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TVNZ journalist (and future Communicado founder) Neil Roberts does an ethnomusicologist turn in this edition of "established media tries to explain what the young people are doing". His subject is NZ's fledgling punk scene which is already on its way to extinction. Much of the focus is on Auckland but Doomed lead singer (and future TV presenter/producer) Johnny Abort (aka Dick Driver) flies the flag for the south. The Stimulators, Suburban Reptiles and Scavengers play live and punk fans pogo and talk about violence directed at them (from "beeries").
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Morrissey Breen
Posted at 09.03PM - 30.08.2011
Dick Driver---sorry, "Johnny Abort"---wears an expression somewhere in that bleak wasteland between rueful and deeply, deeply embarrassed. Clearly he doesn't believe a word of the sub-sophomoric garbage he spouts. Driver's inept posing is rendered even more hilarious by Roberts' gravely intoning that "Johnny takes his art very seriously."