Prisoners’ Action
Group Benefit - Blind Hall,
Woolloongabba
15
July 1983
The Black Assassins, Marko Halstead, Pork, The Pits, This Five Minutes.
The Blind Hall in Woolloongabba had been a venue for Ballroom dancing in Brisbane in the ‘40s and ‘50s. In the late ‘70s/early ‘80s it was a good venue for punk and alternative bands. At the time the Queensland Government’s treatment of people in prisons was worse than appalling. At this benefit for the PAG, the Black Assassins started playing out of sight behind a prison wall built across the front of the stage out of cardboard boxes and knocked down into the audience with gusto during the show. The anguished rendition of AC/DC's Jail Break moved the audience to tears. See Toxico's Photos of The Black Assassins at this Prisoners Action Group Gig