Steampunk clothing at White Mischief

With White Mischief so heavily inspired by Jules Verne (we’ve had shows entitled “From The Earth To The Moon”, “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth” and “Around The World In 80 Days”, the steampunk aesthetic is one of the dressing-up themes we encourage. (Line-up for June 7 show; details on tickets and group discounts.)

Check after the jump for a magnificent collection of images taken from the last White Mischief show… thank the photographers and congratulate the Mischief-Makers who dressed up in such formidable outfits. We recommend Prangsta as a place from which to hire your steampunk outfit, but our guide to London’s best vintage clothing emporiums and costume rental locations offers many more suggestions.

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Poster images from forthcoming show

Design credit: Steve Mitchell, 57 Design

Upload your pictures of Saturday’s party

Thanks to our wonderful cast of performers and thanks to all those who partied at our mini White Mischief at Last Days of Decadence on Friday. We’re already seeing some delightful photos on Flickr and Facebook courtesy of Alasdair McAskill, Siberf and Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf. If you have photos from Saturday night, please upload them to Flickr with the tag whitemischief. In the meantime, to check out the photos that have been added so far, visit this link.

“Around the World in 80 Days” dressup inspirations

It’s by no means compulsory to dress up at White Mischief – we welcome every type of mischief maker, no matter how they are attired. Still, we encourage everyone to enter into the spirit of the occasion and past shows have seen some fabulous outfits: everything from giant pandas to steampunk rocketmen. It needn’t be expensive: imagination costs nothing!

This time round the theme is “Around the World in 80 Days”, again drawn from a Jules Verne novel, allowing those of you with a love of Victoriana to indulge your steampunk fantasies. For everyone else there is a whole globe’s worth of inspiration to make use of. India, Africa, China, Japan, Mexico, Polynesia, the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Thailand, South America, Egypt, the Middle East, Brazil, Spain… literally any country could become the basis for a look. Check inside for videos, photos and links not only to our articles on steampunk but also links to our huge directory of London’s best second hand, charity, vintage, retro and antique clothing shops – plus information on costume rental locations, accessories providers and hair salons.

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Photos and press quotes document to download

We’ve created a document with some of the most vivid photos from our last two extravaganzas, complete with the most indulgent press quotes we could find.

Download photos and press quotes document (1mb PDF)

Hatter Arts’s take on White Mischief

Here’s a slideshow of photographs taken at White Mischief: “From The Earth To The Moon” by the mysteriously-monikered Man In A Hat from HatterArts. If you’ve taken some shots please don’t forget to upload them to Flickr with the tag whitemischief – alongside your credit and any other relevant information – to be shared for posterity, as well of course as to end up on the front page of this site.

Keep those photographs coming in

Some wonderful photographs are flowing in to various sources: our Facebook group, the Facebook event page, and photosharing site Flickr.

If you do upload pictures to Flickr, please be sure to tag them with the phrase whitemischief so that they appear here on the right-hand sidebar of this site.

Meanwhile, for a glimpse of the shots that have so far been uploaded to Flickr, take a look at this slideshow. (Photo credit: Siberfi)

Pearlsworld

Appearing in our second stage “Moon Room”, Pearlsworld bring you their unique, dark, comedy musical cabaret. Madame Pearl tells the story ,through accordion driven songs, of her lost innocence & (melo)dramatic decline… from a demure girl to psychotic killer.

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Dear Britch

Playing White Mischief’s second stage “Moon Room”, at the request of British Sea Power, we are delighted to welcome Dear Britch.

As seen on BBC3’s new series, ‘Singing With The Enemy’, Brighton rock-starlet Stuart Flynn is the creator of The Dirty Cakes cabaret-rock band; queen of the queer hip-hop scene: Dear Britch; and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Stuart has come along way since his former days as a Miss World coach and fashion stylist.

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Skinphony

Filling White Mischief’s Lobby Room with awe-inspiring ambient sound and exquisite performance of the unlikeliest kind is Skinphony, the human orchestra.

Skinphony is an original Victorian-styled show of intriguing beauty. The show is enchanting, with instruments artistically made from old machinery and metal, each instrument a piece of art in itself, the instruments are attached to performers either by temporary piercings or to corsets and costumes, these attachments are the strings to the instrument. the instruments are amplified and played in a beautiful show or installation.

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