I guess there's nothing more cliche than a couple of kids in a basement making noise. We make noise until the noise makes sense, until the noise means something, until we know that it's a song. Thats exactly what we do, though it has been a trip. We just started as Collin and Andy jamming in the fall of 2007 after they'd finish high school. But we wanted more than just some jamming in a basement, more than just a chaotic 12 bar blues. Out of the spur of the moment, Collin asked Mark and Daniel if they wanted to join him and Andy and create a band. That was the first time Collin had even met Mark and Daniel, why they agreed to a crazy kid with dreads was beyond me but they did and after Mariana joined in the later weeks the line up was complete. The name was really a temporary idea, because every entity needs a name. One wacked up dream later, the name Metrophish was chosen. Though the name is as such a mystery us. In blind faith we got up on the stage no more than a month of practicing, which was more making random noise than songs, and played our first gig at the Grog and Tankard. It was a rush, we couldn't get enough, we played where ever they'd have a bunch of kids with some guitars, drums, and a violin weather it was The Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington D.C, the 8x10 in Baltimore, or just the streets of our town, we were there. In March 2008 we walked into the studio for the first time and recorded an EP later to be known as "Narwuar" which featured the first few songs to come out of the noise of the basement. 100 copies were made, 100 copies were sold. We used it to book, to gain a reputation as a band. We played into the summer, expanded, played some new places, met some new faces, wrote some new songs, it was all new. In the late summer we started making videos of us loading up our Van and hanging out at practices we called the "Struggle". We named it after the series of videos we recorded were we drove up to Baltimore for the BMC 2008 (Baltimore Music Conference) on a school night and had to haul all our drums, amps, and equipment through a long tunnel in a back alley, up into an elevator, to the 12th floor, walk it half way across the building, then up one more floor on another elevator which got us to the 13th floor. Played the show, rinse repeat back down the elevator. drive back home, unload, go to bed, in 3 hours get up and go to school. This is our lives and we love it. We kept playing shows and making home videos, until December when we were offered by a friend to record an album. In the months between the release of Narwuar and then, many songs had come out of the noise of the basement. The songs that we didn't want to lose but didn't have room to record were recorded and mixed in a home studio over 4 days. We called it "So You Didn't Make It To The Circus", the idea that the songs didn't make it to the album which we would assume that the recording of would be like a circus, chaotic and fun, and thats all we did. From January to July we were in the studio on the weekends and after school, recording, recording, editing, recording, and mixing up in a professional studio in Annapolis owned and operated by Bill Krantz. During the recording process, Mariana decided to leave the band over personal disputes with the rest of us. But the noise continued and continues. At the end of September 2009, two years after Collin and Andy started making noise in that basement, we had an album finished, mixed and mastered, coming out in the next months called "Lines and Blurs". We changed our name from "Metrophish" to "The Neon Rush" inspired by the feeling of the sound in some of the newer works. We are still just a bunch of kids making noise in a basement, but maybe, we hope more people are tuning in.