Unrestful Movements - Anti-Trend - Wellington - 1983
Snarly bit of outsider rock from Wellington based Rotovagians that's stood the test of time
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Tour Log - Overseas Acts touring NZ between 1977 and 1983
...Wellington. 20. Dunedin. 23. Christchurch. 24
November 1978
David Bowie. QE11 Park. Christchurch. 29
December 1978
David Bowie. Western Springs. Saturday. 2
April 1979
Bob Marley and The Wailers. Western Springs. 16
June 1979
Talking Heads. Auckland Town Hall. 6
July 1979
Iggy Pop is in NZ promoting New Values. 10. 11. 12
Doctor...
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Riot 111
...Wellingtons political music community responded quickly joining the anti-tour movement and producing one of the most radical singles ever made here Riot 111s 1981 a Maori haka (dance/ chant/ challenge) set to a stark marching beat cut through with the angry bitter sound of tour supporters and a brutal mimic of the police chanting Move Move...
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Above Ground - Bill Direen's early years - 1976 - 1984
...Wellington he was back in hometown Christchurch for secondary school at catholic college St Bede's, studying the sciences, but preferring plays and musicals. A dilemma that would unsettle him further in the following years as he drifted through University medical study to a job at a particle board factory
He was also playing a set of...
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The Newmatics
...Wellington. This tall quiet straight looking typical bass player. We ended up calling him Junior. That combo worked, but the rhythm section wasnt quite happening so Ben became the new drummer
Ben Staples was another Auckland teenager tuned in by punk, but too young to experience its first rush. He was a freshly dropped out 16 year old when...
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The Gathering of the Clan - New Plymouth - New Year's Eve - 1982
...Wellington's First Fifteen. New Plymouth's Nocturnal Projections and Final Solution, and Christchurch's Tall Dwarf Alec Bathgate. All the main centres and several provincial centres had productive punk and post-punk scenes echoing punk's long reach and Britain's post-punk regionalism
The gathering was Doug Hood's idea. He'd been there since...
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Beat Rhythm Fashion - live and on record - 1981 - 1983
...Wellington. Number 49 in August 1981
Airy rhythm-light Cureish strummer and elegy to Rhys Bassett, a suicided scene face, from the most proficient and pop of the Wellington Terrace scene bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Group constants were Wellington brothers Dan and Nino Birch with a succession of drummers including Glen Stewart,...
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Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg - The Clash in New Zealand - February 1982
...Wellington and Christchurch music scenes were alive with punks fire. The national scene glutted with venues and fans. Quality independent groups such as Blam Blam Blam, The Penknife Glides, Danse Macabre, The Instigators, The Newmatics, The Androidss, and The Screaming Mee Mees had stepped up to touring the main cities and the provinces. At...
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Life Means Nothing To Me - 1980s New Zealand Punk
...Wellingtons First Fifteen with the wonderfully off-kilter Fascist Tango (In The Street
Punk rock rose again and again. In West Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, and Christchurch, and in many smaller centres, and became more politicised evidenced by the prolific burst of punk fanzines with their local punk news, Anarchist and left wing...
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