Neko Nation - Tour Updates for November

Got some pretty exciting updates in regards to Brisbane and Adelaide plus some details in regards to all the other shows we're working on, let's get started with what's happening!

Melbourne
We have got plans for a Melbourne show in 2012, we are currently in talks of teaming up with another local production crew who have been involved in Manifest to combine for an uber Melbourne show.  We will have more updates soon.


Sydney
We have started getting some catgirls and DJ's on board and have almost got everything almost ready to go, more details in the near future.  ^^

Perth
We've got a new venue lined up and just waiting to sign the contract any day next week to go ahead.  Things have gone a lot slower than we would have liked due to figuring out the best options in regards to an event on Wai-Con weekend.  We do have something and details will be announced soon.  ^^

Adelaide
We've recently had a meeting with AV-Con on Friday.  To cut a long story short, we're working together with AV-Con for this show and in future shows which we are really excited about.  The biggest news is that we are having the AV-Con media team coming down with their video cameras to film the event for their latest project, AV-Con TV!

We're working extremely hard on making it the best event ever with a lot of work done on every detail that we can to make the event better.  Remember the overheating issues, air conditioning sorted.  Want more prizes, extra sponsors obtained.  We've got some amazing music producers such as Korw and Neko Theory plus interstate DJ Giddy Kong coming in from Perth.  We've got a huge AMV set up organised and arranged.  A brand new lighting setup we're working on as well, the amazing new music line up and our biggest staff list yet, (close to 28, our average show usually has 10-15 in comparison!).

Brisbane
Our debut show is getting very exciting over in Brisbane with our most massive demand seen for an Eastern states show ever!  We've recently just sorted out our DJ line up for Brisbane and my god is it one of our most amazing DJ line ups yet.  We've got big local names and interstate DJ's coming down for our debut Neko Nation Brisbane show.



DJ Triex (Owner of Ruffbeatz Records):
We've got the owner of Ruffbeatz Records, the biggest J-Core record label in Australia!  His label includes the likes of DJ S3RL, Helblinde and Shingo DJ just to name a few.  Bringing his amazing array of J-Core and a couple of surprises on board, we're very excited to have our biggest name yet join Neko Nation!



DJ Agr1ppa (Bitch Brigade)

Well known for her work behind Brisbane industrial band Bitch Brigade, Agr1ppa will have a DJ set featuring all things pink, cute and PVC (or is that kawaii?).  Famously well known as well for her love of all things Japanese which will feature plenty of Japanese pop and club tracks, we are extremely excited to have her on board for Neko Nation Brisbane.


DJ Giddy Kong (WA)
If you think that DJ's are overhyped jukeboxes, then you obviously have never seen one of Giddy Kong's sets.  Neko Nation's most famous and craziest DJ is well known for his insane and crazy antics, ranging from hacking toy guitars and DDR mats to his DJ equipment to various sound samples to make for an interesting set.  With his music variety being quite erratic, from Rickrolling to 600bpm madness, he is a unbelievably unique DJ that will have you either dancing, laughing or ragequitting.  Did we mention that he has a pedobear outfit as well?  XD

Get excited Brisbane, this promises to be one of our best shows yet!

Neko Nation Adelaide - v3.0 - Ready for Mega Update!

Hi everyone, less than 4 weeks to go till the next Neko Nation in Adelaide.  Looking forward to our third one and it's in our hometown Adelaide.  Extremely exciting since the Adelaide show is the biggest on the entire circuit (at least so far anyways!).  Neko Nation Adelaide is a lot of fun for us being in our home town since we're treated a bit like mini celebrities and are quite well known over here and we're friends with quite a fair few people involved with the show.

Neko Nation Adelaide is special in the sense that we get to bring on our revolutionary new show with plenty of new changes to our  last two which we are extremely excited to work on!  Here's a bit of a preview of what we have planned.

New venue
We are moving our premises to Higher Ground which we are extremely excited about moving to a new venue.  Higher Ground promises an exciting new setup similar to that of Neko Nation Purrth which saw a massive stage and dancefloor in comparison to the last show.  The new venue has exceptional staff on board to work with us to help bring you an amazing new show.

Located not too far away from the previous venue, it's away from the usual Hindley St crowd and easy to get too.  Featuring a much more spacious open area and also a drinks line that won't take over 10 minutes like in our previous shows!

New Music Format

We're scrapping the unpopular rave room and trying out our new speed "speedycake" DJ format system, featuring 14 DJ's over a wide varieties of genres.  Featuring our usual, J-Rock, Anime, Gaming, J-Core, Gaming, Meme plus some of your favourites such as J-Pop, K-Pop, Bubblegum Pop genres, now we're going to feature debuting some new genres such as J-Trance, Touhou and Disney, yep, expect a pretty amazing new musical experience that you will not find anywhere else in Australia.

Expect some pretty amazing and incredible DJ's with plenty of new DJ's making their Neko Nation debut, including producers, Neko Theory and Korw.  We've got Neko Nation's favourite and most famous DJ on board once again, DJ Giddy Kong hailing from Perth, well known for his unpredictable and crazy sets which saw his last set involve a hacked guitar and DDR pad to make music out of while coming as Pedobear!  Although overall, expect an incredible soundtrack across so many Neko Nation music genres of the musical nyan cat rainbow spectrum!

Graphical Updates!

I've done my best to work on improving Neko Nation's image over the past few months in particular with the use of our lovely new mascots who are absolutely adorable.  XD

We're working on various new things such as our new advertising campaign featuring A1 sized posters.  We'll also be working on some new stuff for the show, including some pretty impressive graphics plus a new AMV setup with a projector that we struggled to get working at our previous venue.

