Crank it Up!

Ok, so I've made the recent announcement Neko Nation events are going to be slowing down dramatically, there were three done within one month recently and now it's going to trickle down to once every two months Australia wide.  It's a bit sad to do this because our last tour was by far one of our biggest, best and easily most fun tours I've had, sadly my personal life is not letting me able to keep up this schedule at the moment.  :(

I've started uni again and while you might ask what else is new, since I've always had uni when I started Neko Nation.  Unfortunately I'm in my final semester and while there's no exams, for the time being, this is a bad thing, believe or not.  In the final semester exams aren't a big deal in a fair few course, in mine they don't believe in the idea of testing what you've learnt over the last few months, they believe in massive assignments putting together everything you've learnt in the past three years.  In short, I've been absolutely flat out since the start of the semester.

To top it all off, I'm moving on in my personal life to find a new career, I'm almost hitting 30 and would like to start getting into a professional career, unemployment is high, the market is competitive and I'm applying left, right and centre for any sort of work and even work experience, internships to just get into the market place.  On the plus side, I'm starting work as a social media manager tomorrow, it's going to be a great experience, I'm not getting paid but it's only one day a week and it's for charity, plus more importantly it's a massive foot in the door for finding work.

So with Neko Nation, I would say the whole one show every two months should be temporary, once I graduate, shows should to be a lot more regular, most likely back to approximately once a month.

For the time being a lot of focus is on Sydney and Perth.  Perth is an obvious choice, it's the easiest show for me to put on being in my home state, everything is just easier especially the lack of travel, transport, accommodation.  It's also no secret that I'm partial to Sydney so I'm aiming to keep doing as many shows there since the show is booming there in 2014.

As for the other cities, Brisbane, we just had a sold out show and there was supposed to be another show planned for 2014 but unfortunately my schedule got too crazy and it was way easier to do Perth, especially since there's a lot of changes to be made to the next Brisbane show having just only gotten the hang of our new venue.  Adelaide I haven't forgotten about, I absolutely miss Adelaide, it's played an important part of Neko Nation's history and I'm looking forward to organising something.  I'll admit the show hasn't really been up to my standards and there's a lot we can do to improve things.  I'm leaning towards a massive relaunch possibly at Fringe?  Melbourne, still trying to figure out how to do shows in Melbourne, it's likely we're looking at doing a more intimate smallish show sometime in the future, I'm kind of partial to the last venue we used for Neko Planet.

So yeah, even if things are quiet or I'm  not saying much, stuff is being worked on in the background, there are plans but with my personal life slowing things down, it's best to keep things on the backburner and will end up going full mega blast next year!