LeakyCon 2009 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2009-05-24) · last mentioned: 2013-08-03
The brothers spent two days at LeakyCon 2009, the Harry Potter conference in Boston, in May 2009, where they met Esther and Hank played his first major concert and sold his first CDs; they looked back on it for years after.
Told alongside: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) · DFTBA Records: founding of Hank and Alan's label for YouTube musicians (2008)
About: LeakyCon, The Leaky Cauldron
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-20 | proposed | Hank says he is very excited about LeakyCon, and he and John have been working on their speech all week. | Ulcerative Colitis: A Song 00:03:19 |
| 2009-05-24 | outcome | John looks back on two extraordinary days he and Hank just spent at LeakyCon, and shows wizard rock from it. | WROCK! 00:00:00 |
| 2009-05-27 | looked back | Hank thanks the staff of the Leaky Cauldron, who party like it's the end of the world, for letting him be part of it. (playful) | Open Letters 00:02:01 |
| 2009-06-01 | looked back | Rather than only plug his label in the gap John left, Hank shares a clip he took at LeakyCon of Maureen Johnson explaining where the 'in your pants' phenomenon began. (playful) | DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants 00:00:44 |
| 2009-06-03 | looked back | Hank shares a montage of off-convention footage from LeakyCon (the connection is given only by the title and description). | LeakyCon Fun! |
| 2012-08-03 | looked back | Esther Earl was a Nerdfighter the brothers met in 2009 at the first LeakyCon; she and her friends were and remain very important to Nerdfighteria; she had lived with cancer a long time. | I Don't Understand My Life 00:02:08 |
| 2013-08-03 (happened 2009) | looked back | John recalls LeakyCon 2009 in Boston, where the brothers met Esther and Hank played his first major concert; Hank adds he sold his first CDs ever there. · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | Esther Day 2013 00:00:49 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — announcement: Hank says John leaves right after LeakyCon, but Hank will stay in Boston and play songs and gather with Nerdfighters at the LilyPad, 4 to 5:30pm Sunday. — 00:03:19
- 2009-05-24 · WROCK! — recommendation: John stops talking to show Hank "some awesome" from LeakyCon in the form of wizard rock. — 00:00:50
- 2009-05-27 · Open Letters — Hank thanks the staff of the Leaky Cauldron, who party like it is the end of the world, for letting him be part of it. — 00:02:01
- 2013-08-03 · Esther Day 2013 — John says Esther Earl was a Nerdfighter the brothers met at LeakyCon 2009 in Boston. — 00:00:43 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
- 2013-08-03 · Esther Day 2013 — Hank confirms that LeakyCon 2009, his first major concert, was where he sold his first CDs ever. — 00:00:53
- 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank recalls that LeakyCon 2009 was his first major concert, where he sold his first CDs. — 01:42:12