“Pig City” was an all day festival on 14 July 2007 celebrating the punk music of Brisbane, Australia, from the ’70s and ’80s when Queensland was a police state run by corrupt Premier, Joh Bjelke Petersen. Pig City saw stunning perfomances by great bands including The Saints, The Riptides, Pineapples From The Dawn Of Time, Kev Carmody, The Apartments and others. Brisbane’s “ugliest” band of the period, The Black Assassins, weren’t invited to play at Pig City but, knowing no shame, decided play to anyway. With the support of Brisbane’s community radio station 4ZZZ, three members of the band (keyboard player Sirhan Chapman didn’t make it due to a stint in prison) smuggled in a guitar and an amp and played a guerilla performance at 4ZZZ’s tent on the Pig City site. This version of their song “Death Take Me Now” features drummer Lee Harvey Hinckley “crocodile rolling” an effigy of the band’s favourite Prime Minister, and later enthusiastic members of the crowd joining in.

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