A unique free evening of harmonious entertainment with our musical Impresario, Mr Gwilym Games and a varied collection of finely dressed individuals. Tea, etiquette, beer and bawdiness with a Neo-Victorian sense of style ! A regular event held on the last Wednesday of every month at Mozart's in Uplands, Upands. A detailed chart to venue can be found here:
http://alturl.com/b22qr
Do not miss the chance to appear in a sketch by our resident artist the mysterious La Scribblah.
Fine Teas, courtesy of Miss Ryan, the Queen of Chai.
Dress code: Victorian, Edwardian, Steampunk.
Featuring The Music of such popular artistes as Abney Park, Marie Lloyd, Emilie Autumn, Rasputina, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Dresden Dolls, & Adelina Patti, The Queen of Song. Alongside many other Fine melodies of a Victorian, Steampunk and Gothic nature.
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It is I believe perhaps the only regular monthly steampunk music night in the British Isles at the moment.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Saturday, October 16, 2010
A Steampunk Music Hall Extravaganza
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This looks like it will be a great evening and hopefully if successful will lead to many more. We already have many confirmations from many fine Ladies and Gentlemen that they will be present !
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This looks like it will be a great evening and hopefully if successful will lead to many more. We already have many confirmations from many fine Ladies and Gentlemen that they will be present !Sign up here on facebook. Please send me requests for any music you want.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Protect the Penydarren - Return to the Museum
Due to our success in destroying the Vortex we had a special invitation from the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea staff to safeguard the Penydarren steam locomotive during its run on July 12th. This will provide a chance to see the glorious Penydarren locomotive in full operation wreathed in steam clouds. Find out more here:
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=3781
We will also be monitoring the museum for the after effects of the temporal vortex we eliminated on our previous visit.
This weekend will also feature the Swansea Air show in which a huge fleet of airships will cross Swansea bay shadowing the ground with their massive size. There also will be a display of some primitive heavier than air craft. Much hilarious amusement can be derived from seeing the antics of these ungainly craft compared to the majestic glory of the airship.
http://www.walesnationalairshow.com/air-displays.html
Dresscode: Victorian/Edwardian/ Steampunk etc.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Steampunk Summer Solstice Strangeness - Triumph in the Timewar in Copperopolis
Aethernet instability has delayed a report on the Guild's exciting adventure in Swansea on June 21st till now.
What is this weird machine and what has it to do with these reports?
Pirates from the 17th century in 1909 but how?
As reports of weird monsters and foul rogues from the past spread it seems only the Silurian Steam Republic's Guild of Adventurers can save the day.
Guild operatives assemble in front of the Penydarren steam locomotive, a recreation of the first steam locomotive in the world. On 21 February 1804 the world's first ever locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Richard Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along a 9 mile tramway from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal.
One of the Guild’s Canine adventurers. This is Sir Edward Blontfort-Llewelyn -a hardy Newfoundland dog which possesses webbed feet vital in aquatic adventures.
Reports centered on the National Waterfront Museum full of fine machines.
Hmm another machine to play with...
Dr Mary-Eve Nelson's Aetheric Awenometer [patent pending] measures a huge influx of Awen Waves forming a massive Chrono-Spatial vortex over Swansea Bay.
We soon discovered that it was this Chrono-Spatial vortex was drawing people from the past into the Swansea of 1909. It brought a large number of pirates and privateers from the Stuart and Georgian periods through a triangular worm hole located somewhere in the West Indies. These included Captain Bartholomew Roberts and Admiral Henry Morgan who together seized the Mayor of Swansea hostage and demanded 30,000 gold doubloons for his release.
There were even some people drawn from a dark dystopian future from an alternate reality - which contains such terrible horrors I cannot detail them here for the sake of our reader's mental health.
Observe one pirate's journey through time has had terrible side effects - he has been aged 300 years in an instant!
A Sea pirate attacks an airship engineer!
After evading the pirates by bribing them with rum from our hip flasks the adventurers go in search of the source of the problem.
This is the source of the vortex!
The Swansea Awenic Spiral Contraption - Creator of the Chrono-Spatial Vortex
This curious device measures fluctuations in the flow of Awen in Abred by moving objects from different locations in mystic spirals won first prize in the engineering category in the 1905 National Eisteddfod. A team of expert Steam druids located in the museum keep the machine under observation. One of this group Evan Hughes from Gorsenion had been using the machine for illicit experimentation on energies originating in Anwwn. He deliberately overloaded the machine and by making the objects spin more and more rapidly created a vortex. With the arrival of the Summer solstice the solar power running through the machine was running wild resulting in the temporal chaos we saw. If the vortex continues unchecked the results will be disastrous. We quickly stabilised the machine but the vortex itself was growing bigger.
Sabotage! The Machine is out of control. Mad Steam Druidry at its most sinister.
Another anomaly detected.
