Culture shock for P.M.?

Press, 17 June 1980, Page 1

Culture shock for P.M.?

. pa Wellington The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) w’ill take his daughter, Mrs Barbara Williams, to a concert by the Mi-Sex rock group in Wellington this evening. “She is a charge nurse in a coronary care unit and I thought it would be quite appropriate,” Mr Muldoon said at a news conference. .•'; “Well, she’d know what to do if the worst hap-.. pened,” he chuckled.

Mr Muldoon said- he would take his daughter,. rather than his wife, Thea, because “she can tell me what it’s all about.” Asked if he was still worried about how loud the group’s music would be, Mr Muldoon replied: “Yes, I am ... I have made some inquiries and I’m told it is very loud.” Mr Muldoon said he had previously been into. a bear pit to see some bears. “I’m prepared to try

most things — once,” he said. Mr Muldoon was less than enthusiastic about MiSex in recent widelypublicised comments he made about “culture.” This was ..reported to have “incensed” the group’s guitarist, Kevin Stanton, who suggested the Prime Minister should attend a concert and see what it was all about.