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.