We'd definitely need explicit permission from all the writers to be included; otherwise, it does sound like a great idea. Possibly a Kiwi Filk Book would be more practical? A lot of what we tend to sing is homegrown.

How about music - would we want to include chords, or even proper dots and lines? I suspect it would be effectively impossible to get permission to print sheet music for some of the more recent tunes, but filks based on traditional tunes wouldn't be a problem. No idea on the legal status of chords.

When you say "Brian Howell's filks" I presume you mean Infiltraitors Ink! (originally Meadow Mushrooms). There were at least 4 of us - myself (Jenner), Brian, Conner and Barbara (sometimes 6) involved in writing those filks. A lot of them have been published in 2 volumes back in the day but I still have the originals. If people are interested I could re-print some and bring them along.  I will have all our filks loaded on my tablet with backing tracks to travel - including all the favourites and quite a few that Conner and I wrote (and liked) but didn't always make it into the live gigs.

Presumably, yes - we just know them as "the ones Brian sings" 8) Yes, it would be fantastic if you could bring some re-prints along to the con! Would you be interested in having some included in a big Kiwi Filk Book? Though I think that would be a project for after the con, at this stage...

I assume you're working on something for the filk competition?

I am happy to have some included in a big Kiwi Filk Book. I am sure Brian and Barbara will give their approvals depending on which songs are picked. It would be good to have ones that Conner helped write done in memorium to her - I know she would have approved of them being printed. I will start work on both the reprints and a filk or two. Some of our best have become international favourites so it should be easy to choose the likely suspects for a kiwi book - thinking of Star Trek 64, 50 Ways to Kill Wes Crusher, Picard's Lament, Companion Number 9, Alien Life-forms in the Cargo Bay, to name a few.

Slight change of plan on the Infilktraitors Ink! reprints.

1) I realised just how many filks we (collectively and individually) wrote

2) the original books are too old and faded to copy and some good stuff isn't in them

3) I also realised, as I made sure they were all on my computer, that nobody still carries around big cumbersome folders of filks, surely? I know mine are all, like my real songs, on my tablet.

So - new plan - I will be bringing cds carrying text files of all our stuff. It will be called "Infilk 101: 101 of the best and worst (and everything in between) of Infilktraitors Ink!" and will contain, as above, 101 filks written by Infilktraitor members, (yes  - we have written that many) PLUS the entire, unabridged "Blake the Musical" (yes - we did filk Grease!) AND some extra bonus tracks of songs written by Infilk collaborators and sung by Infilk. I am expecting to be able to sell the cds for under $5 each (depends on the cost of writing them).

Yes, folders are still popular 8) But CDs would be great, especially for that many songs; I'm very much looking forward to Blake!