Pig City is an independently release song recorded in late 1983 by the Brisbane band The Parameters. The song critiques the corrupt and authoritative aspects within Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland State coalition government and Queensland police force during the early 1980’s. Issues raised within the song included banning of street marches, persecution of aborigines, ministerial and government corruption, SP bookmaking, police harassment and Special Branch surveillance.

The song later lent its name to the 2004 book “Pig City -- from the Saints to Savage Garden” written by Andrew Stafford. The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to under stand the mentality of Brisbane’s underground scene in the 1980s. It was an oppressive shit of a town but the very oppression brought the freaks together and many a wierd / interesting band ensued.

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