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SPITTING DISTANCE
New Zealand Listener
|May 27 - June 2 2023
Photographer JONATHAN GANLEY reflects on how his new book revisits the influential wave of post-punk bands that hit these shores 40 years ago.
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Nineteen-eighty-two and 1983 were golden years for Auckland gigs by international post-punk bands. The Clash, the Fall, New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Birthday Party played shows that ranged from chaotic to outstanding. I pushed my way up the front to photograph what seemed likely to be once-in-a-lifetime events.
This story is from the May 27 - June 2 2023 edition of New Zealand Listener.
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