Wildilocks is just brimming over with busy-ness of late, with all salons heavily booked and with a whole lot of new faces lately, and we expect many more in the upcoming months. Welcome! We’ve had lots of new stock and increasing amounts of vintage focused clients, which leads me to today’s post.

Melbourne has it’s very own Vintage Fair happening this weekend! Organised by Sydney Vintage Clothing fair’s Janel Morrissey, 50 exhibitors from all over Australia will be gathering at the Exhibition Hall at the Melbourne Showgrounds from 5.30 tonight and all day Saturday and Sunday.

Janel’s Sydney fair is reputed to be the best in Oz – a true vintage event with people dressing up, dancing, hair and make up tutorials, talks and presentations and fashion parades. At 12.30pm on Saturday, Nicole Jenkins, proprietor of Circa Vintage Clothing in Fitzroy Melbourne and author of Love Vintage will present a parade of vintage fashions from the 1920s to 1970s featuring swimwear, day wear, evening wear and ballgowns. Cass Edwards, owner of Wildilocks, will be on hand to assist with hair wrangling too. An event not to be missed!

See the event website for more information – and the basic details are below. Hope to see you there!

What: Melbourne Vintage Clothing, Jewellery and Textiles Show
When: 5.30-9pm Friday May 27th, 9.30am-5.30pm Saturday May 28th, 10am-4pm Sunday May29th
Where: Exhibition Hall, Melbourne Showgrounds, Ascot Vale.
Cost: Adults $14, Pensioner $10, Children 10-16yrs $5, Under 10yrs free, Family $30

Hey folks,

We have put up our first daily deal for Melbourne! We had SUCH an overwhelming response to our Perth deal which sold out 1000 deals in less than 5 hours! that we’ve had to put a few restrictions on this one and have not put it up as a main deal so we don’t have such a crazy response; no Saturday or late night appointments, and the limit is much lower as we have less capacity in our Melbourne salon as we are already very booked up and have slightly lower staff levels than normal at the moment. But Melbourne has been asking, so we will deliver!

Jump in while you can! It’s live for 24 hours only, or until SOLD OUT!

http://www.scoopon.com.au/deals/2859/just-49-for-a-massive-hair-care-package-worth-420-in-the-cbd

Wow, Wellington has been going crazy!!! We are booked out for almost a month in advance for ALL days, so please be patient in booking – remember vouchers are valid for 6 months. Keep an eye out in Perth and Melbourne for deals coming soon – to Perth first, as Perth has been the most vocal on Twitter! Follow @wildilocks on Twitter to get all the news first, and most often! But on to more pressing news:

EASTER HOLIDAY HOURS: Please note we will be closed for Easter Friday AND Easter Saturday this year, and reopening on Tuesday 26th April as usual.

NEW REGULAR OPENING HOURS: Also, as we are coming to the change in seasons, we have decided to change our opening hours at two of our salons. Perth will be moving to identical opening hours as our Melbourne salon, and Wellington will be opening one hour later on Tues-Fri, as we have been receiving many more after-hours requests here than our Aussie salons. For your information our new regular opening hours are below, as well as on our main page on wildilocks.com, as always.

Wildilocks @ BASE108

108 Barrack St [between Murray St & Wellington St – almost on the corner of Murray: you can see us from the end of the Murray St Mall, and we are almost across from Off ya Tree] Perth 6000 Western Australia

Phone:
+61 [08] 9221 6864

Opening Hours:
Tuesday – 10am – 5pm
Wednesday – 10am – 5pm
Thursday – 10am – 7pm *NOTE NEW HOURS as of 07/04/2011
Friday – 10am – 7pm *NOTE NEW HOURS as of 08/04/2011
Saturday – 10am – 5pm

Wildilocks @ The LockWorks

Level 1, 382 Little Collins St
[between Elizabeth & Queen Sts, entrance on McKillop St, opposite The Haunted Bookshop] Melbourne 3000 Victoria, Australia

Phone:
+61 [03] 9642 3384

Opening Hours:

Tuesday – 10am – 5pm
Wednesday – 10am – 5pm
Thursday – 10am – 7pm
Friday – 10am – 7pm
Saturday – 10am – 5pm

Wildilocks @ Cuba

225 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand
(just up from Vivian St, next to Cafe Italiano and opening partly into the foyer of the Quality Comfort Hotel).

Phone:
+64 [04] 803 3239

Opening Hours: *NOTE NEW HOURS as of 05/04/2011 for Tues-Fri:

Tuesday – 11am – 6pm
Wednesday – 11am – 6pm
Thursday – 11am – 8pm (by appointment)
Friday – 11am – 8pm (by appointment)
Saturday – 10am – 5pm

All the donations that have been pouring from all over the world to Christchurch have been truly amazing: there has been over $10 million dollars donated to the Red Cross, as well as countless other drives.

