Made Up Band Names #1

Made Up Band Names #1

Yin Yang and the Tiddle Eyes
Bling Kidney and the Alpha Beetroot Gammons
Lauren and the Ipsums
Tron Bon Jovi in Binary-flat Major (no I don’t know either)
Trans-dimensional Trannies
Coma Delimited
Terry Tocororo and the Polymite Polymaths

Some (the more computer-orientated) were penned by James. Blame him. Now here’s some real music:

So You Think You’re Dieselpunk? Part 2

So You Think You’re Dieselpunk? Part 2

Here’s a quick update to post a few great links. Expect a list of Steampunk and Dieselpunk films, fiction and video games soon!

All about Dieselpunk and a Dieselpunk community: http://www.dieselpunks.org/

Check out “The Gatehouse” website (http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/dieselpunk.php) for a great section on Dieselpunk, with a historyon the sub-genre and a few short articles to give you a better picture.

The term “dieselpunk” was first coined to describe a darker, dirtier side of steampunk, informed by cyberpunk sensibilities, set in a post-steampunk era with a higher industrial level of development. Like steampunk colonizes the past of Victorian-Edwardian Scientific Romances and Voyages Extraordinaires with the present, dieselpunk transports modern-day technologies and attitudes into the era of mid-century pulp fiction—pulp refering to the inexpensive fiction magazines widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s, typically remembered for their sensational and exploitative stories and thrilling cover art.

Like steampunk exists within the framework of speculative fiction, dieselpunk resides under the banner of Pulp, specifically characterized by the rise of petroleum power and technocratic perception, incorporating neo-noir elements and sharing themes with Adventure Pulp.

Finally here’s a Facebook page to keep you updated on things Dieselpunk.

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