Thursday 19 November 2015

Post-party pictures post

Coming up to 2 months since the release party for the comic (Sat 29 September) so will use this space to archive documents and publicity pertaining to the launch.

This first posting is dedicated to photographs I took of the release party. These are atrocious for the following reasons:
- one of my kids broke the family camera shortly before the release show (no have mobile or smart phone)
- I borrowed another clunky old digital camera from my folks to take photos of the release party
- never having used it before, I couldn't get the lighting/scene settings figured out in time, so looks like I'm documenting a B&D dungeon rather than the sprightly environs of the Meteor.

A - photos of the wall decorations. Spent aeons (well, an afternoon) decorating the walls of the Meteor foyer with A3 photocopies of all the comic artwork. This was after almost losing all of these photocopies by leaving them in a box on the roof of my car when picking up some music gear for the event...they fell off but were saved by the good residents of Peachgrove, especially the inestimable 'Zombie' from whose safekeeping they were retrieved. Did look good ambience-wise after they all put up, not that you can really tell from these wretched snaps. Oh well, it's all the documentation I've got.

Wall comics with 'busted lens shield' app

'desperate attempt to figure out lighting and overcome busted lens shield' portrait

same photo as the first, but with lighting adjusted enough that shit can be actually seen

looks like a close-up of someone's buttocks after they had inadvertently sat, in a naked state, on a stamp collection

lighting OK for this one, but focus shite

'stamp arse' composition from before with 'warmer' lighting



 B - photos of the bands that played. There were 4 of them, all featuring contributors to the comic. Let's see if any of their visages are legible in the following piccy-wics:

Pumice (Stefan Neville) just visible in the middle distance, before the encroaching darkness

The Goth and the Pixie: contributor Wairehu Grant being the Goth (i.e. the one with Nick Cave hair, not wearing a tutu)

The Biscuits from AK: contributor Indira Neville on guitar

Glass Shards, aka contributor Oliver Stewart


Glass Shards again


a couple more of Glass Shards...the last act of the night, by which time I was able to relax and actually watch most of the set (and take more than 1 snap) instead of wandering around stressing about 'event management' matters 


 C - organiser peoples

when in need, rope in the missus...my lovely wife Kelly (on the right) manning the door with her friend Dee. Being of Irish descent, her patented 'IRA face' was enough to sort out any 'difficult' patrons

yer editor/blogger getting snapped by the wife...wearing my best suit for the occasion (3 piece sky blue flared combo of 1970s vintage)