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9
Aug

Our gig with Mile High

A great time was had by all at the Mile High gig on the weekend.  The Ninja Monkeys went ape and just really enjoyed themselves, despite a false start and a few bum notes!

Check out the three latest videos from the gig – we have “Go Away”, “Drowning”, and possibly the best ever version of “Gone” that we’ve done.  Thanks to Stephen Briggs for filming the songs for us!

Go Away

Drowning

Gone

Our next gig is this weekend at The Cabana – will be a set of around 45 minutes, doing our seven originals plus maybe a jam and a couple of covers to fill in the time.  We’re playing with an up and coming rock instrumental band called Oktoba2May and an acoustic duo will be kicking off the night from about 8:30pm.

Watch this space for info on new merch, EPs and upcoming gigs!

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6
Jul

Supporting Mile High – August 7th

We have been asked by Auckland band Mile High to be one of their opening bands at the Napier stop of their upcoming national tour :)

Mile High tour poster

The Napier show is at The Cabana on Saturday the 7th of August.  It will be great to see you all along at the show, but if you are out of the area make sure you try and catch one of Mile High’s other gigs!

Related show

  • Artist: Ninja Monkey
  • Date: Saturday, August 7th 2010
  • Time: 8:00pm
  • City: Ninja Monkey in Napier
  • Venue: The Cabana
  • Address: 11 Shakespeare Road
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Admission: $10
  • Age restrictions: No Minors
  • Notes: Mile High with Invader Cain, Ninja Monkey and Dead Heroes Collective.
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16
Jun

Photos from the last gig

Our gig last Saturday was a lot of fun, we debuted two new songs which both went really well.

Friend of the band Daniel Reyland came along and took some great photos of our performance! Thanks Dan :)

Here’s a slideshow of some of them:

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8
Jun

Ninja Monkey gig poster spotted in the wild!

A rare sighting of a Ninja Monkey gig poster seen in Napier:

Poster for our gig at The Cabana June 12

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4
Jun

Ninja Monkey custom guitar picks

Just arrived from the good people at Grover Allman; a batch of Ninja Monkey custom guitar picks:

Ninja Monkey Guitar Picks

If you are a guitarist or bass player looking at getting some custom guitar picks, then we can highly recommend Grover Allman.  Great service and a fantastic finished product.  Very, very happy with them :) (this isn’t an ad by the way, we are just very happy customers).

Look to catch one thrown to the audience at a Ninja Monkey gig sometime soon ;)

Grover Allman website: http://www.groverallman.com/
Grover Allman on Twitter: @groverallman

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1
Jun

Next gig – June 12th

June 12th gig

Ninja Monkey will be playing at The Cabana on the 12th of June with JR And The Acoustuds, Billys Gospel and Valve Inc.

We have two new originals to debut, which are coming along very nicely :)   They are called ‘Breathe In’ and ’Out Of Nowhere’.

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18
May

The first gig at The Cabana

Ninja Monkey played their first gig on the 13th of May 2010 at The Cabana in Napier.  The show went really well, and the crowd seemed to very much enjoy it.

We played four songs, three originals and one cover.  The performance was recorded on a digital camera, which did a better than expected job :)

Here’s the videos of our three originals:

The first song is called ‘Coming Home’

The next song is called ‘Hold On’

The last song is called ‘Gone’

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5
May

Righto, let’s try that again shall we?

After a few scheduling issues we have confirmed our first outing; Ninja Monkey are playing at The Cabana in Napier on Thursday the 13th of May!

The Cabana has a monthly Muso Night, where new bands get to play in front of an admiring (hopefully!) audience on a real stage with a real world PA and gear 8)
We will be playing a 20 minute set, five songs in total.  Three Ninja Monkey originals (Coming Home, Hold On and Gone), and two covers (Crush crush crush – Paramore and All Fired Up – Pat Benatar).

We’ll try and organise someone to record the performance.

Paul and Owen contemplate the gig

Paul and Owen contemplate the gig

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19
Dec

It’s all coming together

Plans are afoot to play a short 5 song set (4 covers and 1 original song) at the monthly ‘Muso Night’ at The Cabana in Napier sometime in January.  Date still to be confirmed.

Cara shows her appreciation of the practice

Cara shows her appreciation of the practice

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3
Dec

The monkeys are playing!

Band practices are well underway at the secret overground Ninja Monkey compound.

Band practice

3/4 of the Ninja Monkeys hard at practice