The Neo-Kalashnikovs play Laingholm Saturday 16th Feb

We are playing Laingholm at the Primary School this Saturdy Feb 16th and will be rocking out our whole album "She's On Heat" live. All the details are here: http://www.facebook.com/TheBackYardTourists

Also the New lead single "Gorgeous Baby" is dropping Valentines Day for all the couples, ladies and guys trying to impress the ladies haha

The Neo-Kalashnikovs

The Neo-Kalashnikovs Live and Unplugged plus Auckland Regional Tour

We had the great pleasure of playing at The Clare Inn Last night with Earwig Studio owner Darren Mcshane.
Of course the live sound was taken care of by the man himself and everything ran smoothly. It was funny to see my name on the board but I guess I'm a singer songwriter too lol. Our first poster for the "She's On Heat" instant download album that will be up shortly round town also got kidnapped and it was great to see people logging onto our website and downloading our album (get your copy here) .I'll post some video footage of our unplugged performance up here very soon.

Also the band will be preforming an Auckland Regional Tour with poet Murray Haddow, Freaky Meat and th Echo O's that is going to be awesome. The first gig is at UFO in New Lynn on Saturday the 9th of Feb and then the next will be in Laingholm on the 16th Feb Saturday at the school hall. All details can be found here

New Video "I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend" by The Neo-Kalashnikovs

Download "I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend" and the entire album "She's On Heat" by The Neo-Kalashnikovs here Instantly for Free:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ex11q6etwa1so54

Picket NZ on Air With The Neo-Kalashnikovs

Picketing at the NZ on Air Office on B1 / One Beresford Square, Newton. This is for anyone who is sick of the present NZ on Air music funding scheme in NZ.The Neo-Kalashnikovs will be there and haters gonna hate when their Funding titty gets taken away. Feel free to bring along copies of your CDs that never got funding. This will be a traditional placarding event so please bring signs and cameras. 

Free Instant Download of 100% self-funded 
"She's On Heat" Rock Album by the Neo-Kalashnikovs (Click on the Blue Link)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ex11q6etwa1so54

She's On Heat: The Neo-Kalashnikovs (with extras)

Click on the cover for your free instant download

 

Hi Guys just wanted to tell you that I have re-organised the instant download of "She's On Heat" so its a far smaller download. It also now contains the official artwork of the album and I also named the songs. The band will be recording the new album "Selfish Love" very soon and having a massive release party for both albums.

Two of our music videos are also back from the lab and will be  sent to broadcasting in the new year.

The Neos

The Neo-Kalashnikovs: Recording they're next record "Selfish Love"

Hi guys sorry for the delay in an update from The Neo-Kalashnikovs, early in the week we were tracking some new songs from our back log of material on our portable studio. We were actually lucky enough to get our hands on Dicataphone Blues awesome Neve pre-amp courtesy of Stuart that really lifted our production value. I've been bumping down some rough mixes and playing them through my cd player and it's sounding really good in my opinion lol. We've even decided to do some covers of The Black Keys and Justin Townes Earles music for our upcoming release. 

We originally started off trying to complete 10 tracks in 2 days but got bogged down in fatigue  so instead managed to track all the drums for the songs and overdubbed bass and multiple guitar tones. 

Volita also tracked a lot of vocals that sound smooth as haha. I'm not sure if were gonna rip the latest material off and finish it in the studio or if I'll try to mix it all and just get it mastered, depends on how it sounds of course. Thanks to everyone for downloading "She's On Heat" getting over 600 downloads and giving away close to 150 is bloody brilliant.

The name of our upcoming album is "Selfish Love" and it will be indie rock and roll to the max with some electronic surprises. The Neos will also be dropping two final videos for "She's On Heat" and playing some shows around the country and generally mis-behaving.

Bring on 2013 The Neos!!

The Hobbit (Official Movie) : A Visual Spectacular

The Hobbit is easily the most anticipated film across the globe in 2012. Unlike the Twilight saga "The Hobbit" was a masterpiece of literature that was an instant classic from J.R.R Tolkien who inspired Led Zeppelin among many notable artists. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this movie and the problems with actors in NZ suffering over wage problems but I really like what has been achieved by Jackson even if Warner Brothers stopped him from speaking out, unless he wanted to risk losing arguably the biggest movie franchise in the world. If you liked the Lord of The Rings movies the latest release from Middle Earth doesn't disappoint.

To avoid ruining it for people who haven't been lucky enough to see it yet I will only offer some well placed critiques on my favorite components of. Firstly I adored the Dwarves as the central focus of the movie that functions as a pseudo fellowship accept everyone is below 5 feet as opposed to LOTR. My brother Charlie also really liked the inclusion of the wizard Radagast the Brown who looks after every woodland creature he comes into contact with. Saruman may say that Radagast has eaten to many magic mushrooms in the woods and suffers long term damage, but honestly I think Saruman is just a bit jealous of the free spirited wizard who is strong enough to fight Twilight Ringwraiths .

The special effects of "The Hobbit" are also second to none with the amazing world of Goblins brought to life to startling effect. The falling wooden bridges and fire spitting out goblins from every direction is stressful to watch even if the dwarves are an indestructible force of power lol. The individual actors of the dwarves also bring a new dimension to the movie as opposed to LOTR poor acting. The trolls and their comedic attire is truly thrilling and entertaining on the big screen. Martin Freeman who acts as Bilbo does a fantastic job even when battling Gollum in a high stakes game of riddles were there is much to be losted and gained. By far my favorite part of the film were the trolls whos cooking prowess will amaze as well as their stupidity.
The tone of "The Hobbit" is light hearted and down right funny making for a film that never lags and always entertains.

Rating 5/5      A Must See