The battery has almost run out on my laptop.  I cannot be bothered to get the power cable.  I MUST WRITE THIS EMAIL BEFORE THE POWER RUNS OUT.  It’s the plot to series forty six of 24, budgets vastly cut.

Last email I sent was February 18th, here’s what’s happened since then, in order of magnitude:

• NEW SINGLE SPIN OFF RELEASED!  It’s an epic, no doubt, it’s the sort of song that makes the entire cast of the Gossip Girl et al spontaneously combust in a purple flame of eroticism whilst the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard performs an impromptu cover of Scatman but without using any vowels.
• Bear At The Bus Stop soundtracking the ace iPhone game Rollover Rover.  I’d buy it right now if I were you, or are you the sort of short sighted, petty parasite that voted no to the alternative vote system in some sort of misguided Lib Dem revenge?
• Novelty Music Scene remix of Neon Blink opening track on Electro House Essentials Volume 07 compilation.
• Hail! Perestroika remix of Neon Blink on Sunset 2 Sunrise Volume 09.
• Remix of the Glass Diamond track “Boys And Girls Come Out To Play” makes people want to reconstruct Clitheroe at a 300:1 ratio out of reconstituted used 3D glasses from raunchy cinemas.
• Gig mentioned at the bottom of the email being filmed and streamed live online, come along as it’s on a Saturday daytime and you need us in your life.
• Luke being interviewed on Banana Peel radio.

I Love Music Filmed Show (Neon Highwire, The Fuse, History Of The Trade)

Cafe 1001, 1 Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

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Blah blah blah give a sh*t,

Steve.

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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

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Saturday 7th August 2010

Here Comes The Sun (Neon Highwire & tbc)

Steve.

“Look Johnny, sometimes people’s gonna try and tell you what you should do.  You don’t have to follow that advice Johnny, because sometimes people just don’t know as much as they sound like.  You’ve got to think for yourself Johnny, you’re becoming a man.”

“My name is Wilfred.”

That’s right everyone, today is national faux-pas day 2011!  Bypass those awkward situations by pre-empting them and embracing them like a long lost sister you didn’t realise was related to you.

Before I go any further, I’m going to fact you in the sass.

1. THE ENVIRONMENT

Heal the world.  Make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race.  There are people dying.  If you care enough for the living make a better place for you and for me.

1. THE ELECTION

Some of the more hirsute of you may have noticed that there’s an election imminent (yo).  That’s right.  It’s almost time to vote for your favourite member of Neon Highwire so we can change the name of the band to “<Victorious Person X> And The Neon Highwires”.  Early polls suggest that it’s going to be a runaway victory with the good looking one way ahead, but with the immoral, underhand tactics of the other two, it’s still all to play for!  This vote (with musical accompaniment) will take place at Vibe Bar on the evening of Thursday 6th May.  That’s a week tomorrow!  ZOMG!  You should come, it’s gonna be great.  Oh and it’s the day of the general election too.

1. THE REMIXES

As we’ve mentioned, Neon Blink is being released as a single through Blue Dove Records.  There’s gonna be a heap of brilliant remixes on the b-sides which will be making their way for sneak peaks at our Neon Rewire Myspace page (starting with Fresh:Mesh‘s beast of a remix).  Details on release dates, formats, track listing and the launch party in THE FUTURE.

1. NEW MATERIAL

Still working on it, be patient.  Those who’ve been lucky enough to hear it so far have said “…it’s better than I thought it’d be, I thought it’d be really bad.  Can I please phone my family now to let them know I’m safe?” shortly before they went missing, never to be heard of again in an entirely unrelated incident.

Without further ado, I think of your mother dancing when I cry as it’s the only way I can get to sleep.  With your dad. (Remember what day it is people!), here is the list of upcoming shows:

Thursday 6th May 2010

Election Special (Tina Mali, Neon Highwire)

Vibe Bar, Old Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

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Saturday 29th May 2010

Captain Zapi’s Rollin’ Revue (Neon Highwire & BODYMACHINE!)

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

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I still can’t believe I didn’t get any fudge.  I LOVE fudge.  I go into fudge kitchen and pretend I’m gonna buy stuff every time I walk past.  To say I’m devastated is an understatement.  I only forgive you because you’re so incrediblely awesome.

Steve.