Photo credits include: Siberfi, Cory Doctorow, Andrew Smee, Ben Hopper.

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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.

If you want to know more about steampunk, visit our pages of steampunk photos and steampunk videos. Steampunk is all about imagining the future as it might have been had the silicon chip never been invented. All the optimism of the Industrial Revolution, of the Victorian Empire, of the Age of Steam, propelling us around the world with magnificent steamships and airships, with our goggles polished and neo-Victorian uniforms worn by space pirates and sky captains. Read on to see how partygoers at the last White Mischief looked.

Credit: Siberfi Credit: Nicolle Carter

Credit: Alasdair Watson Credit: Alasdair Watson

Credit: Siberfi Credit: Wozza_efx2

Credit: Wozza_efx2 Credit: Wozza_efx2
Steampunk rayguns, pith helmets and goggles from Stentor Industries:

Design credit: Steve Mitchell, 57 Design

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.

Useful links:

Our directory of second hand and vintage shops/ costume rental

Steampunk clothing at White Mischief

Phileas Fogg / Steampunk-inspired site:

Inspirational photographs: (Click on image to view full size)

Phileas Fogg and characters from the novel:

About Around the World in 80 Days:

Wikipedia entry on the Jules Verne book

Illustrated online version of early edition of book

“Around the World in 80 Days” film (1956) starring David Niven

More scenes from the 1956 film:

Marlene Dietrich saloon scene / Bangkok hallucination scene

“Around the World in 80 Days” film (2004) starring Steve Coogan

Watch the film:

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 /Part 10 /Part 11 / Part 12

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)

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)

She shares her insights into her life, loves and losses.

Let Pearl and her accordionist Jo Random take you on a journey with their sharp lyrics, demented clowning and wonderful musical hooks.

Pearlsworld is performed and written by Erika Engqvist and Simon Shannon, whose previous credits include work with Malcolm Mclarren, League of Gentlemen and Nick Treadwell.

http://www.myspace/madamepearl

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.

To date he has toured as guest front-man for The Electric Soft Parade, supported Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong, Ash, Vile Imbeciles, The Pipettes and jazz legend Barb Jungr to name a various few. Reviewed as “The bastard love child of Shirley Bassey and Axl Rose”, “80s Bowie meets Tom Waits”, and “Vivienne Westwood and Marc Almond on acid” he bounces back from every attempt at being boxed into a safe corner. But after a career which has taken him all over Britain, to Cyprus and Japan, playing millionaires’ playgrounds to spit and sawdust dives.

Whilst currently developing the band and extending the DearBritch repertoire, Stuart is also now working on an exciting new project with Electric Soft Parade’s Thomas White.

What they say:

“At the centre of his work, dark tho’ it may be, there shines an inexhaustible sun.” – The Pipettes

“Amazing! Like Frank Sinatra and his band had a glorious week-long bender and ended up playin’ a gig at the Volks! You’s a well dressed kat too, very swish indeed!” – With Scissors

“Oooh, we like you!” – The Puppini Sisters

“The darkest cabaret-sword that’ll cut through the evil of the world (whilst donning fancy hair). Lock your doors and prepare for battle!” – The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

“What a great band! Stu sings between a Dalek and Noel Coward. … A wonderfully well-controlled discordant mess, a little like Gram Parsons when he was still good and on Codeine. Pithy lyrics and sweaty live…” -The Guillotines

“Fantastically demented.” – ChemLab/Jared Louche

“Stuart Flynn is a VERY naughty boy.” – Heidi Heelz

“One of those raspy, gin-soaked, Nasal-Shirley-Bassey-Gay-Cabaret voices. Instantly authoritative. Like a posh, alcoholic aunt. Like a hot screwdriver cooling off in a glass of whisky. Surprisingly powerful in a non-rock way. And therefore something of a refreshing change.” Kim Rollo

“Stuart is every inch the individualist, inhabiting uncharted ground somewhere between the quirks of Vivienne Westwood and the eccentricity of a Dickenisan Miss Havisham, qualities which render him truly captivating” Charlotte Dunckley, Things We Love Fanzine
More info:

http://www.myspace.com/stuartflynn

http://www.myspace.com/dearbritch

http://www.myspace.com/thedirtycakes