This is a marvelous opportunity to star in the upcoming music video for the Neon Highwire song “Bear At The Bus Stop” (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bear-at-the-bus-stop/id384570605?i=384570611).
We will be sorting out both the bear and the bus stop (and filming), but what we need from you is the visually weird and wonderful. Essentially, anything that doesn’t involve bears, bus stops or general bus stop attire is what we’re …looking for and we need as many people as possible to help out. Be who you want to be, do what you want to do, just do it on Saturday 25th September in London in front of a camera.
Bit vague, right? Well yes, intentionally so! To give you some ideas of the some examples that come to mind, we’re talking:
Dressing up as pirates and swordfighting.
A game of chess on a portable fold out table.
Look good in a tux? Strut!
Aerobics
Eating a cake with your bare (not bear) hands
As a thank you to all those who take part, there will be a thing afterwards with free beer, and everyone loves free beer, even bears.
Come along! Bring your friends! Jebus!
Have you heard of Dragonette? They are to dragons what A-Z is to Alphabs. That’s right, they’re mucho goodo, unlike Coco Jamboo.
This Saturday, the first and only Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend, they will be playing a one-off London date at 93 Feet East on Brick Lane and (not-so coincidentally) so will we. By we I mean Neon Highwire, not we as in urea. That would require two e’s and when it comes to spelling I do not bluff. Hey! It’s Sergeant BulletPoints, everyone’s favourite military entity!
By the way, you just lost the game.
If those bullet points are too intense for you, then you can learn betterer by watching this video involving talking bears.
Other than that, we’re hard at work on our next EP which may (won’t) feature songs with titles like
I’m sure there’s other stuff to mention too, but I’ve got a really sore throat, like one of those ones where every swallow hurts. I tried to get an early night last night too, but alas I kept waking up with throat pain. There’s more remixes and stuff like that at http://www.myspace.com/neonrewire. We did a revamp of the Myspace page as Myspace changed everything, though by we I mean Luke did.
Here’s the upcoming gig list and associated links.
Saturday 28th August 2010
The Playground (Dragonette, Hooligan Night, Strangefruit, Dark Like Snow, Neon Highwire, Cinnamon Antics…)
93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Friday 24th September 2010
Never Enough Notes Birthday (Fake Teak, Hot Beds, Neon Highwire)
The Camden Head, 2 Camden Walk, London, N1 8DY
A minute without you by my side is a minute wasted,
Steve.
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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.
The Neon Goblins have been beavering away to create this cinematic masterpiece for your audiovisual delectation. Ever wanted to record vocals to a professional quality* in your own home? Then look no further than this informative videos from the people that brought you “Sustain This” and “Votergeddon”.
*professional butcher/milliner.
What are your plans for this Thursday? If they’re not dancing like a shitlollipop at Vibe Bar, Brick Lane then I feel sorry for you son, I’ve got 99 synthlines and Funky Town ain’t won.
If you need any more incentive, check out this video ++ on the Youtubes. It’s all about the straw polls, and mine does look like a straw poll, unfortunately.
With the general erection looming over us like Burt Reynolds in a cock-shaped bi-plane, we realised that it was time to get political. FEAR NOT: we have not turned into soul destroying, hypocritical fuckwarts like U2 or that hairy one off live aid, but hopefully you may just learn something about the world we live in.
The first video “sustain this” is jam-packed with juicy shizzle to lather you up into a political and panda-shaped frenzy. Why not see for yourself, here:
You can watch a live video of our performance of Akira! at 93 Feet East on Saturday 16th January supporting Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at The Playground on Youtube by clicking here. Animation, recording and editing by Sergej Hein.
Neon Blink is the soundtrack for a video made by Channelmtb.com for their coverage of the Golden State downhill finals titled “Golden State Downhill – Mammoth Mountain” and can be found by clicking this link.