The Enemy: Five Songs Live1978

The Enemy were one of the most influential New Zealand bands of the Punk era. They broke up before officially releasing anything. These songs were recorded at The Enemy’s final gig at the Windsor Castle pub in Auckland in 1978. We Are The Enemy and Iggy Told Me were crowd favourites. Don’t Catch Fire reappeared on Toy Love’s only album. Tease was later transformed by Toy Love into Squeeze. A point of interest here is Chris Knox’s fake British accent. Three members Alec Bathgate, Mike Dooley and Chris Knox went on to formed Toy Love after The Enemy’s demise.

The five songs in the zip are

1. We Are The Enemy
2. Iggy Told Me
3. Tease

4. Don’t Catch Fire
5. Gone To The Worms

Chris Knox                Vocals
Mick Dawson               Bass
Alec Bathgate            Guitar
Mike Dooley              Drums

We Are The Enemy.mp3
Five Songs From Live At The Windsor Castle 1978

West Auckland Punk Gig Poster 2 1983

 

Firstly, sorry about the poor quality of the poster. It’s a scan of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy. Not many of these West Auckland gig posters survived. This one is from 1983. No Tag were just about to release their album. The Plunket Boys had become Vicious Circle on their way to becoming The Warners.  Zyklon-B contained members of The Mormons and Agent Orange (the Mt Roskill Punk band not U.S. one).

Here’s three songs by bands who played at this gig.

The Henchmen - Bitch Goddess

Zyklon-B - Youth On Our Side

No Tag - Mistaken Identity

Or all of them as a .zip

West Auckland Punk Gig Poster

West Auckland Punk Gig Poster 1982

This is a gig poster for a local Punk dance in Auckland New Zealand from 1982. No Tag, The Mormons, The Plunket Boys and Red Cross were  cornerstone bands of the early 1980’s West Auckland hall punk scene. They played self-organised gigs in hired West Auckland halls. The gigs were promoted by world of mouth and self-designed photocopied posters like this one. The Plunket Boys put this gig (and therefore this poster) together. It was closed down early by the Police like many were. The reason the Queen says there are four bands playing but there are five on the poster, is because No Tag were added at the last minute.

The Steroids: Mr. Average 1980

This is the debut single of Wellington, New Zealand’s The Steroids. Released in 1980 on  their own White Light Records. It is also the debut recording of Alan Jansson. Who, two years after playing guitar on this record was ‘Pulsing’ all over the radio with his new band The Body Electric. In 1995, he scored a worldwide hit as the producer and co-writer of OMC’s multi-million selling How Bizarre. But this is a great example of an early self-released New Zealand punk record.

Produced by P. Blake

Alan Jimson (Jansson)   Guitar
Andrew Dray                    Bass
Robbie Holmes              Drums

Art work by Claudie

***Warning recorded from vinyl. Surface Noise***

Mr. Average

Out Of Control

No Tag: Oi Oi Oi 1982

New Zealand band No Tag were part of the early 1980’s West Auckland hall punk scene with the likes of The Mormons, The Plunket Boys, Red Cross and Vicious Circle. Playing gigs in hired halls such as the Owairaka Hall, Mount Roskill Municipal Hall, and the Mount Albert Primary School Hall,  as most venues  banned punk bands from playing. Manly due to the behaviour of  crowds they attracted. In the true tradition of punk, these gigs were organised by fans or the bands themselves and promoted by self-designed photocopied posters. No Tag were the only band from that scene to release a record.  This is their 1982 debut EP, release on Propeller Records (Rev21).  They also released an album. The arm and tattoo  -yes, its a real tattoo- on the cover belongs to the drummer Carl.

Andrew Boak                        Guitar
Paul Van Wettering              Vocals
Carl Van Wettering              Drums
Gary Sullivan                          Bass

No Tag
Mistake Identity
Legalised Dogs

Toy Love Gig Poster 1979

A gig poster from New Zealand band Toy Love. From 1979 when cut and paste meant scissors and glue. It's photocopied not printed. The Island of Real was an "all ages" venue on Airedale street in Auckland. I have never heard of the support act.