Category: Into the Pensieve
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Into the Pensieve: Here at Wrockstock
A photo sits on my desk. Over the years, the desks have changed, the photo has not. A moment in time, Wrockstock 2009. More than just a memory. More than just a festival. I close my eyes. Feel the crisp Ozark air. The campfire nearby… The warmth of the flames sustains me. Wrockstock: wasn’t just…
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Into the Pensieve: The Days of Camelot Treasures
Many of you may have heard about the wizard rock scene at Camelot Treasures in Cary, NC. Having been at the center of that, let me see if I can re-live some of those memories for you… We opened Camelot in September of 2006. Kirsten and I had talked for many years about running a…
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Into the Pensieve: Lord Voldi and the Dark Marks’ Performance Nearly Shuts Down a Convention
This month, I am stepping in as a guest writer to tell you about a hard core rock-n-roll moment in wizard rock that happened at a convention in Ohio. Though 2009 was right in the prime of wizard rock, many outside the fandom, even those deeply involved in scifi and fantasy conventions, had never heard…
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Into the Pensieve: Wrock Wreggies (and Wrock Chicago)
This month, we are going back to 2008. 8/8/08 to be exact. That auspicious date marks the first Wrock Wreggies show in Chicago. It was one of the most memorable gigs for Swish and Flick, one which I fondly recall as the moment we’d “made it” in Wizard Rock.
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Into the Pensieve: The Making of the Hufflepride Video
Welcome to this month’s blast from the past! In my previous two posts, I shared some wizard rock memories that had been made in my home in Yonkers. In 2016, I bought a little Victorian house in Irvington New York, and began to make new wizard rock memories there. One really fun memory I have…
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Into the Pensieve: House Show at the Other Malfoy Manor, pt. 2
Last month, we went Into the Pensieve to remember house shows – concerts that people host at their homes. This month, we’re looking back at the second house show hosted at my apartment in Yonkers, NY. If my memory serves me correctly, that show may have been one of the first Witch Rock Series shows.…
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Into The Pensieve: House Show at the Other Malfoy Manor, Part 1
Remember parties? Gosh… I miss parties. I miss entertaining people at my home, gathering with friends. These days, I’m feeling very nostalgic for the days when we could have Wizard Rock house shows.
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Into the Pensieve: The Quidditch Witch Recording Sessions
For this installment of Into the Pensieve: Wrock in Retrospect, we are going back to 2009. That was the year that Swish and Flick recorded the album With Love and Poison for the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club.
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Into the Pensieve: Evil Day 2007
This month, we are going WAY back to December 8, 2007, to revisit Evil Day. This date is very significant to me in many ways. It was my first Wizard Rock show as a fan, it was the first NYC HP Meet-Up Group event (TGTSNBN) I’d ever attended, and it was my first in-person experience…
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Into the Pensieve: NYC Wizard Rock Festival 2
Ten years have passed since the second NYC Wizard Rock Festival wrocked Brooklyn. For this installment of Into the Pensieve: Wrock in Retrospect, we’re looking back at how this festival was more epic than the first, which is saying a lot, because the first one was pretty darned epic. CW: Mention of Ministry of Magic.…
celestial warmbottom, diagon alley, draco and the malfoys, hawthorn & holly, justin finch-fletchley and the sugar quills, madam pince and the librarians, ministry of magic, nyc wizard rock festival 2, snidget, swish and flick, the blibbering humdingers, the cruciatus curse, the house of black, the remus lupins, the whomping willows, tonks and the aurors