RIOT 111

The group was formed by two political activists, singer "Void" and drummer "Roger Riot", during the South Africa national rugby union team's infamous 1981 tour of New Zealand.[citation needed] International touring acts asked Riot 111 to support them at New Zealand concerts, and through 1982 they played with The Birthday Party, John Cooper Clark and The Dead Kennedys."Songs "Your all waiting for 1984 but we all know it’s here" The bleak reality growing Surveillance State gearing up and turning on its citizens, "Subversive radicals" a collage of the propaganda names activists were being labelled in the press.[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.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.