Riot 111 has been played on NTS shows including NTS Guide to…, with 1981! Or Is It 1984? first played on 26 March 2020.

Riot 111 was a New Zealand political punk band active from 1981 to 1984, and often associated with anarcho-punk. The group was formed by two political activists, singer "Void" and drummer Roger "Riot" Allen, during the South Africa national rugby union team's infamous 1981 tour of New Zealand. The band is named after the New Zealand emergency phone number, 111.

In 1981 a racially exclusive South African rugby team toured New Zealand, provoking the greatest civil unrest in the country since the 1951 waterfront strike. Wellington's political music community responded quickly, joining the anti-tour movement and producing one of the most radical singles ever made here, Riot 111's 1981: a Maori haka (dance/chant/challenge) set to a stark marching beat cut through with the angry bitter sound of tour supporters and a brutal mimic of the police chanting "Move Move Move!!!" as they repelled anti-tour activists on New Zealand streets.

Then 1981 entered the New Zealand pop chart top fifty in October. This required the band to perform live, something they had not yet done. One of their first performances, in Wellington, caused a riot at Victoria University. This caused them to be banned from playing any commercial venues and forced the band to hire small school halls. Void detested the chart mentality, but star status of a kind was coming his way whether he liked it or not. Void was constantly attacked on stage by girls who would strip him of his clothes and left him to perform semi-nude. He made the New Zealand Truth in late 1981 when his kilt was ripped off on stage at an early Riot 111 show at the Rock Theatre.

Roger Allen: "Riot 111 came together quickly after the first Molesworth Street anti-tour march. I was with some friends five rows back and I thought the worst that could happen was I'd get arrested. We walked out near parliament grounds and there were all these cops in front of us and I thought shit here we go and next thing I know I hear all these "flop flop flops" - the police battening people over the heads right in front of us. There were thousands of people behind us. We were just being fed into the police. It turned me. Here's these people supposed to be protecting what's right and they're hitting old ladies over the heads with batons."

In January 1982 Riot 111’s 1981 (both sides) appeared on the Ripper Records compilation Goats Milk Soap. The same month their second single Subversive Radicals backed with Writing On The Wall and Escape or Die appeared, astonishing everyone by making number 19 in the New Zealand pop charts. Despite its popularity the single lacked the power of its predecessor.