Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby holding onto your dreams

holding onto your dreams

The cover art features Francesco Clemente’s painting The Four Corners (1985)

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

D4 Living Too Long

Look Out For My Love4

Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby holding onto your dreamsRiot 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,