1. Like. Jim’s remix is THE BALLS.
2. Tonight’s gig at Roadtrip was fun.
3. Steve was interviewed by BBC News yesterday as part of Conspiracy For Good.
4. Come to this event Monday night where Steve will be reading from his personal diary from 1997, the peak of his adolescent, hormonal years.
Borlls borlls borlls, footy footy footy. Seriously, though, innit. Yeah. Week today. We’re playing in London again. Obviously I reckon it’ll be great, but it’s fairly obvious that my opinion is biased so I’ll leave it to famous stong–man Geoff Capes to give you a more authoritative opinion:
Geoff CAPS: “what/ Yeah alright, whatever Steven Morgan says is ture. You gonna buy a Bigg Ishoo orwo’?”
Tell you what, here’s another Neon Blink remix for you to potentially enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/neonhighwire/neon-blink-inspiring-house-mix. It’s also on http://www.myspace.com/neonrewire, but Myspace is sh%tontoast so what-the-unicorn-ever? Yeah, you know, more remixes innit? Like someone takes those source files and makes something new out of it. Not like that, in fact, but actually that. That’s what a remix is, see. One thing though, and honestly, this is so exciting that I almost wanna create an animated flaming gif for its wonderfulness…
The forthcoming Novelty Music Scene remix of Neon Blink is so good that on first listen, I bit down on my teeth so hard I chipped a tooth. It’s a small chip, but it’s amazing how weird it feels whilst your mouth aclimbatises to your new bite. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it without this mouth based metamorphosis, but I’m gonna totally admit, it was worth it. Honestly, keep your eyes open for that shizzle any day now, you’ll thank me.
So, if you want cheap entry on the gig next Saturday get in touch. If you bag that shit early, you can LITERALLY get half price entry. I’m gonna admit, I find that exciting. If you don’t, then you evidently don’t have hernia inducing money problems and you can buy me drinks all night that night AND EVERY NI@GHT==; YOU CRUNT. I’m looking at you, champagne boy. Yes.
Other than that, Neon Blink is going to figure on another mountain biking video somewhere, I don’t quite get the association, but I ain’t arguing like innit like like. That’s so vague I might as well have not even written it, but to be honest, these emails aren’t exactly concise or informative, so why change that? I enjoy the hatemail YOU PRCK, YOU KNOW WHERE I LIVE, CM SAY HAAI!
This part is more important than the rest of it combined:
Saturday 17th July 2010
Andy Quirk’s Hits Of The Near Future (Hot Beds, Remodel, Neon Highwire & Well In Garden Settee)
The Workshop, under Roadtrip Bar, 243 Old Street, London, EC1V 9EY
Saturday 7th August 2010
Here Comes The Sun (Neon Highwire & Ben Marwood & UpCDownC & The Heartwear Process…)
The Rising Sun Arts Centre, 30 Silverstreet, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 2ST
Friday 24th September 2010
Never Enough Notes Birthday (Hot Beds, Neon Highwire & TBC)
The Camden Head, 2 Camden Walk, London, N1 8DY
It’s a shame that application took so long, I’ll admit I’m gutted, but fingers crossed it works out for you,
Steve
Meow! Hahahahahahaha! Did you see what I did there? I’m hilarious! Seriously though, my life is a tragic downward spiral of meaningless tasks that distract me from the ultimate futility of my pointless existence. It’s the summer! Let’s partay in the clurb! Shrimp! White wine!
Here’s another remix that’ll be making its way to the Neon Blink single release. You can listen to it on Myspace on our Neon Rewire page, or listen below. You’ve got choices, it’s good to have choices. Like the choice between listening to some earnest singer songwriter’s new forward-looking oestrogen tinged opus, or cutting your own ears off and feeding them to a parakeet with a temperature. I’ll sure miss my ears.
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.
Others
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
Saturday 7th August 2010
Here Comes The Sun (Neon Highwire & tbc)
It’s been way too long, this needs to be rectified!
Steve.
As part of the Neon Blink single release we’ve got another taster for you in the form of Sizeable Moth Hat’s remix.
If you like Myspace, then you can go over there to give it a listen, or alternatively you can just use the player below. Enjoy.
Do you like music which is the aces? I like music which is the aces. Pimp Daddies of NoHo like music which is the aces. I have yet to find a person who doesn’t like music which is the aces. Some people get the wrong idea about what the aces is, probably due to a genetic disorder, but I don’t think anyone can deny that the Pimp Daddies of Noho Old Skool House remix of Neon Blink is anything but the UNIVERSAL ACES. Like the opposite of Bono.
Either listen to it at the Neon Rewire Myspace or Soundcloud it up below.
Neon Blink (Pimp Daddies of NoHo Old Skool House Remix) by NeonHighwire
In other newses we’re featured on TheOneMic.
To all those who’ve got the source files of Neon Blink in order to remix the twix out of it. Your deadline for submission is the end of this month (if you didn’t already know that). Shazam!
So far the standard has been:
Wonderful.
This is good news, no? SHUTUP LLOYD!
In other impromptu band news, Jim says he’s going to buy a plaid shirt (but he says a lot of things), Luke has a bad foot and Steve (he is me) has a double whammy of conjunctivitis and a cough (which he’s had for a month, a whole month, the cough that is. This is terrible. We’ve got two new tracks completely recorded just waiting for my vocal parts, yet still we wait for me to be able to sing and not sound like Tom Waits. Not that sounding like Tom Waits is a bad thing (hell no!), but I fly the higher pitched flag, the other two do the grufallo voices. I can supply my address to anyone who wants to send me sympathy Haribo (a Welsh tradition).
I’m thinking this is one of those posts where I should have stopped typing a long time ago, yet, here I am, still going. In my defence, the cream I am applying to my manky eye makes me feel like a bukkake actress, which leaves me feeling cheaper than usual. Actually, that doesn’t explain anything. Apologies. And stop.
Hello you sexy people!
Well, yes, this is a fine day for another remix, isn’t it! I heartily agree. It’s taken me an absolute age to get this out but it finally is and I’m happy to say it’s a bit of a sexy beast. Now all we need is for EVERYONE IN THE WORLD to go and listen to it and my work here is done.
All you’ve got to do is click on THIS LINK and listen to 4 minutes and 24 seconds of ear melting joyousness.
Get on with it! GO!
NOW!
“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.
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.
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.
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
Saturday 29th May 2010
Captain Zapi’s Rollin’ Revue (Neon Highwire & BODYMACHINE!)
The Aquarium, Old Street, Shoreditch, United Kingdom, EC1V 9DD
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.