Sorry - I have posted three times becasue each time I remembered a little more about teh events of that day. People have short memories! I remember only too well the riots and it wasn't started by the singers comments at all. It started when a young man p*ssed on the crowd and police went and tried to arrest him. The crowd intervened and refused to let the police arrest him. Yes, it may have been teh singers comment after that but it wasn't the reason the singer spoke out it was becasue the police tried to arrest him and then teh singer spoke out telling them to put away their battons. After that the police decided the concert got out of hand and ordered it shut down and had the power tuned off. When they tried to get the urinating man down everyone stood up to the police and pulled him away from the police - this is what started it - I was there. I notice the wiki entry for this event totally ignores the urinating event also. The police then called for reinforcements from all over greater Auckland. People were driving in from the suburbs to take part in the protests and police got teh radio stations to broadcast that police backup was pouring into the city. The riots lasted for over a day - it wasn't over in a hurry at all. The police stood defensive and allowed the riots to quell themselves. The police realised they were totally outnumbered but they also remembered that the cause of the riot would soon lose momentum so they let it die a natural death. Amazing how politicians rewrite things to make ti seem like law and order prevailed when in fact it didn't.