Saturday night (May 29, 2010) at The Fallout Shelter was the first show I ever booked. I mean, I had some help in the form of JJ Ulizio, who got me The Wakening, and Kevin Eaton, who ended up not actually booking anyone but was my sister's co-model for the flier and is generally a helpful guy.
The night started around 6pm, when Skeet, my co-bartender for the night, showed up so I could do his makeup. He's bald so I gave him an open head wound with some brains hanging out. This is him hanging out later in the night.
Mandy and Nate came by to get their makeup done as well. Mandy is allergic to latex, so I could only use the grease paint on her, but Nate got the wound Kevin made the night before. I set up my bloody backdrop so that I could squirt blood on people with the nozzle I put on my quart of blood. No exciting lighting here, just my on-camera flash.
My own makeup took awhile, but not too long because I used a couple wounds I premade the night before on my collarbone (don't think I have a picture of that) and my ankle. After a quick trip downstairs, I broke a pencil to stick in the ankle wound as an Evil Dead homage.
Kevin also went pretty crazy with his makeup.
I started work about quarter to nine and the first band was Fullmoon Renegades, from Ohio. They play metal and were here for our Halloween show. When I started looking for bands to play Zombie Prom, they had just messaged us saying they'd like to play again, so it worked out wonderfully!
Second on the lineup was Children of October, our "house punk band." Sal (formerly of Modern Habit) wore his new white-out contacts! I liked the red ones he used to have, but white is creepy too.
Having Skeet as a co-bartender worked really well because I could occasionally leave the bar and go take pictures. We had a pretty good crowd, and while not everyone dressed as zombies, some did. Some went pretty all-out with it and we even had a couple zombie hunters (JJ's friend Richie, Justin who actually might have been a zombie with a sword but I'm not entirely certain and DM who came with his girlfriend Kyna and a couple others from the Dethlehem crowd. Look up Dethlehem, they're D&D metal at its finest.)
The third and fourth bands were Dead City Dealers, from New Castle, and The Black Marias, from England. New Castle as in a town 40-or-so minutes from Aliquippa (where the Shelter is) and England as in the country. Yes, The Black Marias were The Fallout Shelter's very first international band!! And at MY Zombie Prom. I was so ridiculously thrilled.
Yeah, The Black Marias are so old school punk it's amazing. A lot of people left at their set though, which sucks for them, because the last band of the night was The Wakening, and they are AWESOME (thank you, JJ!). Zombie surf, yeahhh. I took way too many pictures of them and, with the help of Kevin, they designated a prom "queen" and king - Don (who was dressed as his alter ego Dawn) was the "queen" and one of their friends the king.
I consider it a successful night. Next year we're going to make it even bigger, even better, even more prom-like and more zombie-like. I wanted the Savini School to come do makeup, but was unable to get in touch with them, so next year will try harder. It was SO much fun though, a great time. We need more theme nights.
Oh! Here's me. You can't see my collarbone finger-holes wound or anything, just my face, but my eyes look good in this, so I'm pleased, even if it is a pretty lame self-portrait.