A physician from the Royal Navy of Nelson’s time sucked through the vortex proves a vital ally
Laudanum will soon calm the nerves of our distressed heroes and help shield them from the ravages of vortex. Dr Stratford is ready!
A NEW DANGER!
Only a junior specimen from its small size yet it has run riot killing many children and pirates.
Battling the Air Kraken
Die you creature of the Skies!
Back you Tentacled Fiend.
A blast of Anwwynic energy from a distengrator cane stops the already badly wounded Kraken.
The Kraken is finished.
Unless the Chrono-Spatial vortex is healed all of Swansea would come under assault from these creatures. If an adult comes then massive destruction will result.
Distressed townsfolk who have plunged into the sea at the sight of the Kraken are rescued by one of Guild’s canine allies, Sir Edward Blontfort-Llewelyn.
No time to lose. Quick to the LV91 Helwick, the Scientific Lightship! Only the advanced scientific instruments we have there can save the day now.
Refugee children follow the guild team to safety. It seems the vortex can be closed by reversing the polarity of the Awen field. However crucial parts of the mechanism are underwater.
Prepare the diving apparatus.
One of team prepares to dive into Swansea bay
We must wait!
Success! The Awenic Transformer is almost ready.
A few more adjustments.
Using the recovered components the team reverse the polarity of the Awenic flow the Vortex is dispersed.
To the Public House. The Pumphouse is a suitable venue for a celebratory drink.
The guild triumphs again! Yet the rogue steam druid is still on the loose. Who knows where he will strike next?
In mid June a series of strange reports came from Swansea and the Guild was called in. Investigating the situation it soon became clear that temporal anomalies in the area were rife. Why were people dressed so strangely? Although it was midsummer many were not wearing hats. There were even worse breaches of appropriate dress! Why was Swansea suddenly littered with ugly buildings with flat roofs? Why were the weather conditions so unstable switching from brilliant sunshine to rain?
What is this weird machine and what has it to do with these reports?
Pirates from the 17th century in 1909 but how?As reports of weird monsters and foul rogues from the past spread it seems only the Silurian Steam Republic's Guild of Adventurers can save the day.
Guild operatives assemble in front of the Penydarren steam locomotive, a recreation of the first steam locomotive in the world. On 21 February 1804 the world's first ever locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Richard Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along a 9 mile tramway from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal.
One of the Guild’s Canine adventurers. This is Sir Edward Blontfort-Llewelyn -a hardy Newfoundland dog which possesses webbed feet vital in aquatic adventures.
Reports centered on the National Waterfront Museum full of fine machines.
Hmm another machine to play with...
Dr Mary-Eve Nelson's Aetheric Awenometer [patent pending] measures a huge influx of Awen Waves forming a massive Chrono-Spatial vortex over Swansea Bay.
We soon discovered that it was this Chrono-Spatial vortex was drawing people from the past into the Swansea of 1909. It brought a large number of pirates and privateers from the Stuart and Georgian periods through a triangular worm hole located somewhere in the West Indies. These included Captain Bartholomew Roberts and Admiral Henry Morgan who together seized the Mayor of Swansea hostage and demanded 30,000 gold doubloons for his release.
There were even some people drawn from a dark dystopian future from an alternate reality - which contains such terrible horrors I cannot detail them here for the sake of our reader's mental health.
Observe one pirate's journey through time has had terrible side effects - he has been aged 300 years in an instant!
A Sea pirate attacks an airship engineer!
After evading the pirates by bribing them with rum from our hip flasks the adventurers go in search of the source of the problem.
This is the source of the vortex!
The Swansea Awenic Spiral Contraption - Creator of the Chrono-Spatial Vortex
This curious device measures fluctuations in the flow of Awen in Abred by moving objects from different locations in mystic spirals won first prize in the engineering category in the 1905 National Eisteddfod. A team of expert Steam druids located in the museum keep the machine under observation. One of this group Evan Hughes from Gorsenion had been using the machine for illicit experimentation on energies originating in Anwwn. He deliberately overloaded the machine and by making the objects spin more and more rapidly created a vortex. With the arrival of the Summer solstice the solar power running through the machine was running wild resulting in the temporal chaos we saw. If the vortex continues unchecked the results will be disastrous. We quickly stabilised the machine but the vortex itself was growing bigger.
Sabotage! The Machine is out of control. Mad Steam Druidry at its most sinister.
Another anomaly detected.
A physician from the Royal Navy of Nelson’s time sucked through the vortex proves a vital ally
Laudanum will soon calm the nerves of our distressed heroes and help shield them from the ravages of vortex. Dr Stratford is ready!
A NEW DANGER!
The strange weather conditions in Swansea caused by the Vortex have disturbed the Upper Reaches of the atmosphere and have brought to lower levels the most vicious creatures of the skies - the dreaded Air Kraken!
Only a junior specimen from its small size yet it has run riot killing many children and pirates.
Battling the Air Kraken
Die you creature of the Skies!
