Old Gigs:1991

At the beginning of 1991 i was living in Blenheim and me and a flatmate Mike decided to go to the Waihopai protest, camp out at river for weekend and meet heaps of good people, which we did. Two of them, Zane and Simone, played for a band in Wellington called SMUT. They said "we're doing a gig soon, come over". So we did.
We caught the ferry over on Friday arvo and got on the piss with some rastas from Rai Valley. Hit Wellington semi-loaded and made our way up to the SMUT flat where we met Eli and Simon and Spike and heaps of other good people whose names i've forgotten. Carried on drinking then made our way to the venue, mob handed. It was at a place called Stax. Somewhere on Cuba Mall. Good sized crowd there.
SMUT played first and i can't remember how they sounded, but i know i enjoyed it. The one thing i do remember from their set is a guy called Jackson (Black Jack), one of the Droogs who were quite prominent then, standing up on the stage giving everyone the evils, psycho stare, etc, before doing a huge dive from the stage. Everyone on the dancefloor casually parted and he hit the gound fucken hard!! One of those classic "no give in the floorboards" type of landings. Hahaha. He managed to save face by getting up, but he was definitely sore.
Second was CASUALTY who were living in Aussie by then and just doing a NZ tour. As always they were fucken excellent, always loved their stuff. Afterwards, me and guitarist Chris had heaps of oil spots on the fire escape out the back and whispered sweet nothings to all the street girls down below.
The last band was SUX, a three-piece from Aussie who were mind-blowing. Again, one of my all time favourite live acts (i've got a few). Did anyone else see them? I bought their album that night and thrashed it for years but it went AWOL somewhere along the line.
Another brilliant lineup.
Afterwards we mingled outside with heaps of other people then began staggering back to the flat, via a fish and chip shop. These guys invited us to have a smoke so we joined the circle and suddenly WhamBam, theres about five cops there. They went round the circle doing names, searches, etc, and wouldnt you know it, i was the only cunt with anything- about a third of a cap of oil in a tin. Off down the station, in the cells for the night, before the judge on Monday. I always spew on that conviction. The only good thing was that i had to spend the rest of the weekend in Welly and got to go to a mean party in Aro St on the saturday night. Never forgotten that party either.
So that was the SMUT/CASUALTY/SUX gig.