Hey folks, quick heads-up: we're on Australian tv THIS Sunday 25th October @ 2pm - Network 10, Documentary "City Fringe" - don't miss it! :D
The blurb for the show is as follows:
2:00 pm CITY FRINGE
"City Fringe" Punk, Goth, Rock & Metal, decades old now reinvented & still popular. City Fringe discovers why people gravitate to certain music or styles, political views or social scenes & the unwritten codes determining how a person achieves and maintains acceptance.
Hi folks!
It's been a little while since our last general update, and we've got loads of news! Lots of new products in store, and events and announcements and goings-on. So without further ado:
Events News:
Victorian Era Dance & Costume Festival, Canberra - October 2-5th, 2009
Wildilocks is proud to be presenting a workshop on Victorian Hairstyling as part of the Victorian Era Festival for 2009, held by the Earthly Delights Historical Dance Academy. The festival focuses on Victorian era partner dances & costuming, and has many workshops on a wide variety of Victorian pursuits such as bonnet making, etiquette, needlework, a Graveyard Tour, and there's even a talk on Steampunk! You can see the full program for the weekend here [pdf], and there's still time to register and attend this wonderful event!
OK, we've been getting emails, calls and people in store @ Wildilocks asking us: is there going to be a Euchronia this year?
After significant deliberation and consideration for 2009, we've decided that, in keeping with our aim to maintain Euchronia as a unique and truly world class event, it would ideally be held every other year, rather than annually. So, let the anticipation really begin to build early, and please mark your calendar for December 31, 2010!
In the meantime, the Antipodean League of Temporal Voyagers will be looking into more local events, and directing your support to steampunk goodness around the hemisphere.
Stock News:
We have quite a few new lines and items in stock since our last bulletin. Dolly Q has several new styles available, we have gorgeous new miniature top hats from Phaze along with regular new clothing items, cute anime robot buttons & badges from Irreverie, Wee Willy Winkie nightcaps from Dusk Moth, new Hoodies, tops and dresses from Nubia, and our very own Locks Gear teaser range of pants & tops (more coming soon!) and one of our absolutely new and favourite items are the delightful IzWoz Steambug Hoodies & Tshirts - a more casual look for those of a steampunk persuasion, the steambugs are soooo cute!
In hair care & body care, we have ever more dread care with as always Knotty Boy, but adding new items from DreadheadHQ and new Melbourne manufacturer JaTaa - as well as lovely lovely Pout Balms from Nilla Nilla that have the most delicious flavours.
And last but not least - we have Disco Brites UV nail polish. Now this is not just UV nailpolish in a clear shade, or white - but every colour you could imagine - including black! Yes, this is the first UV black nail polish we've ever come across, and it's brilliant!
We have many more items constantly becoming available so do pop in store to check out what's new.
Store News:
In general store news, we will be having a pricing restructure beginning Nov 1st, 2009. Many prices will stay the same and some may even go down though some will inevitably rise as our costs have risen over the past year, and we do have allow for changing circumstances and the developing bevy of talent we have under our roof(s)! Just a little forewarning so folks are not taken too much by surprise.
Staff News:
Two new staff members since last bulletin! We have had the very talented Madison join us in Melbourne midway through her training and she is a very bright star. And our youngest staff member Evie has become our newest apprentice in Perth. Both have been with us now for a few months and have been settling in excellently.
That's about all for now - we hope to see you soon!
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Greetings, denizen of the Intertubes!
Interest in the upcoming event, a Queen's Birthday Eve Dinner Voyage, has been picking up pace with ticket sales increasing especially rapidly over the past week. As tickets are strictly limited, we felt it behooved us to alert potential passengers of this development.
If you are not yet aware of the event, more information here.
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Also - we have a model call for next month for Wildilocks @ BASE808 in Perth for the dates of 26, 27 and 28 of May. Kat from Melbourne will be doing training with the Perth crew and we need willing victims! Pin-up & vintage styles are likely to be covered as well as massage techniques and possibly some colour work. If you are interested in being a model for these training dates, please call the Perth salon on (08) 9226 3722 to be added to the model register. Please note there will be no charge for any of these services except colour work, where cost of product is the only charge (around $20 - $40 depending on hair length)
Cheers!
Cass
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CIRCA NOCTURNA
Melbourne Alternative Fashion Show
Saturday 28th of February
Fitzroy Town Hall
8 pm
Tickets are selling fast so make sure you get yours asap!
