RIOT 111

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Golden Showers Gig, 1982

RIOT 111 was a

infamous 1981 tour of New Zealand. The members of Riot 111 were Brown Squad protesters, who were involved in running battles with the police's Red Squad outside the apartheid South African rugby union
games.

Void and Roger Riot recorded with

Haka of the All Blacks. It got to No. 18 in the national chart considered the 12th most important song ever written in New Zealand music history by Rocked the Nation 2009 documentary series.[citation needed
]

International touring acts asked Riot 111 to support them at New Zealand concerts, and through 1982 they played with

John Cooper Clark and The Dead Kennedys. Jello Biafra wrote extensively about Void in US punk fanzines as an icon of anti-music imperialism. Riot 111 was one of the first bands to express Oceania indigenous culture through alternative post-punk rebellion.[citation needed
]

Riot 111's EP of illuminate was released in 1982. "Songs "Your all waiting for

Subversive Radicals[3] was followed by a tour of the South Island with a band called The First XV. This resulted in four of the eight tour members being arrested in Christchurch on the first day of arrival. They were also involved in a street battle with police outside The Star and Garter hotel, which caused the closure the hotel for the year and led to more banning of the band.[citation needed]

Void co-produced two nationwide punk rock concerts as alternates to the backward looking hippy music festivals most of the bands are excluded from.[citation needed] Capital Kaos live record was released. Such trouble with the police proved to be one factor that caused the band to fall apart. Other factors included continued violence from skinheads, Maori gangs, selfish girlfriends, the replacement of bassist Mark Crawford with Tim Ord, and a close friendship with Neil Roberts, an anarchist who died bombing a police computer database building.[citation needed]

References

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  2. ^ "Riot 111 – subversive radicals". Nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Riot111-subversive". Archived from the original on 29 March 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2008.
  4. ^ "Fairfax New Zealand Limited". 26 May 2005. Archived from the original on 26 May 2005. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  5. ^ "RIOT 111 - Up The Punks". Upthepunks.co.nz. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Killed by Death No.15: New Zealand Rare Punk 77-82 - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 September 2020.