Our NZ branch has been trying to think of a way we can help that is more personal, as we’re up in Wellington where life has been going on pretty much as usual. So, if you’ve arrived in Welly some time in the last week as a refugee from Christchurch, we’d like to help you get a little bit of normal back in your lives, by offering you a free haircut. It’s only a little thing, but we hope it may help a few of you who’ve been suddenly displaced and wondering what to do next.

Please call 04 8033239 to make a booking, and we apologise for the necessity but we will need to see proof of address as this is an offer for genuine Christchurch resident refugees only.

Thankyou to all customers and suppliers who have expressed their concern over the past week. We will be observing 2 minutes silence today @ 12.51pm for those affected by #eqnz : we hope you are too, wherever you are in NZ or the world.

Wildilocks’ presence in New Zealand is approaching a year now, and it’s been a crazy busy one with moving our Perth salon in October/November and then running Euchronia in December last year in Melbourne, too! 2011 got off to a crazy start for Australia, with floods, cyclones and the ever-present bushfires, it’s been a hard slog for many in Oz over the past couple of months, let alone the rest of the world. New Zealand had been relatively unscathed in comparison: until two days ago. I just want to reassure those of you who may not know New Zealand well, Wellington where we are is a long way from Christchurch, but we have friends down there (and just about everyone in New Zealand seems to know someone in Christchurch) and wish to send all the love we can to the people suffering there right now. This is the first time ever that New Zealand has declared a national state of emergency – yes, it’s bad. Very bad.

A friend of mine and Regional Burning Man rep, Mark Stirling, sent a message out last night with some useful information regarding the quake, which with his permission I’d like to share with those of you who may have questions, as his message answers a lot.

Mark writes:

“At this time I would normally write a note to you all about the great event of Kiwiburn, and the excitement of an upcoming Decom. While this is indeed worthwhile talking and thinking about, I thought it appropriate to instead take off my “Kiwiburn regional hat ” and briefly put on my “daytime job hat” to talk about our devastating Christchurch earthquake of yesterday (I am an earthquake scientist at GNS Science). Many of you have been emailing and texting me with questions about the earthquake, and those of you overseas have also been sending your concerned thoughts (thank you very much). Here are answers to some common questions that have come up:

– The earthquake was an aftershock of the Sept 2010 magnitude 7.1 earthquake. It is typical for the largest aftershock to be about 1 magnitude unit less than the mainshock, so yesterdays M6.3 event was about the right size for the largest aftershock. The quake was much closer to Christchurch, and shallower than the Sept 2010 quake, which is why it caused so much damage. We know it is an aftershock as it is within the zone of aftershocks from the 2010 quake, and it has happened less than a year after the mainshock ( a year is short in seismology terms). We expect aftershocks to continue for some time yet, but don’t have any numbers on this as yet.

– Anything you hear about the Canterbury quakes being the start of an “earthquake cascade” up and down NZ should be taken with less than a grain of salt. There are no statistically valid findings that show this is going to happen. Any kind of earthquake forecast or prediction methodology has to be thoroughly reviewed and tested many times over before it can be taken seriously. Just remember though, that NZ is an active country in nearly every way, and we should be prepared for anything. Earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanoes and tsunamis. Find out more about where you live.

– In terms of our earthquake hazard estimates for the country (my main field of work when I am not overseas!), the strong earthquake ground shaking in yesterdays quake was equivalent to what we would expect for CHCH on average about once every 10000 years. Unfortunately this very rare strong shaking happened in our lifetime, and in fact in our civilisation! There is plenty of evidence as to the rarity of this shaking in the CHCH area. Not only the 100-plus year old CHCH Cathedral received the worst damage ever, but features like the old abandoned seacliffs in the Sumner/Redcliffs area have been majorly damaged for the first time since they were formed thousands of years ago.

– The liquefaction mainly happens where sandy/muddy materials have a high water table, and the shaking causes the materials to lose their internal tension and turn into flowing, bubbling liquid. Much of CHCH is on liquefiable materials, particularly in the eastern parts of the city.”

If you’d like to help, there are a number of ways to do so from outside New Zealand, where I imagine the majority if you reading this are. Links are below:

Donate to the Red Cross in New Zealand (if you can get through: site has been very overloaded, there is an alternative site c/o GrabOne here), in Australia and in the UK too.

For up to date information see:

Crowd sourced map of current situation and activities

Earthquake Information

Civil Defence information. Very informative.

Christchurch, our thoughts are with you.

