Urban Tapestry DVD

Went up to Richmond Hill last night to work on the Urban Tapestry DVD with the help of Allison's videographer husband, John. The DVD won't be for sale, but will be donated to upcoming Interfilk auctions.

I also practised playing tunes from memory for Allison and Jodi, to help me overcome my session performance jitters. Here's a photo that Allison took. You can see other photos that Allison took last night by browsing her Flickr photostream.



What the Urban Tapestry DVD will include:

-- Video footage from some of our concerts and performances over the years, including the very first time that Allison, Jodi and I performed together (BEFORE we became Urban Tapestry!).

-- Our Jelly Belly video. Very silly and likely not to see the light of day except at Interfilk auctions, believe me. Includes an cringe-embarrassing scene of me parading around in a bathrobe with mud on my face. And worse.

-- New footage of us practising songs in Allison's living room, including stuff not on any of our albums.



Last night, we went through old video footage that Allison had found. WHOA, some of it is pretty old. I still have my seventies-style pop bottle glasses and short hair in some of the clips.

Interesting also to see the gradual change in our performance style. We were SOOOO nervous in the beginning, and did an early concert sitting on chairs. We still get pre-show jitters (we've found the adrenalin helps our performance, so figure this is a good thing) but stand for our concerts now because it enables us to move around more, gives us more energy to work from.



Also very cool to see various other filkers in our concerts. Mary Ellen Wessels and Dave Clement providing vocals and instrumental backup on an early performance of "Urban Lullaby", for example. Graham Leathers doing his Guy thing on "Cuz He's A Guy." And Paul Kwinn's memorable performance as our Technonerdboy, complete with taped-up glasses and nerd dance.



Watching all the footage got me all nostalgic; I can't wait to get a copy for myself. :-) On Monday, Allison's husband John will be making some videos of us practising some songs in their living room, and also recording some audio intros to each clip that will be included on the DVD.

Blatherphotos today are all stills taken from the Urban Tapestry video footage archive. Click on any image to see a bigger version.

Only three weeks until FilKONtario, woohoo!

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