This months edition of Rock Sound magazine has a review of Luminescence, which as it’s in a physical magazine, I’ll type out for you like your own personal secretary.  I won’t do that though, put it away.

7/10

“Two years on the scene, London gents Neon Highwire have been cutting their angular-chops in all the right places, and it shows.  The startling ‘Isometric View’ harkens to Hadouken!, all shrieking outrage and dirty basslines, while ‘Under Moonlight’ has a touch of Ian Curtis’ clench-toothed vocals over skittering synths.  Already playlisted by the BBC and with plans for a UK tour this year, it looks like the future’s not only bright for this trio, it’s neon.”

Some nice words from RebelRiffs in their review of Luminscence which you can read here.  As Steve (Gilmore, not me) says “With a great cross between electronica and chippy rock, Neon Highwire are a fine example of the health of English music. The problem lies in the health of the English music business whose blindness to the potential of bands like this will be remembered and noted, come the f****** revolution.“

Kickass music blog Subba Cultcha (yes, a Pixies reference) said some nice things about our Luminescence EP which you can read here.

“Sounding at various times like Hot Chip and Hadouken! In equal measure, this is certainly one of the more accomplished efforts of the month – bouncy, engaging and interesting. Yummers” to be precise.

Many people have emailed me lately and said

“Steve, I really want to own a horse, but don’t have the space for it in my London based tower block flat.  Can horses fly?”

The answer is no, horses cannot fly.

THIS FRIDAY!

Moving on, we’ve got a STONKER (meow) of a gig coming up Friday at the triple A battery Powers bar in Kilburn run by the super fantastic lake of ice cream No Fiction.  It’s free entry, has AWESOME DJs, two incredible bands known for great music and live shows (HEY, ONE OF THOSE IS US! WODYAKNOW!), and loads of drink offers a n d  t h e  l i k e c==3

Luminescence

Buy it from Amazon, iTunes, Indiestore, Amie Street and a bunch of others like Napster and Myspace Music and Rhapsody too.  Buy multiple copies then come see us live and buy some more.  I’ll sign anything that moves.  Make new friends, buy them the CDs.  Things you can use the CD for:

Playing music.

Yeah, you thought that was gonna be one of my awesome lists, but it wasn’t. Deal.

Video

I bought a video camera, yeah, big deal.  We’re gonna start filming stuff.  Music videos are lame, we have much better ideas than that, what we need now are crowns.  Anyway, we’ve got a Youtube channel at this place which also has a link to us playing our extended edit of Akira! at 93 Feet East.

Other Stuff

There’s a load of other new stuff in the pipeline, but figure rather than just blabbering on about it, we’ll get it all confirmed and fit for consumption first.  So be patient and keep checking www.neonhighwire.com.

Few gigs coming up, but can’t reveal details on all yet till they’re confirmed.  Probably playing in Brighton on March 19th though, which will be nice.

Friday 12th February 2010

No Fiction (Raven Beats Crow & Neon Highwire)

Power’s Acoustic Room, 332 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, London, NW6 2QN

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Wednesday 17th March 2010

Glasswerk (Artefacts For Space Travel & Neon Highwire & TBC)

93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

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Saturday 29th May 2010

Captain Zapi’s Rollin’ Revue (Neon Highwire & TBC)

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

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Leigh from Easy Music For Difficult Ears has given a review of our Luminescence EP which you can read in full here.

“Without wishing to be crass, retro geared electro is the popular mass-music theme at the moment and as such any band with an extra few quid seem to feel the need to get buzz-shit together. Unfortunately most of these band’s are shite – Neon Highwire… are not.”

“Overall, it is not bad effort by Neon Highwire and while it is hardly revolutionary stuff by any stretch of the imagine, it’s definitely worth a listen. Good stuff.”

In the words of Kathie Smart from Sherwood Radio (as found online here)…

“For any of you that may have missed last weeks show and for those of you who tuned in BIG THANKS! I played my top 40 Unsigned tracks of 2009 at the bottom of the email is the Top 40 tracklisting for you

It was probably the hardest show I have had to put together to date but definitely the most fun! I really do enjoy listening and playing all of your music and it was VERY tough to have to pick!

