I awoke to the sound of my mobile ringing.  “Amy calling”.  I am tired.  I will get a couple more hours sleep then phone her back.  A few minutes later, BEEP BEEP.  BEEP BEEP.  Ah, answerphone message, simple to reply to, no worries.

Zzzzzz  zzzzz

BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP.

Wait a second, I barely get one text a day.  What if all my family have died in a car crash.  Oh my god, all my family are dead and I’m just lying here like a selfish bastard on Lloyd’s floor in Woking after inviting myself around to eat all his curry and drink all his wine.  I checked the phone frantically.  Two messages, one an answerphone message as expected, one from my…  Flatmate?

“Someone called Amy phoned the landline. Said you needed to call her urgently about playing at 229.

Wait, 229?  Isn’t today the day of 6f-

FUCK!

…

“Hi Amy it’s Steve, I didn’t listen to your message but my flatmate told me you rang”

“OMGSTEVECANYOUPLAY6FESTTODAYABANDHAVEPULLEDOUTYOUNEEDTOBETHEREATONEOCLOCKONSTAGEATTHREE”

“SHIT!  I’ll phone the other two and get RIGHT. BACK.”

…

Ring ring.

“LUKE!”

“Hey man, what’s up?” in a just woken up voice.

“SHUTUP!  Oh wait, you’re moving today, aren’t you.”

“Yeah, what’s up?”

“We’ve just been asked to fill a cancellation for 6fest!  Oh shit.”

“Oh man, that’s rubbish, we’ve gotta get this sorted today.”

MASSIVE FROWNY FACE

…

Ring ring

“Sorry Amy, Luke’s moving today, we can’t make it.”

“What are you talking about!?  Phone him back, it’s only for three hours!  Sod it, I’ll help him move, just get him to sort it out!”

“Damnit, you’re right!  I’ll phone you back”

…

Ring ring

“Luke, it’s only from one till four, you can fuck off straight after!”

“Oh, in that case then I guess it might be possible”

“PERFECT!  I’ll ring Jim”

…

Ring ring

Ring ring

Ring ring

“Hello, you’ve reached Jim Dippie’s answerph-”

…

Ring ring

Ring ring

Ring ring

“Hello, you’ve reached Jim Dippie’s answerph-”

Damnit Jim!  This isn’t just the usual annoying call from Steve that you can ignore, this is srs bzns!

Much more ringing, pasting on his Facebook wall, getting in contact with his flatmates, looking through old emails to find out where he is later and… HE ANSWERS!

“Steven, why have I got 29 missed calls from you?”

“JIMCANYOUPLAY6FESTAT229TODAYYOUONLYHAVETOBETHEREFROMONETOFOURSAYYESSAYYESSAYYES”

“Steven, I’m in Kent, it’s my brother’s birthday, we’re going for a meal.”

Then it sinks in

“SHIT!”

“Oh, okay Jim, that’s a real shame, I understand it’s your fam- WHAT AM I SAYING, I’LL BUY YOUR BROTHER SOME FLOWERS I DON’T CARE IF HE THINKS I’M A CUNT, ENOUGH PEOPLE DO, BLAME IT ALL ON ME JUST SAY YES.”

“Shit.  Oh, shit.  I just, I’m not, oh man.”

“YES!  Good man Jim, I’ll phone and say yes.”

And I did phone.

And we was too late.  Like The Bishop.

Ah well, let’s go to Neon Noise Project instead.  Hooray!

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!

Guess the origin of the lyrics (artist and song please, bonus point if you can guess my favourite item of clothing whilst listening to each of them):

“You’ve never been to Alton Towers, Michael Caine doesn’t follow you and you’ve never been to Spain”.

“You and I have to get out of Stephan’s way”.

“My dealer drives a three wheeler, lives in a house by the side of the sea”.

“I guess I sort of lied when I said it’s not that bad. That fly, that helicopter, that red and white van”.

“I want to be colonically irrigated, so I know how it feels not to be full of sh*t”.

WHATEVER STEVE, GET ON WITH IT.

Big Chill

We’re playing at The Big Chill House on June 17th.  It’s gonna be incredible, we’re on last so a longer set than usual which will be nice, though tiring.  I’ve never been to the Big Chill festival, but is it just me who’s all like “Big Chill? Why the hell would I go to a festival to chill?  What am I, some sort of c-?”.  So yeah, we’ll be bringing our lounge-core to the Kings Cross area and hopefully I’ll have the surgery to shoot lasers out of my knuckles complete by then too.  It’s got free entry, so come along you dummy!  For your health.

Bear At The Bus Stop

New song from us which you can hear here.  It’s short, it’s instrumental and it embraces triplets much like this sentence.  Feedback so far has ranged from “I like that it’s instrumental” to “Is it finished or ongoing?”.  With feedback like that, how can you resist?

Video

We made a video to educate you again.  No need to thank us, we’re martyrs and will just moan about you not thanking us behind your backs.  TYPICAL.  Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5tJi0XGOdY

Twitterview

Never Enough Notes asked us questions, we gave them answers.  That’s how interviews work yeah?  Difference here is that it was through Twitter.  It’s like the future today.  386 baby, 386.  Here it is.

Remixes

As part of the upcoming Neon Blink release on Blue Dove Records, there’ve been a load of Neon Blink remixes and there are more to come.  Take a listen to some because they’re great.  Don’t take a listen to them if you eat your own farts.  You don’t eat your own farts, do you?  Oh man, if people knew you ate your own farts, you wouldn’t get invited to that thing you’re really excited about going to.  Think about it.  Just listen.

• Pimp Daddies of NoHo remix
• Sizeable Moth Hat remix
• Hail! Perestroika remix

Others

• Under Moonlight features on a Syllabus Music compilation.
• On Westside Will‘s US radio show
• Rough mix of a collaboration with Skyline Dossier that’s been abandoned, take a listen if you’re perverted.
• Playing a one day festival in Reading in August.
• Playing a special show early September, special as in sauce, not school.
• Two more songs almost finished recording.

Greggs.  I mean gigs:

Thursday 17th June 2010

THE PLAYGROUND (Neon Highwire, The Goos, The Gavels, The Black Sands, Mercers)

The Big Chill House, 257-259 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL

Facebook; Last.FM

Saturday 7th August 2010

Here Comes The Sun (Neon Highwire & tbc)

Steve.