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Cool, have you heard of Animation College in Auckland? It's a college specifically made for animation which looks really promising:- http://www.animationcollege.co.nz/

Been keeping a blog of travel recently which I could PM you if you're interested.

Yeah it's really different culturally and temperature-wise in New Zealand to England. Going class thanks! In each place/city I've been so far I just turned up at open mic or organized events themselves and talked to the organizers that I made music on a Gameboy. Played 9 so far! One show was quite eventful when the organizer lost it at me at an open mic in Queenstown.

I told the organizer what I was intending to perform with beforehand. He said that was fine, so I set all my gear up and started to play. The crowd loved it!

Around a minute or two in the organizer asked if I was going to  sing, I told him nah I just needed it to introduce myself. He came right up to me and told me sternly ' This   is  NOT a Dance club, turn it off!'. He was a Maori and was quite big, dominant character of a fella too, I was scared shitless though since I was there by myself I had to stand my ground. I didn't know what to say so I just ignored him.

Soon afterwards I seen him pointing at me, flailing his arms around at staff in a really pissed off state. I have no idea what narked him. That said in New Zealand here most acts and performances  usually just feature a guitarist and reggae music so it's pretty different to of played electronic music!

Soon enough he came back to me as usual right in my face as I was performing. 'Turn , it down!' he said. By this time I'd usually cave in and given in to what anyone told me to do. I wanted to tell him to piss off though because I'm profoundly deaf, it's just hard to get my words out. Unless you're in this position I can only describe it as you freeze up and stutter your words out. Words just don't come out - and it depends on the situation of stress. In this case I was well out my comfort zone physically shaking with fear.

I thought couldn't just stop playing because the crowd there was dancing. It was an open  mic too for pete sake! I just ignored him  and continued playing .He did have a last go turning the master volume of the mixer down. I continued to play for a few more minutes before fading the music out. Afterwards an English group said I made their night playing there. 'Music in New Zealand is years behind' they said.

EDIT:- Grammar

Two PA speakers, Can't remember what type.

Apologies for my inactivity in this thread. This thread’s interesting, from the sounds of it it seems the scenes more physically active (i.e events,release, shows) though on a more global scale and trends online towards social networking sites like Soundcloud/Bandcamp these days rather than one central place (i.e - 8bitcollective, chip music) . Maybe these two reasons combined could also mean that you don't hear so much about shows that've happened on here.

I haven’t been involved in a while or more honestly I’ve been trying to avoid it partly to do with the ‘drama’ and as a musician I didn’t want to constantly listen to much chip music as theres a whole variation of music out there to be inspired by. 

In the past I remember there being quite a lot contact and communication between people from renowned artists to people starting out. It also seemed easier to pick out what music was worth to check out viewing how many people rated music or by particular artist names.  It didn't necessarily have to be popular either as you could find some real gems around which weren't as known.

I wondered what everyone's been up to as you don’t hear so much from everybody these days or people grow apart . I was curious to see what is currently trending, or progressed and if anything new has been in development these days.