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Wow! Wow! White Mischief Steampunk indoor variety night is back at the Scala in London King’s Cross June 7. I will be there, check out their Facebook page for the event details, also add me on Facebook too if you are into Steampunk or Geek stuffs.

White Mischief is next Saturday, June 7, 8pm-3am at Scala in King’s Cross, themed to another Jules Verne novel, this time “Around the World in 80 Days”.

For members of the public, tickets are still available - including group discounts for bookings of five people and above - though we strongly recommend people book ahead, as advance tickets are far cheaper than those bought on the door and previous shows have sold out.

We hand-pick unique live musical acts and intersperse them with some of the most astonishing vaudeville and circus performers around. Typical shows might include anything from a man electrocuting himself with 20,000 volts of visible electricity to aerial acts, snake charming, sword swallowing and harpists who play with strings attached to hooks in their own skin!

Added to the mix are interactive experiences, comedy, spontaneous encounters with musicians and costumed characters in unexpected quarters… and a range of DJs representing every genre from jazz, blues and rock’n’roll to country and world music.

With four rooms of entertainment and two stages of music and vaudeville, there’s an extraordinary abundance of fun to be had during the seven hours of a White Mischief party. It’s a show from start to finish, so we invite guests to arrive as early as they can to be sure of catching everything.

Each room is decorated in line with our theme, courtesy of set dressers who have worked on film sets and have been involved in Punchdrunk’s “Masque of the Red Death”. The aesthetic is a neo-Victorian, Jules Verne inspired “steampunk” environment bringing to mind the romance of the industrial age.

Dressing up is not by any means compulsory - everyone is welcome at White Mischief - but we do encourage dressing-up and are pleased to share our own recommendations for costume rental, second-hand and vintage retailers in London. If you’re able to enter the spirit of things, then wonderful: high street and designer clothes may be expensive, but a bit of imagination costs nothing!

Live bands and vaudeville / circus performers will be arriving by every means of conveyance from all four corners of the globe.

Flying in from Berlin, Miss Behave, one of the few surviving female swordswallowers (and a Guinnness World Record holder who is about to start her own run at the Roundhouse); from Spain, snake dancer Seffi; from Japan, DJ Lady Kamikaze, playing vintage jazz and blues; from Turkey, the band Oojami, complete with their own Sufi dancer; from the United States, “electro chamber rock” band The Outside Royalty and DJ duo Theodora Goes Wild and Sheriff Marshall Lawman ; from Africa to London, DJ Todd Hart, playing an all-African set; from Australasia, acerbic compere Dusty Limits; from the UK, outrageous diva, the Radio 1 playlisted Ebony Bones…

Of particular interest to fans of Victoriana might be the Penny Dreadfuls, a “Victorian comedy troupe” whose sketch comedy has been a hit on BBC7, Radio 4 and at Edinburgh…and Miss Amundsen, Bipolar Explorer, a steampunk enthusiast herself, who will be performing an aerial act above the audience’s head while playing an accordion.

Link to venue details, Link to photos, Link to the night’s line-up
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