We were supposed to spend the day working on our incredible set for this Saturday at Scala, Kings Cross (believe me, it’s awe inspiring) but then Jim got all rock n roll on us and phoned at 16:00 saying “Oh man, I’m so rock n roll, check me out and my rock n roll lifestyle, I’ve just gotten up” or something to that effect.

In the meantime, Luke and I were all like SEVENTY TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE of productivity and got so much stuff done that this one guy knocked on my door and was like “I can feel the productivity seeping out from under your door, it’s incredible, like nothing I’ve ever experienced before”.

You know who that guy was?  BLACK FRANCIS from the past traveled to the future.  Take that M Night Shyamalan!

Anyway, so as we’d been so productive, we thought we’d make a quick video too (Luke was spending ages sorting out a vocoder part and I was bored) which can now be viewed on the Youtubes RIGHT HERE.

So other than that, remember to buy your tickets for next Saturday’s gig right here as we’ve sold through our first two allocated batches already and LOVE SELLING THINGS TO YOU PEOPLE.  IT GIVES JIM THE RAGING HORN AS HE IS A SEX CRIMINAL.  We hate drummers though, fascists.

No matter how many times I watch them, I always crack up at the shreds videos on Youtube.  Check out this awesome Kings Of Leon performance, Steve Vai doing his thing or Metallica at their best.

So it’s finally happened!  All those on our mailing list can get a free MP3 of our fantastic Christmas single…

Fantasy Land (Welcome To The TerrorZone).

Fantasy Land (Christmas in the Terror Zone) by NeonHighwire

To get a copy of the track simply join our mailing list by sending a blank email to mailinglist<at>neonhighwire<dot>com and we’ll send you a link with the download address.  It couldn’t be simpler.

The track is a homage to all things inappropriate, much like Christmas itself and we hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had recording it.  It features Lloyd of Skyline Dossier and Bryony Burrows.  God Is In The TV have already written about it here.

So enjoy your Xmas day, and enjoy the sounds of awesome oozing from your speakers as you cut the turkey, or nutroast.

We meant to get it all done and wrapped up today, but unfortunately only got to spend 7 hours on it in the end.  Will tie up the loose ends during the week.  The bulk of it’s done, but still no vocals on the second verse.  Thanks to Lloyd from Skyline Dossier & Bryony Burrows for lending their vocals to the track.  It’s a little different for us, the clue should come from the working title FantasyLand (Xmas In The Terror Zone).  Watch this space.

So Speech Debelle seems to be doing her level best to ruin her career by putting the blame on poor sales of her debut album squarely on Big Dada‘s shoulders.  With this and her atrocious cover of Pray by Take That getting her booed off the stage at the Take That Singstar launch and now getting more publicity than it deserves puts her in an unenviable position right now.  The BBC news article implies that the upset from the crowd led from the fact that “Debelle chose to rap her way through the 1993 hit single Pray”. Based on this, I decided to watch the video wondering what year it is when a crowd gets raucous based on the vocal stylings of a performer alone. After watching it, I realised the wording was entirely misleading. The crowd aren’t upset because she’s rapping, they’re upset because it’s awful. She half sings, half talks in an awkwardly rhythmically faithful rendition of the original that’s closer to William Shatner than any more obvious frame of reference. Nice one BBC, give the article an unnecessary provocative spin just to boost the readership.

However, this was nothing compared to the childish, needy, bullying James Corden decided to dish out afterwards. If there’s anyone less worthy of people’s praise, it’s James Corden. Faced with a crowd full of people booing, and evidently upset at the treatment of their beloved Take That song (fucking idiots in the first place then), he kicks off with “That was shit”. Wow, brave words big man. “LOL I CAN’T BELIEVE HE HAD THE BALLS TO SAY THAT!”. Debelle did herself no favours agreeing to perform at this event with an obvious disdain for the people the event was being held in aid of, but by the time Corden pulls out his “rapping is easy” stunt, thankfully drowned out beyond the first sentence by the caught-in-the-moment crowd, I have to do everything in my power to want to destroy the monitor in front of me. They’re not cheap you know.

Here’s another example of the shit baiting the crowd, devoid of personality and desperately craving the attention and the approval of others and willing to say anything to achieve it.  I watch as the video camera gets closer to his punchable grin hoping the camera man will lose all resolve and start beating him to unconsciousness poetically with the camera he’s always craved. No matter how many views, it never happens.

I’ll grant you that the first series of Gavin And Stacey was pretty good and well executed, but the second series just tread water and that Christmas special was like watching paint dry. If they wanted to capture the awkward boringness of Christmas without children to distract you, they did it.  It was inevitable there’d be a third series, it’s the only thing he’s done that isn’t a stain on mankind and he’s running out of options.  I watched a few minutes of his humour vacuum sketch show and have no desire to watch Lesbian Vampire Killers where I hear they put more effort into the attention grabbing title than the film itself.

Stop it James, please.

This is important.  So far we’ve thought of:

Colin McRayfish

Rubens Barracuda

Michael Schumackerel

Nigel Mansild

Add a comment with other ideas.

This is important.

It would appear that we have made it through to the voting stages of Radio Aire and Leeds City College’s Local and Unsigned competition.  Not entirely sure how or why this has happened, but should we get through to the final then we will have to adopt our best pseudo-Leeds accents to avoid people suspecting us of being soft southerners.

Click here to vote: http://bit.ly/neonaire

It may save your life.

So band feuds are chic again. Never to miss a bandwagon, I’d like to say that Wild Beasts seem to keep forgetting to write any songs. Boff!

Haha Riverghost: http://bit.ly/Gsussaves

As I went to click on the story on BBC News titled ‘Boyle is ‘edging closer’ to Porno‘ I hoped it had nothing to do with Britain’s Got Talent.