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!

• This Saturday.
• 93 Feet East, London.
• Playing live.
• Buy tickets beforehand here: http://www.theplayground.co.uk/ticket/events.php?artist=DRAGONETTE
• You can probably turn up on the night and buy tickets on the door.  Remember to say to the robot on the door that you’re there to see us.
• Dancing.
• Two rooms.
• No Coco Jamboo.
• I’ve got a sore throat

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

• Chris; Not Chris
• Sleepy Weasel
• Tear Along The Dotted Lime (Fruiticide)
• There’s No U In Coldharbour (Oh Wait)
• Glorious Victorious
• ID’d at 54

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

Tickets; Facebook; Last.FM

Friday 24th September 2010

Never Enough Notes Birthday (Fake Teak, Hot Beds, Neon Highwire)

The Camden Head, 2 Camden Walk, London, N1 8DY

Facebook; Last.FM

A minute without you by my side is a minute wasted,

Steve.

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Yeah yeah, we know, our drums are all sequenced live (you try sidechaining a synth to  the various drums in a 15 minute soundcheck at some dodgy shithole in Camden), but the times, as they say, are achanging.

That’s right, Neon Highwire are no longer a three piece triangle of titilation, but now a four piece rectangle of raunchiness.  With the new material focusing so much on the rhythms anyway (been listening to a lot of Phil Collins lately), it seemed like the natural progression.  So could everyone welcome our beatman extraordinaire all the way from Latvia with arms of steal(ing).

Flavaadit Gambatron

Skip This Bit If You Have No Soul

Man, my song titles are so awesome.  It’s like I just think of this shizzle all the time, like I’m made of magic haribo or something.  The way I see it, we should write our album around the following list of song names.  I’ve done the hard work coming up with this list, the other two can do all the recording and I’ll sit at the side and criticise.  ”YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG JIM!  DO IT AGAIN BUT WITH MORE GOOD.”

1. Sidechaining Your Sox Groans To My Station Exx

2. I Don’t Think You Should Have Done That, Reginald (Part II)

3. I Don’t Think You Should Have Done That, Reginald (Part IV)

4. ^ Scat

5. I Didn’t Want Your Stupid Chair Anyway

6. Aerosmith On The Bus

7. I Only Like People Who Laugh At My Jokes

8. Whatever, I’ve Read Books

9. Yeah Politics Man Yeah F**k The Government Man And Stuff (Chair’s Lament)

10. Turned Out It Wasn’t Aerosmith

11. Conversations I Thought I Had But Turned Out To Have Dreamt That They Happened

12. Aerosmith On The Bus (Reprise)

If you’ve got ideas for the title of this future Mercury Music Prize winning affair, click here and add it as a comment.  I’ll send the writer of the best one a copy of our EP.

Leave your house and have a good time

We’re playing 93 Feet East a week Wednesday, as you know.  You don’t need me to tell you it’s gonna be awesome, and we’re playing new material too, so you’ll be all like “Wow, I think this is new material” and you will be right.  A week Friday we’re then heading to Brighton to play at The Hope, so tell everyone you know who lives near Brighton and isn’t a total pillock.  Other than that, we’re confirming a festival appearance in April, a launch party for the Luminescence EP despite the fact that it’s out already and gig + swimming pool in May.

Stuff redux

Bullet points are 2010.

• Our music is to be playlisted in a chain of 200 fashion stores in Italy.
• Luminescence reviews in Rock Sound, RebelRiffs, Subba Cultcha, Easy Music For Difficult Ears & Daily Dischord.  People be loving that shahoozy.
• Neon Blink to be used as theme for currently untitled new Finnish TV program.
• Neon Blink to be released as single on Blue Dove Records with a plethora of sensual remixes on the b-sides.  Release date etc. TBC. FTW.
• Neon Blink used in some mountain biking video.  You are still fat.
• Timetravelling Luminescence launch party currently being finalised.  Shrimp & white wine.

Best bit

Wednesday 17th March 2010

Glasswerk (Artefacts For Space Travel & Neon Highwire & Sir Yes Sir & Double Rainbow)

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

Facebook; Last.FM; Tickets

Friday 19th March 2010

Synthetiquette (The Kleptones, Neon Highwire & Officer 82)

The Hope, 10-12 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3WA

Facebook; Last.FM

Saturday 29th May 2010

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

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

Facebook; Last.FM

If you’re reading this line and think it’s about you, then it’s about you,

Steve.

http://www.neonhighwire.com

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http://last.fm/music/neon+highwire

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“