tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:39:23 +0000vile electrodesanais neonanalogue synthesizerssynthpopJoyNew OrderRe:Orderboundary hotelcoldwavedeep reddrum machineselectroelectronic musicfetishlady lucie latexnag nag nagnatasha gornikomdpieproximityradiophonic workshoprhythm factoryscience museumshoreditchst leonards on seathe oramics machineThe ramblings of Anais Neon about life in Vile Electrodes and other stuff she likeshttp://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-4817278926363630372Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:41:00 +00002014-01-10T15:22:16.550+00:00electronic musicomdvile electrodes So I've resolved for 2014 (and forevermore) that I'm not going to feel guilty about acknowledging my abilities and sharing my (our) successes. It took my mum dying and a friend committing suicide to give me the determination to start making music. Celebrating, and striving to make the most of achievements in which I wish they could share is the least I should do. In 2013, with http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2014/01/vile-electrodes-are-great.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-8648780958765799479Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:57:00 +00002012-10-14T15:30:59.443+01:00At about midday yesterday, whilst idly surfing the internet, it occurred to me that I hadn't seen my good friend Gordon Urquhart online for few days.  I decided to drop him a message, as I often did, to see how he was, and to ask if he'd watched the footy at the weekend. Gordon lived in Zambia, you see, and Zambia has just won the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time, 19 years after an http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-valetines-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-5235280864237539660Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +00002012-01-25T19:00:22.153+00:00I'm feeling very contemplative right now. Today marks the anniversary of the passing of my mum, and this event is pretty much the reason Vile Electrodes exist (I blogged about that fact here, back when I used to blog!). I think the fact that Martin and I are on the verge of very positive things this year, both personally and creatively, is why I'm feeling the loss very keenly today; mum was a http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2012/01/vile-comtemplation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-225170377253008372Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:41:00 +00002011-06-16T21:42:23.660+01:00radiophonic workshopscience museumthe oramics machinevile electrodesHello. Martin here, in my FIRST EVER BLOG!! So, DAY 1 in the The Oramics Machine household. Interesting. Verrrrry interesting. A very nice bunch of people gathered around a table in a very fine old building [the former Post Office Saving Bank HQ in West Kensington, now a huge museum store. In it's heyday, 4000 clerks making hand-written entries for every time someone deposited or withdraw cash http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/06/oramics-machine-at-science-museum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-4088007294554030988Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:57:00 +00002012-05-03T00:27:25.102+01:00anais neonanalogue synthesizersdeep reddrum machinesproximitysynthpopvile electrodes Naturally, all our songs are highly significant and it goes without saying that they are all amazing. Ahem. Some, however, are more significant and amazing than others. Here are my top 3 Vile songs. Play with Fire This was the first song that made us sit up and go "HEY, we're actually not shit!". It's shiny and fizzy and poppy, with simple and crap lyrics, like every good hit out therehttp://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/songs-of-note.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-2676645940075195464Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:14:00 +00002011-03-22T14:18:56.512+00:00anais neonrhythm factoryvile electrodesOver a fairly short period of time Martin and I found that we had songs coming out of our ears. We had a name too. It was time to do what every band in the world does: set up a myspace and wait for fame and fortune to come knocking. We uploaded our best finished songs which, at the time, were Utter Gutter Slut, Second Skin, Cruel and Black Cat. The results were amazing. Soon we http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/waste-of-myspace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-7800300723192470555Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:09:00 +00002011-03-22T14:15:20.557+00:00anais neonanalogue synthesizerssynthpopvile electrodesWe became Vile Electrodes pretty much because we were desperate for a name and didn’t like anything we’d come up previously (Little Death Machine, Strange Fruit, Spitalfiends, R.S.W.O. [that there acronym will be revealed one day]). Well, desperation and the fact that it’s the name of one of our songs that no-one apart from Martin and I have heard. It’s a song about how you sometimes just can’t http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/name.