that's an awesome name for a band. i'll be sure to check them out.

I'm not sure how the Steampunk aesthetic would even translate into a musical genre. Although, some of the instrument modding they do is undeniably cool.

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Hell yeah, I love how the tubes glow blue when its plugged in. Yeah, I agree it is kinda weird how that goes. The opening track for Abney Park's Lost Horizons is about being Airship Pirates in a Steampunk world. I guess they figure, hey, this needs some associative music act with steampunk theme/dress and lets see what comes up and becomes popular for steampunk because the music genre is still pretty hazy.

I'm well aware of Steampunk as primarily a literary genre slipping into computer and tabletop roleplaying games and movies etc. from there, but I haven't heard any attempts at making it a music genre yet.

My main exposure to steam punk has been through the tabletop roleplaying game Castle Falkenstein .. Some brilliant source books came with that one, like Leonardo DaVinci's sketch book containing lost sketches and other books with steampunk inventions like gigantic zeppelins looking like oil rigs suspended under giant balloons and doomsday machines for causing earthquakes. Worth checking out for those who like that sort of thing. :D

When I was younger, I drew my own steampunk doomsday machines (running on steam of course), I never got around to actually building one.

Errrr...... so perhaps the UK punk scene wasn't really based around Malcolm McLarens clothes shop then? Or the US one based around the New York Dolls transvestite tendencies around the same time or earlier?

Jog on lad.

Steampunk literature and media is pretty awesome but most of the people who really enjoy it are kind of lame.

Not a big fan of Dr. Steel, but I'd probably like him more if his fans weren't so silly.

babygiraffes, i couldn't have said it better myself.