Hello to all in Redline-land!

So I'm just chilling at home at the moment, thought I'd give everyone a shout and see how you're all doing!

So June is drawing to a close, and looking back it's been an intense month. Yes we only played one show, but it went really well and it was great having Chris over here for a few weeks. We partied, we saw a lot (well, he did) of cool things around Europe and from my perspective, it was the first time I felt right being over here.

We went to Download festival and had an awesome time seeing some of our favourite bands, and learned about some new killer ones at the same time.

Ultimately, this month has made this whole trip over to this side of the world worth it for me, and now we're looking forward again, trying to figure out what the next step is for Redline.

Ka Kite for now!

Debut Redline London show success!!!

Just wanted to quickly write to say how amazing the show went last night, show you a couple of pics and to say thanks to everyone that turned up and made the show so great!

We missed having our regular Redline family with us, Isaac that does sound, Big Val who stage techs and of course Nick to slam the bass lines home. Matt from Agent did an outstanding job filling in on bass for the night, many thanks to him for helping us out.

Our set consisted of Echoes, Now, Tearaway, Time After Time, Nothing Else, Take Me In and Thriller.

The other bands we played with were killer! Big ups to Firetone, Killing Cupid and Of The I. Hope we can get to jam with you guys again sometime soon.

Pumped as for show tomorrow

Hey everyone, just got back from our last practice before the gig! We're playing tight, pumped as, and ready to show London how it's done!

Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know. If you're in London and coming to the show, I just want to say a big thank you on behalf of the other guys, it's gonna mean a lot to us. Granted unfortunately Nick's still back at home waiting for surgery (he reckon's his knee looks like it's gonna explode! Sick!) so we've got Matt from Agent deftly filling his shoes (thanks Matt and the Agent boys for letting us steal him for a bit!), and the 5th Redliner, Big Val, is not able to be with us, which sucks on both counts, but we're still ready to rock the house and bring the Redline noise to London town

I'm sure there's going to be plenty of photos and maybe even some video footage if we're lucky, we'll keep y'all in the know, obviously!

Chur to the chur!
Craig

Hanging out in London Fields

It's a mean sunny day, just kicking back and chilling in London Fields with Craig, Rich and Marcus. Was a mission catching various trains trying to get here though!

Finally in London!

Woo hoo, I'm here now with Craig, and Paul from I Am Giant who picked me up from the airport :-) Fun times ahead!

Got to Hong Kong, halfway to London!

First thing I noticed when I got off the plane was how humid it was here. Next thing I noticed was the number of people walking about wearing surgical masks to fend off swine flu! Then I noticed how massive this airport really is!

Got to Sydney, next stop Hong Kong!

Im at Sydney airport now. When I got off my flight before, airport quarantine had set up thermal cameras that scanned people as they walked through checking for anyone who may have the flu! The images that came up on their monitor screens looked like something out of predator!

And so it begins...

At Auckland airport right now waiting for my flight, thinking about how in about 34 hours I will be in London! Got to zig zag to Sydney and then Hong Kong first though.

Redline London Showcase poster

Below is our poster for our London showcase on 4 June 2009.

Download Festival at Donington Park 2009

It's now less than two weeks before I finally get to fly out of New Zealand on 21 May to meet up with Craig and Rich in London.

Can't wait to kick some ass at Redline's first London show on 4 June, do some traveling and then end it all in style by going to the Download Festival on 10-12 June.

This is the sickest line up of bands I have ever seen on a concert line up and I cannot wait to be in amongst it all. Check out the poster to see who is performing, totally killer!

For now, this is a short trip to the UK for me and I'll be returning to Auckland after 4 weeks. I'll take plenty of pics and vids of the trip for you to check out.

Make sure you follow me on Twitter as I'll probably be updating that quite a bit while I'm there.