Last Saturday Iain and I headed over to the Subaquatic Steampunk Weekend at the Submarine Museum in Gosport. This was our first steampunk event that we have visited as a couple, so we were very excited about being able to dress up.

We started off our day by watching Victor and The Bully play their set, which we really enjoyed. We hadn't heard of Victor and The Bully prior to getting a flyer for the event but we checked them out on Youtube and really enjoyed their sound.



Here's a song we particularly like, called "The Devil's Got My Soul". Not all of their music has quite such an electroswing sound to it but it's all good, and you know I love me some electroswing anyway!


We also had the opportunity to see Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, whom some of you may have already heard of due to his also being known amongst the vintage community. Mr. B does "Chap-hop", which is sort of a Hip Hop parody (in this case played on a banjolele). If you enjoy Mr. B, you may also like Professor Elemental.



I think Mr. B was probably my favourite bit of our day out. He's very funny in between songs, not to mention his songs themselves are amusing. It's hard to choose a favourite song of his to show you (I strongly recommend checking him out on Youtube) but here is an acid house remix which was phenomenal:


We also had a great time looking round all the vendors. I didn't take many photos at all of the shopping (sadly really, because there was some wonderful stuff for sale). We both could have spent a lot of money but in the end we only came away with a top hat for Iain's costume. I also didn't take very many pictures of the other steampunks because I am always too shy to ask if I can take people's pictures, but if you are at all interested in steampunk I recommend having a look at other people's photos from the event on Flikr as there were some absolutely incredible costumes.











As for our own outfits, we did put them together on rather a tight budget but I think overall we did pretty well.We will both be upgrading these over time, but as with dressing in vintage clothing, it's something that you need to slowly build up and add to as you find pieces in the right style and size. I love a good charity shop scavenge, it's all part of the fun.














We were also captured a few times by other photographers. These first ones are by Steve Spurgin.









And this last couple are by Ross Underwood.