An admission card and programme for the Neon Picnic music festival at the old Sweetwaters site at Pukekawa in 1988. Despite its modern graphics and a plastic credit card for entry, the Neon Picnic became the first New Zealand rock music festival to be cancelled before the first group had played. Newspapers were still advertising ticket sales only days before.
Read more about Neon Picnic on Chris Bourke's blog
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