Back you Tentacled Fiend.A blast of Anwwynic energy from a distengrator cane stops the already badly wounded Kraken.
The Kraken is finished.Unless the Chrono-Spatial vortex is healed all of Swansea would come under assault from these creatures. If an adult comes then massive destruction will result.
Distressed townsfolk who have plunged into the sea at the sight of the Kraken are rescued by one of Guild’s canine allies, Sir Edward Blontfort-Llewelyn.
No time to lose. Quick to the LV91 Helwick, the Scientific Lightship! Only the advanced scientific instruments we have there can save the day now.
Refugee children follow the guild team to safety. It seems the vortex can be closed by reversing the polarity of the Awen field. However crucial parts of the mechanism are underwater.
Prepare the diving apparatus.
One of team prepares to dive into Swansea bay
We must wait!
Success! The Awenic Transformer is almost ready.
A few more adjustments.
Using the recovered components the team reverse the polarity of the Awenic flow the Vortex is dispersed.
To the Public House. The Pumphouse is a suitable venue for a celebratory drink.
The guild triumphs again! Yet the rogue steam druid is still on the loose. Who knows where he will strike next?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Time War in Copperopolis: A Steampunk Adventure
Airship Pirates vs Sea Pirates!
Due to a bizarre temporal anomaly the mighty air-sea port of Swansea is going to be plagued by 17th century buccaneers, sailors from Nelson’s navy, Killer Koi Carp, a rogue Kipper smokehouse, giant seadogs and other strange forces on Sunday June 21st 1909. There may even be an Air Kraken.
It seems likely that one of the mighty machines in the National Waterfront Museum is malfunctioning and creating an Aetheric-Temporal vortex in Swansea Bay. Only the Silurian Guild of Adventures with its trained chrononauts and expert engineers can resolve this mystery.
Meet at 12 noon at the front of the National Waterfront Museum [which as part of the horrific effects of the vortex been transformed from its usual neo-gothic facade into a hideous steel and glass box.] It is a 5-10 minute walk from Swansea Rail Station and there are parking spaces nearby. As always appropriate clothing for steampunk adventures is a sensible precaution.
This mission will involve an exploration round the National Waterfront Musuem, and Swansea’s Marina to encounter whatever weird things may be occurring. Possibly a seaside picnic to follow if the weather is fine or a visit to a public hostelry.
A full listing of the unlikely happenings plaguing Swansea on this date can be found at the following Aethernet address:
http://www.swanseabayfestival.com/index.cfm?articleid=3967
Museum details here:
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/
There is even a competition for best pirate costume. Surely the sartorial elegance of Airship Privateers must win out over the crude costumes of mere pirates of the Ocean wave?
Monday, May 11, 2009
A Glorious Day Out
The first outing of the Silurian Guild of Adventures was a resounding success with nine stout hearts venturing to Cardiff. Six from Swansea, one from Cardiff, and two from entirely different country- The West Country. The crew of The Fell Raven were delayed in arriving to a sudden attack by an air-Kraken only successful use of their air-ship’s flame projector managed to ward off the creature. Through a strange temporal anomaly we met a group of veterans of a future terrible “World War” who landed on the Normandy Beaches to free a Europe occupied by the Prussians. That prophetic tract the Battle of Dorking is all too true. They were impressed by our outfits.
Despite the dark news of the death of the museum’s vice-director the group successfully broke a complex cipher based on the Darwin exhibition and then discovered the terrifying truth behind the deaths which afflicted the museum. For reasons of Public safety the secrets behind the murders can never be revealed.
We then retired to the public hostelry. Discussions ranged from the correct use of personal flame throwers to reckless plans to use animal magnetism to probe into the curious boundaries between matter and spirit, recent designs for automatons that can rotate into steam locomotives and various other vehicular devices and the use of steamy ideas to outwit military minds along with discussions about attending the Asylum.
It seems there is enough interest for future meetings to go on. Potential events:
Steampunks at the Abergavenny Steam Rally
Sunday May 24th Bailey Park, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire Adults £6 http://www.abergavennysteamrally.co.uk/
Help guard the advanced Steam vehicles on display at this interesting event.
Mysteries of Copperopolis: A Swansea adventure
Explore the many strange devices of the National Waterfront Museum with a group of steampunks. Followed either by a trip to the pub or steampunk picnic on the beach.
A weekend in June. Let me know your preferences.
Another event which might be of interest:
Victorian Festival, Llandrindod Wells 22nd - 30th AUGUST 2009
“Llandrindod Wells is proud to present the leading Victorian Festival in the UK today. Set in the beautiful heart of Wales”
www.victorianfestival.co.uk/
Strangely the Victorian Festival does not seem to usually feature airships, time-machines, steam robots, etheric ray guns and other common elements of the Victorian era. Surely we can do something about that? As it is in the Middle of Wales it would also be a good place to meet Steampunks from North Wales. Potentially a day trip if we get up early.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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