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With Thanks To

starRichard O'Brien

starTwentieth Century Fox UK / Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

starRocky Horror Company London Limited
Meryl Faiers, ATG and Company,
Christopher Luscombe and the entire stage company for the 2006/2007 tour
Christopher Malcolm and Nick Wakeham for previous UK tours

starSal Piro and all at the Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Club

starStephanie Freeman for the support and cups of tea

starAll at Shaun Webb Design for being fab!

starSite hosted by WebFusion Internet who are part of Pipex who used to be Nextra
which was the new name for CIX (Computer. Information. eXchange.)
All of them very nice people. A special thank you to Adrian Nelson at Pipex for all
his kind help with our domain name move in June 2005

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© Copyright / Privacy Notice

This site and it's contents, including all images, text and files are copyright of either TimeWarp Fan Club or credited authors. Please ask first if you wish to use our images or text.

No part of these pages may be reproduced without written permission from David or Stephanie Freeman at TimeWarp Fan Club. Or contact us via email here. If you want to use anything from this site, Please Ask first.

Fox logo used with permission of Twentieth Century Fox Ltd 'Lips' logo used with permission of the Official RHPS Fan Club. All other images are either original or used with express permission. The TimeWarp site will not be publishing any images without permission of the copyright owners.

Any personal information collected on this site, for example names and addresses for competitions, will be used only for the purpose stated. We will never pass on your details to a third party (unless clearly stated on a specific competition page). We will not send you unsolicited email at any time. Our mailing list now gives you the option to remove your own email address whenever you wish. Some areas of the site will use cookies to see if you are a returning visitor, the Chat Rooms and Forums for example. Your information is not used for any other purpose in these instances.

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The Site

Launched on the world wide web back in March 1997, this site has been created to spread the word about TimeWarp Fan Club and Rocky Horror in general. TimeWarp is the Official UK Rocky Horror Fan Club, that's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for those who aren't too sure on their geography.

The site caters for both Fans of The Rocky Horror stage show and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, as does the Fan Club. Most people like them both it seems, if you go by the Guest Book entries!

This Web Site in no way replaces the Fan Club newsletters, it is designed to add to the Rocky Horror experience, much more specific information is available for Fan Club members than will be placed on these pages. Fan Club members also get exclusive access to special offers and merchandise as well as the quarterly magazine that has been published since 1988. For information about the Fan Club hit this link to the Zen Room

Created with Microsoft Notepad TM - Really!The Site is constantly expanding and it was intended that there should be updates at least once a month. Updates have been at least weekly since 1998.

Get Firefox!Mozilla FireFox is our browser of choice although this site can be viewed with any browser that is HTML4 capable such as [Download Microsoft Explorer][Download Netscape]Netscape v4 and above or Internet Explorer version 4 and above. A screen resolution of at least 800 x 600 and 1000s of colours is also helpful. For the ultimate TimeWarp surfing experience make sure you enable Java and JavaScript to see and use the flashy bits such as the Fast Page Finder and make sure you have Shockwave Flash installed as a plug in for some of our games. Even if you have an earlier browser, as long as it supports tables, over 95% of the site will still work!


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The Authors

David Freeman

First saw the Rocky Horror Show back in 1985, and joined the 'Charming Underclothes' performance group at the Screen on Baker Street in London during their first months, back in the early days of 1988. He was a regular cast member for over eight years, performing in over 500 shows, more than anyone in the UK, a record that stands to this day. He retired from the group in June, 1996. He has been known to come out of retirement every now and then, including performing as Space Riff on the Friday night at the 25th Anniversary convention in Las Vegas in 2000. He emceed the Movie for well over five years (250+ shows) and was the last surviving member of the original Charming Underclothes Cast (from Baker Street) to retire from performing.

He married Stephanie Freeman the founder of TimeWarp Fan Club who he met at the Screen on Baker Street in 1990, their first son Dana was born April, 1996, followed by Illya in June, 2001. Stephanie's last performing cast show took place a day before she went into Labour with Dana (She played Betty Hapschatt, complete with real bump). Stephanie also came out of retirement to play Space Magenta at the Las Vegas 25th Anniversary Convention, again complete with (quite small at the time) pregnancy bump.

David co-hosted the Transylvania 1992, 1994 and 1999 UK Rocky Horror Conventions, still the three biggest UK Rocky Conventions with over 500 attendees at each one.

