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About The Neon Trees
Formed in early 2004, and featuring former members of renowned Blackpool bands, Starcollapse, The Honeycats and Lady in the Radiator, The Neon Trees have quickly become a 'must hear' band with a large live and online following.
Fronted by singer-songwriter Joanna Byrne and complimented by the strong voices and instrumentation of Adam Barkhuizen, Darren Vause and Matchbox recording artist Mike Rolland, the band describe their music as 'dirty power-pop' with an emphasis on melody and infectious songwriting. The band cite their influences as The Pixies, Belly, The Pretenders and The Lemonheads amongst many others.
The band have spent much of 2006 gigging around the Northwest and nationwide to promote their eponymous debut e.p. - now into its 7th run -this e.p. has been a huge success for the band.
In mid 2006 the band were the subject of an internet blogging storm when their song about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 'The Life and Times of Jeff' was featured on popular tech blog, 'Boing Boing'. This led to interest from international magazines and technology journals including Business Week. Understandably, the band were somewhat bewildered but delighted by this odd turn of events.
Further success came throughout 2006 with victories in the Evening Gazette's annual rock battle at the embattled Tower Lounge, an appearance at The Blackpool Odeon as part of the Ten Two film festival and 'track of the day' awards from Garageband.
2007 is looking good with the band heading into West Coast Studios to record their second e.p. provisionally titled 'Chinese Children Screaming into a Microphone'. The e.p. will be available in early March, followed by tour dates nationwide.
Ten Two Video for Here to Stay (Gangrene)
Filmed by Ian Kay for the Ten Two Festival and featuring all our friends thanks to all who helped to bury a tree or reveal a tree!
E.P. Now Available
Our first self-titled 4 track E.P. is now available. You can pick one up at one of our gigs or click below on the paypal link, send us a Â£1.50 and your address and we'll mail you one. Contact Us
To get in touch with us please email us at [email protected]
You can also visit our main website for more downloads, free videos and tunes. http://www.theneontrees.com

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Member Since: 7/5/2005
Band Website: theneontrees.com
Band Members: Joanna Byrne - Guitar and Vocals, Mike Rolland - Lead Guitar and Vocals, Adam Barkhuizen - Bass and Vocals, Darren Vause - Drums
Influences: Lemonheads, Belly, The Pixies, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Beach Boys, AC/DC, Blake Babies, Elliott Smith, Screaming Trees, Nirvana THE BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM, The Pretenders, Nickel Creek, Neil Young, Mother Love Bone, Jeff Buckley, Juliana Hatfield, Nina Simone, kd Lang, Ben Kweller
Sounds Like: A nice new leather jacket.
Record Label: Indie (i.e. just us!)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New E.P.

So, we are finished. After a long and concentrated slog our new e.p. is done. It has three tracks and it is approximately 13 minutes long. We are really pleased with this recording and very grateful t...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:33:00 PST

The times are a'changing.... (or how the Neon Tree grew...)

Hello Friends I thought I'd send out a little Neon update - there has been a lot going on... Recording We are busy at the moment recording our new E.P. (entitled Chinese Children Screaming ...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:52:00 PST

We Won our Heat!

Yay! We finally did the almost unthinkable and won our Rock Quest heat. Even up against the mighty Limousine, Ramonastone, Shen and The Streetlight! To say we are chuffed is a major understatement. It...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST

Rock QUEST!!!

Rock Quest Retro StyleThe Evening Gazette Rock Quest is back and yes, we have entered. Our heat is on Friday the 8th of December at The Tower Lounge in Blackpool (underneath the tower). Unfortuna...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:48:00 PST

Review from Full Frontal Recordings

Review from Full Frontal Recordings for UTAB 2As many of you know we featured recently on JSNTGM records second compilation about the Blackpool scene. Entitled "The Ugly Truth About Blackpool 2" it is...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:40:00 PST

Tried and Tired

I'm a bit tired. The rigours of an over-indulgent summer and the subsequent return to work - return to gigs is frying my brain a bit! I love to be busy though and I especially love to play ace gigs w...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:30:00 PST

Jeff Bezos Song

Just to clear up some confusion from several websites...... I (Joanna Byrne, singer-guitarist with The Neon Trees) wrote the song 'The Life and Times of Jeff' in tribute to Jeff Bezos, the C...
Posted by The Neon Trees on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:22:00 PST