Radio with Pictures - Neon Picnic

Television (Excerpts) – 1988

Richard Driver files this 1988 Radio with Pictures report from a Waitemata Stadium concert cobbled together after the failure of music festival Neon Picnic. He interviews The Chills, Graham Brazier and Live Aid legend Bob Geldof. Geldof, along with Tim Shadbolt and Phil Warren, had come to the aid of music fans by organising the consolation gig at the last minute. Geldof rates Neon Picnic’s demise as an international embarrassment. But he praises the local music community for rallying behind the replacement gig, and admits he enjoyed the rush of helping organise it.

We cannot give you any of your money back, even if any of the acts don’t turn up or it rains or there’s a flood or even a nuclear war or anything like that.
– Small print on the Neon Picnic ticket