The Merc hits New Zealand

Thursday Feb 23rd, 2006

NEW ZEALAND Rocks! Seriously....We love it over there! The people, the food, the geography, their love of music, their respect for their culture..Incredible. If you have not been GO!

Well this is what went down. Brooke and Dotti from our NZ record label picked all of us up at the airport late in the night on Thursday night and we all hit the sack after some seedy takeaway food. The following morning we headed to Cruise Bar to begin a massive day of scheduled interviews with pretty much every journalist in town! They all went really well. We also recorded In the Summertime and My Completeness on Top of the Pop to a live studio audience. That evening we went to a wicked Japanese restaurant with our manager and our record label. We all ate a serious amount of food and a little too much Sake....We all rolled out into the night and headed to a great little bar! Everyone had an absolute blast.

The following day we headed to a cool little indie venue called the Kings Arms where we did a special afternoon showcase gig for Rock FM winners and their friends. We played some new demo tracks which went down a treat. That night everyone had a pretty chilled one as we had to be ready for a massive gig at Rock in the Park the next day. Sunday arvo we arrived at Greens Park, about 10mins out of Auckland, where about 6,000 people were going off to Pluto then Elemeno P! They rocked hard. We were on at about 4pm and by that time the crowd was reaching 8,000 or so. We played hard and people seemed to dig it. Someday Someday and In the Summertime got a big reaction because of the radio support but people seemed to also like My Completeness which is about to be released this week to radio in NZ. It was sooo hot on stage but the vibe of the crowd was incredible.

On Sunday evening we had a lovely BBQ at Brookies house which looks over a beautiful bay in Auckland. We were all so exhausted but felt extremely satisfied with what we had achieved in the last few days. Mon morning came round and we did a few final interviews at a local cafe with some journos before flying back to Sydney. We had the most incredible time over in NZ town and all the fans who came out to support us at Rock in the Park....we salute you!

We are all busy working on new tracks back in Sydney and next week we fly to LA and NY to meet with some producers and our US label. We also have a couple of low key gigs in LA and NY so check out the gigs page. We have also got some video footage up on the web from our NZ trip!

Keep rocking on and we will see you at a gig soon!

The Merc