Famous Last Words The Cassette Version

Rip It Up, Issue 89, 1 December 1984, Page 2

Famous Last Words The Cassette Version

it’s over Triple M director Barry Cverard signals to the stage after being asked to stop the concert by police. Also pictured are programme director Keith Williams (far left) and breakfast DJ Fred Botica (far right).

Dave Dobbyn will regret one sentence he uttered at Aotea Square tor the rest of his life. “I wish those riot squad guys would stop wanking and put their little batons away,” he said at the start of one of the new DD Smash songs. A tape made with a hand-held recorder registers noise from the crowd at the statement. "Where are they?” a bystander can be heard saying. "We can take care of ourselves, it’s alright,” Dobbyn says iater in the song; and then iater, realising that the crowd’s attention is beginning to shift away from the stage: "C’mon, you gotta do something here. Oh, forget about that, let’s just get into the music.” Crowd noise then makes a definite shift from jeering back

to cheering and clapping for the band. “One more sentimental song and then we’ll rock out,” Dobbyn says before the band goes into ‘Stay’. The words take on a rather grim irony a few minutes later. “Sorry, this is just too uncontrollable ... sorry, we’ve got to stop," says Dobbyn after the song. Triple M’s Fred Botica is up at the mike almost immediately: "We’ve been asked by the police to stop the concert.” Noise begins among the crowd again: “What’ll happen to all this energy?” a crowd member says. “They’re getting the long batons out shit.” The sounds of jeering become louder, breaking glass can be heard. Each major impact