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

It’s New Years Eve.  By this point, an ovulating sheep should be straddling your chin dildo ready to welcome the gods of 2012.

Luke’s Albums Of 2011

01. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
02. Wild Beasts – Smother
03. Rustie – Glass Swords
04. Russian Circles – Empros
05. Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix
06. Mastodon – The Hunter
07. ZZT – Partys Over Earth
08. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
09. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
10. SebestiAn – Total

Steve’s Albums Of 2011

01. The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
02. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
03. 13 & God – Own Your Ghost
04. Destroyer – Kaputt
05. SBTRKT – SBTRKT
06. Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
07. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
08. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
09. araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream
10. Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

Jim’s Albums Of 2011

01. ZZT – Partys Over Earth
02. Arnaud Rebotini – Someone Gave Me Religion
03. 13 & God – Own Your Ghost
04. Spank Rock – Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A Fucking Liar
05. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
06. SebastiAn – TOTAL
07. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
08. Daft Punk – Tron Legacy Reconfigured
09. Fenech-Soler – Fenech-Soler
10. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs

Some said it couldn’t be done.

Some said I was crazy to even consider it a possibility.

To those people I said no.

I will ride a Segway.

In other “news”, due to a chance alignment of “The Moon” and “Uranus”, I somehow managed to convince the incredible Darren Keen to pop by London as part of his 10 month tour as The Show Is The Rainbow on Wednesday September 14^th.

Here’s some liquid* (*not actually liquid) excitement for you:

Video for Don’t Vote filmed in one take for Love Drunk.

Introductory Spotify playlist

Also on the bill are us (natch), the intense live show of Elephant 12 (tipped for big things) and the sassy Hot Beds.

Not just that, also during the night:

TEST YOUR STRENGTH at the El Tablo Arm Wrestlo!

RISK YOUR LIFE at the Top Trump Deathmatch!

CURE INCURABLE DISEASES with finely groomed moustaches!

MUSCLE beach!

Some other stuff’s happened since the last mail too, like an interview video with us going online, a stream of a disasterous live show of ours going on line (not our fault, I promise!), Skope magazine featuring our BATBS video and Steve dancing, but this is far too exciting for any of that to get any more than a paragraph in this mail.

STOP READING AND BUY TICKETS NOW USING THIS INTERNET LINK ON THE INTERNET!  JUST CLICK ON THESE GIANT WORDS TO GO TO THERE! THAT’S HOW THE INTERNET WORKS!

Here it is again, in case you are scan reading this email and there’s a chance you miss it.  “I will not let that happen or my name isn’t Ian Beale.” – Ian Beale.

Wednesday 14th October 2011 (19:30)

Moustache Flash (The Show Is The Rainbow, Neon Highwire, Elephant 12, Hot Beds)

The Workshop at Roadtrip, 243 Old Street, London, EC1V 9EY

Tickets; Facebook; Last.fm

Did you read the part about the gig?  If not, START AGAIN!

Steve.

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!

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

Facebook; Last.FM

Blah blah blah give a sh*t,

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

…on the cover of the compliation Electro House Essentials Volume 7 which opens with the Novelty Music Scene remix of Neon Blink!  It’s out tomorrow for e’rybody to embrace like a crying orphan.  If that’s not enough, then on the 29th March, Sunset 2 Sunrise Volume 09 sees the Hail! Perestroika rewire of Neon Blink on track 6.  It’s like summer but with more shoes.  In other news, I had an awesome salad for lunch (made by me, naturally), however now it is almost six o’clock and my stomach is all like “I KILL YOU! I KILL YOU IN THE FACE!“.  I was listening to some Das Racist and had to turn it off because it was exacerbating my hunger.  Tragedy.

Eightyeight games have released the iPad / iPhone game Rollover Rover which features our song Bear At The Bus Stop on the soundtrack.  Buy it here through the Apple store.  It’s EXACTLY like a hybrid between R-Type, Brian Bloodaxe and Everyone’s A Wally but simultaneously nothing like that whatsoever.  “IT’S SO GOOD I PUT MY NAME ON IT” as George Foreman would say.

TONIGHT!

LONDON!

20:00!

VIBE BAR!

91-95 BRICK LANE!

E1 6QL!

FREE ENTRY!

ABSOLUTE RADIO GIG OF THE WEEK!

IGNUG!

CASSETTE CLUB!

NEON HIGHWIRE!

Why do musicians so frequently feel the need to exercise bad grammar?  it jsut makes them look like idiots lol

ALSO

Gig of the Day on Amazing Radio

For Christ’s sake just come, is it?  Link: http://amazingtunes.com/users/neonhighwire

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165182833517055

Last.fm: http://bit.ly/hKfZNX

Kim Jong Il Looking At Things

We made a new song dedicated to the website Kim Jong Il Looking At Things with the same name.  It was adopted by the site as their “national anthem” and featured in the B3ta newsletter which was nice of everyone.  Nice like.  Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/neonhighwire/kim-jong-il-looking-at-things.

Band of the month on Little House TV

If you’re on a student network (recent change, most annoying) you can see us on Little House here: http://littlehousetv.com/.  Last I saw it had us playing Under Moonlight at the end of the show, but as I’m not a student I don’t know what’s there anymore.  Let me know if it’s changed students.  You now have a purpose.

TwoGroove Band Feature

TwoGroove wrote some nice things about us in addition to the interview we did with them.  Don’t take my word for it though, click here: http://bit.ly/ex0qiq

Hail! Perestroika remix of Fantasy Land (Christmas In The TerrorZone)

Part of a giveaway for Never Enough Notes‘s advent calendar last December.  This remix is a giant amongst men (and women).  HULK SMASH!  Me real mashed potatoes.  Link: http://bit.ly/eb2boU

List of End of Year Lists

Here is a list of the lists:

Steve’s albums of 2010

Jim’s albums of 2010

Luke’s albums of 2010

Steve’s tracks of 2010

Jim’s tracks of 2010

Luke’s tracks of 2010

Like Pokemon, buy them all.

Longe Magazine Feature

Some sh*t magazine copied and pasted our biography into some business magazine cuz WE IS SRS BNS!  Link: http://bit.ly/neonlonge

And now the weather,

Steve.

http://www.neonhighwire.com