Tickets - $22 + BF presale, $25 on the door, available online at www. wildilocks. com - but please note that you have only 24 hours more to purchase tickets on the webstore for either postage or pickup, from Thursday onwards tickets can be purchaseed instore only.
Purchase tickets instore at:
Wildilocks 1/382 Ltl Collins St
VNV Boudiour 514 Lygon St Brunswick East
Peril Underground 17 Elizabeth St, Melbourne
Circa Nocturna After Party
@ Blue Velvet Bar on 60 Smith st, Collingwood, just around the corner from the venue – From 11.30pm
DJs are Sister Suffragette, Brother Peirce and Clint Rex.
Tickets are $8 with no ticket or $5 with a Circa ticket
And this year, we are also presenting:
CARNIVALE NOCTURNA
Carnivale Nocturna celebrates alternative designers by making them accessible to the public, breaking the line between the catwalk and the audience, all within a carnival atmosphere complete with performances and visual displays. The Circa web store is the newest member of the Alliance of Alternative Arts celebration of alternative fashion, highlighting their commitment to these designers and industry, so come along and be a part of this amazing launch event.
Carnivale Nocturna is FREE with your Circa Nocturna ticket Or entry by donation.
Carnivale Lineup:
4.15: Nada Cat - Contortionist
5.00: Maisah - Raqs Gothique - Bellydance
5.30: Miss Jadess (of The Tanquerays) - Dance
6:00: Alex de la Rambelje - Magician
7:00: Madame Pieta - Burlesque dance
7.45: Tank The Muppet
(and more to be added)
This event is All Ages (I.D. required for alcohol service)
Sunday (the day after Circa) 1st March 2009 from 4pm
Fitzroy Town Hall
Napier St, Fitzroy
For more information, please check out our new website at
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CIRCA NOCTURNA Melbourne's largest alternative, subcultural and fringe fashion show.
Featuring some of the best of Australia's alternative fashion, clubwear and metal couture.
Fitzroy Town Hall,
Saturday 28th of February,
Cnr of Napier and Moore St,
Fitzroy. Doors Open at 8 pm
Tickets - $22 + BF presale $25 on the door, available online at our webstore here
Or instore at:
Wildilocks 1/382 Little Collins St (entry on Mckillop St),
VNV Boudiour 514 Lygon St Brunswick East,
Peril Underground 17 Elizabeth St, Melbourne.
This year, we are also presenting CARNIVALE NOCTURNA
Carnivale Nocturna celebrates alternative designers by making them accessible to the public, breaking the line between the catwalk and the audience, all within a carnival atmosphere complete with performances and visual displays. The Circa web store is the newest member of the Alliance of Alternative Arts celebration of alternative fashion, highlighting their commitment to these designers and industry, so come along and be a part of this amazing launch event.
Carnivale Nocturna is FREE with your Circa Nocturna ticket Or entry by donation.
This event is All Ages (I.D. required for alcohol service).
Sunday (the day after Circa) 1st March 2009 from 4pm.
Fitzroy Town Hall,
Napier St, Fitzroy.
For more information, please check out the new website at
Well now that we are well and truly into the new year and post-Euchronia euphoria has settled (portrait photos are all up now btw, over here), it's time to get back to the regular business of doing awesome hair and having many wonderful treasures available for you instore. Best news of the week: Coilhouse Issue #2 has just arrived! The new issue is cram packed full of beautiful images, fascinating stories, and our personal favourite bit - Wildilocks has a placement in the inside cover, shot by the ever-talented Nadya Lev, as below:
You can get Coilhouse from The Lockworks in Melbourne right now, online from our webstore with delivery as soon as overnight within Australia, and from next week @ BASE808 in Perth.
Events: We have tickets available @ The Lockworks for two brilliant fundraisers coming up @ The East Brunswick Club - The Girl From East Brunswick next Friday to aid the Greyhound Adoption Program, and Valentines @ The East from Sugar Kitten Cabaret on Valentines day, with all proceeds going to WIRE! You can buy these online from the Wildilocks webstore too, with limited seated tix available for Valentine's.
