SKAPA (NEW ZEALAND SKA BAND) - ORIGINAL GIG POSTER

2ND HAND POSTER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. A FEW PINHOLES AND A FEW CREASES. 

TEXT: "CARPARK SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST

+ SUPPORT

GiMBiBLYT FROM HAMILTION"

DIMENSIONS: 30cm x 42cm

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More band info: 

"Skapa emerged in 1988 amongst a second generation of New Zealand ska bands. The four core members of Chas, Hugh Costello, Mathew Beauchamp and Craig Chisholm, had all gone through Rongotai college in the late 70s with drummer Chas Mannell playing in college punk band The Ambitious Vegetables and later on in new wave band The Mockers. As with all good ska bands worth their salt Skapa features revolving door lineup in the horn section and numerous other cameos from anyone who could stand up long enough to last a set.

Playing their debut gig in February 1989 at Victoria University’s Orientation week as support for the 1988 chart topping Holidaymakers. “The Wellington Orientation was only notorious because The Holidaymakers were a chart band, they’d just been to number one and it was Skapa’s first gig. Most people were leaping about to Skapa but left within two songs of The Holidaymakers. I think word got round our mates who paid to see us, but thought the other band was a bit wimpy” recalls Chas Mannell.

Skapa had a loyal following from the start within Wellington’s skinhead scene but were quick to point out that the band were vehemently anti-racist (they feature on a 1995 S.H.A.R.P compilation) and that the music of ska promotes racial unity far removed from the popular representation of short haired boneheads. “Admittedly some of the Skins, have in the past had dodgy attitudes.... but the mere fact that they enjoy ska music [it] has dawned on them that racism is being hypocritical.”

Skapa released their first tracks in 1990 on a 4 track cassingle titled “Skaparty”. This was followed in 1992 by the album “Easy Street” in 1992 and feature tracks in a number of local and international compilations."