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

A drum

A drum

A drum

Another drum

The bass

The bass

The bass

Fucking neighbours.

Wrote another poem for y’all, that one took even less time than the last.  NEW PB!

Been seeing all the ruckus about Moustache Flash and wondering “But is this for me? I need to know more about El Crazilibre aka Darren Keen”.  WELL WANT NO MORE, MY FRIEND, FOR HERE IS AN INTERVIEW I DID WITH DARREN!  More hot links than spiked drinks.

I’m good to you people, TOO good you could almost say, but you don’t cos you loves it rough.  Much like Brian Clough, but unlike Hilary Duff.

Before before there was before

And before that we’re not so sure

When folk talked about days of yore

And we didn’t know about Al Gore

Mother mother, gentle mother

Art thou so different from the other

A light so bright you run to cover

More wrong than Die Hard without Danny Glover

That is my poem about Climate chango written over the course of the last twenty six seconds.  That’s deep man, deep till it hurts.

In more jovial news, you can win tickets for our upcoming show with The Show Is The Rainbow which I’ve been banging on about so much lately that I’m starting to get sick of my own voice, but if you aren’t there then you are LITERALLY DEAD TO ME LITERALLY (yes, that is a threat on the lives of the majority of the world’s population*).

So let me help you live.

1. CLICK ON ANY FUCKING WORD IN THIS SENTENCE AS IT’S ONE BIG LINKY LINK LINKERSON.

2. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO WIN TICKETS TO THE SHOW ON POPULAR MUSIC AND MOUSTACHE WEBSITE NEVER ENOUGH NOTES.

3. BUY TICKETS ANYWAY COS YOU PROBABLY WON’T WIN, YOU UNFORTUNATE TROLL.

*In case some psycho reads this, I am not really going to kill everyone or anyone UNLESS IT’S WITH KINDNESS, THEN I WILL BLUDGEON THEIR FACE IN WITH IT.

Want a video? Here, have one in your face. Buy tickets now, you utter twat! Hmm, my freestyle skills are to be desired.

Yeah they are.

Here’s a bonus picture for the road (not of the road).

Check out this news story on the upcoming The Show Is The Rainbow show at Roadtrip with us.  Buy tickets here.  Facebook in your face here.

Check out the fact that Spin Off & Kim Jong Il Looking At Things are now on Spotify.

This picture always makes me laugh:

Wednesday September 14th sees a 2011 exclusive UK show from hip-hop / electro / punk manchild The Show Is The Rainbow at The Workshop at Roadtrip.

Yes, this man

The night is called Moustache Flash and is a celebration of facial hair and all things MACHO.

El Tablo Arm Wrestlo!

Top Trump Deathmatch!

Moustaches allocated on arrival to all cold lipped attendees!

Muscle Beach!

It’s going to be a night you’ll tell your grandkids about IN SPACE!

Don’t know Darren Keen?  Read on…

“Hi! My name is DARREN KEEN. I have spent the past 8, almost 9 years touring full time with my band THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW.

The Show is the Rainbow is a bizzare mix of FUNK / HIP HOP / DANCE / and EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC music, with a MULTIMEDIA presentation and lots of quick witted banter. I have played literally just under 1,000 shows, including 30+ tours of the United States, 9 European tours, and 2 tours of New Zealand.

Pulling influences from Frank Zappa, Beck, Squarepusher, and Captain Beefheart, I have built up a following, and turned what was once sort of a “novelty” act, into a full fledged, DIY, underground movement. People have compared me to a midwestern, musical Andy Kaufman, with the ability to light up any room with my hilarious, original, and confusing behavior.

I have released 4 full length albums, and plenty of ep’s and singles, on a variety of record labels from all over the world, including TSK!TSK! (London, UK), RETARD DISCO (Los Angeles, CA), YOSADA (Boise, ID), and I have future releases planned for both the FLYING NUN (NZ) and DUAL PLOVER (OZ). My most recent full length “Tickled Pink”, was released on 12″ vinyl on my own label, IT ARE GOOD RECORDS, which has luckily found distribution through the forward thinking electronic label ILLEGAL ART (home of Girl Talk, Steinski, and Junk Culture).

Right now I am in the middle of a YEAR LONG HONEYMOON TOUR, which will take me and my wife all around the world 3 times! It has been amazing so far, and we look forward to our upcoming dates in Europe, New Zealand, and Australia.

Through my 9 years of touring, I have played a variety of shows and venues, and I love it all, from the dingiest basement to the largest
outdoor camping festivals. I have been lucky enough to tour with acts like Man Man, Neil Hamburger, Deerhoof, The Faint, Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, Mae Shi, Cursive, and F in Math. I have been invited to play so many great shows, including Bergenfest in Bergen, Norway (twice!), Camp A Low Hum in New Zealand (twice), and countless appearances at CMJ and SXSW in the USA.
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100% CONFIRMED EUROPEAN TOUR DATES!! LOT’S MORE TO BE CONFIRMED SOON!!!

Sat. Sept 3 Bergen, Norway @ Garage

Tue. Sept 6 Aalborg, Denmark @ 1000Fryd

Wed. Sept 7 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Kifak

Thu. Sept 8 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ OCCII w/ Rainbow Arabia

Sat. Sept 10 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ W139 (Bring Yr Own Beamer Festival)

Mon. Sept 12 Gent, Begium @ Cafe Video

Tue. Sept 13 Metz, France @ La Rubis

Wed. Sept 14 London, United Kingdom @ Roadtrip

Sat. Sept 17 Tilburg, Netherlands @ Kafee ‘t Bultenbeentje (INCUBATE FESTIVAL)

Tue. Sept 20 Madrid, Spain @ La Felpa II

Thu. Sept 29 Winterthur, Switzerland @ Kraftfeld

Fri. Sept 30 Eindhoven, Netherlands @ TAC (Pageturner)

Sat. Oct 1 Nijmegen, Netherlands Swing Sting @ De Onderbroek

Sun. Oct 2 Kassel, Germany @ Club A.R.M.

Thanks to everyone who came to Cafe 1001 last night to watch us being filmed eating apples, drinking port, dancing suggestively with a balloon sword and attempting to play the new material we’ve written.  Unfortunately a series of unfortunate events made it an… Interesting show!  With a two hour delay to the start due to problems with the venue’s equipment, it didn’t bode well, but add to that Jim’s effects board ceasing to work mere hours after it was behaving perfectly, problems with Luke’s amp and no monitor sounds meaning we could barely work out which song we were supposed to be playing, and once again the world of live instrumentation has one up on us!

Alas, these things happen, and we’d just like to say sorry to all those in attendance, we always want to give everything to our live shows, so we’re as disappointed as yourselves when we’re not able to, but to add to the facepalm… It was all recorded!  Who knows if it’ll even make it to air, but if you fancy yourself a bit of car crash TV, then turn off your Jeremy Kyle and click on this link!