Stock: We have a host of stock arrived recently in both stores, including many new items at incredibly reasonable prices from Phaze Clothing like pencil skirts, corset tops, dresses, shirts, miniskirts, manskirts, bows and hairclips, stripey socks, and new Covet vintage items including the cutest ruffly black tutu with built in knickers (yes, built in knickers!) and a whole lot more. We're also expecting any day now a delivery of brand new Dolly Q miniature hats including bicornes, tricornes and top hats, even MORE Phaze, and always have many new plans up our sleeves :)
Have a great Australia Day weekend and hopefully see some of you @ Golgotha!
Below: event flyers!
Well, we've had a few days now to recover and try to put together some meagre words to express our amazement and gratitude to everyone who came to the Ball and made the event what it was. We truly were astonished at the breadth and variety of outfits, and the sheer numbers of people who clearly took much time and care with their presentation down to the most minute of details. Feedback has been pouring into our inboxes and we are genuinely humbled: yes, it was a phenomenal amount of work, but it's all the participants who made Euchronia such a resounding success; so thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
Our especial thanks go out to the following people: all our fantastic performers, including all the bands, dancers, cabaret artists & DJs, as well as Sir Frederick Chook with readings from the lovely Gill-Chambers for the League pre-event; Monica Zanchetta and Emma Kuetgens-Fitzpatrick of snackbarartspace.com and their assistants including Louis, Amanda, David, Kate, Jason and more with art & decoration; all our wonderful volunteers including Holly, Ash, Steph, Sarah, Cassandra, Sha & Matt who helped with catering, door, and various stage assist roles; Bernard of Assassinus for photography on the night; Two Cans Antiques and Black Dragon Blacksmiths for furniture loan, all the staff from Bella Union who did an excellent job both before and during the evening; everyone who assisted with promotion including Samantha Shields and models of the AMA, Peter Coulson of Koukei, Cloe Bunter, Katie Timpano, Dolly Q, Circa Vintage, Retrostar Vintage Clothing, Rose Chong Costume Hire and Wildilocks @ The Lockworks for clothing & Kat, Kate + Kelsey specifically for all their help with hair & general dogsbodying, Sarah & Cam for their early involvement, Jason for venue recommendation & Mel for contacts; all our ticket stockists and promoters, everyone who blogged, published articles or promoted to their membership about Euchronia including Gala, Horrorscope and Continuum; I'm sure we'll have missed a few names here, hopefully any others not mentioned by name will know who you are and how much we appreciate your contributions, no matter how big or small!
Photos. We've been receiving links to many photos (there are already quite a few on flickr and elsewhere) and we have now created a photo gallery for any of you who'd like your images to be available on the Euchronia site - the Euchronia Gallery is linked to accounts already created for use with the forums and shopping cart etc, so you can just log in with your existing details to upload images into your own personal gallery! We've already added quite a few, but we'd love to see more more more! Please definitely consider adding photos to the Euchronia gallery especially if you've only been uploading to Facebook: only your friends can see those images and that's especially unfair to people you may have photographed who don't use Facebook. Our professional photos which so many of you were lining up to be shot by Assassinus in the Annex will be available during the coming week on the site too. Please note also that the gallery is still in development and a few things may move around in the coming weeks and there may be some error messages, but photos can be uploaded without problems and display fine. We will have video coming soon too!
The League. Finally, we'd like to let you know that this is just the beginning. The Antipodean League of Temporal Voyagers has plans afoot! If you are superkeen on steampunk, and interested in joining the League, standard memberships are still available, and we're considering online-only membership as well. League membership now includes posting rights on the new community blog, antipodeanleague.org which while currently only in its infancy, we hope to grow to become a hub of activity and a primary source of steampunk news and information. The League rss feed is here.
Onward, and upward! As always, any feedback is appreciated: what your favourite moments were, how we may have improved the event, any anecdotes or information all gratefully received.
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Weather forecast for 31st December, 2008:
Cloudy. Shower or two clearing. Winds west to southwesterly averaging up to 35 km/h. Airships take care to tether on at least two moorings. Min 12 Max 23
Tally Ho! It's time for all our revelers to begin final preparations for The Night Ahead in which all manner of anachronistic hedonism comes to life in full, to whit, at Euchronia!
There are still some tickets for sale @ Peril Underground, Wildilocks @ The Lockworks & Heartland Records until close of business, and we will be taking online sales for door pickup until 5pm. There will be limited tickets available on the door, but be aware that our ticket sales are approaching capacity and we recommend coming early to avoid possible disappointment if you are planning on door purchase - as well as to see all the fantastic entertainment we have planned for the evening, of course!