Themes
Have a merry Christmas, expect a slight Christmas theme in this show, say goodbye temporarily to prize bags and say hello to presents wrapped up!  Plus expect a catgirl or two to be in Christmas theme!

Catboys
We've had a few Catboys but more or less as substitutes in the past for other catgirls.  This time, Adelaide has demanded catboys so we've picked a pair of epic catboys for the Adelaide show who will definitely dress and serve to impress!

Cocktails
Working on some pretty awesome new drinks and cocktails on the night, we have a new venue which is going to help us go ahead with this.

After Party
Think the party stops at 3am?  WRONG!

We've setup a free after party from 3am-6am at The Pimp Pad.  Adelaide's awesome gaming joint, featuring unlimited gaming on PS3 and 360, lounges to chill on, food and drinks available throughout the night plus your chance to chill out with Catalystic and Saccharine the two behind Neko Nation!

Get ready Adelaide we're ready to bring on one hell of a show for Neko Nation Adelaide, this is going to be our biggest and best show yet, get your tickets now from Tokyo Hardcore @ Shop 144 Adelaide Arcade.  We're excited and we hope you are too.  ^___^

2012 Tour!!!!

Neko Nation is extremely excited to present a Neko Nation 2012 tour!

Within half a year of putting on the event back and forth between Perth and Adelaide, we have received an insane amount of interest on the East coast and extremely excited to be bringing Neko Nation to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.  Plus of course we're not forgetting about our birthplace in Perth and also our home in Adelaide!

We will be looking to return to Perth very soon in the first show with a special event taking place during Wai-Con weekend, we are very close to getting something sorted and we've been a bit spoiled for choice with options so we're deciding on a final decision soon!

Brisbane has recently been booked, despite the dramas of last time where we had to cancel the show due to the venue shutting down, we are back bigger and better than ever with a huge response from Brisbane Supanova for February 11th @ St Pauls.

We will be making our first show in Sydney after a lot of demand for a show we're finally making it down next year and are very excited to start getting to work on their debut show!

We had our first show in Melbourne recently and sadly wasn't our best show and didn't go to plan, we're very  excited to bring a brand new show which will be absolutely better than ever, with support from some special up and coming DJ's, stay tuned for more information!

We will finish our tour with a home show in Adelaide, we have got an interesting show planned with quite a nice surprise but you will find out soon!

<3 <3 Catalystic <3 <3

Epic Thanks

Once again an epic thanks has to go out to all the people behind the Adelaide Neko Nation for what was our biggest and best show yet.  While me and Susannah put a fair bit of time into the show we had around 25 other people involved that made this show happen.

We had 8 absolutely stunning catgirls on board Carrie, Kelly, Katja, Saccharine, Bethany, Lenii, Nana and Jimmy.  14 DJ's on board, with a special thanks to our new DJ's Shy, Visual-Kei-ra, Super BC Kid and our favourite, Giddy Kong who flew over from Perth again!  Our photographers, James, Thanh and Ashlea and when you include our doorman, venue staff and our awesome sponsors, Gametraders Marion, Freq Entertainment, Tokyo Hardcore, Miss Pixies and of course our huge favourite Shin Tokyo who have been epicly generous with prizes!

Seriously mega thanks, this was by far our biggest show yet and it was the most successful yet.  <3

Neko Nation Updates - July 2011 and Tour

Neko Nation Radelaide
Saturday, September 3rd 2011
Live on Light Square
The latest Neko Nation Radelaide has been released.  We had tickets on sale at AV-Con and we've hit the record for pre-sale tickets already, despite the event being 6 weeks away!

Expect all the craziness you have come to love from Neko Nation and prepare for one hell of a party, especially if you're still suffering from post AV-Con depression this is the perfect cure for you!

If you missed your chance to get tickets you can get tickets from Venuetix.

Neko Nation Tour
Perth - Friday, September 23rd 2011 @ The Bakery
Melbourne - Saturday, October 8th 2011 @ Geddes Lounge (The Basement)
Adelaide - Saturday, October 29th 2011 (TBC) @ Live on Light Square
Brisbane - Saturday, November 12th 2011 @ Step Inn

I would like to personally apologise for the lateness in bringing the information for the tour, unfortunately there has been delays due to Tokyo Hardcore, moving from Perth and unfortunately it takes a long time to deal with venues for our event, (not many clubs are used to our very strange demands for the night!).  None of the events have been 100% confirmed, we're still 90% confirmed with all the venues and are getting lots of little last minute things sorted out with all the venues before we work on creating the fliers.

Staff Search
If you applied for the staff search, we're getting back in contact with as many of you as soon as possible, I haven't been able to properly get back to you all until the venue has been booked, things such as venue size, closing times have a huge effect on the numbers we need staffing wise.  We have got a good number of staff helping out for all the events, although we could use a few more in Brisbane and we've ended up having to cancel the Sydney show due to virtually minimal applications for roles.

Manifest
We will be in the Tokyo Hardcore stall for Manifest Melbourne in August.  We will be selling tickets and will have fliers for the first Neko Nation in Melbourne taking place in October.  We will have special discounts for those who buy tickets through our store at Manifest like those who bought tickets at AV-Con.  We will also be putting on a special presentation about Neko Nation and more about the event in a special panel.  Feel free to also talk to us in the stall to give us your feedback about the event and get involved!

Consensual

Our most popular suggestion and request is when we are going to do an after party for a anime convention.  We are getting involved with our first convention at Consensual in Melbourne in November 2011.  Consensual is Asutralia's first yaoi and yuri convention and we are very excited to get involved with Avi and the team behind consensual to throw one hell of an amazing and potentially sexy party!

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!