Sunday 24 February 2013

New Maldon Calling....

Hello,

Welcome to this weeks edition of the blog.

Yesterday the Second Surrey Steampunk Convivial took place in New Maldon which drew a wonderful group of people. We were there too, and you know what they said, well some of it was true - particularly with regard to The Best Cake in the World Competition. It truly was the best cake in the world, how could anyone hope to compete against a two tier cake, top tier being gin and tonic and the lower being rum and raisin, another culinary triumph from Malika Andress.

 
The tea duelling proved to be both highly enjoyable and highly competitve, while the snail racing featured possibly the largest gastropod since Zarozinia. There were the expected dastardly deeds in the Wacky Races to contend with as well.


There was so much going on that to list everything would be to write a book rather than a blog, all fantastically organised by Ben Henderson, thank you Sir!

In the evening it was time for the bands to take centre stage. It was our great pleasure to have Random Dent join us to add extra percussion on All Seeing Eye and Limbo, our grateful thanks go to you and to the gentleman that supplied the evil laugh during the intro to Evil Genius. Thanks also to those that bought CD's afterwards and for the supportive comments we received. The support of those in attendance was the highlight of the day for us, and given all of the wonderful happenings during the day that's saying quite a lot.

All of which brings us to the end of this weeks blog. As ever if you would like to contact us please do so via or Facebook page or email us at crimsonclocks@crimsonclocks.com

Thanks for reading, and until next time, farewell



Sunday 17 February 2013

We've Never Been This Far Away From Home

Hello,

Welcome to this weeks edition of the blog.

Final preparations are now under way for our journey to The Second Surrey Steampunk Convivial which will be a day full of events and an evening filled with music. Further details can be found, and tickets purchased on the website. We can't quite believe it, but we have never been this far away from home for a gig before. 

Our CD will be available on the day, and includes several of the songs we will perform on the night, if you would like to purchase a copy please be sure to speak to one of us. In fact we're quite happy to be spoken to regardless of desire for ownership of a CD, you may find that we like to speak and we love to be spoken to.



All being well, in our next edition we will be able to report just how serious the raffle was, describe the best cake in the world, advise on whether the miniature hot air ballooning was a success or a flight of fancy and describe the dastardly goings on during the Whacky Races.

Don't wait for our description of proceedings though, come along and witness every steam driven minute for yourself.

As ever if you would like to get in touch with us please do so via our Facebook page or email us at crimsonclocks@crimsonclocks.com.

Thanks for reading, and until next time, farewell.



Sunday 10 February 2013

Putting The Horse Before The Carriage

Hello,

Welcome to this weeks edition of the blog.

Things have been rather hectic at Crimson Clock Tower since we returned from Psychedelic Steampunk at The Pavillion in Matlock Bath last week. We are currently midway through our preparations for the journey to Surrey for The Second Surrey Steampunk Convival which takes place on 23 February.

There promises to be a full day of entertainments and distractions, followed by an evening of music, which will of course include ourselves. The carriage has recently been refurbished, the horses re-shod and all that is required now is for Quasar to load the trunks and we will be ready to set off. In case you are wondering, we couldn't get the rest of the elephants inside the carriage, there's only a limited amount of room onside, and a horse drawn TARDIS would be rather pointless wouldn't you say.



Speaking of Quasar, he is being unusually helpful at present, due to being in a rather good mood because his test results came back negative. We haven't the heart to tell him that isn't supposed to happen with an I.Q. test.

In other news, our website has recently been redesigned in a rather marvellous fashion, if you haven't had the opportunity to peruse it in all it's glory please be sure to do so. The splendidness can be observed here.

All of which brings us to the end of this weeks entry. If you've read this far then you probably deserve a medal, but we can only offer our grateful thanks.

As ever, if you would like to get in touch please contact us via our Facebook page, thanks for reading and until next time, farewell.









Sunday 3 February 2013

Waxing Lyrical...

Hello,

I hope this weeks blog finds you in good health and spirits.

Yesterday saw us at The Grand Pavillion in Matlock Bath for Psychedelic Steampunk at The Pavillion, organised by BB Black Dog (thanks for inviting us to play). Mike of BB Black Dog went beyond the call of duty in his efforts to raise funds to replace their stolen equipment by allowing people to tear a strip of wax off him at £2.00 a go. There seems to be either a lot  of charitable steampunks or a lot of sadistic ones, it was difficult to tell if they were getting so much pleasure from raising funds or if it was from Mike's howls of pain. He managed to raise in excess of £80, hopefully the money will be more permanent than the pain.


We took to the stage at around 16:30 and added a couple of extra numbers to our normal set. Thank you to those of you that were kind enough to let us know you had enjoyed the set - it's having people take the trouble to do so that makes it all worthwhile.

The next few weeks see us working on new material, and then on the 23rd we will be at The Second Surrey Steampunk Convivial, we hope to see you there.

Thank you for reading, as ever if you would like to get in touch please do so via our Facebook page until next time, farewell.