This is beautiful, especially since we've had the exact same type of expeirences every time we've flown United.



“In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn't deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people I communicated with put the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate me for my loss. So I promised the last person to finally say no to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world. United: Song 1 is the first of those songs. United: Song 2 has been written and video production is underway. United: Song 3 is coming. I promise. “

After much labor and cussing, we have an new online store. Its pretty nifty, and features all kinds of neat things like tracked shipping and real time inventory (which may mean nothing to you, but is HUGE for us). Go check it out when you've got time.

Hey, can some one go buy a sticker or somthing, so I know it works? Sitckers are only a buck, and they now have free shipping...so it'll just be a buck.

August 9th we are doing an all ages show and the Columbia City Theater, and we will have a fashion show as part of the MANY cool things we'll be doing.

Finn is organizing the designers, so if your interested in contributing, you'll need to contact her at Finn Von Claret (finn von claret at gmail dot com). Fashion designers will need at least five outfits, and your own models.

Here the coolest part, in addition to the 500 some people coming to the live show, there will also be some decent press coverage. King 5's Evening Magazine is doing a bit on Abney Park and Steampunk, and they want focus mainly the fashion. We've had some other interest as well, including the Tacoma News Tribune.



(fashion photos on this post are from http://www.neodandi.com. Wander their site, really cool stuff!)

The only regret I ever had with the Abney Park logo was that if you are stone drunk when staring at it, you might mistake it of a Mickey Mouse Jolly Rodger. Granted, you'd need to have some serious blurred vision to make this mistake. Allow me to simulate:

...so it crossed my mind that I might need to toughen up the logo a bit. What do you think of this?


This is just a quick doodle. Is this better, or worse?
Poll #1422977 Logo...improvment?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

is the new one better'n the old one?

NOTE: survey seems to say "Sure its better, but don't go changing!" So maybe the OLD logo stays the logo, wareas the NEW logo becomes the Captain Robert Logo...and then I can make variations for eveybody in the band. Nathaneil would have his porcupine butthead, Finn her shark-finn-hawlk, Kristina would have her little hat, and daniel...would...look...just like the Old logo!


maybe we can each have business cards. :P

"After the show, I walked out to our van that was parked in the back of the venue. I was walking next to Ramones vocalist, Joey. There were people waiting to meet the bands and I stayed with Joey to see what that would be like. A girl came up to him and yelled, “Rock star, I don’t want to know you!” It was hard for me to believe that there were people who didn’t like the Ramones and would go that far to express themselves. I thought that audience abuse was reserved exclusively for me and my bandmates. I thought the Ramones would be free of that. It was one of the many lessons I learned that year. What was also interesting was Joey’s response. There was none. He just kept on walking."

- Henry Rollins

"rock star abuse", or any celebrity abuse, is a really prevalent thing. The Jealousy some people feel toward "celebrities" will cause them to be vastly crueler then any perceived benefit the celebrity gets from his or her fame. For example: most famous people you've heard of are NOT rich. Only the very biggest ones are rich, or get wildly cool free gifts - and that often doesn't last long. But they are all targets for pointless hate.

Rumors get started, dim wits believe them, spread them, add to them. Maybe a Lawsuit is started...even if the celebrity is found innocent of strangling his wife, or molesting a child, or whatever they are accused of...even if they are found guilty the public now has that crime etched in their heads. Some of us make our living in the public eye - that's not a privelege, its just a job requirement, an it sometimes has a big cost.

If you heard something negative about some one...even if they are celebrity...have the decency to wait untel you meet them yourself and form your own opinions. If its some one you already know, just respond, "Hey, thats not been my experience with them."

How about Abney Park doing a CHEAP ALL AGES SHOW!!?!?

Nobody's got any money, and we haven't done an all ages shows in Washington in YEARS, so here is what I'm thinking:


I'm just making this up now, so no detail of this is carved in stone....but if you guys seem excited about this, I'll make it happen. I'll also make sure its on buss routes and shit.

WHAT SAY YOU!?

Wallabies have been observed acting strangely in poppy fields

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.

Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.

We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles. Then they crash Lara Giddings, government official

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Rick Rockliff, a spokesman for poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids, said the wallaby incursions were not very common, but other animals had also been spotted in the poppy fields acting unusually.

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," he added.

Retired Tasmanian poppy farmer Lyndley Chopping also said he had seen strange behaviour from wallabies in his fields.

"They would just come and eat some poppies and they would go away," he told ABC News.

"They'd come back again and they would do their circle work in the paddock."

Some people believe the mysterious circles that appear in fields in a number of countries are created by aliens. Others put them down to a human hoax.

If you want Abney Park to play in your town, recommend a club! We need a place that holds between 400 - 800 people, with permanently installed PA.

Tell me the town, and the club. That's all there is to it. An email address for the booking ageint doesn't hurt, but I can usually find it.