I Told Her On Alderaan & Trick For Treat
Neon Neon are the combined musical powers of Los Angeles based producer Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals lynchpin and solo star Gruff Rhys. Slipstreaming their gloriously original concept album 'Stainless Style' is forthcoming double N-side single 'I Told Her On Alderaan' and 'Trick For Treat', out 14th July. In addition to the new release, the duo will be donning driving gloves and hitting the highway for a series of international live dates, including a special one-off performance at a London car park.
'I Told Her On Alderaan' and 'Trick For Treat' are taken from Neon Neon’s highly-polished and widely acclaimed debut album 'Stainless Style'. The entire record is a wonderfully ambitious piece of conceptual power-pop inspired by the incredible life and times of the world’s first playboy engineer, John DeLorean. DeLorean rose from humble beginnings to build his own automotive empire – along the way the ballsy businessman attained a jet-setting lifestyle filled with fast cars, sharp flared suits and glamorous lovers. DeLorean’s most famous and enduring creation is the iconic stainless steel DMC-12 car, better known as simply ‘The DeLorean’ and immortalized in 80s movie Back To The Future.
In 'I Told Her On Alderaan' Gruff Rhys imagines a dream sequence over Boom Bip’s epic, synth-heavy production. The sleeping DeLorean, tossing and turning due to the stress of his increasingly complicated affairs, envisages driving his wife to see the shrink. The scene then suddenly shifts location to Star Wars planet Alderaan on which DeLorean is strenuously protesting his innocence. On the grittier, thumping 'Trick For Treat' Gruff and Boom Bip are joined by Spank Rock and the saucy falsetto of Har Mar Superstar for an electro-rap ride that passes through the cold, superficial world of 80s celebrity and looks at the sensational moment the seemingly unstoppable DeLorean success story ran out of petrol. The song immortalizes the automotive maverick’s own exclamation that “Gold weighs so much more than this” – a remark made in a hotel room whilst holding a suitcase filled with $24 million worth of cocaine, and caught on camera by the FBI as part of an undercover sting operation which left DeLorean ruined and facing 60 years in jail.
In addition to the new single, Neon Neon are revving up for the live shows detailed overleaf. The dates include 3 UK shows, including a special one-off London performance in a car park venue where anyone arriving in an original DeLorean will be granted free entry.
www.myspace.com/neonx2
Live dates:
June
28 Glastonbury festival Glastonbury
Neon Neon are the combined musical powers of Los Angeles based producer Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals lynchpin and solo star Gruff Rhys. Slipstreaming their gloriously original concept album 'Stainless Style' is forthcoming double N-side single 'I Told Her On Alderaan' and 'Trick For Treat', out 14th July. In addition to the new release, the duo will be donning driving gloves and hitting the highway for a series of international live dates, including a special one-off performance at a London car park.
'I Told Her On Alderaan' and 'Trick For Treat' are taken from Neon Neon’s highly-polished and widely acclaimed debut album 'Stainless Style'. The entire record is a wonderfully ambitious piece of conceptual power-pop inspired by the incredible life and times of the world’s first playboy engineer, John DeLorean. DeLorean rose from humble beginnings to build his own automotive empire – along the way the ballsy businessman attained a jet-setting lifestyle filled with fast cars, sharp flared suits and glamorous lovers. DeLorean’s most famous and enduring creation is the iconic stainless steel DMC-12 car, better known as simply ‘The DeLorean’ and immortalized in 80s movie Back To The Future.
In 'I Told Her On Alderaan' Gruff Rhys imagines a dream sequence over Boom Bip’s epic, synth-heavy production. The sleeping DeLorean, tossing and turning due to the stress of his increasingly complicated affairs, envisages driving his wife to see the shrink. The scene then suddenly shifts location to Star Wars planet Alderaan on which DeLorean is strenuously protesting his innocence. On the grittier, thumping 'Trick For Treat' Gruff and Boom Bip are joined by Spank Rock and the saucy falsetto of Har Mar Superstar for an electro-rap ride that passes through the cold, superficial world of 80s celebrity and looks at the sensational moment the seemingly unstoppable DeLorean success story ran out of petrol. The song immortalizes the automotive maverick’s own exclamation that “Gold weighs so much more than this” – a remark made in a hotel room whilst holding a suitcase filled with $24 million worth of cocaine, and caught on camera by the FBI as part of an undercover sting operation which left DeLorean ruined and facing 60 years in jail.
In addition to the new single, Neon Neon are revving up for the live shows detailed overleaf. The dates include 3 UK shows, including a special one-off London performance in a car park venue where anyone arriving in an original DeLorean will be granted free entry.
www.myspace.com/neonx2
Live dates:
June
28 Glastonbury festival Glastonbury
July
5 Wireless festival London
6 Solexism [*car park show*] London
5 Wireless festival London
6 Solexism [*car park show*] London
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