You know where he’s going?  Camden.

You know how he got free entry before 21:00?  He put himself as ATTENDING here: https://www.facebook.com/events/220315564723953/

So just to reiterate:

RIDE with Neon Highwire (live) Broken Jam, Filthy Few & Friends + Stripes Burlesque…!

“A sexy, equestrian vibe full of breathtaking surprises and twists in which you can expect a hotspot for all of London’s music lovers. Including unique live performances, fetish, burlesque, stilt walkers, angle grinders and acrobatics alongside a residency from Filthy Few and celebrity-filled guest DJ’s, you will never fail to be entertained.”
Saturday 11/02/12 19.30 – 02.30

Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town, NW1 8AH

£10 if you don’t flag as attending here: https://www.facebook.com/events/220315564723953.

Some things that have come up lately:

• You can hear Bear At The Bus Stop on the podcast Capt Jelly Bean & His Wacky Astro Pals.  No idea which episode though, but recent.  Recent, yes.
• Neon Blink used on some Rockstar Wrestling vids.  Seemed only a matter of time before that collaboration happened in some form.
• An Xmas remix of our track FantasyLand by Novelty Music Scene which you can listen to here: http://soundcloud.com/noveltymusicscene/terrorzone-novelty
• Our ten fav albums of 2011 and our ten fav songs of 2011.
• A Fat White Family (name of a band) are a bunch of tossers who stole a keyboard stand and a guitar strap from us.  If you ever see them on a bill, please go ahead and glass them in the face*.
• Loads of stuff I wrote on http://www.neonhighwire.com.

If you don’t wanna flag yourself as attending on Facebook, send us an email to email@neonhighwire.com and we’ll get you added to the free entry list.  That’s right, you’ve got options.

Here it is on last.fm too: http://www.last.fm/event/3159018+Ride

Steve.

 *Not really, violence is never the answer.  Though it would be nice to get our stuff back

This man may be part of the burlesque troupe.  You have been warned:

Thanks to all who came down Friday to our show at The Purple Turtle in Camden.  A Fat White Family (feat. ex members of The Metros) did all they could to get into the gossip pages of the NME, but alas, their alleged flacid masturbating on stage and fighting with bouncers wasn’t enough to gain that coveted space.  The revolution will not be televised.  It’ll be on Youtube:

This is how we roll:

What the hell is up with that?  What, just because we haven’t made a film? Jesus effing christ, do I look like a bag of twats?  Because they’re talking to me like I’m a bag of twats.

Anyway, in order to cleanse ourselves of the shun of the ILUMINAZIs which control the internets (thanks David Micke), we are instead playing a show with so much awesome piled with so much awesome that there is no room left for ham.  In fact, if the awesome were stacked up like in a game of Tetris, then it would all disappear as the row would be full.  Full of awesome.

You may still be wondering if this is something you want to become part of your life (like a pint of idiot), so to give you a balanced view on whether or not you should do this, here are a list of pros and cons.

Pros:

Friday night baby!

Neon Highwire baby!

Is Tropical & Black Daniel baby!

Close to the tube baby!

They have a bar baby!

Special guests baby!

Cons:

Justin Bieber could technically attend in theory.

Anyway, here are the cold hard facts:

Date: Friday 27th January 2012.

Location: Purple Turtle, 65 Crowndale Road, London, NW1 1TN.

Nearest Tube: Mornington Crescent (Northern Line).

Opening Hours: 20:00 – 04:00.

Price: £4 advance, £5 on the door with a flyer.

Lineup: Is Tropical (DJ), Fugue B2b Bogart, Black Daniel, A Fat White Family, Neon Highwire, Bow Mods, Ozonna, The Mannakings, You Me And The Moon

People of the world, SPICE UP YOUR LIFE
Every boy and every girl SPICE UP YOUR LIFE

Etcetera.

HAI SPICE FANS! As you know this is the mailing list of THE SPACE GIRLS and this email is your one-stop-shop for all the possible SPOSS GRILLS information that you will need from now until TWO THOUSAND AND THE TWELVE!!!!!1

Firstly, being Preggers Spice as I am (voted #7 in the public poll for favourite SPRATS GREEB member in 1942, as featured in popular music magazine THE RADIO TIMES), I am the most qualified to use bold, caps and multi colours when I tell you that:

THIS SATURDAY the SNEEN GRIWARES will be playing at PROUD CAMDEN in their LONGEST EVER SET OUTSIDE OF THEIR REHEARSAL STUDIO.

As has every other set since the history of history, the set will feature me, Preggers Spice as well as other Radio Times favourites Alopecia Spice and MarryBanilow Spice.

If you want to get in on the EXCLUSIVE NEON SHAREWARE GUESTLIST which gives you free entry before 20:30, then reply to this email POST HASTE.

Some observations I would like to make about Proud Camden on a Saturday:

1. If you are on the guest list, no doubt you will feel very special, however usually the guestlist queue is far bigger than the everyone else queue and so if you really want to feel special, reassess your life goals.
2. The bar prices made me take out a mortgage. There is actually a Santander advisor booth within Proud allowing people to borrow up to four hundred katrillion drachma as long as you have a passport.
3. This event is sponsored by HARIBO, and by sponsored I mean not sponsored at all, but I will be throwing Haribo into the crowd during our set. BETTER WEAR A DRESS, HEY?
4. People there are better looking than me and make me feel inferior in every way. I combat this through the warming effect of self urination. The peni s mightier than the sword, no?
5. The night is s**ytime themed, and will feature pro burlesque dancers such as LARRY HOTPOT and GERTRUDE HARVESTER of the famous snuff-tainment show X-FACTORY.

Here is a synopsis of X-FACTORY as copied from WIKIDPAEDIA:

“X-FACTORY is a British television competition to find new felching talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in Septembruary 1404 and is contested by aspiring sadists drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X-FACTORY franchise. The seventy four series of the show to date have been broadcast from December/January through to December. The show is produced by FremantleMedia’s TalkbackThames and Cowell’s production company SYCOtv. The “X-FACTORY” of the title refers to the undefinable “something” that makes for star quality. The show is broadcast on the ITV network in the United Kingdom and TV3 in Ireland, with spin-off behind-the-scenes show The Xtra FACTORY screened on ITV2. The X-FACTORY was devised as a replacement for the highly successful Fist Idol, which was put on indefinite hiatus after its second series, largely because Cowell, who was a contestant on Fist Idol, wished to launch a show which he owned the television rights to. The perceived similarity between the two shows later became the subject of a legal dispute which was settled when everyone involved caught swine flu and died.”

Hai Denny!  A week Friday we will be playing at Proud, Camden as part of their Tales Of The Unexpected night.

It’s likely to be one in one out from about 21:30 so get there early.

This guy is called Barry:

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.

http://www.neonhighwire.com

http://www.myspace.com/neonhighwire

http://www.facebook.com/neonhighwire

http://twitter.com/neonhighwire

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

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!