The Parameters has been played on NTS in shows including La Vida es un Mus , featured first on 25 October 2019. Songs played include Pig City.

The Parameters were a band from Brisbane, Australia which was formed by artist and activist Tony Kneipp in late 1983, with the purpose of recording the 'Pig City/Material Posessions" 7 inch single, which was the bands only release.

The story of the song's recording is as remarkable as the tune itself. Kneipp remembers the title coming from The Clash's legendary February 1982 gig at Cloudland, QLD shortly before the iconic venue's demolition at the hands of the Deen Brothers. Kneipp claims that "There was a very heavy police presence," and that. "A whole contingent of police went past, I honestly can't remember if I said it myself, or heard someone say it, but that's when it first popped out."

From there, the song flowed – a deadly piece of political invective that blew the whistle on police and political corruption in Queensland years before the extent of the rot was uncovered by Commissioner Tony Fitzgerald. Corruption in Queensland, as Kneipp says, was "an open secret" at the time. "I think that's something that needs to be remembered about rumors," he says. "They can be totally inaccurate but they can also be totally accurate, and they tend to be a mixture of the two, and I did try to sift through that, and exercise some judgment. So I wrote the song and I liked it. I thought, this is pretty good, I should do something with this.' "

Thus the Parameters was formed, with its sole aim to record Pig City in time for the 1983 state election which the National Party, led by Joh Bjelke-Petersen, eventually won in its own right. The Parameters was the band that never was. The members (Kneipp on rhythm, slide guitar and saxophone; Ian Graham on lead guitar and bass and Steven Pritchard on drums) never even played in the same room together, let alone a gig. Each part of the song was overdubbed, layer by layer, over two weeks at 4ZZZ's studios at the University of Queensland.

The quality was rough, but with its honking saxophone, scabrous lyrics and chorus of friends chanting the words Pig City! at the end of each line, it was also unforgettable. The song took off on 4ZZZ, becoming a fixture in the station's annual Hot 100, and it was that immediate success which prompted Kneipp to write another song, Material Possession, which became the B-side of the single eventually released in 1984.

"I was astonished by its longevity," Kneipp says. "It's tremendous to do something which gets that recognition, but unfortunately we spent far too much time building the studio and far too little time rehearsing."