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Interview on Banana Peel Radio

Luke Fussell — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:55:30 +0000

Want to hear me waffling on Canadian radio? I thought so. Well now you can!

On Saturday night I spoke to Jeffrey Rubin from Banana Peel Radio. He is a lovely chap and didn’t even call me a knob or anything. Check it out by clicking on THIS DELICIOUS LINK.

I am too embarassed to listen to it (I’m a shy one, as you know), so please let me know how it went using a carrier pigeon as usual (not a career pigeon – they are too expensive). Check out my the ident I did for them too…

TIDY

Gig of the Day on Amazing Radio

Luke Fussell — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:01:36 +0000

Tomorrow night’s gig at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane is to be the featured “gig of the day” on Amazing Radio tomorrow! Make sure you tune in on your DAB tomorrow or click here at 1pm to hear one of our tracks and some info about the gig.
If you’re one of those people who has a job, why not use the Rewind function on the site to find out what you missed.

Tomorrow night’s gig will be our last for a while as we are retreating to a fall-out bunker in the former Soviet Union for a few months to fashion some new tunes out of naught but turnips and Communist rhetoric. It’s going to be big, so make sure you head down. It’s bloody free entry! What else are you gonna do for free, eh?!

Peas out.

Feature in Longe Magazine

Steven Morgan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:04:31 +0000

What the hell is Longe magazine? I don’t know, I had a quick scan through after the email and it looks like a badly thought through shower of shit. I mean, sure, it seemed like a funny idea when building the house to have the water supply for the shower come directly from the sess pit, but to live with that on a day to day basis, or use it as a legitimate method of cleaning yourself? That’s just plain naive.

Anyway, you can see our nonsensical feature which just copies and pastes our old biography here: http://bit.ly/neonlonge. We’re on page 41 to the right of the advert for webmastercopy.com. I have a cold, by the way, hence the grumplestiltskin attitude. I’ve had it for like a week now and it is SO boring.

Sustain this!

Luke Fussell — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:07:41 +0000

With the general erection looming over us like Burt Reynolds in a cock-shaped bi-plane, we realised that it was time to get political. FEAR NOT: we have not turned into soul destroying, hypocritical fuckwarts like U2 or that hairy one off live aid, but hopefully you may just learn something about the world we live in.
The first video “sustain this” is jam-packed with juicy shizzle to lather you up into a political and panda-shaped frenzy. Why not see for yourself, here:

Out Of The 100, Yours Was Definitely The Best

Steven Morgan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:42:25 +0000

Skip This Bit If You Have No Soul

Man, my song titles are so awesome. It’s like I just think of this shizzle all the time, like I’m made of magic haribo or something. The way I see it, we should write our album around the following list of song names. I’ve done the hard work coming up with this list, the other two can do all the recording and I’ll sit at the side and criticise. ”YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG JIM! DO IT AGAIN BUT WITH MORE GOOD.”

1. Sidechaining Your Sox Groans To My Station Exx

2. I Don’t Think You Should Have Done That, Reginald (Part II)

3. I Don’t Think You Should Have Done That, Reginald (Part IV)

4. ^ Scat

5. I Didn’t Want Your Stupid Chair Anyway

6. Aerosmith On The Bus

7. I Only Like People Who Laugh At My Jokes

8. Whatever, I’ve Read Books

9. Yeah Politics Man Yeah F**k The Government Man And Stuff (Chair’s Lament)

10. Turned Out It Wasn’t Aerosmith

11. Conversations I Thought I Had But Turned Out To Have Dreamt That They Happened

12. Aerosmith On The Bus (Reprise)

If you’ve got ideas for the title of this future Mercury Music Prize winning affair, click here and add it as a comment. I’ll send the writer of the best one a copy of our EP.

Leave your house and have a good time

We’re playing 93 Feet East a week Wednesday, as you know. You don’t need me to tell you it’s gonna be awesome, and we’re playing new material too, so you’ll be all like “Wow, I think this is new material” and you will be right. A week Friday we’re then heading to Brighton to play at The Hope, so tell everyone you know who lives near Brighton and isn’t a total pillock. Other than that, we’re confirming a festival appearance in April, a launch party for the Luminescence EP despite the fact that it’s out already and gig + swimming pool in May.

Stuff redux

Bullet points are 2010.

Our music is to be playlisted in a chain of 200 fashion stores in Italy.
Luminescence reviews in Rock Sound, RebelRiffs, Subba Cultcha, Easy Music For Difficult Ears & Daily Dischord. People be loving that shahoozy.
Neon Blink to be used as theme for currently untitled new Finnish TV program.
Neon Blink to be released as single on Blue Dove Records with a plethora of sensual remixes on the b-sides. Release date etc. TBC. FTW.
Neon Blink used in some mountain biking video. You are still fat.
Timetravelling Luminescence launch party currently being finalised. Shrimp & white wine.

