Will Australian Musician "Jarryd James" Win the New Zealand Silver Scroll Award??

       Is the Brilliant Australian musician Jarryd James gonna win the Kiwi Silver Scroll

So they have wheeled at the latest shortlist of Kiwi hopefuls to get there greasily little mitts on the fabled existence of a NZ Silver Scroll. Which is all fun and good but what kind of excuse can they have nominating an AUSTRALIAN for the New Zealand Silver Scroll did I miss something or did I just forget to take my dumb pills. It clearly states on Jarryd James wikipedia page that they talented artist (Dis-claimer his song "Do You Remember" is phenomenal) that he's born in Melbourne and yes thats in Australia. And don't get me wrong I know the KIWI Joel Little helped write the song making it a KIWI-AUSTRALIA song written penned collab kind of like a peaceful covert ANZAC military operation but are we really ok with this??? Well maybe its time to lay down are metaphorical musical weapons and give and Aussy his just lemon flavoured desserts and roll over and just admit it in front of the whole of Australia that the person who wrote the best Kiwi song was in fact a stone cold Ozzy Battler making us Kiwi muso's all look pretty bloody stupid and useless I just have to think would the Ozzies do the same for us? maybe so please comment below. Anyway thats the 2015 Silver Scroll Question Folks; Can we give the award to an Auzzy do we have it in us? :) 

The top 20 songs nominated for this years APRA Silver Scroll have been announced with SJD and LORDE both having two songs each in the list.

• Back Into Your Life by Clap Clap Riot
• Call The Days by Nadia Reid
• Can’t Keep Checking My Phone by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Collarbones by Thomston
• Cool It by She’s So Rad
• Dark Child by Marlon Williams
• Do You Remember by Jarryd James     AUZZYYYY
• Get Out Alive by Mel Parsons
• Just In Case Allelujah by Eyreton Hall
• L.A.F. by Broods
• Little Pieces by SJD
• Multi-Love by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Naomi by Martin Andrews
• Perfect Health by Mulholland
• Special by Six60
• Touch by Maala
• Unplugged by SJD
• Water Underground by Anthonie Tonnon
• Welcome Back by King Kapisi
• Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde

The Neo-Kalashnikovs - "Diamond On Your Tongue" South Island Rock Tour

Hey guys just wanted to share with you The Neo-Kalashnikovs official poster for our South Island tour, We will be playing in the main centres of Christchurch and Dunedin this time. We are really stoked to be coming down and rocking out with you and the shows are free so anyone can rock up on the night so bring your friends haha :) We also have two very talented young bands supporting us at each date Born Broken and Sunshine Hotel and are stoked to be rocking out with them in their respective centres!!

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/788023051241828/?ref=22

The set list will be out soon of the songs we will be preforming and if anyone wants any specific song played def get at us via Facebook or theneokalashnikovs@gmail.com  I haven't seen Christchurch since we played their last and really hope the rebuild has being going well. Perhaps if their is a change in government progress will be faster, or maybe the one right now is getting the job done!! hopefully :)

 If you don't know much about the venues we are playing they are really kick-ass and have some great NZ music history. They will also be very intimate shows and we are always keen to chat with people who like our music or just music in general. I listen to heaps of different types of music and always like listening to music that I would never discover if left to my own devices. Anyway hope you like the poster and will fingers crossed have these out across both centres with Phantom postering soon.

Rock On from The Neos

p.s - we will be in the studio finishing off an indie recording of our song "Mean Things" and then sending if of to the states for mastering so stay tuned. It will be available at our shows so come along!

  Stream and Download for free our Rock single "Turn the Tables" as heard on Radio Hauraki FM :) 

The Neo-Kalashnikovs - Rock Ding Dong Lounge

Thanks to everyone who rocked out at Ding Dong Lounge with The Neo-Kalashnikovs last night. Really impressed by you guys for braving the cold!!!  Shout out to all the other bands that performed on the night and Shane for putting on the show!! Thank you to Ding Dong for having us and their host Rain!!! 
  --LIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE AT DD LOUNGE-- 

You  can stream the songs from the show here: https://soundcloud.com/theneokalashnikovsA Big thank you to Greg, Mikey, Georgia and everyone at Radio Hauraki for spinning "Turn the Tables" you guys are legends! 

Giant shout out to Ding Dongs in house photographer for all the amazing photos as well as the noes live photos taken by Zoran von Jakimov

 

 

The Neo-Kalashnikovs - Gorgeous Baby (Live Video at UFO)

Hey guys here is the band preforming "Gorgeous Baby" live last Friday!! A Special thank you to our friend Graham Hooper for taking the amazing footage :)

The Neo-Kalashnikovs preformed on Friday 4th of July at the newly renovated UFO underground rock venue in New Lynn. You can purchase the viral hit "Gorgeous Baby" on Itunes here: http://tinyurl.com/ngs82en

A big shout out to Andrew Maitai for having us and Danny and Eric for helping with the show. Brother Love were an awesome rock band on the night too!! that neighbour going on about his dogs was annoying haha!! The Neos

https://www.facebook.com/TheNeoKalashnikovs


Photos from the Show at UFO

BROTHER LOVE - Rock Legends from the South Island 

Testing Testing - "Ophelia" Hits Number 1 on the Wild Card & Unreleased Charts (The Audience)

Thanks to everyone that helped Ophelia Hit number 1# on the Audience Wild Card Charts & Unreleased Chart as well are songs all over the Rock & Daily Chart you the best so good!!! TVD :) :)

Just some words about The Audience Chart and the reasons behind us entering the song.                      Firstly we wanted to test out all our songs by TVD and create new fans so a pre-release was ideal to build awareness. 

Prior to releasing "These Violent Delights" the Neo camp was slightly sceptically about the platform and it's integrity. However, we've tested it out and find it to be a very robust, fun and invigorating way of sharing New Zealand music, building hype and gaining fans.

A few tips:
1) Cool Graphics
2) Have some more lead up time than we did although 2 day campaigns worked for us and didn't burn out our fan base by voting !!!
3) They check your I.P address so spamming is not advised
4) Support and check out other artists you never know who you might want to collab with
5) DON'T JUST VOTE, share listen, tell you friends your mum your cat that your aiming for number 1
i.e become a fan of the page and cue tracks
6) Release your unreleased songs that are brand new because people will want to genuinely want to listen and you might gain new fans
7) Make a low-budget video to promote your main single 

Volita Bioletti's rating and feed back: 8/10
"Great for indie Artists who put in the time, but still sceptical about the funding system in general"!!

Moss Bioletti: 10/10
"It's fun to be on any type of charts were musical fans are listening" 
TMR

Stream Ophelia Here:  

"Ophelia" is at Number 17 on the Wildcard Charts please Help us Crack the Top 10 - Rock On in 2014

Hey guys Ophelia is at Number 17 and so close to top 10 so if you can give it a spin and vote you brilliant people!!! it's also number 1 on the daily chart and all 3 songs are doing great in the Rock section! Thanks for your support of These Violent Delights Rock On & Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!   
                      Here is the Link Rockers!!!
        http://www.theaudience.co.nz/p/9JJ/