This is a marvelous opportunity to star in the upcoming music video for the Neon Highwire song “Bear At The Bus Stop” (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bear-at-the-bus-stop/id384570605?i=384570611).

We will be sorting out both the bear and the bus stop (and filming), but what we need from you is the visually weird and wonderful. Essentially, anything that doesn’t involve bears, bus stops or general bus stop attire is what we’re …looking for and we need as many people as possible to help out. Be who you want to be, do what you want to do, just do it on Saturday 25th September in London in front of a camera.

Bit vague, right? Well yes, intentionally so! To give you some ideas of the some examples that come to mind, we’re talking:

Dressing up as pirates and swordfighting.
A game of chess on a portable fold out table.
Look good in a tux? Strut!
Aerobics
Eating a cake with your bare (not bear) hands

As a thank you to all those who take part, there will be a thing afterwards with free beer, and everyone loves free beer, even bears.

Come along! Bring your friends! Jebus!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104258616302307

I’ve written an article about soundchecks for the fantastic online zine God Is In The TV.  It’s rambling, it’s full of hate and it could have done with more proof reading, much like myself.  Read it by clicking here.

Have you heard of Dragonette?  They are to dragons what A-Z is to Alphabs.  That’s right, they’re mucho goodo, unlike Coco Jamboo.

This Saturday, the first and only Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend, they will be playing a one-off London date at 93 Feet East on Brick Lane and (not-so coincidentally) so will we.  By we I mean Neon Highwire, not we as in urea.  That would require two e’s and when it comes to spelling I do not bluff.  Hey!  It’s Sergeant BulletPoints, everyone’s favourite military entity!

• This Saturday.
• 93 Feet East, London.
• Playing live.
• Buy tickets beforehand here: http://www.theplayground.co.uk/ticket/events.php?artist=DRAGONETTE
• You can probably turn up on the night and buy tickets on the door.  Remember to say to the robot on the door that you’re there to see us.
• Dancing.
• Two rooms.
• No Coco Jamboo.
• I’ve got a sore throat

By the way, you just lost the game.

If those bullet points are too intense for you, then you can learn betterer by watching this video involving talking bears.

Other than that, we’re hard at work on our next EP which may (won’t) feature songs with titles like

• Chris; Not Chris
• Sleepy Weasel
• Tear Along The Dotted Lime (Fruiticide)
• There’s No U In Coldharbour (Oh Wait)
• Glorious Victorious
• ID’d at 54

I’m sure there’s other stuff to mention too, but I’ve got a really sore throat, like one of those ones where every swallow hurts.  I tried to get an early night last night too, but alas I kept waking up with throat pain.  There’s more remixes and stuff like that at http://www.myspace.com/neonrewire.  We did a revamp of the Myspace page as Myspace changed everything, though by we I mean Luke did.

Here’s the upcoming gig list and associated links.

Saturday 28th August 2010

The Playground (Dragonette, Hooligan Night, Strangefruit, Dark Like Snow, Neon Highwire, Cinnamon Antics…)

93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

Tickets; Facebook; Last.FM

Friday 24th September 2010

Never Enough Notes Birthday (Fake Teak, Hot Beds, Neon Highwire)

The Camden Head, 2 Camden Walk, London, N1 8DY

Facebook; Last.FM

A minute without you by my side is a minute wasted,

Steve.

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Once again, I will be reading from one of my personal diaries from years gone by to a room full of strangers.  Once again, there will be no censorship, disclosing my chaotic ramblings with no consideration of the subsequent disgust others may subsequently feel for me.  Once again, I will start a sentence with the words “Once again”.

The last one was recorded for a segment on BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour and is to be featured in an article on the event for the next issue of the French glossy magazine Envy.  Merde.

OMFG!  We are playing at the Playground in just over 2 weeks!  I can’t bloody believe it, CAN YOU?  I hope you’ve got your tickets and dancing mullets at the ready.  Not convinced?  Ask these bears…

Union Square, The O2 Arena, Entertainment Avenue, Greenwich, London, SE10 0DX, 020 8305 4980.  Free entry and £2 a drink till 20:30 which is when we’re going on stage.  Perfect timing!  We’re playing, could be good, could be god awful, this place doesn’t believe in soundchecks apparently.  JOY!  It’s not like we have a convoluted stage set up reknowned for crashing out as a stray limb punts a midi controller across the stage or anything (P.S. we do, but I have resorted to using sarcasm, I know it’s lame).  As the sound is going to be unreliable I will promise to make the show one to remember in other ways.  If I can walk tomorrow, I will have failed.

August is the month of gigs.  Not Giggs, but gigs.  Not Greggs, but gigs.  Not wist are a great German band, you should check them out!

At the end of the month we shall be supporting the wonderful Dragonette on their only London date, so be sure to make your bank holiday a whole pile of awesome by buying some tickets here.  That’s right, Saturday 28th August, courtesy of the coolest promoters in all of London, yes, The Playground.  It’s going to be the perfect end to the summer, collective minds will be blown.

