Suburban Reptiles - Saturday Night Stay At Home
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Uploaded by chillblue07 on Mar 1, 2011
Suburban Reptiles, (along with The Scavengers), were the first 70s styled punk band in New Zealand.
Started by Jimmy Joy (Brett Salter) and Simon Grigg, who became manager by default, the band soon grew to the relatively core line up of drummer Buster Stiggs (Mark Hough), vocalist Zero (Clare Elliot), Jimmy Joy on sax and Billy Planet (Will Pendergrast) on both bass and guitar. Part time contributions came from bassist Bones Hillman and Johnny Volume from the Scavengers on guitar.
There were some predictably turbulent gigs early on, which included the band being thrown out of the Auckland University Quad, being fired from a Catholic Boys School ball after one song mentioned something to do with swastikas and one capacity gig at the Uni Cafe where Billy Planet emptied the cafe's full rubbish bags over the crowd.
In late 1977 Suburban Reptiles were signed by Phonogram NZ with the label suggesting the band rush out covers of English punk hits like the Boomtown Rats.
Suburban Reptiles only released two singles and one track for the film Angel Mine. Megaton/Desert Patrol was recorded over three sessions, the first of which was supposedly produced by Tim Finn, who fell asleep ten minutes in.
The 7" vinyl single Saturday Night Stay At Home/45 Single was produced by soon to be member Phil Judd. An album was partially recorded but the tapes have long since disappeared, however, Billy Planet claimed in 2004 to have discovered these again or at least copies.
In late 1979 the remnants of Suburban Reptiles mutated into the Swingers with Bones ending up in Midnight Oil. Zero had been arrested for saying 'fuck' on stage (and acquitted, which is now a NZ legal precedent), and become nationally notorious.
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Super cool, pretty hot to that girl.
jaqjaques 1 month ago
Simply Fabulous!!
Beatrhythmfashion 7 months ago
Go Tony!!! Mint as early NZ music, have you thought about reforming??!!
mikewnz264 10 months ago
Oh yes!!!!!!
Cacteur 10 months ago
Zero is not a zero!
Manurewa44 11 months ago
cool
ArchHillRecordings 1 year ago