David is a Photographer and Technician, many of the photographs on this site have been taken by him and his work appears in both of Sal Piro's 'Creatures Of The Night' books as well as in many Rocky Horror related publications and web sites. There are even a couple of his Rocky Horror images in a movie! (Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream)

He also wrote the Text and Chapter Stops for the UK Laser Disc release of The Rocky Horror Picture Show released by Encore Entertainment (this was the only Laser Disc version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with 'Super Heroes' included in the film itself).

His interests aside from Rocky Horror include amongst others: film, music and 850 watts of home cinema gear (He has a very nice neighbour, so doesn't always turn the volume right up!). He also writes several other web sites apart from TimeWarp and is a consultant for many more, all the sites are written with Notepad, really!

If you are at a stage show in the UK you'll recognise him by his trademark green sequined jacket, do say Hi, he likes to find out what people think of this site and to chat about the wonderful world of Rocky.

His Lottery wins have not changed him, although he doesn't know quite what to do with the rest of his forty pounds (four lots of ten) yet.

His least favourite theatre is the Regent Theatre Ipswich.

Nik Rosser

Although Nik does not now have much to do with the day to day running of this site, his help in the setting up and early days was invaluable (that means I didn't pay him!)

Nik was a committee member for the Transylvania '92 and Transylvania '94 Official UK Rocky Horror conventions, where he also performed the Stage Management of the 1994 convention. He was once again a committee member for the 1999 convention, and did most of the photography on the day, uploading images to the Convention web site throughout the event.

I first met Nik way back in 1988 and we were both members of Charming Underclothes in that year, as was Stephen Edwards who is also a Transylvania Conventions Committee member. Nik works for a large computer corporation, and in his spare(?) time is a very active member of the Green Theatre Company.

He has performed sound design and operation for 'Yerma' and 'Connections' with the GTC, 'Twelve Angry Men' for the Teddington Theatre Club, and directed 'A Dangerous Business' for the GTC. His first stage appearance for the Green Theatre Company was as 'Martin' in a reprise of Chris Nash's 'Tout' performed in LJ's Theatre Bar, Kingston.

As for scandalous gossip, Nik has accidentally caused a Glasgow-wide terrorist alert with a props department gun, has been seen dressed as a banana while sporting black fishnet stockings in Piccadilly Circus tube station, and has had his hand down the back of Richard O'Brien's trousers, which he claims was something to do with a radio mike.

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Site Awards

Golden Lips AwardRocky Horror Site of the Month: November 1997, back in the early days of the site. We now have around a hundred times the content as well as a Search facility, Chat Rooms, Notice Board, Merchandise Section, etc.

We Scored: Content: 9 - Layout: 8 - Organization/Ease of Use: 8

Site Design AwardWe also got this award from Quatec.
"Your site was reviewed for originality, usefulness of information, graphic design, and was found to add an outstanding artistic flair, careful and concise design, and a wealth of information. Your site only enhances the originality of our internet community. Job well done!"

CM awardA Critical Mass Award no less!
"A very nice site, excellent design, clever original graphics, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. A worthy enterprise and a positive contribution to the Web."

Top SiteThank you for the Top Site award!
"Well done, a well written site with a great deal of original content for your target audience."


BossBoss Award
Not a site award as such, but Stephanie and I were very honoured and flattered to be given the Boss Award on stage at the Transylvania '99 Convention here in the UK. We've still got the award on the wall of the fan club office and it is one of our fave Rocky items. Thanks!


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Spam Emails faking a TimeWarp address?

If you've received a spam email or a virus laden file that says it comes from an @ timewarp.org.uk address then you haven't! A lot of virus/spam emails now fake the senders address, timewarp like many other sites have been a victim of this practice. We have NEVER sent out a spam message or virus laden file from our email system and the system has so many firewalls, virus scanners, etc. that it cannot. Anything spam with our doman name is a fake!

Have a look at the detailed header information on the email (the ip address is a givaway, even if the "Helo" is faked) and you will see that although the file is pretending to come from one site it is in fact sent from somewhere else, mostly from Korea and China it seems at the moment!

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Hit Counter

This site used to use a counter linked from the main title page, it recorded one 'hit' per visit, unlike some counters placed on other sites. As you can see from the table below, we have more visitors than ever showed on the counter, this is due to many people jumping into the site at an internal page such as the What's New page. Since Monday, June 13th, 2005 we have only used web server statistics as they are more accurate (The number of 'hits' , i.e. a request for any type of file, is over 18 million a year now). Nik Rosser calls people who like the following table 'Stat Sluts', cute eh! TimeWarp is now one of the top five most visited Rocky Horror web sites. Below are our past Web Statistics from our servers.


