So, another DragonCon has come and gone...

Jessica, myself, and the rest of the band would like to take a moment to give a HUGE thank you to those of you who were part of the Crüxshadows Fairy family this year!

I was very impressed by the beautiful costumes, wings, and especially the enthusiasm of everyone involved... You guys did an excellent job, and we are very grateful for it! We had ordered almost three times as many flyers for this year as the we had the last, and by Saturday morning, there was only one box left! The band once again filled the largest ballroom past legal capacity, and we couldn't have done it without your help. Thank you also for helping us to promote Quicksilver. We will not know if the single charts in the Billboard for a week or two yet, but rest assured that it will be posted up in all the CXS blogs if it does!

I need to give a special thanks to my fairy captains- Stacia, Destiny, Dash, and Kiba, for helping me in organizing the parade, the gathering of fairies in front of the line before the show, and generally holding everything in order. There were over 70 fairies, and keeping this thing organized was no small task. Also a big thanks to Rockin' Ray, who was there at the crack of DragonCon dawn on Thursday to hand out flyers, and proceeded to do so through the whole weekend, right until the end of the *Con on Monday! Thank you so much you guys!

Of course not every little thing went perfectly, there were things that didn't go as smoothly as we'd hoped for.... such as the fairy lunch, where we ended up walking a few extra blocks than expected... Sorry about that; the diner's flyer that was left at our table had no indication that the first establishment had closed permanently. But to their credit, when we got to the one that was still open, my experience was that they were super friendly, and happy to accommodate so many people as best they could. There are a couple of other places we may try next time, but I think this place also worked out pretty well. There was also the issue with sound in the parade- we thought we had it worked out, and only to find out at the last minute that our plan wouldn't work. An extra special thank you to everyone who not only woke up early and marched for the Crüxshadows in the parade, but figured out a way to overcome this predicament. You guys rock! Next year, having a vehicle in the parade may be a possibility, but we'll figure all that out when the time draws more near. However, if you might have a vehicle we could use, don't hesitate to email me with "Fairy Parade vehicle" in the subject line with a little bit of information, and I will set that aside to contact you for the next *Con when we start arranging that stuff ;)

Regarding photos- I have over 1,500 photos to sort through from the *Con, so it may be a few days before I can get through everything and upload them all, but I promise they'll be there, and I will post up notifications when I do. A few of our fairies ended up on www.maxim.com, which we thought was pretty awesome! MySpace won't let me post a direct link, so if you would like to see: Go to www.maxim.com, then type "dragoncon" in their search bar.

There are a lot of ideas rolling around in our heads for next year's *Con: ways to improve things that we did this year, as well as other possibilities, such as fairy contests with prizes for things such as best costume, most enthusiastic, most flyers handed out, etc.... Any ideas and thoughts are more than welcome, let us know what you think! We want to keep this as fun as possible :)

We are also interested in spreading the fairy street team past DragonCon, for those who are interested in promoting concerts in their hometown. Through the rest of this year, Crüxshadows is booked only in Europe (aside from the Goth Cruise), and hopes to be touring the US again at some point in 2010. If anyone is interested in fairying outside of DragonCon (flyering in your hometown), please send your name, email, phone number and mailing address to jen@cruxshadows.com with "FAIRY STREET TEAM" as the subject line. This idea is at the early stages of forming, but we are hoping to promote upcoming tour dates better than ever, and could definitely use the help of those interested, so be sure to let us know :)

Thank you again to everyone who helped out this year, you are all amazing, and we love you for that! ^_^

*love, hugs, and glitter*
~Pyro~