Wildilocks HOLIDAY TRADING HOURS

Please note Wildilocks has some altered trading times for the holidays…

Wildilocks @ BASE108 will be OPEN THIS SUNDAY 19th December from 10am – 5pm so you can get that last minute shopping in!

Wildilocks @ Cuba will be CLOSED early this Saturday 18th December from 2pm, and also closed Tuesday 21st December, but will be open normal hours on 22nd – 24th December.

ALL salons will close early at 5pm on Friday 24th December.
ALL salons will be closed Saturday 25th December.
ALL salons will be closed Tuesday 28th December.
ALL salons will close early at 5pm on Friday31st December.
ALL salons will be closed Saturday 1st January, 2011.
Normal shop opening hours will resume on Tuesday, 4th January!

We also have had tons of new stock arrive over the last few months, especially lovely vintage style dresses, tops and swimwear – plus new steampunk & rave gear. Special Effects are back in stock for MOST colours too! Grab a prezzie for someone special or some new gear for the party season, we look forward to seeing you over the next few weeks and into 2011!

It is with very great pleasure that we can finally announce a major update to the Euchronia bill, and reveal our new poster (click for large version) – which has a fantastic story of its own involving death-defying feats with Tesla Coils c/o the very talented Peter Terren of Tesla Down Under! But that’s a longer story, and deserves an entire post of its own — which we shall bring you very soon, but not today. Today is dedicated to our exciting new international and interstate attractions!

UNDERBELLY DANCER – MELUSINA

Firstly, we would like to introduce the very lovely Melusina, a star dancer and teacher with Underbelly, Victoria’s premiere Bellydance school and highly recommended by one of our star acts from 2008, Ma’isah of Raqs Gothique. Read more about Melusina here.

IVIZIA [USA]

Secondly, we are very excited to add to our bill a stunning lass from California, USA – the very talented Ivizia who specialises in awesome fire performance. Read more about Ivizia here.

DIJ DIJOR [SYD]

Fresh from The Steampunk Symposium as part of the Under the Blue Moon festival in Sydney earlier this year, Gentleman Adventurer, Stewart Rule & steampunk maker, Sir Dij Dijor brings to Euchronia a selection of his finest contraptions and inventions for your wonderment and awe. Delight in witnessing the awesome Time Machine! Thrill to the power of the Proto Plasmic Wave Blaster!

DR VELLOCET and his POLYPLASMIC ARCOPHONE (featuring “ELECTRA”)

Joining us from the wilds of Western Australia is the very dapper Dr Vellocet and his Polyplasmic Arcophone (Featuring “Electra”). The arcophone is a feat of science, melding electrical energy with sound! Read and see more about the Arcophone at The Artifactory website here.

SFORZANDO

And finally for this announcement, the return performance of the fantastic SFORZANDO, the 8-piece pirate punk extravaganza whose 2008 Euchronia set blew the audience away. In their words:

“SFORZANDO follow the three ancient rules of piracy.

SFORZANDO intend to steal steampunks to work on their pirate ship ‘The Evil Betty’. You have been warned.”

Steampunks, beware indeed!

For more about any of the acts in the lineup, including DJs and everything else on offer (and there’s more to come!) please head to the Acts & Attractions page on euchronia.com.

Tana Karo will, unfortunately, not be performing at Euchronia.

Euchronia is still seeking submissions for….

The Artisans’ Bazaar

We have spaces for several stalls at the bazaar, if you are interested in selling your wares, please check out the Bazaar page for more information and an application form.

Art Exhibition

Have some steamy Object’s D’Art you’d like to exhibit at Euchronia? Contact Antipodean Maker extraordinaire Mad Uncle Cliff with your details on !

Excited yet? Do you have your tickets yet?

TICKETS!

If you don’t, you can grab them on the euchronia.com website ticket page, Tickets, at all Wildilocks stores (Melbourne, Perth and Wellington) and, within the next few days, at these new ticketing outlets:

• Of Science & Swords – specialist fantasy bookshop, 359 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
• Peril Underground – alternative store, Basement 17 – 19 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

and also shortly through www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on your mobile www.moshtix.mobi, and all moshtix outlets! (Please note you won’t get the very special Euchronia tickets that many lovingly souvenir through this outlet, but if it’s hard for you to get to our other outlets, there are over 100 Moshtix locations throughout Australia!)

Tickets are still available at the pre-release price of $55 when purchased with an ALTV membership, available only from euchronia.com or Wildilocks. Please read more on the Tickets page. We’re also happy to offer discounted tickets for groups of 10 or more booking together; please email for more information.

Stuck for ideas on what to wear? We’ve updated our What to Wear page too, and welcome suggestions for more.

Look out for more from us very shortly. Huzzah!