DateActual visitors for previous monthTotal visitors
2008
Tuesday, July 1st50,2272,480,609
Sunday, June 1st67,0052,430,382
Thursday, May 1st67,5112,363,377
Tuesday, April 1st50,5832,295,866
Saturday, March 1st50,0642,245,283
Friday, February 1st52,9672,195,219
Tuesday, January 1st49,7332,142,252

DateActual visitors for previous monthTotal visitors
2007
Saturday, December 1st40,9642,092,519
Thursday, November 1st61,1772,051,555
Friday, October 5th 11:45amMega Visitor landmark2,000,000
Monday, October 1st49,6351,990,378
Saturday, September 1st68,6691,940,743
Most VisitorsWednesday, August 1st95,9381,872,074
Sunday, July 1st78,0561,776,136
Friday, June 1st62,0051,698,080
Tuesday, May 1st45,4641,636,075
Sunday, April 1st72,3771,590,611
Thursday, March 1st47,2421,518,234
Thursday, February 15thVisitor landmark1,500,000
Thursday, February 1st57,5701,470,992
Monday, January 1st47,6681,413,422

DateActual visitors for previous monthTotal visitors
2006
Friday, December 1st63,8641,365,754
Wednesday, November 1st59,6551,301,890
Sunday, October 1st54,1951,242,235
Friday, September 1st40,9561,188,040
Tuesday, August 1st45,5091,147,084
Saturday, July 1st43,5311,101,575
Thursday, June 1st61,4381,058,044
Tuesday, May 2nd 9:57pmMega Visitor landmark1,000,000
Monday, May 1st52,078996,606
Saturday April 1st57,097944,528
Thursday, March 9thVisitor landmark900,000
Wednesday, March 1st37,693887,431
Wednesday, February 1st33,892849,738
Sunday, January 1st28,540815,846