Congratulations to Neon Highwire who made the Number 1 spot with “Under Moonlight” My review of the track is below.

Thanks for making the Unsigned show one of the most popular shows on Sherwood Radio.

Last but not least MANY MANY MANY THANKS to all of you for your support and contributions to the Unsigned Show. All the very best and I hope 2010 is going to be a great year for Unsigned Music!

Neon Highwire “Under Moonlight” Review

Under Moonlight is as infectious and if not better produced than any of the signed music in my collection to date. If I had this on Vinyl it would be scratched to death by now! Awesome! 10/10 JUST BUY IT!

Unsigned top 40 tracks of 2009

40 The Front – Fire Away
39 Feud – One last time
38 Kiss Corona – Underage Is All The Rage
37 Voodoo Johnson – Bad Habit
36 TK – Cave Man Dave
35 Van Cleef – A Princess And A Guy Like Me
34 The Smears – Pink Pop
33 Pama International – I Still Love You More
32 Machaivellian – Ranger
31 Feverdogg – Alarms
30 Lenahan – Better Man
29 Law Of Eleven – Love Lust
28 Neverborne – Cycle of Existence
27 Adust – The Evil That Dwells Within
26 The Jonny Guns – Come Alive
25 Metal Cross – Last Judgement
24 Machine God – Wasted Life
23 Murder FM – As Beautiful As You Are
22 Baptism By Fire – I hate It Here
21 Sell Crazy – Systematic Panic
20 Scarlet’s Wake – Little Box Of
19 The Rusty Trombones – I Have A Shoulder For You
18 Black Page Turns – Stand Up For The Little Guy
17 The Stangs – I Don’t Know
16 Maffa Kings – Lust To Licks
15 Paul Gibbard – Today
13 The Black Hills – Chasers
12 Dax – Waking Moments
11 Milk Fiction – Siempre
10 Beck Stacey – Speed
9 La Folie – The Incaceration of Martin Allows
8 Film – The Machinist
7 In Isolation – Virus
6 No Title (track 5) – Mastercharger
5 The Yipes – Tick Tock
4 A Poetic Yesterday – Skelatella
3 Armed For A Crisis – Granny Miggins
2 Nunchuk – Rest Assured
1 Neon Highwire – Under Moonlight“

Daily Dischord have given Luminescence a 4/5 review, check it out by clicking here.  Here’s what they say:

“It’s really easy to make a dance/rock hybrid sound shit. You just need to listen to Enter Shikari’s latest effort. It seems a lot of bands trying to plug that trade has run out of ideas, and like a lot of genres that hit a successful streak, it all gets a bit clichéd.

The same cannot be said for Neon Highwire. Yes, their EP ‘Luminescence’ isn’t massively new, but it does more than enough to make it interesting amongst the rest of the crop. The opening track ‘Neon Blink’ may leave you a tad underwhelmed, but the second track ‘Don’t: Wait’ does more than enough to make up for it’s predecessors short comings, with some crazy electro beats been thrown in to keep you on your toes while the indie rock elements of the bands sound seem to take the back seat, almost like a more calculated HORSE The Band song. It’s beyond this point you hear the best Neon Highwire have to offer. ‘Creation #4.00’ builds up into a complete shit storm of electronic beats and nice guitar riffs, opening up into a nice track, before ‘Under Moonlight’ entertains. The main event arrives in the form of ‘Isometric View’, a haphazard track that kicks and screams with frantic vocals and a catchy guitar line over some nice beats.

‘Akira!’ ends things fantastically with an enormous climax, and with that, ‘Luminescence’ proves to be an EP well worth your attention. Yes, it could be better, but the EP is highly ambitious and for that it deserves respect. Neon Highwire are a band worthy of your attention, so make sure you check this infectious EP out as soon as possible.”