Clowndog – with frontman Spanky on guitar, drummer Idiot Pants and Sherbert on bass – won the regional finals in the Smokefree Rockquest and went on to play support slots for Bic Runga and Salmonella Dub. Moore’s band once beat Shapeshifter in a Christchurch band competition and was infamous for hurling raw meat into the audience. “We mostly threw sausages but all sorts of small-goods really. You know you re from a different time when you tell students you threw meat. Meat! , they say now, horrified,” Moore said. “I once threw a half-defrosted chicken at a gig in St Albans park. It was a very bad idea. In mid-flight I realised it wasn t defrosted, but I’d lofted this thing into the audience. I felt bad about it. Some guy picked it up and hurled it back, and it did a bit of damage to an amp.