Raising Steam!

Hello, 

This weeks blog is brought to you by special guest blogger Steven C. Davis, lead author and Creative Director at Tenebrous Texts, presenter of the CPR radio show on Reading4u.co.uk and organiser of The Raising Steam Music Festival. Now it's over to Steven... 

Roll up, roll up, come one, come all to the Raising Steam music festival in Reading.

To either side of you you’ll see some excellent Steampunk traders offering you their wares – take advantage, I urge you. Behind you now is the bar offering a fine range of drinkables; they also serve delectable food.

Preparing themselves to begin this afternoon’s engagements you can see our Masters of Ceremonies for the weekend, Jane Setter and Rob Ramsay, of Crimson Sky and Tinyfish, respectively.

I see you have purchased your ticket through Eventbrite: you could also have purchased it through the Oxfam music shop in Reading.

Over the course of the weekend you shall – for your delectation – be offered musical performances by Metropolis and Thy Last Drop from Bury St Edmunds. Flying down from Leeds, Helicopter Quartet will be opening Sunday’s proceedings while, from Oxford, the Mechanisms will be finishing off the whole weekend by bringing you the tale of Ulysses’ last day.

Singing songs of smugglers and Jack the Ripper, Gladstone hail from Northampton whilst London’s Tom Slatter brings a progressive twist to Steampunk with songs of self-made men and time travellers.

From the deepest, darkest West Country we have Miss Von Trapp opening the whole shenanigans, whilst from Exeter the Mysterious Freakshow will be bringing us into their world. From Birmingham and the Black Country come Birthrite and, from further afield, from the fair land of the Americas, we bring you none other than Montague Jacques Fromage with his SteampunkFunk Bizarre. And, lastly, but with great thanks to them for letting me write this blog, we have the Crimson Clocks.

Get tickets for your friends, neighbours, demon familiars and crew from Eventbrite and we’ll see all of you there! And if you need any further inducement, all profits go to the UK registered charity New Futures Nepal!

Steven C. Davis