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| Hey, email me: robert at abney park dot com.
A venue I'm currently working with wants to commission you, and figured I'd know how to get a hold of you. | |
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| Here is me with some of the crew of the H.M.S. Chronabelle the day of the Makers Faire show. They may look tough here, but I can tell you they squeeled like little girls when I started crooning Dear Ophelia.  Actually, come to think of it, they don't look at all tough here...they look...cute and perky! What the hell kind of pirates are pretty, cute and perky!?!? "arrrr, gimme all your booty, or I'll...I'll um...or I won't baby sit for you on friday!" COMING UP LATER IN THIS THREAD:  | |
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| I can't even begin to tell you how cool and Bizare Makers Faire was. Seriosuly, every square inch was just....mind blowing. Let me explain: Nathaniel shocked us all by showing something to us something none of us had ever seen before! Right in front of a crowd of fans he whipped out his... . Dispite Nathaneil exposing himself, we had a huge crowd for our concert, and played between to 30 foot statues that exploded in flames in time to the music! (no, seriosously. I watched the crowd illuminate by fire!)  Our show went off with out a hitch (LAIR!). We were introduced with the Jake Von Slatt himself:  With a flattering and funny as hell little write up on ABney Park. It was fantastic, Jake if your reading this, consider posting it!
Then we got onstage and made a mess of the whole thing ;) VIDEO CLIP (cool Stage, huh?)  | |
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This is likely to be the most beautiful show Abney Park will every play, and we are playing all night long. If you only go to one Abney Park show in your life, it should be this one. Memorial Day Weekend. | |
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| As many of you have noticed, we do have an infestation on board the H.M.S. Ophelia. Little rodent like stowaways climb the ropes in various ports and are always scurring underfoot. We tried hosing them out the portholes, but the little buggers are quick! Plus, if you piss 'em off, they sneak into your bunk at night and torture you! Anyway, I caught one on film, and thought I'd let you see what we suffer:  If you have suffering of your own, do share. Its comforting to know when other suffer your own fate. | |
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| People keep asking me about this, so here it is. We are on at 8:30. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Music Stage 1 | TripKnight TripKnight A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California. | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Music Stage 1 | TripKnight TripKnight A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California. | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Music Stage 1 | Eddy Demon Total Annihilation Brendan Thorn A rock and roll alternative that's hip and surreal rock with awesome lyrics, great drummer, experimental guitarist, and a bass player. It is most excellent with a new wave of licks. | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Music Stage 1 | Microfiche Tim Lillis Microfiche is an instrumental four-piece from San Francisco who draw diagrams for your ears and mind. If you were to use the pinnacle of nineteenth-century signal processing technology to transpose the sounds of hope, despair, patterns, the lack of patterns, fear of mechanical men, and whale calls, you would almost have the sound of Microfiche. They have been playing together since the beginning of 2007, and are currently unsigned. Microfiche have an old microfiche reader - turned light-sensitive MIDI instrument and an interactive LED Graphic EQ backdrop to accompany and augment their sound. | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Music Stage 1 | Gowns Ezra Buchla From the ashes of West Coast spazz combo the Mae Shi and legendary woodworking noiseniks Amps for Christ has emerged a Frankenstein assembly of minimal percussion, a cappella harmonizing, and raw folk melodies christened Gowns. Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla have married personal, intelligent lyrics and homemade bent electronics to create remarkably haunting drone-pop masterpieces. Their whispered vocals mingle with hushed instrumentation, only to collide, explode, and slowly burn a hole in your frontal lobe by the night's end. - flavorpill | 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Music Stage 1 | TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup TradeMark Gunderson Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup! | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Music Stage 1 | Culann's Hounds Culann's Hounds San Francisco-based high-energy, virtuosic musicians playing traditional Irish, hoe-down, zydeco, and original music. Their other influences include punk, rock, country, and reggae. Violin, Accordion, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal Harmonies; jumping, dancing, rebel yells. Headliners for the San Francisco Irish festival. | 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Music Stage 1 | TradeMark's Wheel of Mashup TradeMark Gunderson Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup! | 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Music Stage 1 | Abney Park Abney Park Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem. |
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| So I finished a new Banner for Abney Park, based on the illustration series by Amiee Stewart. By "banner" I mean this is going to be 4 feet by ten feet, stretching in the back of the booth behind is as we push our loads of crap on the unsuspecting hoards at all the concerts and festivals. I really dig the title treatment, although you can't tell from this shrucken head version: 
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|  Can one of you Photoshop artists do me a favor? I want a neat color-rich aged version of this (click the above image for highres version). i tried my hand at it, and it came out foul. I'm not thinking Black and White, so but as vintage looking. Like this one that doomkitten had done: ...or even more distressed, although i love how colorful this is. Anyway, if your bored, I'd love to see what you can do. | |
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|  Okay, so our last album, The Death Of Tragedy featured guitars by Robert Hazelton and bass by Krysztof Nemeth. Well, they have teamed up to create a whole new Steampunk band called The Deadly Nightshade Botanical Society. Its bran new, but if you want to be the first to hear, check out there MySpace. http://www.myspace.com/deadlynightshadebotanicalsociety | |
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