea Party: The Reformation Tour Thebarton Theatre ($85)
10 August	Kate Miller-Heidke The Gov ($48)
later 2012	Yunyu ????? ($?)
Have I missed anything? Apart from the Discordian Drone Group playing at the Squatter's Arms as I type this, who sole advertisement is a "HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!"

Comments

[derigueur.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, but if you don't know about this you should:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117112-Auctioneer-Sells-Dungeons-Dragons-Creators-Treasure-Trove?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Disappointing that the storage company is the one auctioning it off and the moneys are neither going to the Arneson Fund or to his family; This sort of stuff is the stuff that should be going into a university collecttion, such as the recently created RPG annex at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University.

[I'm much more of a fan of Dave Arneson and his Egg of Coot Society than I ever was of Gary Gygax and his Greyhawk. I'm glad WOTC actually paid him for his part of the D&D name/brand rather than using the accountancy tricks that TSR used to deny him his royalties (although that was probably more Blume than Gygax).]

[derigueur.livejournal.com]

I agree it's disappointing on many levels that the collection is being broken up, but the guy handling the auction seems, if he can be believed, to have both had Arneson's blessing to handle his stuff and tried his darndest to contact the family about it.

So with that in mind, I'm going to do my part to preserve some of that history. Whatever I get from the auction will be labelled, stored properly and made available to a museum/Uni collection down the track.