{"id":22904,"date":"1986-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1986-11-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/?p=22904"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:56:19","slug":"neil-roberts-day-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/1986\/11\/neil-roberts-day-1986","title":{"rendered":"Neil Roberts Day 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Six of us travelled to the Wanganui computer centre, to commemorate the death of <strong>Neil Roberts<\/strong> four years earlier, when he attempted to destroy the computer. Handing out leaflets in the township was out of the question when the local Mongrel Mob greeted us with the traditional \u201cHey punky, fuck off\u201d. So we stayed in the park opposite the computer centre, where a statue of a past PM made a great black flag holder. After some soccer we crossed the computer centre\u2019s carpark to pull some \u2018hardcore\u2019 pose at the entrance, which didn\u2019t please the staff too much (perhaps they were expecting a 1982 repeat). This in turn inspired the boys in blue to send out two cars of filth, hence swelling the numbers. Since we were committing such serious crimes as \u2018remembering an anarchist\u2019, \u2018possession of an offensive haircut\u2019, it was the usual \u201cname, address, occupation\u201d treatment.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Simon, <a href=\"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/2024\/01\/anti-system\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12176\">Anti-System<\/a> #8, January 1987<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td>1986, November 18<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td><td>Moutoa Gardens, Whanganui<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Type<\/strong><\/td><td>Commemoration, protest<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Organisers<\/strong><\/td><td>Simon Cottle<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/11\/1986_11_18_neilrobertsday_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/11\/1986_11_18_neilrobertsday_02.jpg 742w, https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/11\/1986_11_18_neilrobertsday_02-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David and Simon Cottle<br>Photo: c\/o Heather Osborn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six of us travelled to the Wanganui computer centre, to commemorate the death of Neil Roberts four years earlier, when he attempted to destroy the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2JUk-5Xq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1986_11_18_neilrobertsday_01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22914,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904\/revisions\/22914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}