Interview with the Vampire Steampunk Demondaz...

10:57 am - Vampyres at Kensal Green Cemetery Open Day - This Saturday 4th July - Dead and Buried that night too

Message from miss_mordred 

The London Vampyre Group will be at the Kensal Green Cemetery Open Day Saturday 4th July

Dress in your Victorian mourning clothes (optional!) and come along and join the LVG at the Cemetery Open Day.

I know many of you will be there earlier in the day, however it would be good to meet up with fellow LVG members and maybe welcome some new faces. The plan is to meet at the main entrance to the cemetery at 2pm - The Main Gate, is to the east near the junction with Ladbroke Grove and has the cemetery offices there. http://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/

We will then wander at our leisure around the cemetery; maybe taking in a tour of the cemetery and catacombs. If you plan to go on a tour, it is worth getting to the cemetery earlier to book tickets, as they can book up.

The Kensal Green annual Open Day is from 11.00 to 17.00.

Principal events typically include:

Cemetery tours with a general introduction to Kensal Green
Catacomb tours of the vaults beneath the Anglican Chapel
Specialist tours including The Great and the Good, and Ne'er-Do-Wells
Friends' bookstall at the Anglican Chapel
Children's face painting and dress-up with costumes for Victorian Mutes and Mourners
Display and motorcade of classic hearses from the Classic Hearse Register
Displays and stalls from other cemetery societies, local history groups and specialists in items and services of particular interest to the Friends of historical cemeteries, including jewellery, photographs, and original and reproduction Victorian mourning dress

Tour tickets are sold on the day at the booth on the porch of the Anglican Chapel; early booking is strongly advised as tours usually sell out by early afternoon. Cemetery tours cost three pounds per head, start at the steps of the Anglican Chapel, and last about an hour; catacomb tours cost two pounds per head, start at the door of the Anglican Chapel, and last about thirty minutes. Tours keep to the main paths, but sensible shoes -- and protection from sun or rain as the day demands -- are advisable. Please note that cemetery tours are suitable for all ages, but children under the age of 12 are not allowed in the catacomb.

Also stalls from a couple of creatives from the London goth crowd - Enlyl's Etsy and Veil of Visions

Also Dead and Buried Club in the evening, I'll be on the door there.

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01:12 pm - The Revelations Told in Lego

I've posted up about the Brick Testament before (The Bible - Told with Lego) and the Revelations are now done.  Most amusing and very well done if you ask me.

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03:25 pm - Free London Steampunk - White Mischief - Saturday

Now I know what I'll be doing early evening

White Mischief Freeby

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02:43 pm - LVG Informal Meeting 11.06.09 and 'Voyage to the Underworld' 18.07.09

The London Vampyre Group Monthly Meeting

 Thursday June 11^th @ 8pm

 Free to all

This month will be an LVG informal meeting – no talks or quizzes, just a chance to meet, talk and drink

 Meetings are held at The Plough (upstairs room), 27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH from 8 pm 'til closing

Also the London Vampyre Group and The Vampyre Connexion will be the joint hosts for the next Vampyre Party - 'Voyage to the Underworld' on the 18.07.09 @ The Old Thames Inn, Clink Street, London, SE1 9DG (London Bridge way, innit)

Cheaper pre-purchased tickets here

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04:48 pm - Wishlist 2009

400 Years old, recently sold for $135,000!



Interested

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12:34 pm - Weta Rayguns Infomercial

Steamers and Chaps should love this, rather amusing....



Contracted from karohemd

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03:36 pm - If you go down to the woods today......

Well not the woods and not today!

But if you find yourself free tomorrow it is Nunhead Cemetery Open day which is like a boneyard in a woods! 

'The FONC open day will be on Saturday 16th May,
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Nunhead Cemetery.

Attractions include:
lots of stalls; choir(s) and a dancer in the chapel; tours;
chapel, crypt and coach porch visits;
birds of prey; the bodger; bug hunt; face painting;
plant and book sales; Cafe Woollacott and lots more.'

Also as people from London Goth, London Vampyre and Alternative Togs and Mods Meetup groups are going, and LVG people you are likely to find a crowd there.

Anyone for face painting ;-)=

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02:23 pm - Stories in Steam and i-D Magazine

More 'Hellfire Consortium' by davecharsley  and with belle_fille1982  - See the rest and last of them here

Also this week enlyyl , blood_red_dream (aka Tammy) and I had our pics in glossy high-end fashion mag i-D (Smirk) doing the catwalk at the V&A Mad Hatters Tea Party on 27 March...there's one to make my Mother proud ;-)=

( i-D Mag Pic )

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10:49 am - LVG Informal Meeting 14.05.09

The London Vampyre Group Monthly Meeting

Thursday May 14^th

Free to LVG Members, £1 entrance to non-LVG Members

This month will be an LVG informal meeting – no talks or quizzes, just a chance to talk, drink and listen to some music!

Meetings are held at The Plough (upstairs room), 27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Come along to our decorated venue for drinks and chat – We don’t bite!

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12:50 pm - The Hellfire Consortium (Part Two of Three)

Bydavecharsley

'Brimstone and Braveheart' withbelle_fille1982



'Hellfire' withenlyyl



You might want to have a look at the whole set with text.  Work safe and recommended (more steampunked ladies here too)

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02:21 pm - Free..and on Friday...

