Didn’t take much editing as the source material was so great in the first place thanks to all the wonderful people who came along on Saturday morning. Enjoy!

Friday night was fun.  It was a shame that Fake Teak couldn’t play due to a lack of things for their drummer to hit, Peter Falconer’s impromptu set was highly entertaining, Hot Beds made us dance like we had two legs and then we played to a bear humping a speaker.

For those who didn’t make it, here’s a video to show what you missed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4pkRDWyUE.  Thanks to all those who came along, and in answer to those who have asked, I go climbing on tables and eat some cakes before wearing one of them like a crown.

Much like the film Weird Science, this is not an excuse for anti-social behaviour.  Unlike the film Weird Science, this is an update on what’s happening in the world of Neon Highwire.  Roll VT.

Never Enough things which there are Never Enough of

This Friday (that’s THIS FRIDAY to those with bad eyesight), the band known as MY BAND (by me, Steve. Luke and Jim MAY refer to it as Steve’s band if they behave) will be playing at the Camden Head as part of the celebrations of one year of existence for the ace Music blog Never Enough Notes.  Here is a list of the things you will need to know:

1. The show is with two other ace bands who will FORCE YOU TO DANCE WITH KNIVES (in a good way) known as Fake Teak and Hot Beds.
2. There will be cake.
3. Doors open at 19:30.
4. This is it on Facesbook
5. This is happening afterwards at the same venue.

We need YOU to film a music video (avec free beer)

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.

Turn up at the bus stop S on the South Bank next to Royal Festival Hall at 11am sharp for the full briefing. Here it is on the maps:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode&q=Waterloo+Station%2C+Lambeth%2C+London&sll=43.480926%2C-80.537664&sspn=0.091799%2C0.222988&g=Waterloo&ie=UTF8&hq&hnear=Waterloo+Station%2C+London+SE1%2C+United+Kingdom&ll=51.505742%2C-0.115429&spn=0.00123%2C0.003484&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.505684%2C-0.115522&panoid=tYUY6CjAOTj0owkqRFrzcw&cbp=12%2C137.82%2C%2C0%2C10.42

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.
Animal impressions.
Parkour.
Map reading.

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!

Facebook it up for up to the minute news on this once in a lifetime event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104258616302307

Pete & The Pirates, Bloc Party, The Maccabees & Scala

On Saturday 23rd October, we’ll be playing on this ace line up at one of my favourite venues, Scala in Kings Cross.  Here is the event on the ubiquitous Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123597277691518.  Tickets are available to buy online (and come with a FREE copy of our debut EP Luminescence) and can be bought here.  It’s going to be an epic night and one we’re superexcited about, naturlich.

AOB

• We’re currently recording our second EP.  It’s sounding ace (official quote).
• I bought tickets to go see The Dismemberment Plan twice in New York at the end of January.  I will be travelling alone (was a bit of a spontaneous decision).  What should I do!?
• Are you a hipster? Take this test!
• I wrote an article about sound checks for God Is In The TV.  It contains the word “defecating”.
• Procrastination breeds misguided creativity.
• Listen to Bear At The Bus Stop on Spotify.

Gig summation (through said nation):

Friday 24th September 2010

Never Enough First Birthdays (Fake Teak, Hot Beds, Neon Highwire)

The Camden Head, 100 Camden High Street, London, NW1 0LU

Facebook; Last.FM

Saturday 23rd October 2010

Absent Kelly Presents (Pete & The Pirates, Bloc Party DJ Set, The Maccabees DJ Set & Neon Highwire)

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9NL

Tickets; Facebook; Last.FM

I seriously hope you get it, though I’d happily travel north if it meant seeing you,

Steve.

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You can buy tickets to our upcoming October show with Pete And The Pirates online here: http://bit.ly/ppiratesneontix right now!  Each order comes with a free copy of our EP Luminescence.

Buy them now, you dick!  BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

Inspired by ‘that‘ video which has been doing the rounds lately, find out whether or not you are a hipster by taking the quiz below.

