We're moved to share with you insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?

First up in this article series, is a grooving song called 'Fly'. It's seriously one of our favourites on the album – many a summer evening we danced to it full bore on A-list repeat rotation in our water-fountain mood-lit sun room at Gypsy Hill studios.

Our fans are telling us that off the album they love 'Cab Ride' and 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite' but we do love, love, love 'Fly'.

The image that comes to our minds – in prepping for the video clip – is of a guy surfing on his own coffin, it's like he's in between worlds, getting ready to return to the sky. To fly like dream flying, like the way he flew through his life, with a sense of freedom and lightness and love but with a driving sense of commitment to doing what was the right thing to do throughout his whole life – he never walked away from his duty, even if at times that duty was experienced as a burden.

But the burden of leaving loved ones behind haunts his departure from this world. The song's key message is 'it's all about how they remember you'. And there at his funeral are all the people who loved him, who were influenced by his strong values and who live on with that same commitment. We fly.
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Each day is brand new. We don't know if you have noticed but there is a very short moment at the beginning of each day, a crack in time, between just before you open your eyes and for your first few moments of waking consciousness- that is like a blank space which contains all potential and all opportunity, out of which anything can happen.

​Mostly people just pick up their thoughts from the day before, from where the left off, but you can cultivate that moment of awakening into creating your day and your life into something else, something more. You can choose for your day to be full of loving, full of giving. Try it for a day and see what happens.

We're mad fans of love. Love and Australian Rules Football and gardening and campfires and playing Mahjong and fresh eggs and Holden Toranas and kung fu movies and music and our families and our friends and the list goes on...
We could go around all day saying that we love this and that and that person over there and that person over here, but there's more to love than words. It is great to vocalise your love but more powerful are the actions that prove your words. Act on your love, do random acts of love and kindness, simply to give and not expect anything in return. In fact, acting out of love without other people even knowing is an even higher expression of love.

Whoa, put the brakes on this world – we want to get the next cab ride out. We've been social media observers for some time now and our conclusion is that the world of Facebook has made us all a little more contrived and 'presented' than we all used to be. How can we all really get to know each other? The more we interact via social media, the more isolated we are becoming as a society. Don't get us wrong, Facebook has been great for a great many things.
 
One of our songs 'Will I Ever Know?' is about wondering if you'll ever find true love, the love and laughter of a soul-mate lover. But it's not just about romantic love – it can also be about the intimate love of friendship. We reflect all the time about trust and friendship. We believe in being people of our word, reliable, trustworthy – but not in a big egoic 'hey, look at how trusted we are' way, it's more about principles and old Australian values of mateship. And we always expect people around us to do the same.
 
One simple guideline is to do what you say you are going to do. But the social pressures around social media mean that a lot of people feel like they can't express their authentic selves. How can you build authentic trust with others and have the depth of friendship and love that completes us all when you present a smoke screen? We don't want you to ask: Will I Ever Know? We want you to know.

Send us your postal address by 2 April to receive a complimentary copy of our debut album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'.

We have 10 to give away – even to our fans outside of Australia.

​We chose 2 April 2016 and not 1 April because we didn't want you to think this was an April Fools joke. We won't put you on a postal mailing list - this is an exclusive limited-time offer from The Neo Now.

​Send postal address in our contact form /contact.html
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Happiness and love are not a commodities. Like all the great things in life and nature, they are free. So much of life these days is reduced to a pre-ordered pre-packaged consumeristic palaver – but seriously, the best things in life are free. Hey, let's all just slow down a bit. No, s-l-o-w down a lot.

Today, let's have a laugh with friends or watch the trees grow. In our western world, we can find happiness and love in the simplest of moments. But first we've got to consciously focus our attention in the ever-present now moment. Set up your life for successful happiness moments. Go surfing, play the piccolo, build a world with Lego, practice stand up comedy, play pirate pictionary – happiness in life is made up of series upon series of little quality moments, where you get to define what quality and happiness mean to you.

It's with a touch of sadness that we have woken up today to a world that continues to be in conflict. We – The Neo Now – are such believers in love that we don't see sometimes the suffering that is going on in the world. But we watched the news together tonight and we cried. But we truly know that deep down there is love behind the actions of everyone in this world – we're all just trying to make our way, best we know how. We can all bring a bit of sunshine into someone else's life – try it today, see who comes across your path.

The Neo Now believes in love. Why do we believe so strongly? Because it's the very thing that makes us human. Love connects us, love is a force that drives us ever-onward, it keeps us searching until we find that very feeling we were longing for. To fall in love with someone who loves you is the most wonderful experience known to humanity. And to stay in love, for love to endure throughout time and to know you've got that feeling right because your heart has been feeling bright, that is the fulfilment of a life, and yes, we say its like rainbow coloured dynamite.
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People have asked us what the term 'rainbow coloured dynamite' means and what the song is about exactly.

Simply, Rainbow Coloured Dynamite is a love song. It's like the explosion in your heart when you are with the one you love, when you kiss the one you love, it's like dynamite. We see the world in full spectrum colour – in all its glory of fiery red through to blue hues and vivid crystalline white light. Love in the fullest depth of colour, it's living life vivaciously, in celebration of love.

That's what Rainbow Coloured Dynamite is all about.​