We have added one last DJ to our lineup and that is DJ Louis, an old hand come to our rescue who's been at the decks since the heady days of Subculture, Revelations and Abyss, though more recently Nemesis, DV8 and Gulag.
We're also announcing a last minute philanthropic element to Euchronia. We've had notable interest from the age-challenged who cannot attend our 18+ event, so we have decided to offer a free carriage ride @ 8.30pm before the Event Proper for those who'd like to get into the Steampunk spirit, and who have come up to see the promenade of people entering but cannot do so themselves. You need to be under 18 and at the venue at 8.30; a maximum of 8 persons can be seated. First in, best dressed (or perhaps the other way around?)
Following below the cut is the set list for Euchronia, to allow you to plan your evening. Programmes will also be at the door.
Euchronia Programme December 31st 2008
New Ballroom
* 9.00pm - 9.50pm DJ Omega
* 9.50pm - 10.40pm DJ Viscera
* 10.40pm - 10.55pm Serpentskirt
* 10.55pm - 11.55pm Gus Exposition
* 11.55pm - 12.00am Midnight countdown
* 12.00am - 12.15am Rosy Rabbit
* 12.15am - 1.00am DJ Mixmaster Malice
* 1.00am - 1.50am DJ Lobotomy
* 1.50am - 2.40am DJ Tigerlily
* 2.40am - 3.30am DJ Louis
Bella Union Bar
* 9.10pm - 9.40pm Dandelion Wine (acoustic set)
* 9.50pm - 10.00pm The Tanquerays
* 10.10pm - 10.40pm Alex De La Rambelje
* 10.55pm - 11.55pm The Tenth Stage
* 11.55pm - 12.00am Midnight countdown
* 12.20am - 12.30am Tank the Muppet
* 12.40am - 1.40am Sforzando
* 1.55am - 2.00am Rosy Rabbit
* 2.10am - 2.50am Dandelion Wine (main set)
See you tonight!
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Hey folks!
It's getting closer and closer to NYE (5 weeks now, give or take an hour or two!) and we are pleased to announce what will probably be the final additions to our already stunning bill! [See the performers page for the full lineup!]
Alex De La Rambelje: Magician! In true Victorian cabaret style, we have procured the services of a skilled illusionist. Alex follows in the tradition of turn-of-last-century sleight-of-hand wizards like Harry Houdini, whose mastery of manual dexterity left their audiences breathless. Alex’s act features authentic, traditional cabaret magic performed with the expertise and sophistication guaranteed to impress and enthrall even in these more sophisticated times.
DJ Lobotomy: a name which should be familiar to many of you as one half of the awesome Cabaret Nocturne team. DJ Lobotomy was one of our first picks for Euchronia, and we are very happy to finally be able to announce his addition to the bill. His playlist runs the gamut from Oldschool, Neo-goth, Industrial and EBM to Grunge, Britpop, Indie, Electro and 80's trash.
Tickets for the night are $55 until the 15th December. If you managed to grab a specially-stamped flyer at the Cup Eve Golgotha and would like to attend Euchronia, you may still head into Wildilocks @ The Lockworks before that date to receive a $10 Golgotha discount.
We're very excited to have so many folks coming from interstate --especially Sydney-- as well as an ever-growing membership roster in the Antipodean League of Temporal Voyagers. If you’d like to partake of the benefits of League membership [which include a special members-only event prior to Euchronia, a shiny open-face pocketwatch with gears-a-whirring, a horse drawn carriage ride & much more] please take a look over here.
And finally, to any further potential interstate attendees and anyone who may be wishing to take advantage of our hotel offer in conjunction with the Victoria Hotel: please make your bookings before the 1st December to be guaranteed a room. (We may be able to accept more rooms under our group reservation after that date, but this is the date the hotel has given as a cut-off for guaranteed rooms.)
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Just a teensy heads-up if you're desiring to attend Euchronia this New Years Eve for the cheapest moneys possible, some tickets are still available at $45 online and instore at Wildilocks @ Lockworks & Base808, but only for the next 3 days! Come Monday prices go up to $55, we will be posting our exciting new line up additions, and tickets will be available from a wide range of outlets all over Melbourne.
Also don't forget Wastelands II Age of Iron Steampunk Convention [Perth, Australia] is only 36 hours away!
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