Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby mixing religious imagery and child-like

mixing religious imagery and child-like simplicity like the poet Stevie Smith

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supported the likes of A Dead Forest Index and performed at The Others Way Festival

This latest instalment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups

Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby mixing religious imagery and child-likeRiot 111 was born from the 1981 anti apartheid Springbok tour protest on Mollett St, Wellington when police broke up a peaceful protest by savagely beating protestors with batons. Shocked by the violence they had witnessed, protest organisers Void and Roger Riot formed Riot 111. Were gonna record a protest song, well be New Zealands Sex Pistols! said Void, Roger, play a tribal drum beat that sounds like a haka!Riot 111 self released two seminal 45s,