Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby supported the likes of A

supported the likes of A Dead Forest Index and performed at The Others Way Festival

and the worst in the best

He is also one half of the Ninja Tune act Grasscut

The cover art features Francesco Clemente’s painting The Four Corners (1985)

Riot 111 - 1981! (Vinyl) John Carroll Kirby supported the likes of ARiot 111 was born from the 1981 anti apartheid Springbok tour protest on Mollett St, Wellington when police broke up a peaceful protest by savagely beating protestors with batons. Shocked by the violence they had witnessed, protest organisers Void and Roger Riot formed Riot 111. Were gonna record a protest song, well be New Zealands Sex Pistols! said Void, Roger, play a tribal drum beat that sounds like a haka!Riot 111 self released two seminal 45s,