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HOI POLLOI
ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS JAMBOREE AND RELEASING A CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED 12” EP ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’
IN 1986, THE BAND CHANGED IT’S NAME TO HOI POLLOI IN 1988 WHEN JENNY GULLEN REPLACED ORIGINAL
VOCALIST BRENT TASKER, JOINING FOUNDING MEMBERS DAVID BALL (GUITAR), JOZSEF FITYUS (DRUMS)
AND ANDREW HORST (BASS).
P. D. CORP
OFTEN OVERSHADOWED BY COVERAGE OF ARTISTS FROM THE MAIN CITIES AND MORE ESTABLISHED
RECORD LABELS, BANDS FROM THE PROVENCES IN 1980s NEW ZEALAND FLOURISHED IN A STRANGE
PARALLEL UNIVERSE. ORIGINATING FROM ROTORUA, P.D. CORP WERE ONE SUCH BAND.
P.D. Corp established themselves as a hard-working Although many of the songs penned by Jono and
live band playing several gigs a week up and down Myke featured heavy social and political themes
New Zealand in venues as diverse as bikie gang parties (vivisection and the Mafia amongst them) P.D. Corp
(no chicken wire required), pubs, on the backs of also knew how to poke fun at themselves and break
trucks, from school halls to the Christchurch Town out into self-gratuitous rock moments. Take this live
Hall, Wellington’s Car Park venue, 80s Auckland review from Nexus Magazine of P.D. Corp’s Waikato
venues the Gluepot, Powerstation and The Venue, University Orientation show, in March 1990:
dodgy TV shows, University Orientations and music “(P.D. Corp) Impressive band that have sounds of punk,
festivals including gigs with The Bats, The Six Volts, new wave, R&B, and just about everything else.
Hoi Polloi, The Revs, Rez Band and Book of Martyrs. A song penned by skinhead (sic) Myke called ‘Oh Baby
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Baby’ was described as “romantic bullshit” but have first for ‘most enjoyable live band’, right alongside
you ever heard a band that sounds like the Clash at Hoi Polloi (although it was Hoi Polloi who went
their hardest?” 8/10. on to get the record deals!)
In late 1989 P.D. Corp recorded a four song cassette- In mid-1990 Myke and Scotty left the band and
only EP entitled Piece of Plastic at Hamilton’s Tandy’s Jono and Andrew continued on with a new lineup
Studio. The self-released EP was recorded by Zed including Chris Paki (later of Mobile Stud Unit)
Brookes in a day and featured on of the band’s most until disbanding in late 1991.
popular song ‘Make It Reel’ which also gained a small
amount of traction on student radio. The band were Jono released a solo album Vein Labour in 1990.
confident the EP would get their music into the right Scotty later joined Hoi Polloi on drums in the U.S.
hands and help pave the way for a full-length album. and then Elemeno P back in NZ; Jono relocated to
One of the band’s many live highlights was playing Europe where he still performs, Myke played in several
to several thousand people at the inaugural Shelterbelt bands including Blister and ran Christchurch’s Jet Set
Festival on New Years Eve 1989, playing straight after Lounge venue; Andrew continues to work in the
the headline act, Chicago’s Rez Band on the main music business.
stage. A mini-poll at the festival placed P.D. Corp
The February 5th Juice Bar show will feature Hoi Polloi’s and P.D. Corp’s line-ups from 1989.
The two bands last played together at Auckland’s Gluepot on December 28th 1989 and Shelterbelt Festival two
nights later. This will be a chance for the bands and their old fans to re-live those good times again.
Party like it’s 1989!
For all media enquires contact Andrew B. White: andrew@andrewbwhite.co.nz / 021-767 260
www.myspace.com/hoipolloi1 (fan site)
www.myspace.com/pdcorpband
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