Sat May 25: White Mischief’s War of the Worlds Ball

Four themed rooms of Sci-Fi, Science and B-Movie fun

featuring the finest music, cabaret, circus, comedy and interactive experiences

Plus DJs and dancing late into the night

Saturday May 25 2013, 21:00-04:00

At Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9NL

Book earlybird tickets here; VIP tickets and experiences here

The Best Live Music In The Galaxy

SAM AND THE WOMP - You may know the UK Official Chart Number One single “Bom Bom” from this brass-electro-balkan ensemble

THE CORRESPONDENTS – electroswing / chap-hop duo who have wowed audiences everywhere from Secret Garden to Bestival

The Universe’s Greatest Vaudeville Stars

BEATRIX VON BOURBON - whose Britain’s Got Talent semi-final appearances sparked an OFCOM investigation!

DESMOND O’CONNOR – Your host, the uke-wielding award-winning lyricist and composer

BIG HOWARD / LITTLE HOWARD – As seen on BBC TV and the Royal Command Performance, the Perrier Award nominated world’s first human/cartoon double-act

KIKI LOVECHILD – with his Electric Man routine

SIR LEOPOLD ALEKSANDER - Strong Man, Sportsman and Paragon of Gentlemanly Conduct

The Milky Way’s Most Memorable Interactive Experiences

 WALKING TRIPOD ENCOUNTER – Come face-to-face with a menacing tripod monster much taller than you

THE DATA COLLECTOR – immersive storytelling from Beyond Pages

THE IMAGINARIUM OF HG WELLS - Hear a brand new sci-fi tale personalised just for you on the spot by Sci Fi Improv 

ARE YOU A REPLICANT? – Find out in a Blade Runner-esque Voight-Kampff machine test with Alex and Thomas Stone

Look and Feel Like A Whole Constellation of Stars 

PHOTO PORTRAIT STUDIO* – Have your portrait taken and sent to you by e-mail

SCI-FI CREATURE MASK WORKSHOP* – Hosted by Ellsewhere, your chance to make a Space Fox or Moon Bat mask

FACE PAINTING AND MAKE-UP* - Hosted by Happy Slap Boutique

*Extra charge on the night, or you can pre-book inclusive experience packages

The Most Amazing DJs in the Cosmos

ANNIE O (Electro Swing Club Berlin) – playing electro, electro-swing and more

DJ KOBAYASHI with his Balkan Beats

DJ JAMIE MOON (Proud, Wam Bam) with jazz, rock’n'roll, funk and electro-swing

KATE HUTCHINSON (Rumpus, Boom Boom, Guilty Pleasures) playing vintage favourites

CRAIG CLARE with party classics from 50s-90s

DRESSUP

Dressing-up is not compulsory – you won’t be turned away if not in a costume! But we encourage dressing up and our friends at Prangsta offer a 20% discount to anyone quoting White Mischief. Also check our handy guide to London’s best vintage, second-hand and dressup suppliers.

Dressup inspirations: Sci-Fi, Science, B-Movies, Monsters, Aliens, Spaceships, Robots, Dieselpunk, Steampunk, HG Wells, Forbidden Planet, The Time Machine, Lost in Space, War of the Worlds, William Gibson, Phillip K Dick, Tesla, Doctor Who, Babbage, Hitch Hiker’s Guide, Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Buck Rogers, Red Dwarf etc

TICKETS

Earlybird tickets now on sale at £19.99

Advance tickets will be £24.99; Standard ticket price will be £29.99; Tickets on the door will be £35

VIPs and PACKAGES

Experience packages (mask workshop, photo, face painting / make up etc) available here

VIP places include air-conditioned room with private bar and seating; a view over the main hall; a private balcony overlooking main room; priority queue access

Book VIP packages through 50Tickets including a photo and (optional) mask workshop / make-up or face painting

**GET YOURSELF IN THE MOOD, MUSICALLY…**

Add songs to our collaborative Spotify playlist (please don’t remove tracks!)

http://open.spotify.com/user/whitemischief/playlist/7eyxzzACKMDtQYJwmLxbSf

How to get in to our sold-out New Year’s Eve Variety Extravaganza

Update: Sunday 30 December 2012

All seats and standing tickets for the show (9.30pm to 11.30pm are now fully sold out through all channels. All volunteer places are taken.

