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!

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

Tour Update - Perth

Hi everyone, will be doing my best to actually update the blog, I've just been extremely busy with the tour and the launch of Tokyo Hardcore!




We recently had two shows on our tour, the first show was held in Perth on September 23rd and it was easily the best and biggest production show we had done yet, mega thanks to all the staff involved, the venue who were amazing to deal with and helped up put one amazing show and of course all our fans who helped make it one of the most enjoyable shows yet.

It was an amazing show which saw many crazy and unique aspects, we were able to introduce Perth to Saccharine's very popular Bubblegum Pop set which brought a mix of meme's, 90's pop music and well known songs in the anime scene.  We had sexy schoolgirl catgirls who did an amazing job despite the pressure of one of our DJ's dressing up as Pedobear for the night and chasing after them in some amusing photos.  Our free sushi was kicked up a notch thanks to Iku Sushi, with possibly some of the tastiest sushi yet and a new surprise for our guests cheeseburger sushi, which may sound a bit odd to some but those who had it were very blown away!

Perth was an amazing show and was our biggest one yet, in terms of the venue, projector size, number of stalls and even number of people attending as well.  We're glad it went well since we were determined to take Perth up another level and in the end it was an amazing show and I'm so looking forward to coming back!

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!

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