Were you raised in an area of above average affluence? [ ]
Do you live in East London? [ ]
Did your schoolmates used to call you names? [ ]
Do you now reside in the sorts of estates said schoolmates once lived in? [ ]
Do you have a moustache? [ ]
Do you have other facial hair? [ ]
Do you own and wear a low cut vest? [ ]
Do you own and wear leggings? [ ]
Do you have any photographs of you wearing Venetian Blind shades? [ ]
Do you wear empty framed glasses? [ ]
Do you have any sailor tattoos? [ ]
Do you wear loafers with no socks? [ ]
Do you own and wear a keffiyeh? [ ]
Do you own and wear a snood? [ ]
Are your trousers too tight to fit a hand in the pocket? [ ]
Do you wear a necklace with a retro centrepiece? [ ]
Have you spent over £50 on a haircut? [ ]
Do you own a fixed gear bicycle? [ ]
Would you describe your dress sense as ironic? [ ]
Would you describe your dress sense as unique? [ ]
Would you describe your dress sense as pastiche? [ ]
Aren’t goths of the nineties and emo kids of the noughties lame, claiming uniqueness whilst all dressing the same way? [ ]
Does you not give a shit about your nerdy dress sense’s malignment to your academic achivements? [ ]
Are most of your clothes second hand? [ ]
Do you regularly shop at American Apparel? [ ]
Do you do drugs? [ ]
Do you do cool drugs? [ ]
Do you do massive drugs? [ ]
Do you enjoy casual sex? [ ]
Do you wonder how hot you look like whilst engaging in casual sex? [ ]
Would you only consider having sex with someone who dresses in a similar way to you? [ ]
Have you blogged about the sex you’re having whilst having it? [ ]
Are you of indeterminate sexual preference? [ ]
Do you wait for other people’s opinions before you can say whether you like a band? [ ]
Are you in a band? [ ]
Do you play synth in that band? [ ]
Is that synth an original microKORG with wood panelling? [ ]
Does everyone play synth in that band? [ ]
Has that band played at a house party in East London? [ ]
Does music get less appealing as it gains popularity? [ ]
Do you value a band’s obscurity over their musical merit? [ ]
Do genres that involve five or more words excite you? [ ]
Is music out of date once it is possible to align it to any genre? [ ]
Are the majority of genres ‘dead’? [ ]
Do you find organic foods taste better than their GM equivalents? [ ]
Are your qualifications arts based? [ ]
Are you a rebel without a cause? [ ]
Do you fear aligning yourself to a cause due to it becoming outdated? [ ]
Do you hate multinational corporations? [ ]
Do you await Apple product launches with excitement? [ ]
Do you own a Macbook? [ ]
Do you use said Macbook at coffee shops? [ ]
Do you have an iPhone? [ ]
Do you have the Hipstamatic app on your iPhone? [ ]
Have you taken pictures on London Fields with it? [ ]
Did you then post those pictures onto a blog? [ ]
Did you apply filters to pictures you take to make them appear older? [ ]
Are there over 1000 photos of you online? [ ]
Have you ever been in a photo featured in Vice Magazine? [ ]
Do you prefer photos taken from higher angles? [ ]
Have you been to a warehouse rave? [ ]
Were you on the guestlist for said rave? [ ]
Did you organise the rave? [ ]
Was the rave shut down by police before completion? [ ]
Do you smoke roll ups? [ ]
Do you work in the media? [ ]
Would you describe yourself as a social media expert? [ ]
Do you feel you’d be more in place as part of the beat generation than present day? [ ]
Do you hate it when people call you a hipster? [ ]
Do you consider yourself cool? [ ]
Are all of these questions already out of date? [ ]

Now tally up your scores and see the results below:

0-24: Well done, you’re in no way a hipster.  Don’t think this automatically qualifies you as a decent human being though.  Statistically, you’re probably still a failed abortion, just in a less immediately detestable way.

25-49: You should really take stock of your lifestyle, you’re in a dangerous middle ground here where your hipster tendencies are causing immediate hatred from others.  You most likely lied about some of the answers to fit into this category because you’re a stinking liar just like your father was.

50-70: You make everyone in the world sick.  You are the sign of the apocalypse, the last decaying flag of the end of our culture.  You embody everything that trivialises the revolutions of generations past.  Your narcissistic futilism is the embodyment of everything that is wrong with everything.  One day you will die and it will be a net gain for humanity.

For those who like their music streamy, free and interlaced with Canadian voiceovers talking about summer houses, you can listen to Bear At The Bus Stop on Spotify right now!

Also, I’m totally addicted to other people’s playlists on Spotify at the moment, so bring it on.

On Saturday October 23rd 2010, at Scala, Kings Cross, London, we will be playing on an immense line-up also featuring Pete And The Pirates and DJ sets from Bloc Party & The Maccabees.  ZOMG!  Tickets are on sale now, but as an extra insentive to those with excellence ingrained into their DNA, if you buy before the end of September, you get a free copy of our debut EP Luminescence thrown in absolutely free.  Just £12.50 for the whole lot.  I feel like Billy fucking Mays right now.

No online link for sales at the moment, but if you want one, fire us a mail or a Facebook message or something, we can sort something out.

So yesterday I let them know.

All true, yo