The London Vampyre Group is a society for anyone who wants to join with an interest in all things Vampyric and incorporates the Gothic and Alternative genres.
The LVG organise various parties and events and also meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at The Plough, Museum street, London.
The next meeting will be held on Thursday June 11th. Click here for meeting details. Join our email list (see box top right) to receive email updates of events and happenings.
Voyage To The Underworld
The London Vampyre Group and The Vampyre Connexion summer event - Voyage To The Underworld. More info coming soon - click the flyer above for details. Tickets now available online to purchase via PayPal click here!.
True Blood - UK
We previewed it a while back in The Chronicles, and now True Blood from HBO (Sopranos, Dead Wood, Carnivale), the best vampire show in years has finally made it over to the UK. FX channel are showing it with the first episode premiering on July 17th. LVG committee members have already been lucky enough to see the whole of the first season and we can vouch for the quality - it's superb. As the say down in the bayou "Everyone should have sex with a vampire once before they die".
Check out the clip below for a preview, the website for the town of Bon Temps where True Blood is set and look out for some LVG True Blood tie ups coming soon!
Sin In The City
The London Vampyre Group "Sin In The City" was a great success - the walk and pub crawl around seedy Covent Garden and St Giles featured a colourful and informative talk by Paul Reid included stories of Crime, Prostitution Murder and Sex.
The motley crue that attended pictured above (click image to embiggen) - look out for a follow up in the summer - a big thanks to Paul for his hard work and raconteurship!
Saturnalia - A Feast For Fools
Challenging the establishment and our imagination with his first exhibition since 'Pandemonium' took us all on a fantastic and unforgettable journey.
'Saturnalia: A Feast for Fools'
will be held at the legendary London home for the subversive and the controversial art form, 'The Horse Hospital'.
More at DarkBlackArt.com
"Beyond the bridge between the realm of reality and magic exists a world of appearances that is only accessible by those select few MASTERS whose faculties subordinate the conventional means of ordinary man.
STEVEN MITCHELL is one of these MASTERS!"
Keith Wigdor 'Surrealism Now'
The 2009 Anti-Valentines Party was a great success - many beautiful people attended, all dressed to impress - not least the good looking fellow above. There
are five galleries of photos here, or click on the Demon above to access them. Once there, click on an image to zoom in, click on the background outside the image to zoom back out. Alternatively you can find Flickr Set of all the pictures here.
Wave Gotik Treffen 2009
WGT 2009, Leipzig, Germany: The largest alternative festival in the world takes place this year on 29th of May - 1st of June 2009. Checkout the WGT Website for full details. Many LVG members attend this every year - a gallery of photos from last year cam be found right here.
"Like every year on Whitsun the Wave-Gotik-Treffen (the 18th!) will take place in Leipzig /
Germany from 29th of May to 1st of June. Since many years the Treffen is celebrated as a big
gathering of the “dark family”. It is the biggest gathering of its kind worldwide.
All over the city there will be more than 150 bands, projects and single artists, performing on about
20 stages. The events take place for instance in the vaults of the Moritzbastei, in the splendid neoantique
cupola hall of the Volkspalast, in the crypt of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal, a famous
monument of the battle of 1813, as well as in large concert halls.
The inhabitants of Leipzig are familiar with the Treffen since 17 years - the gothic guests are
welcome. The most fascinating thing during the Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the unique atmosphere that
covers the whole city. Gothics from all over the world are celebrating their gathering peacefully and
with relish, turning Leipzig into a diverse black.
Once a year about twenty thousand Gothics are coming home: to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen."
Each month we'll be featuring an interview with either a new member or one of the more established members of the group. This month meet Claire Freebury...
A new episode of the Dead Channel previews Franklyn (below), Alice In Wonderland (Johnny Depp),
Repo! The Genetic Opera, Lesbian Vampire Killers and many more - find it in the Reviews section.
We'll be featuring reviews of gothic or vampire-related films, programmes, music, gigs and books, so if you have any reviews, please mail them to the LVG secretary
Blood Bar
A new vampire novel, available on Amazon now, by an associate of the LVG - Synopsis:
"Vampires are real...yet, on the brownstone back alley side streets of New York, a vampire dies. Desperate, his lover turns to Kim Bennett, author Norm Applegate’s quintessential heroine whose passion for S&M led to celebrity status as a hell-and-back murder mystery sleuth who’s been there, done that, and then some. This time, Kim finds herself caught between a secret vampire society’s attempts to locate The Black Testament (a sacred document written by Jack the Ripper), the modern-day vampire hunters bent on their destruction, and a white knuckled journey of self-discovery that catapults her into the bowels of hell and the arms of the ultimate vampire.......courtesy of The Haven, New York’s ultimate BLOOD BAR."
Finally some photos from WGW October '08 which several LVG members attended - there
are three sets of photos altogether, click on the thumbnails below to get to
each set - once there, click on an image to zoom in, click on the background
outside the image to zoom back out.
The photos from the last party are now up - this time I've decided to try a new viewer - so there
are three sets of photos altogether, click on the thumbnails below to get to
each set - once there, click on an image to zoom in, click on the background
outside the image to zoom back out.
If it bleeds, it leads - Real journalism and media hypocrisy
It's not all Fun and Games - 25 downsides to being Goth ( - 0nly 25?)
Steampunk - what's that all about? - Outlined by an advocate
Hallowe'en - the Dark Side - An opinion
Goths -they just wear black, don't they?-Rosie Lugosi shows us how it can be done
Release the Horrorhound - Looking at the US horror convention
London's Burning - The fire in Camden
The Bats of Britain - What you can find in the UK
Make your own bats Scissors and glue ready!
Goth Craft - how can this be? - A Gothic perspective
The TSD Meeting May 2008 - A convention in Bucharest
Ship Ahoy - Vampirates party
The Legend of Simon Magus - Faust's alternative
Culling Cupid - An alternative approach to St Valentine's Day
LVG Badges
New LVG badges have arrived! Black and silver enamel - top quality LVG merchandise
can be found on the Market page or
use the PayPal buttons below (prices include P&P).
LVG Enamel Badge £1.95 (Members)
LVG Enamel Badge £2.50 (Non-Members)
Art Wanted
Any Alt / Gothic Artists out there? At our events, we have and will be continuing to, display the work of alternative / Gothic artists. We are looking for more for our future events - so if you're artistically inclined and wish to display your art at our events, let us know!
