Welcome to Neon Nights! Tonight you will hear Mi-Sex (Murray Burns) chatting with John von Ahlen on Neon Nights about their iconic track “Computer Games”, their new single “Somebody” and all the happenings in the last few decades.

Holding an important place in the heart of Australian music, Mi-Sex are remembered as true pioneers in the down-under new-wave scene, transforming the turntables of Australia and New Zealand as music grew up into the 80s. And now they are back with some new games—reformatted, rebooted and retooled with a little extra RAM.

Formed in New Zealand in 1977 around the trio of Don Martin, Kevin Stanton and the late great Steve Gilpin, the group pioneered the introduction of electronic instruments into the rock genre, heading across the ditch to Australia with a string of seminal hits including People, Blue Day and of course the unstoppable ‘Computer Games’.

Recipients of seven Countdown Awards, two top ten albums and global success including charts in Austria, France, Canada, Argentina and of course their home territories, Mi-Sex had an intense six-year career before calling it a day in 1985, moving on to other projects. After the tragic passing of Gilpin in 1992, the band members of Don Martin, Murray Burns, Paul Dunningham and Colin Bayley became close once more, eventually re-forming on stage in 2011 to fundraise for the Christchurch Earthquake appeal before getting together more permanently to hit the road once more.

“For Mi-Sex, lightning does strike the same place twice. These were the words going through my mind as I stood front row last Saturday night witnessing one of New Zealand’s greatest exports. Judging by the smiles both on and off the stage, and of those spilling onto the streets afterward, Mi-Sex are as relevant now as they were in 1979.”

With the enigmatic Steve Balbi (Noiseworks, Electric Hippies) recruited to fill Gilpin’s sizeable frontman shoes, the band hit a new stride, combining the energy and spirit of their original line up with a new musical direction and purpose, writing again for the first time since the 80s and starting on the road to reclaim their place in the Australian music zeitgeist.

Their new single ‘Somebody’ marks their signing to new Sydney rock label Golden Robot Records and includes four bonus tracks, reworked versions of their biggest hits including ‘Computer Games’ and ‘People’’. Mi-Sex take to the stage for the ‘Rewind Tour’ to launch the new record in Sydney and Melbourne this April.

Mi-Sex are also performing tonight in Sydney and tomorrow in Melbourne, on THE MI-SEX REWIND TOUR 2016.

April 1: Bridge Hotel, Sydney NSW
April 2: Memo Music Hall, Melbourne VIC
http://www.misex.com.au/

Electronically Yours,

John von Ahlen

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