Bill Cummings, editor of God Is In The TV has written a review of Luminescence which you can read here.

“Overall though The Luminescence EP is a schizophrenic melting pot of influences bourne of the brains of three imaginative people, reach inside this aural lucky bag and you’ll find some delightful moments, and some that don’t quite hit the mark, but they are played with a passion, commitment and humour that could teach many more established electro acts how to actually enjoy making music!”

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

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This months edition of Rock Sound magazine has a review of Luminescence, which as it’s in a physical magazine, I’ll type out for you like your own personal secretary.  I won’t do that though, put it away.

7/10

“Two years on the scene, London gents Neon Highwire have been cutting their angular-chops in all the right places, and it shows.  The startling ‘Isometric View’ harkens to Hadouken!, all shrieking outrage and dirty basslines, while ‘Under Moonlight’ has a touch of Ian Curtis’ clench-toothed vocals over skittering synths.  Already playlisted by the BBC and with plans for a UK tour this year, it looks like the future’s not only bright for this trio, it’s neon.”

Some nice words from RebelRiffs in their review of Luminscence which you can read here.  As Steve (Gilmore, not me) says “With a great cross between electronica and chippy rock, Neon Highwire are a fine example of the health of English music. The problem lies in the health of the English music business whose blindness to the potential of bands like this will be remembered and noted, come the f****** revolution.“

Kickass music blog Subba Cultcha (yes, a Pixies reference) said some nice things about our Luminescence EP which you can read here.

“Sounding at various times like Hot Chip and Hadouken! In equal measure, this is certainly one of the more accomplished efforts of the month – bouncy, engaging and interesting. Yummers” to be precise.

Many people have emailed me lately and said

“Steve, I really want to own a horse, but don’t have the space for it in my London based tower block flat.  Can horses fly?”

The answer is no, horses cannot fly.

THIS FRIDAY!

Moving on, we’ve got a STONKER (meow) of a gig coming up Friday at the triple A battery Powers bar in Kilburn run by the super fantastic lake of ice cream No Fiction.  It’s free entry, has AWESOME DJs, two incredible bands known for great music and live shows (HEY, ONE OF THOSE IS US! WODYAKNOW!), and loads of drink offers a n d  t h e  l i k e c==3

Luminescence

Buy it from Amazon, iTunes, Indiestore, Amie Street and a bunch of others like Napster and Myspace Music and Rhapsody too.  Buy multiple copies then come see us live and buy some more.  I’ll sign anything that moves.  Make new friends, buy them the CDs.  Things you can use the CD for:

Playing music.

Yeah, you thought that was gonna be one of my awesome lists, but it wasn’t. Deal.

Video

I bought a video camera, yeah, big deal.  We’re gonna start filming stuff.  Music videos are lame, we have much better ideas than that, what we need now are crowns.  Anyway, we’ve got a Youtube channel at this place which also has a link to us playing our extended edit of Akira! at 93 Feet East.

Other Stuff

There’s a load of other new stuff in the pipeline, but figure rather than just blabbering on about it, we’ll get it all confirmed and fit for consumption first.  So be patient and keep checking www.neonhighwire.com.

Few gigs coming up, but can’t reveal details on all yet till they’re confirmed.  Probably playing in Brighton on March 19th though, which will be nice.

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

Saturday 29th May 2010

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

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

Facebook; Last.FM

Sometimes it just works better that way,

Steve.

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Leigh from Easy Music For Difficult Ears has given a review of our Luminescence EP which you can read in full here.

“Without wishing to be crass, retro geared electro is the popular mass-music theme at the moment and as such any band with an extra few quid seem to feel the need to get buzz-shit together. Unfortunately most of these band’s are shite – Neon Highwire… are not.”

“Overall, it is not bad effort by Neon Highwire and while it is hardly revolutionary stuff by any stretch of the imagine, it’s definitely worth a listen. Good stuff.”