Best bit

Wednesday 17th March 2010

Glasswerk (Artefacts For Space Travel & Neon Highwire & Sir Yes Sir & Double Rainbow)

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

Facebook; Last.FM; Tickets

Friday 19th March 2010

Synthetiquette (The Kleptones, Neon Highwire & Officer 82)

The Hope, 10-12 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3WA

Facebook; Last.FM

Saturday 29th May 2010

Captain Zapi’s Rollin’ Revue (Neon Highwire & TBC)

The Aquarium, Old Street, Shoreditch, United Kingdom, EC1V 9DD

Facebook; Last.FM

If you’re reading this line and think it’s about you, then it’s about you,

Steve.

http://www.neonhighwire.com

http://www.myspace.com/neonhighwire

http://www.facebook.com/neonhighwire

http://twitter.com/neonhighwire

http://last.fm/music/neon+highwire

Neon Darsh

Steven Morgan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:09:59 +0000

Happy new year!

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS news

That’s totally like me shouting the word “News” in a cave. Nick Cave. Ouch.

Luminescence

The EP is in the big bad world, so you can stop reading all about how it’s almost finished. Ha! It’s available from more places than I even know, I keep finding new ones. Some of those include Amazon, iTunes, Indiestore, Amie Street and a bunch of others like Napster and Myspace Music and Rhapsody too. If that’s not enough for you then I HATE YOU. If it is then we can still be friends. Those who like their music physically can buy the CD too. It’s well class and has a bunch of thank yous in the liner notes to the people who’ve helped us along the way. If your name is on that list, you can OFFISHULLEE ask for a hug next time you see one of us and not only receive it, but it can last as long as YOU want it to. Amazing. You have to instigate the end of the hug otherwise, we’ll just live our lives like conjoined twins. Sexy conjoined twins. How niche!

Totally Enormous Gig On Saturday @ 93 Feet East

We are so collectively excited about Saturdays gig supporting Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs that we smear ourselves with baby oil hourly in order to distract us from the impending joy. Smooth. It’s gonna be so good, that we thought we’d get some quotes from famous people because you bloodsuckers love celebrities, dunnewe?

Graham Gooch: “Awes”.

Charlie Brooker: “Wick”.

Flavaadit Gambatron: “You don’t even know who I am”.

Get your tickets for cheaperer here at wegottickets.com else you run the risk of not getting in and looking like a total fool. No hug for you. We advise males to turn up topless and buy one of our t-shirts when they arrive so they can look better than their friends. We would advise this to both genders but we made a mistake and didn’t get any female t-shirts printed. Our bad. We will soon though, yeah?

People writing things about us

I could rewrite all the nice things we’ve had written about us lately here, but I’m not a man that believes in effort duplication. Also, my love has got no money, he’s got his strong beliefs. It’s all on our website at http://www.neonhighwire.com alongside incredible insights into popular culture from everyone but Jim. Not that Jim’s taking some sort of rebellious stance against posting anything up there, it’s just Jim. Jim Jim Jim. Jimmer. Jim.

Top ten albums of the last decade

Those who can’t get enough of lists may have noticed our top ten albums of the decade lists on the website in the run up to NYE. As usual, Steve’s is best. Aaaaah, where’s your comeback now Jim? Exactly, it’s physically impossible for you to come back because I’m typing this on a keyboard. WIN!

Read Jimlist here.

Read Lukelist here.

Read Stevelist (am best) here.

You know your favourite part of the email is the list of upcoming shows, don’t even try to deny it:

Saturday 16th January 2010

THE PLAYGROUND (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Nova, Citadels, Dan Mckie, Andy Boph, Neon Highwire, Fish Don’t Dance DJs, Marc Ustari, Miss Miranda- Burlesque, Adam Analogue, 3 Sh!t DJs & Straightola)

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

Tickets; Facebook; Last.FM

Friday 12th February 2010

No Fiction (Raven Beats Crow & Neon Highwire)

Power’s Acoustic Room, 332 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 2QN

Facebook; Last.FM

Wednesday 17th March 2010

Glasswerk (Artefacts For Space Travel & Neon Highwire & TBC)

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

Facebook; Last.FM

Friday 16th April 2010

Glasswerk (Neon Highwire & TBC)

Rhythm Factory, Ground Floor, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1EW

Facebook; Last.FM

I can’t believe no-one saw us,

Steve.

http://www.neonhighwire.com

http://www.myspace.com/neonhighwire

http://www.facebook.com/neonhighwire

http://twitter.com/neonhighwire

http://last.fm/music/neon+highwire

Realise your physical luminescence

Luke Fussell — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:35:15 +0000

It’s been a motherfreaking long wait, but Luminescence is at the printers RIGHT NOW. We’ve finalised the artwork, and they’ve declared it officially ready to roll. Should be in the shops very, very, very soon! Pre-order your copy on amazon here and who knows – we may even make a follow-up

“In The Spotlight” on Gigwise

Steven Morgan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:06:50 +0000

We’re “In The Spotlight” on Gigwise at the moment. Check out our dinosaury goodness.

Music Commentary Is Written By Idiots

Steven Morgan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:57:30 +0000

I wrote an article for Musosguide (fantastic website, just had a redesign) which you can read here: http://bit.ly/neonmuseart

Some comments from James Theaker

Steven Morgan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:51:39 +0000

James Theaker of the Saturday Night Show on NME radio has written an, um, paragraph on, um, our music. Here it is: http://bit.ly/neontheaker