...which is two good reasons to check out new(ish) club Departure ....

...other good reasons include music, DJ's and agreeable bar prices ;-)=

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04:59 pm - New Webseries: The Mercury Men

Picked up from archeon 

Can't actually find a launch date for it though.  Looks like the trailer teaser is the only thing to be seen so far, check the linky below.

'The Mercury Men marks a modern return of the classic cliffhanger serials. “The web video format seemed the perfect opportunity to reintroduce the old serial style of storytelling,” says writer/director Christopher Preksta. “Not as an homage with cheesy dialogue, corny characters, and bad special effects, but as a modern story with the great suspense, danger, and mystery the serials were known for at the time. With the short form of digital media, movies are simply coming back to their roots.”

The new web series, written and directed by Christopher Preksta (Captain Blasto), starring Mark Tierno (George Romero’s Day of the Dead, The Road, Captain Blasto) and Curt Wootton (Captain Blasto), premieres this fall on mercuryseries.com and iTunes.'

 

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10:13 am - No Sh*t Sherlock

Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist

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01:48 pm - Jugular Injection of Steampunk! Any Takers?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the discerning gothic community, Steampunks, not-sure's, in-between's and anyone else that likes a top set of pictures with a side-order of fiction!

The Hellfire Consortium (Part One of Three)

by davecharsley



and also featuresthevioletraven

See it all with full model line-up, accompanying text and credits here (all work safe)

Image shown here is the missing one, third down, on which the linky thing has malfunctioned or something 8;-)=

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02:09 pm - Minding the Mohawks or Deathrock Doorman ;-)=

I'll be on the doors at Dead & Buried this Saturday!  Hope to see some of you there.

You know the place...if not...
 

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10:47 am - The Enchantresses and the Vampyre

Here's some pix I'm pleased with,,,,



Also features sakara75 



Also features Amethyst

A few items to credit here.  Photography and Manipulation by Jason Juta (doffs hat in recognition of some serious DFA skills).  All clothing supplied by The Dark Angel for the purpose of the shoot and finally the whole thing was arranged by Nocturnal Publications (and with thanks to jussard  for getting it all together, it was a fun shoot to be involved with)

Tonight: Going to see the filming of the Justin Lee Collins show

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01:08 pm - Attn: Fops, Dandies & Steampunks!

New Ivory wing-collar shirts for less than a tenner!  I just got mine so I cant comment on the service but the ebay feedback is favourable!

Just making sure I have the shirts for the Asylum Steampunk weekend in September - if you've not seen the details for this, and like your things Steamy then this would be of interest....and you can never have enough dress shirts in my never humble at all opinion!

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01:42 pm - Good Thursday, Good Friday, Happy Easter...

 Easter Already!  When we remember Jesus' meeting with the Easter Bunny by taking communion of chocolate and watching films with Charlton Heston wearing sandals!  (You know the one, they all claim to be Ben Hur at the end and all get crucified...it's very uplifting)

Tonight LVG 80's Quiz if you're not on a team for the quiz you may still want to come for the social afterwards.

Tmorrow it's Departure Launch Night, many good reasons to go along to this - not least becuase of the DJ's fenbane ,  propaganda_tv and djpsyche  but also because it's free and on Good Friday.

'A brand new night based in Camden, London. Playing electronic music accompanied by videos/visuals. Genres include Synthpop, New Wave, Dark Wave, Industrial and EBM. Based at the Elixir bar located near Koko, between Mornington Crescent and Euston stations.

The night starts at 8pm and runs until 1am. The venue has wide range of drinks including cocktails and food will be available until 10pm. The night will start off with a chilled out vibe, gradually working up towards a club atmosphere. Perfect for warming up for the weekend.'

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01:33 pm - Covenant and Mesh

You know sometimes you can look forward to a gig a bit too much, you have a high expectation and sometimes the bands cant quite deliver...well last night was not like that at all!

It was a great double headliner and, I mentioned earlier, two songs that I would request from the bands and both were played!  So that was me one happy bouncing bunny.  Lots of friends and friendly faces about and everyone having a good time of it.  So a big thumbs up for both acts but, if anything, I'd say Mesh gave a more spirited performance although Covenant were playing for the fans too - even a choice of encore! (but as all three choices got big cheers I think they could just play what they wanted anyway)...all in all £18 well spent!

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12:00 pm - LVG - 80's Quiz Night - Thursday April 9th

I know this is an earlier post than usual, but these things need a little organisation and the LVG Secretary miss_mordred  will need some ideas of numbers expected for making into teams - or if you have 4 people already for a team, we'll you're sorted, but we need to know that.

Remember the 80's - When Pop Music was Good and clothing, conversely, bad!  We'll lets focus on the good bit and try to forget the other.

The London Vampyre Group Monthly Meeting

 Thursday April 9^th

 80’s Music Quiz!

 Free to LVG Members, £1 entrance to non-LVG Members

 The quiz will take place from 8pm and finish at approx 9.15pm. This will be followed by the LVG informal meeting

 Meetings are held at The Plough (upstairs room), 27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Come along to our decorated venue for drinks and chat – We won’t bite! (unless we like you)

Please email the LVG Secretary if you wish to come along to give us an idea of numbers.  Teams to be made of 4 Vampyres!  If you wish to be placed in a team please email me - secretary@londonvampyregroup.co.uk
 

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