Next up for Neotopia will be a charity fund raising gig, featuring four other bands at Rushbury Village Hall, in Shropshire, on Saturday, January 30th. Each act, using their own PA system and stage lights, will take turns playing from their corner. Just three songs before allowing the next band to do their three. Around the room it goes - the audience getting entertainment from all directions! Yes, it's a bit like the BBC TV show 'Later With Jools Holland'.

Our good friends from Worcester Skewwhiff are already confirmed to be playing with us once again! Other bands and muzos will be turning up and pitching in. There'll be a bar - and tickets are a fiver each. These must be bought in advance only. - They're available from the bands or from the school. See poster for details... blah, blah, blah.

Live BBC Friday Session

We've kicked off 2010 with a live BBC radio session! We had a tricky time getting to the Worcester studios as the weather in the British midlands has been so dreadful. Heavy snow has caused road accidents for both Nick our drummer and keys geek Dr. Beatnick - whose car remains abandoned in an icy Worcestershire lane, where nobody can currently reach it. Still, despite the better advice of many folk we braved some very slippery roads and successfully arrived at the BBC studios to play live on the BBC Hereford & Worcester programme 'The Friday Session'.


We performed four songs; 'Phoenix', We Can Be Together', 'High Ideas' and 'Zombie Empire'. There were two breaks for interviews and a bit of banter, where listeners' messages were aired to great amusement. Amazingly, this local arm of BBC radio managed to reach Newfoundland, New York, L. A. Norway, and more locally; Cornwall, Scotland, Manchester and Birmingham! isn't the internet marvelous?

The BBC show 'Friday Night Session' is part of the fantastic 'Introducing' initiative that champions and brings exposure to lots of unsung musical talents. Tune into yours, wherever you are!