If you want to attend, the only remaining option is to come between 23:30 and 23:45 for the midnight countdown and dancing through to 02:30/03:00.

Standing tickets on the door between 23:30 and 23:45 on NYE.

If you’re happy not to see any of the stage show and simply want to hook up with your friends to enjoy our midnight ceremony and then dance, the venue will let you in after the stage show has finished. We will have a special surprise at midnight followed by a stiltwalker and DJ Jamie Moon playing vintage / party tunes / electro-swing. The venue is happy to welcome guests through the door between 23:30 and 23:45 for a door cover charge of £10 per person. Please make sure you are dressed at least smartly or even extravagantly – we won’t be allowing in randoms wearing street clothes.  Past experience on NYE suggests that there are normally about five or ten people who want to take this cheaper last-minute option. Note that entrance is at the venue security’s discretion and we cannot guarantee immediate enterance. Venue address and phone number here.

White Mischief’s New Year’s Eve Variety Extravaganza

** TICKETS 40% SOLD – BOOK NOW **

Earlybird prices – book in advance:
http://nye2012.brownpapertickets.com/

Ring in the new year with a packed White Mischief line-up of circus, comedy, cabaret, aerial and burlesque, followed by a midnight ceremony and dancing through to the wee hours. Join us to witness some of the finest talent around from chap-hop MC PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL to comedy songsmith MITCH BENN to oral ping-pong champion ROD LAVER to lindy-hopping acrobats SO AND SO CIRCUS plus aerial artists GREVILLE MATTHEWS and JACKIE LE…

Alongside the usual DJs, dancing and midnight countdown ceremony we will be offering a full seated cabaret show.

Hair styling and make-up from Hairy Popins

Hairy Popins – for a look that’s practically perfect in every way!

Weaving in webs and styling spiders, the Hairy PoPins ladies will transform your tresses and layer luscious lacquer on your lips at their pop-up beauty salon.

For those wanting up-dos / hair styling  make-up, pre-book an appointment to avoid disappointment.  From only a fiver or so you’ll get the trademark PoPins glow.

As well as hair styling there will be make-up, and face/body painting courtesy of Squiggles and Wiggles.

Contact Hairy Popins to book in for your hair / make-up / facepaint styling: hairypopinssalon@gmail.com or facebook.com/Hairypopins

(Note from White Mischief: this is for people of all genders and Hairy Popins / Squiggles and Wiggles can make the guys look like glamorous ghouls too!)

If you don’t get round to making a booking, still come and find Hairy Popins and Squiggles and Wiggles for hair, make-up and face/body painting on the top floor next to the “Suck My Rock” photobooth.

Existing reservations will take priority but there should be spaces for walkups between 9pm and midnight.

Time Out Deals

Saturday 27th October 2012, Scala, King’s Cross, London

White Mischief: PHANTASMAGORIA Hallowe’en Ball

Phantasmagorical imaginings abound as White Mischief takes over former art deco cinema Scala for a Halloween Ball themed to seances, parlour tricks and the macabre visions of the magic lantern. Expect multiple themed, decorated rooms filled with unexpected surprises and spontaneous performances and the best-dressed guests of any Halloween haunt!

Tickets £19.99 in advance from BrownPaperTickets, TicketWeb or Scala box office (£35 on night)

(Photo credit SoulStealer)

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Update: steampunk sellers and artists added to Abney Park / Prof Elemental/ Sunday Driver show on Aug 23

Scala, King’s Cross, London
7.30pm – 11pm

White Mischief is proud to announce the line-up for our Steampunk Concert:

Genre-definers ABNEY PARK headline with their only London show.
Supported by full sets from chap-hop super flyweight PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL
and steampunk fusion band SUNDAY DRIVER.

PLUS a selection of steampunk art and craftspeople (see below!)

This evening is focused on the music alone and will end in time for last trains home. Unlike White Mischief weekend nights those aged 16 to 18 are welcome (please contact us in advance to arrange this).

Guests are welcome to come in civvies, street clothes or steampunk garb – it’s your choice!

