A decade ago things were different, Livejournal was social media of choice, underground raves required you to figure out a secret meeting point to get a physical map without internet help to find you way there and Covenant performed at Metro City, the biggest nightclub in Perth. My first live club gig, which was amazing and pretty much shortly after turning 18, started working with Outbreed and learned my craft with events, I learned the basics, I learned the advanced stuff, I've worked from all sorts of events, to illegal underground raves to monthly house nights to major festivals like BDO and I've seen all sorts of crazy things, sex, drugs, undercover cops, raids, mafias. It was one crazy rollercoaster of an eyeopener into the world of events.
I remember being surrounded by people who went out, telling me about getting jaded and how while you're having fun now, you'll grow up, you'll get bored out of this life within a year or two. You'll change, you'll grow out of it all, this is a temporary life until you figure out where you want to be. Over a decade later, I never really did.
I've ended up here, creating an event that was partly influenced by the first event I got to work with (along with a lot of Japanese events I was influenced by), heck the original creator of Outbreed flew back down to check out this event from Singapore recently and was quite amazed and impressed. I would be told that kandi, happy hardcore and PLUR was something that would be dead constantly when I first started raving yet, I've had people thank me for helping revive that rave scene over in Sydney. I've ended up DJing at a whole bunch of other clubs all around Australia and meeting absolutely amazing musicians, models, promoters and all sorts of awesome peeps.
Funnily enough now, Neko Nation was created because of my two passions, the industrial/alt scene was too full and there wasn't really much I could add over here, yet now ironically enough, it was all my work in the anime/cosplay scene that caught the attention of various people in the alt scene across Australia and heck, now I'm getting involved with Velvet Acid Christ over next month is pretty damn sweet.
To make me even happier the position I saw myself in many, many years ago is the position I've seen a fair few people who work with me are here right now, while I want to be doing events for a long time, I know one day it will end up stopping and some of the awesome people I've had in higher up positions, I'm really looking forward to the amazing events they create in the future.
So yeah, somehow I couldn't imagine over a decade ago I'd be here and it was something I never ever thought about or aimed for but somehow, I survived and somehow made it here, which is absolutely crazy.