DateSite Counter
No Longer Used
Counter +
No Longer Used
Actual visitors for previous monthTotal visitors
2005
Tuesday, December 13thVisitor landmark800,000
Thursday, December 1st
27,040787,306
Tuesday, November 1st
36,815760,266
Tuesday, October 25thVisitor landmark750,000
Saturday, October 1st
25,062723,451
Saturday, September 3rdVisitor landmark700,000
Thursday, September 1st
22,557698,389
Monday, August 1st
21,227675,832
The TimeWarp site moved to a new server on June 13th and we sttoped using the graphical counter. As web stats are the more accurate option that will be all that is now shown for our statistics. We also added several enhancements to the site around this time including our Forums, which have helped boost the number of visitors we get each month. Web Stats Unique Visitors Total for month of June is shown in brackets here.(16,559)654,605
Friday, July 1stFirst recorded unique visitor figures from PIPEX server June 14th - 30th10,567654,605
Monday, June 13thLast recorded unique visitor figures from CIX server June 1st - 13th5,992644,038
Wednesday, June 1st275,4662,31412,591638,046
Sunday, May 1st273,1522,14113,350625,455
Friday, April 1st271,0112,24615,358612,105
Monday, March 7thVisitor landmark600,000
Tuesday, March 1st268,7652,34413,864596,747
Tuesday, February 1st266,4212,05513,218582,883
Saturday, January 1st264,3661,87411,930569,665
2004
Wednesday, December 1st262,4922,41812,941557,735
Monday, November 1st260,0744,05515,021544,794
Friday, October 1st256,0192,74413,405529,773
Wednesday, September 1st253,2751,98611,609516,268
Sunday, August 1st251,2891,97412,728504,659
Thursday, July 22ndVisitor landmark500,000
Sunday, July 11th250,000Counter landmark
Thursday, July 1st249,3151,9299,503491,931
Tuesday, June 1st247,3862,49911,126482,428
Saturday, May 1st244,8872,66711,296471,302
Thursday, April 1st242,2203,14914,870460,006
Monday, March 1st239,0713,59017,351445,136
Sunday, February 1st235,4813,13512,392427,785
Thursday, January 1st232,3463,14211,269415,393
2003
Monday, December 1st229,2044,74913,061404,124
Monday, November 17thVisitor landmark400,000
Saturday, November 1st224,4557,81817,541391,063
Wednesday, October 1st216,6375,70413,902373,522
Monday, September 1st210,9333,79810,363359,620
Friday, August 1st207,1354,30811,404349,257
Tuesday, July 1st202,8275,56911,596337,853
Sunday, June 15th200,000Counter landmark
Sunday, June 1st197,2585,82312,221326,257
Thursday, May 1st191,4355,10611,179314,036
Tuesday, April 1st186,3295,23311,070302,857
Saturday, March 22ndVisitor landmark300,000
Saturday, March 1st181,0964,85412,094291,787
Saturday, February 1st176,2425,47110,469279,693
Wednesday, January 1st170,7714,0557,487269,224
2002
Sunday, December 1st166,7166,73911,117261,737
Friday, November 1st159,9778,83912,247250,620
Tuesday, October 1st151,1385,0318,305238,373
Sunday, September 1st146,1073,4286,857230,068
Thursday, August 1st142,6793,2107,001223,211
Monday, July 1st139,4692,5466,087216,210
Saturday, June 1st136,9232,8896,810210,123
Wednesday, 1st May134,0342,9076,758203,313
Sunday, 14th AprilVisitor landmark200,000
Monday, 1st April131,1273,4886,851196,555
Friday, 1st March127,6393,2687,668189,704
Friday, 1st February124,3713,0486,129182,036
Tuesday, 1st January121,3232,3985,431175,907
2001
Saturday, 1st December118,9253,6857,300170,476
Thursday, 1st November115,2404,5187,621163,176
Monday, 1st October110,7222,2504,900155,555
Saturday, 1st September108,4722,2775,065150,655
Wednesday, 1st August106,1952,2424,867145,590
Sunday, 1st July103,9532,4845,038140,723
Friday, 1st June101,4692,7665,495135,685
Thursday, 17th May100,000Counter landmark
Tuesday, 1st May98,7032,8825,408130,190
Sunday, 1st April95,8213,1915,429124,782
Thursday, 1st March92,6303,5086,047119,353
Thursday, 1st February89,1223,2974,734113,306
Monday, 1st January85,825 2,6324,301108,572
2000
Friday, 1st December83,193 2,7515,311104,271
Saturday, 4th NovemberVisitor landmark100,000
Wednesday, 1st November80,442 5,1476,95098,960
Sunday, 1st October75,295 3,0974,81892,010
Friday, 1st September72,198 2,9014,32487,192
Saturday, 1st August69,297 3,3414,56682,868
Saturday, 1st July65,956 3,1884,34278,302
Thursday, 1st June62,768 3,0384,12873,960
Monday, 1st May59,730 2,7333,62169,832
Saturday, 1st April56,9973,4344,260 66,211
Wednesday, 1st March53,5632,7863,768 61,951
Tuesday, 1st February50,7772,4663,45558,183
Saturday, 1st January48,3112,3313,10854,728
1999
Wednesday, 1st December45,9802,9004,49951,620
Monday, 1st November42,9904,1204,45747,121
Friday, 1st October38,8702,5373,06343,001
Wednesday, 1st September36,3331,7772,42139,938
Sunday, 1st August34,5561,8482,41437,517
Thursday, 1st July32,7082,0172,32835,103
Tuesday, 1st June30,6912,148 2,63432,775
Sunday, 2nd May28,543 2,361 2,96630,141
Thursday, 1st April26,182 2,156 2,77427,175
Tuesday, 2th March24,0261,3291,70424,401
Tuesday, 9th February22,6971,966
Tuesday, 12th January20,7312,281
1998
Tuesday, 1st December18,4501,950Stats from
CIX server
were not
started
until Feb 99
when our
URL relocated
Monday, 2nd November16,5002,011
Thursday, 1st October14,4891,336
Thursday, 3rd September13,153944
Saturday, 1st August12,2091,325
Wednesday, 1st July10,8841,200
Monday, 1st June9,6841,541
Friday, 1st May8,1431,195
Wednesday, 1st April6,948 1,154
Sunday, 1st March5,794892
Sunday, 1st February4,902736
Sunday, 4th January4,166579
1997
Saturday, 6th December3,5871,260
Saturday, 1st November2,327264
Saturday, 4th October1,483732
Sunday, 7th September883540
Sunday, 17th August343343
Friday, 1st August00

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