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1More than anything else, except perhaps their music, Abney Park is famous for their onstage screw-ups. In fact, it is generally considered an undeniable truth of {{steampunk}} venues that something will break down, give out, fall apart, distort, backfire, ignite, explode, or generally mess things up during the Abney Park set.
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3* From their Creator/G4TV special: "Is that on fire? I'm not wearing that if it's on fire... It's smoking, that means it's on fire."
4* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAwtpCLqQcI "PARKING METER!" "SPANDEX!!!"]]
5* At one concert, Captain Robert's microphone handle snapped -- in the middle of "Aether Shanties," right on the cue of "The ropes creaking, ship's leaking, sails are on fire / And this whole bloody ship could go up like a pyre". And, well...
6-->"We're giving a steampunk concert. And ''no one'' has a screwdriver?"
7* At a convention where some badge ribbons had been given out (one of them said Accordion Hero) the Captain's accordion strap broke.
8-->"Room full of steampunks and nobody has duct tape? Now is not a great time for the 'Accordion Hero' award."
9* Their remedy to a classic onstage mishap: When the lead singer screws up, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bloSdPhViVE blame the]] [[NobodyLovesTheBassist bass player]].
10** From the same show:
11-->'''Robert''': Here's another point about my life: Nathan's a really nice guy. He's not always right -- but he's always really effin' nice.
12* At [=DragonCon=] 2009 they attempted to play the classic flying-car song: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." After two false starts, they stumble through it, ending more or less on their feet, until their violinist goes up to a microphone and says: "What could we possibly play after ''that?!''
13** There was also the mid-song banter between Captain Robert and Jody:
14--->'''Robert''': "We've only practiced this song once."\
15'''Jody''': "That's one more time than we practiced the rest of the songs."
16*** At least they got it right at the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDTdReXW9po World Steam Expo]].
17* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWTQ5y9oziA music video for their cover of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"]]. The look alone of it is rather humorous as we see the good Captain DrivingADesk, apparently pursued by his bandmates firing lasers, bazookas, Tesla coils and exploding barrels at each other, only for the reveal of it to be a race at the video's end. A race that nobody won because the judges disqualified ''everyone'' for cheating.
18* And who can forget the "Airship Pirate" fiasco -- the night Captain Robert forgot the lyrics to their most famous song: "Airship Pirate."
19** The song itself is this. We get the build up of the pirate airship attacking another ship, they got the other ship tethered, they board it... and the only thing they find is nuns and orphans. Captain Robert's crew promptly leaves.
20*** Even funnier when you take another song, "The Ballad of Captain Robert", into account, and realize that it's really not uncommon for their luck.
21* "Those of you who saw the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU93GzhFas epic hungover "Rainbow Connection" performance,]] treasure it, 'cause it'll never happen again."
22* At one concert, Robert related the story of one time when he accidentally hit himself in the head with his drum mid-song during rehearsal. Cue Nathaniel playing sappy music on his violin to accompany Robert's tale of woe.
23-->'''Robert''': Are they buying it?
24-->'''Nathaniel''': *(pauses, then starts playing "The Irish Washerwoman")*

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