Sick of Sweetwaters? Bored of Brown Trout! ALL OUT!!! New Zealand Punks, Skins and Ragers for…GOLDEN SHOWERS, a new wave celebration pissing over the others!
Organised by Capitol Chaos Promotions (made up of John Void of RIOT 111 and Gerald Dwyer of Flesh D-Vice) the Golden Showers concert held on Easter Saturday of 1983 took place at the Newtown Community Hall, Rintoul Street. The gathering brought together punk bands from all over New Zealand and followed on from the Underground Emerges gig in late January. According to Dwyer the need to organise arose from the eternal problem of lack of pub venues that would allow punk bands.
Wellington gigs at the moment, consist of guys in their 30s playing boring, middle-of-the-road rock. There are no venues for young bands to play since most of the band members and the audience they play to are under 20. We want to prove that punk concerts can be safe.
Gerald Dwyer, 1983, Evening Post
The gig sold out the 400 capacity hall and was deemed to be a wild success despite the police breaking it up early. However most of the bands had played by then and Void’s live recording of the gig was released a year later as Capitol Kaos on Jayrem records.