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-8784116548347757196Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:42:00 +00002012-01-25T09:52:25.545+00:00anais neonvile electrodes Writing this blog is weird. Documenting experiences reminds me of other times that I think are worthy of recording [even just for myself!] and, for the first time, I’m really viewing the web as a web. I’ll try not to tangle it too much. Blogging about my mum's death acting as a life-changing catalyst made me want to share this snippet:  I dressed and readied her for her funeral. Lots of http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/make-up-mishaps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-2614964798384200546Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:29:00 +00002012-01-25T10:01:14.407+00:00anais neonanalogue synthesizerssynthpopvile electrodesSo I’d found my voice, but there was still no way I was ever going to get up on stage and use it! People might boo, or throw things at me. It is better to never try, than to try and fail. Yesiree. Then my mum died, aged 59 and three quarters, after battling the big C. Suddenly the worst thing that could happen to me already had. Rotten food and large stone projectiles were nothing compared to http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/pesky-epiphanies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-5661000078127312507Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:24:00 +00002011-03-20T17:30:44.248+00:00anais neonanalogue synthesizerssynthpopvile electrodesI love making music. It sometimes frustrates me to recall how long it took me to harness my musical mojo. But I suppose it happened when the time was right, largely because the circumstances were bad. I spent my childhood and early youth playing lead roles in school plays. I stood, proudly, to altar left praising the Lord with my chords. Singing, natch. Then I became an awkward teen and, http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/voice-my-fears.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-2651296070287519978Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:34:00 +00002011-03-17T11:21:54.738+00:00anais neonlady lucie latexpievile electrodesMy working life is wonderfully weird. I (mostly) love it as, nowadays, no two days are the same. On Tuesday my kick ass boss at Lady Lucie Latex spent a lot of the afternoon sewing the word VAGINA in different fonts with her new sewing machine and then, yesterday, I was in Birmingham for the "Best of Britain and Ireland" travel forum, where I was advising coach tour operators where to take theirhttp://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/weird-work-if-you-can-get-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-7933140393273957628Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:40:00 +00002011-03-19T16:08:59.000+00:00anais neonanalogue synthesizersnag nag nagvile electrodesIn the early part of the 21st Century I met a boy. He was unlike any boy I'd ever met. He dyed his hair blue, red, green, white blonde, skunk stripe. He looked like the future; it was the 21st Century, afterall. He had a pert bottom and walked with a spring in his step. And he wore good sunglasses and stupid watches. We went on a date to a club called Nag Nag Nag and danced until dawn. We had ahttp://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vile-beginnings-girl-is-mad-about-boy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-4759624583508475008Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:13:00 +00002011-03-14T18:01:53.310+00:00anais neonboundary hotelnatasha gornikshoreditchvile electrodesNow I've started I can't stop. Exactly like a Pringle.It occurred to me that there's plenty of news to share. Anais Neon had a photoshoot with Natasha Gornik on Saturday in the very amazing Boundary Hotel in Shoreditch. Natasha was lovely (and super hot) and the shoot was awesome. Can't wait to see the pictures.It was actually Natasha who kickstarted my blog action again. She blogs ALL the time http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/photoshoot-with-natasha-gornik.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-300051267433709064Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:35:00 +00002011-03-14T18:15:26.818+00:00analogue synthesizersst leonards on seavile electrodesHmmm. I don't blog much. I worry folk will get bored of my witterings. But maybe I'll start doing it more often. Use it like a Vile diary.Today, Martin and I are playing around with Play with Fire and trying to give the recorded version a more "live" feel. A lot of the original track is played by MIDI instruments but we have a plethora of analogues that will make it sound even more http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-with-play-with-fire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-8988472556483580339Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:06:00 +00002010-09-20T12:11:38.937+01:00analogue synthesizerselectroJoyNew OrderRe:OrderWe're playing at the Dublin Castle next week with Re:Order, a mighty fine New Order/Joy Division tribute band. It's a fund-raising effort for Great Ormond Street Hospital. It's also their Hooky's birthday so I suspect a few pints will be drunk. And then Hooky will be drunk...Here are the details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102047946523770&ref=tshttp://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2010/09/double-bills-will-tear-us-apart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698997448722082263.post-9118247418550011138Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:53:00 +00002010-09-10T09:57:33.616+01:00analogue synthesizerscoldwavefetishsynthpopvile electrodesI totally forgot that I had created a Vile blog. Does remembering mean I have to think of things to write? In all honesty, though, there is plenty!Vile Electrodes are going great and we're having masses of fun playing gigs up and down the UK. We've also been approached by a couple of record labels who want to feature our tracks on compilation CD's for release next year. So our music can't be all http://vileelectrodes.blogspot.com/2010/09/everythings-vile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Vile Electrodes)0