Latest Review from Steampunk Chronicle!
10/01/12 00:34
Thanks to Steampunk Chronicle and the fabulous Wilhelmina Frame for a great review of “Rayguns in Aspic” from the American perspective. I’d like to welcome any steampunks from the USA who are checking out the CD as a result of the article or other source – hope you enjoy the site!
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Rayguns in Aspic on Overbury Ink
29/11/11 00:49
The very kind Nancy Overbury has written a great "#SteamTuesday" post on Rayguns in Aspic over at Overbury Ink - check it out!
The Adventurers
18/10/11 00:35
You can follow the exciting adventures of cast members on Twitter here:
Miss Emilly Ladybird – @emillyladybird
Jack Union – @jackunion1885
Count Rostov – @count_rostov
The following characters also link to our adventurers tales:
The Brig (Black Bat Squadron) – @BBSBrigadier
Von Rottenburg (Hiss, Boo) – @vonrottenburg
Ms Peacey – @MsPeacey
Or you can follow them all as a list here:
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Miss Emilly Ladybird – @emillyladybird
Jack Union – @jackunion1885
Count Rostov – @count_rostov
The following characters also link to our adventurers tales:
The Brig (Black Bat Squadron) – @BBSBrigadier
Von Rottenburg (Hiss, Boo) – @vonrottenburg
Ms Peacey – @MsPeacey
Or you can follow them all as a list here:
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Rayguns in Aspic now available!
18/09/11 00:26
I, Count Rostov, am overwhelmingly excited and terribly pleased to announce that the Steampunk Comedy Show “Rayguns in Aspic” is now available on CD following a splendidly successful launch at this year’s Asylum – the largest steampunk convention in Europe.
Rayguns in Aspic was originally produced as a radio play, performed live on stage at The Asylum steampunk convention in Lincoln. This was so successful the cast went into the studio and recorded the show with the internationally famous music producer Kuljit Bhamra.
The cast includes Miss Emilly Ladybird, Herr Döktor, Chandy Nath from Sunday Driver, and Kit Cox (AKA Jack Union)
Cast performing Rayguns in Aspic at the Asylum, September 2010
The Way of GIN-JIT-SU
14/05/11 16:36
I would like to tell you a story of how ginjitsu was first developed in China. How it was handed down by generations of juniper masters from father to son. How a famous variation Zui Quan, was featured in the famous Jackie Chan movie, ‘Drunken Master’ and how I learned it from a reclusive black bottle sensei in the foothills of the Himalayas after a long mystical journey.
I’d like to tell you that story, but if I did… I would, unfortunately, be lying.
Ginjitsu was principally developed after a series of bar room brawls that I seemed to get unwittingly drawn into. Through no fault of my own, I’d end up fighting and then at some point losing my gin and tonic.
This, as you can rightly understand, was entirely unacceptable.
Eventually I developed a unique fighting style that had several advantages:
Further development of the martial art came when I started carrying bottles of gin with me – this meant I could not only drink continuously without interruption, but it also allowed for a number of additional elements to be added to the form of ginjitsu – such as:
Finally, adding a simple length of silk rope to the top of the gin bottle creates a useful mid-range weapon, which allows the ginjitsu proponent a more attacking style whilst imbibing.
Only two other people have knowledge of this most deadly of martial arts - the Brig - whose talent for it almost equals my own, and Miss Ladybird - who knows a few of the more refined movements, and uses them to good effect.
Of course, whatever the variation or form, the basics of ginjitsu must always be adhered to – the correct application of just the right amount of force to divert your opponents strike without breaking the gin bottle, using your opponents momentum against him/her, and most fundamentally: NO SPILLAGE!
I leave you with these words: “When you fight – let your opponent pass by you like gin flowing sweetly down your throat – when you hit his stomach – the gin should hit yours – and both of you will feel it in the morning.”
I’d like to tell you that story, but if I did… I would, unfortunately, be lying.
Ginjitsu was principally developed after a series of bar room brawls that I seemed to get unwittingly drawn into. Through no fault of my own, I’d end up fighting and then at some point losing my gin and tonic.
This, as you can rightly understand, was entirely unacceptable.
Eventually I developed a unique fighting style that had several advantages:
- it was highly effective,
- required little actual effort,
- made me look good,
- and most importantly, let me keep my gin and tonic intact.
Further development of the martial art came when I started carrying bottles of gin with me – this meant I could not only drink continuously without interruption, but it also allowed for a number of additional elements to be added to the form of ginjitsu – such as:
- the ‘flat ear’ strike,
- the ‘bottle to balls’ swing,
- and of course, the now famous; ‘here hold this for me’ diversionary disarming technique.
Finally, adding a simple length of silk rope to the top of the gin bottle creates a useful mid-range weapon, which allows the ginjitsu proponent a more attacking style whilst imbibing.
Only two other people have knowledge of this most deadly of martial arts - the Brig - whose talent for it almost equals my own, and Miss Ladybird - who knows a few of the more refined movements, and uses them to good effect.
Of course, whatever the variation or form, the basics of ginjitsu must always be adhered to – the correct application of just the right amount of force to divert your opponents strike without breaking the gin bottle, using your opponents momentum against him/her, and most fundamentally: NO SPILLAGE!
I leave you with these words: “When you fight – let your opponent pass by you like gin flowing sweetly down your throat – when you hit his stomach – the gin should hit yours – and both of you will feel it in the morning.”