Live in Reading?  Live near Reading?  Like reading?  Otis Redding?  Saturday 7th August we’ll be playing at the Here Comes The Sun festival to raise funds for the Rising Sun Arts Centre.  It’s a breathtaking line up with UpCDownC, Ben Marwood, The Heartwear Process and MOAR!  It’s gonna be a fun packed day with dance, comedy, poetry, burgers, open studios, zombies, workshops, artwork, apocalypse, children’s fun, world food, lasers and a marketplace.

Also, if you like North Greenwich, domes and krispy kreme (it has nothing to do with donuts, but I like donuts, I wanna donut) then come to Union Square in the minellium dome on Thursday 5th August for a night of Electronica and dance music and cheap drinks offers with free entry.

Other than that, there’s Never Enough Notes birthday thing at the end of September, but that’s the end of September so a while yet.

I really want to eat some mushy peas right now, odd.  I don’t know how my brain has moved from donuts to mushy peas in such a short space of time.  Maybe I’m pregnant or just had a stroke.  Not that kind of stroke.  Unbelievable!

1. Like.  Jim’s remix is THE BALLS.

2. Tonight’s gig at Roadtrip was fun.

3. Steve was interviewed by BBC News yesterday as part of Conspiracy For Good.

4. Come to this event Monday night where  Steve will be reading from his personal diary from 1997, the peak of his adolescent, hormonal years.

That’s right party b1tches. You heard it was coming.
IT IS HERE.
What does Novelty Music Scene have to say about it? This:
“I’ll be honest, this is the hardest post-folktronica I’ve ever made. There was a point working on this I really felt the cyborg ghost of Neil Young looking over my shoulder as I was tweaking the compressors on the drop. That’s all I need. Get out of my personal space you phantasmagorical long haired bastard. You’re not even dead.”

It’s this kind of godhead defying attitude that makes it a good thing NMS mostly works in its bedroom, alone. We’re still glad it does.

ENJOY?

Neon Blink (Novelty Music Scene Remix) by NeonHighwire

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Borlls borlls borlls, footy footy footy.  Seriously, though, innit.  Yeah.  Week today.  We’re playing in London again.  Obviously I reckon it’ll be great, but it’s fairly obvious that my opinion is biased so I’ll leave it to famous stong–man Geoff Capes to give you a more authoritative opinion:

Geoff CAPS: “what/ Yeah alright, whatever Steven Morgan says is ture.  You gonna buy a Bigg Ishoo orwo’?”

Tell you what, here’s another Neon Blink remix for you to potentially enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/neonhighwire/neon-blink-inspiring-house-mix.  It’s also on http://www.myspace.com/neonrewire, but Myspace is sh%tontoast so what-the-unicorn-ever?  Yeah, you know, more remixes innit?  Like someone takes those source files and makes something new out of it.  Not like that, in fact, but actually that.  That’s what a remix is, see.  One thing though, and honestly, this is so exciting that I almost wanna create an animated flaming gif for its wonderfulness…

The forthcoming Novelty Music Scene remix of Neon Blink is so good that on first listen, I bit down on my teeth so hard I chipped a tooth.  It’s a small chip, but it’s amazing how weird it feels whilst your mouth aclimbatises to your new bite.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy it without this mouth based metamorphosis, but I’m gonna totally admit, it was worth it.  Honestly, keep your eyes open for that shizzle any day now, you’ll thank me.

So, if you want cheap entry on the gig next Saturday get in touch.  If you bag that shit early, you can LITERALLY get half price entry.  I’m gonna admit, I find that exciting.  If you don’t, then you evidently don’t have hernia inducing money problems and you can buy me drinks all night that night AND EVERY NI@GHT==; YOU CRUNT.  I’m looking at you, champagne boy.  Yes.

Other than that, Neon Blink is going to figure on another mountain biking video somewhere, I don’t quite get the association, but I ain’t arguing like innit like like.  That’s so vague I might as well have not even written it, but to be honest, these emails aren’t exactly concise or informative, so why change that?  I enjoy the hatemail YOU PRCK, YOU KNOW WHERE I LIVE, CM SAY HAAI!

This part is more important than the rest of it combined:

Saturday 17th July 2010

Andy Quirk’s Hits Of The Near Future (Hot Beds, Remodel, Neon Highwire & Well In Garden Settee)

The Workshop, under Roadtrip Bar, 243 Old Street, London, EC1V 9EY

Facebook; Last.FM

Saturday 7th August 2010

Here Comes The Sun (Neon Highwire & Ben Marwood & UpCDownC & The Heartwear Process…)

The Rising Sun Arts Centre, 30 Silverstreet, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 2ST

Facebook; Last.FM

Friday 24th September 2010

Never Enough Notes Birthday (Hot Beds, Neon Highwire & TBC)

It’s a shame that application took so long, I’ll admit I’m gutted, but fingers crossed it works out for you,

Steve

Neon Blink (inspiring house mix) by NeonHighwire