Next Neko Nation Purrth - 28th May!

Neko Nation held its first event in Perth on the 5th of February, intending it to just be a small experimental event to ‘test the waters with’, and we ended up with even more people than expected! Well we were so impressed with the positive response and how much fun everyone had that we had no choice but to announce a second event in Perth on the 28th of May @ Bar 138. We’ve also had enough interest to announce our first interstate show in Adelaide, which we'll announce the details soon!

For the first event we will admit that we were more than happy just to make it through the night, and being an experimental event, we tried lots of things. Some things worked great, and there were some areas where we want to improve. So this time around you can expect the same Neko Nation you know, only bigger and better!

So what are we doing differently this time?

Moar catgirls, moar sushi!

We thought we had this sorted, but a Zerg rush of South Korean proportions meant we didn’t have as much to go around as initially planned. This time we will be ordering a lot, and we mean A LOT, more sushi to keep you going throughout the night!

We are also be getting more catgirls, keeping the super sexy Saccharine Darling and Kae-Chan but finding them more kitty sisters to play with! We will also be giving the catgirls more of a hostess role, making them more approachable, friendlier and fun to hang out with. They are our mascots for this event, and we want people to remember the awesome experiences they had with our catgirls!

Music/DJs

We are working on a brand new intense music format on the night that sees shorter sets and more styles of music. We’ll be throwing in a chiptunes set and encouraging the DJ’s to play more anime and gaming tracks, as well as just generally having more DJ’s and a lot more fun. We’ve also got a twitter that you can tag us in and request all the songs you want to hear on the night!

Sponsors and Prizes

It’s hard to get interest, sponsors and support for a brand new experimental event. This time around, we’re aiming to get a lot more sponsors and prizes, and we’re looking at keeping our competitions for “Best Dressed” and “Superstar” (dancing, cosplay performance) as well as adding a brand new category, “Best Fanservice”!

Experimental Art

While having the AMV’s playing in the background certainly helped give it an anime feel, we’re looking at having much more fun with this and expanding it more! We will be contacting local artists to display their anime and manga artworks to give the venue a better atmosphere.

Giddy Kong will also be getting involved with his “Bent Toy Project”. This will see your childhood toys evolve in a way you never thought possible. They will be given new life, names, "upgrades" and soul devouring capabilities. More info about this project and how you can get involved is available here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193954910624404

Drinks

If all goes to plan, we’re going to be serving anime and gaming themed cocktails! Now you don’t have to go all the way to Mana Bar in the eastern states to experience the taste of anime and gaming and have a great time!

As you can see, there’s a lot of ways that we will be making this event even better than last time! The official flyer and tickets will be available online in a few weeks time, and we’re also looking into possible retailers to sell our tickets as well. We’re doing a lot of hard work behind the scenes, and we are all very excited and looking forward to the 28th of May for Neko Nation Purrth!

About Neko Nation

Our event is a chance for people to enjoy their interests in anime, gaming and Japanese culture in a different, more exciting, nightclub environment. Neko Nation features DJ's playing j-pop, j-rock, visual kei and j-core, chiptunes and 8bit, as well as anime and gaming themes. We have screens playing AMVs all night, cosplay, gaming tournaments, as well as what makes the event really popular, our special team of sexy catgirls who serve free sushi all night! The catgirls really are the heart of the event, playing the role of hostesses who help to break the ice, interact with guests, dance and are just a lot of fun to look at.

We strive to create a totally immersive and interactive experience for the anime/gaming/otaku community of Australia.

http://www.nekonation.com/

Adelaide

If you have the money, try to make it down to Adelaide. There will be 7, I repeat 7, of some of the hottest alternative and Lolita models in Australia as our catgirls for the night, as well all the other awesome things that will be happening there across two massive rooms packed full of fun!!  More details soon!

Neko Nation Job Search - Purrth

Are you interested in joining the awesome team behind Neko Nation?  Do you think you can handle hanging out with like-minded otakus and gaming geeks?  Can you handle lots of sushi and anime?  Can you deal with being around cosplaying DJ’s and sexy catgirls?  Do you have a problem with getting free entry, free drinks and attending an exclusive staff pre-party?!

If you’re still here, read on and find out if you have what it takes to join our awesome Neko Nation Purrth team!

J-Rock DJ

Love your J –Rock, Visual Kei?  Do you rock out to awesome gaming and anime rock tunes?  Then we’re interested in hearing from you!  We’re looking for someone who is interested in playing a J-Rock set near the start of the night for around 45-60 minutes.

Inexperienced DJ’s can apply, since DJing ability and talent only plays a bit in getting this role (leave you uber scratching abilities at home, please).  Neko Nation DJ’s are required to dress up, dance, jump and sing along to their tracks and to have a good knowledge of playing fan servicey tracks from animes and video games.  DJ’s are to keep an open mind and have as much variety as possible, as any track that is slightly rocky (metal, hard rock, rock, j-rock, 8-bit, whatever works!) and we’re happy to have epic orchestral tracks too (think Halo, Smash Brothers, One Winged Angel) .

More importantly, we need someone who just wants to have fun and make others have fun too.  We are more than happy to train up inexperienced DJ’s if you have the right attitude and enthusiasm.

Catgirls!

