Abney Park

Steampunk Vacuum Tube Guitar Amp

Jake von Slatt — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 09:52

I'm finally getting around to adding some shots of the Steampunk Amp's debut at Maker Faire!

We all really had a great time and the turn-out was amazing! In addition to playing through-out event in a amongst the Carnivale Mechanique, Nathaniel Johnstone, Melissa and John Paul Mayden played a couple of sets on the main stage while the dancers of Deshret Dance Company performed.

It was a sublime experience and the amp performed beyond my expectations!

Click through for more pictures and video of the event at the end of the build log . . .

Hey San Francisco (and L.A.)! Abney Park All Ages Shows in March!

Jake von Slatt — Thu, 02/12/2009 - 14:24

"Dammit, I'm on the wrong coast" is becoming an almost constant refrain for this Boston based Steampunk!

However, all of my friends in San Francisco and Los Angeles will be on the right coast this March when that crew of drunken pilots and great friends of The Steampunk Workshop comes your town to play a couple of all ages shows!

But no matter where you are, if you've never heard their music before you owe it to yourself to go to The Abney Park Vault and have a listen!

Abney Park Interview with Rebecca Firth

Jake von Slatt — Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:56

Captain Robert of the band Abney Park talks to Rebecca Firth about their music and Steampunk in an Interview at YouFINDit.

[For some reason they've chosen to stream the mp3 with the horrible Micro$oft Media Server so if you can't listen from the above page, gank the mp3 from Here ]

Abney Park are true DIYers in every sense of the word and are all great friends of the Steampunk Workshop. We wish we were able to see them tonight at DragonCon!

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The California Steampunk Convention

Jake von Slatt — Tue, 06/03/2008 - 13:51

I've been booked for the first ever California Steampunk Convention in Sunnyvale, California - October 31 through November 2!

I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing but there is sufficient time to put together a really bitch'n presentation and/or demo! I'll also be participating in a discussion panel or two.

In addition, some of The Steampunk Workshop's bestest friends will be there, and by that I mean Ann & Jeff VanderMeer the editors of Steampunk as well as those roguishly appealing pirates: Abney Park!

Discounted tickets are on sale now until June 15 for $50, they will be $60 thereafter.

Abney Park posing aboard the Neverwas Haul at Maker Faire 2008 (Photo - Libby Bulloff)

The Heather Gold Show

Jake von Slatt — Tue, 04/29/2008 - 16:34

On Saturday May 3, Cap'n Robert of Abney Park, Libby Bulloff of SteamPunk Magazine and I will be on The Heather Gold Show which will be streamed live from the main stage at Maker Faire. From Heather's site:

How can you be authentic to yourself and part of a (sub)culture?

Through the lens of Steampunk, a meta-subculture that is currently at its tipping point of growth, we explore the inevitable question a subculture faces as it grows from disparate DIY roots. Who and what belongs? Can it transform permaculture?

Conversating with Heather are computer and car modifier Jake von Slatt, Abney Park's Captain Robert and SteamPunk Magazine editor, wearable art creator, and artist Libby Bulloff.

I finally tracked down the two parts of the show and embedded them here for you. There is an audio issue with the first part, it drops out near the begining but then comes back in at the 7:35 mark. The first vid is nearly an hour and the second is about 22 minutes.

Click through to watch the videos