In the words of Kathie Smart from Sherwood Radio (as found online here)…

“For any of you that may have missed last weeks show and for those of you who tuned in BIG THANKS! I played my top 40 Unsigned tracks of 2009 at the bottom of the email is the Top 40 tracklisting for you

It was probably the hardest show I have had to put together to date but definitely the most fun! I really do enjoy listening and playing all of your music and it was VERY tough to have to pick!

Congratulations to Neon Highwire who made the Number 1 spot with “Under Moonlight” My review of the track is below.

Thanks for making the Unsigned show one of the most popular shows on Sherwood Radio.

Last but not least MANY MANY MANY THANKS to all of you for your support and contributions to the Unsigned Show. All the very best and I hope 2010 is going to be a great year for Unsigned Music!

Neon Highwire “Under Moonlight” Review

Under Moonlight is as infectious and if not better produced than any of the signed music in my collection to date. If I had this on Vinyl it would be scratched to death by now! Awesome! 10/10 JUST BUY IT!

Unsigned top 40 tracks of 2009

40 The Front – Fire Away
39 Feud – One last time
38 Kiss Corona – Underage Is All The Rage
37 Voodoo Johnson – Bad Habit
36 TK – Cave Man Dave
35 Van Cleef – A Princess And A Guy Like Me
34 The Smears – Pink Pop
33 Pama International – I Still Love You More
32 Machaivellian – Ranger
31 Feverdogg – Alarms
30 Lenahan – Better Man
29 Law Of Eleven – Love Lust
28 Neverborne – Cycle of Existence
27 Adust – The Evil That Dwells Within
26 The Jonny Guns – Come Alive
25 Metal Cross – Last Judgement
24 Machine God – Wasted Life
23 Murder FM – As Beautiful As You Are
22 Baptism By Fire – I hate It Here
21 Sell Crazy – Systematic Panic
20 Scarlet’s Wake – Little Box Of
19 The Rusty Trombones – I Have A Shoulder For You
18 Black Page Turns – Stand Up For The Little Guy
17 The Stangs – I Don’t Know
16 Maffa Kings – Lust To Licks
15 Paul Gibbard – Today
13 The Black Hills – Chasers
12 Dax – Waking Moments
11 Milk Fiction – Siempre
10 Beck Stacey – Speed
9 La Folie – The Incaceration of Martin Allows
8 Film – The Machinist
7 In Isolation – Virus
6 No Title (track 5) – Mastercharger
5 The Yipes – Tick Tock
4 A Poetic Yesterday – Skelatella
3 Armed For A Crisis – Granny Miggins
2 Nunchuk – Rest Assured
1 Neon Highwire – Under Moonlight“

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.

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

Daily Dischord have given Luminescence a 4/5 review, check it out by clicking here.  Here’s what they say:

“It’s really easy to make a dance/rock hybrid sound shit. You just need to listen to Enter Shikari’s latest effort. It seems a lot of bands trying to plug that trade has run out of ideas, and like a lot of genres that hit a successful streak, it all gets a bit clichéd.

The same cannot be said for Neon Highwire. Yes, their EP ‘Luminescence’ isn’t massively new, but it does more than enough to make it interesting amongst the rest of the crop. The opening track ‘Neon Blink’ may leave you a tad underwhelmed, but the second track ‘Don’t: Wait’ does more than enough to make up for it’s predecessors short comings, with some crazy electro beats been thrown in to keep you on your toes while the indie rock elements of the bands sound seem to take the back seat, almost like a more calculated HORSE The Band song. It’s beyond this point you hear the best Neon Highwire have to offer. ‘Creation #4.00’ builds up into a complete shit storm of electronic beats and nice guitar riffs, opening up into a nice track, before ‘Under Moonlight’ entertains. The main event arrives in the form of ‘Isometric View’, a haphazard track that kicks and screams with frantic vocals and a catchy guitar line over some nice beats.

‘Akira!’ ends things fantastically with an enormous climax, and with that, ‘Luminescence’ proves to be an EP well worth your attention. Yes, it could be better, but the EP is highly ambitious and for that it deserves respect. Neon Highwire are a band worthy of your attention, so make sure you check this infectious EP out as soon as possible.”