At this stage we have one position available for a catgirl.

As you know the catgirls are the main stars of our show and are there to greet the guests, fill them up with sushi, look sexy and help everyone have a great time!

Think you've got what it takes to be a Neko Nation catgirl?  It takes good looks, a cute and bubbly attitude, and a strong interest in anime and Japanese culture.  Good luck in applying, it takes someone special to fill this role!  However be prepared to be extremely loved and worshipped if you do get to work as a Neko Nation catgirl!

Personal Thank You

Hi everyone

I just wanted to say to the bottom of my heart a huge thank you to everyone who came down to Neko Nation.

My motivation to create this event was basically having seen similar events around the world and thinking to myself for years, when is somebody else going to put an event on like this?  Having been involved with event promoting in the past, running my own business and having got the funds to put an event like this on, I said that if nobody else was going to do it then I would.

I was hoping there would be other like minded people and in the end there were on the night, what seriously made my night wasn't the number of people there or how much money we made, it was literally going around seeing the smiles on people's faces and all the fun you were having.  I do mean this because I could have easily made lots of money with some boring RnB event instead but I have no motivation to do so.  However, enough money was made so we can put on another event.

There are so many amazing highlights for me but things such as seeing everyone Caramelldansen or the Still Alive sing along at the end made me very emotional and it's moments like this that I will personally hold onto for the rest of my life.

It wasn't all my show, a lot of people were involved and were a massive help, Cassius, Matthew and Giddy with their DJing, Wednesday and Madman or the camera and video camera respectively, Milleh and Ryan on the door plus our wonderful catgirls Kae and Saccharine.

There is a huge special thanks to Saccharine, for giving me lots of advice to get this event going and this event would have never started if it wasn't for her.  She personally chose to flew all the way from Adelaide from her own personal expenses just to help out and visit this event and she has lots of amazing memories from everyone she met on the night.  She is now my new business partner and is putting on Neko Nation in Adelaide and she's really, really pretty to look at.  XD

It's thanks to people like you events like this can exist, there's a lot of love, time and effort that goes into putting on an event like this and we are so glad there are other like minded people who are willing to support this sort of thing as we truly enjoy putting on these events.  Your support keeps us going and motivated to put more events on and make them bigger and better, there's a fair few things we're working on in terms of improving next time for our Perth show and if you're in Adelaide it's going to be hell of a show, hell it's worth flying over for!

I say all this looking back on all the photos and videos of the event, revisiting all the memories, it was something special which I hope you all enjoyed and I seriously can not wait to do this again (and again and again)!


<3 Catalyst!c
Neko Nation Founder

Venue Choice

We're currently considering to put another Perth event on and the first job is securing a venue and the date that comes with it.  While we are open to new venues, our venue choice has been an absolute no brainer, with Bar 138 becoming our new home with good reasons.

Finding a venue isn't easy, it was my first event and it was an experimental event never done before making it hard for myself to find a venue.  Many clubs and bars put on house and RnB (yawn) nights because they know it will work and always attract lots of people wanting to get drunk.  It was very easy for clubs to dismiss our idea and Bar 138 were completely open to our idea and gave us lots of support and really put their faith in us.  They have asked us to come back even though they admitted we weren't their most profitable event, although they know we will do better next time.  We've seen clubs such as the rave club Rise close down and the goth club Sin kicked off their long term venue recently, for financial reasons, the fact a place like Bar 138 exists is becoming a rarity these days which just lets us put events on for the sake of it is great.

The venue had a laidback atmosphere both inside and outside.  I don't know how comfortable people are walking around the main clubbing district Northbridge at night but I felt a pretty horrible drunken and aggressive atmosphere in there (I'm not even running around in cosplay either!).  The fact Bar 138 was outside this area was not a coincidence and we eliminated all clubs in Northbridge out of the equation to begin with.  Plus it was easy to get too, I've been surprised many times how close the place really is to the train station.

I really would like to stress the laidback atmosphere as well, I've had many clubs question my appearance, arguing about platform shoes, flared pants, shorts, some slightly questionable shirts (people don't get tentacle sex jokes) and it's been a battle for me to get into clubs in what I feel isn't too different.  I warned Bar 138 about what people may have worn and they didn't bat an eyelid, they didn't mind cosplay, they didn't mind guys in shorts (seriously, so many bars will turn you away), a few people stripped down a bit and some people had their faces covered the whole night and this venue was completely fine about it.

Bar 138 has proven to be highly negotiable as well, not just in dress sense but overall.  They didn't mind I was playing J-Core (a genre, nobody has ever played in Perth), they didn't mind a lot of the messing around with the audio equipment and they were open to Sake and they're likely to be open to a lot more newer ideas we have planned.

People may argue that it's not the best venue but the reality is right now, it is by far the most suitable venue there is for our event.  We will keep you up to date when we can confirm the next event in Perth (and also in Adelaide).  <3

A Success

The very first Neko Nation was a complete success!  We ended up getting a good crowd down for the first event and from what we've heard the majority of people there had an excellent time!

We are pleased to announce that thanks to all of your support, we are able to put on a second event and we've got a third event in the works as well.  A very special thanks to Bar 138, Neko Nation staff and all the fans for making this happen.

We will see you in Adelaide soon!