TICKETS

Our meet-and-greet offer with the band is now sold out but the band is still offering an “upgrade” deal where you get:

• A choice of autographed merch, either the “Wrath of Fate” novel or the “Off the Grid” CD
• 10% discount code for the Abney Park online store

The price of the offer is £23.00 per person and is limited to just 50 places. Book now to take advantage of it.

If you just want standard tickets they are on sale for £14.99 from Brown Paper Tickets 

 THE MUSICIANS

Post-apocalyptic aeronauts of questionable morals, Abney Park bring clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middle-eastern percussion and violent violin creating their unique blend of world and dance music. Corsets and cummerbunds ahoy! Abney Park’ll go down with Tesla-powered keyboards blazing in one riotous dervish of a performance. New album Ancient World will be released later this year.

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Sunday Driver combine a steampunk visual aesthetic with exotic and fantastical soundscapes incorporating asian elements alongside instruments such as harp and clarinet. Described by author Robert Rankin as “one of my very favourites”, by Sepiachord as “quietly surreal” and by the Steampunk Workshop as a “real, honest to god, talented ensemble”, Sunday Driver’s music has been played on BBC Radio 6, Radio 4 and the Asian Network. Their new album “The Mutiny” is released this April with video The Concubine Waltz online on YouTube.

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Pillar of the tea-drinking community and sporter of fighting trousers, Professor Elemental introduces hiphop to steampunk, creating his own inimitable blend of chap-hop. Imagine, if you will, a cross between Sherlock Holmes, Flight of the Conchords, Jay-Z, a cream tea and a badger in a hat – quite something, eh?

 PLUS A VARIETY OF STEAMPUNK CRAFTSPEOPLE SELLING THEIR WARES – DO BRING CASH!

ABNEY PARK

ENLYL’S REALM
Neo-Victorian & Steampunk Jewellery
http://www.enlyl.etsy.com/

SUPERSTITCHIOUS
Steampunk, gothic clothing
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Superstitchious/182200448509495

THE LAST LINE / ARKWRIGHT
Steampunk publishing
http://thelastline.yolasite.com/

PROFESSOR MAELSTROMME
http://professormaelstromme.wordpress.com/

THOMAS WILLEFORD
http://www.steam.netmagicllc.com/

THE ISLAND OF DR GEOF
http://islandofdoctorgeof.co.uk/iodg/

HOUSE OF HIRUDINEA
http://hirudinea.co.uk/

Abney Park meet-and-greet plus merch offer

On Thursday 23 August 2012, the US’s most respected steampunk band ABNEY PARK is coming to London as part of the Steampunk Concert at Scala in King’s Cross.

They will be supported with full sets from pith-helmeted PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL and Raj-infused steampunk fusionists SUNDAY DRIVER.

Earlybird tickets are on sale now for £13.99 from Brown Paper Tickets but starting Thursday 12 July at 9am London time, a new meet-and-greet offer will go on sale.

Limited to just 50 tickets, the offer includes:

• A meet-and-greet with Abney Park just before the show
• A choice of autographed merch, either the “Wrath of Fate” novel or the “Off the Grid” CD
• 10% discount code for the Abney Park online store

The price of the offer is £36.99 per person and is limited to just 50 places.

The offer can be purchased from 9am London time on Thursday 12 July at this link to 50Tickets.com

NB: If you have already bought a ticket for this show, you should have been contacted by White Mischief this week offering you the opportunity to upgrade to this offer. If you have not received the email please check your spam folder before mailing whitemischiefnight@gmail.com

New additions to the lineup for Saturday 21st April

We are pleased to announce some more performers and entertainments for our White Mischief Royal Jubilee Gala on Saturday 21st April:

Comic Goddess MYSTI VINE

21st Century Showgirl KEDA BREEZE

 Hooping marvel ANNA THE HULAGAN

 Plus…

THE CLOCKWORK WATCH

and peek inside THE AETHEROSCOPE MARK ONE

These entertainments join bands including Tankus The Henge, Sunday Driver, Perhaps Contraption and vaudevillians including Mat Fraser, magicians Morgan and West, aerialist Jackie Le plus diversions galore including Victorian Photography and walkabout explorers Hodman and Sally. More details on the White Mischief Royal Jubilee Gala event page… or order advance tickets now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217009