Kommotion

Both Kommotion and Go!! featured the current beat-pop style, and both were strongly influenced by United Kingdom-based Ready Steady Go! and the Jack Good-produced American pop TV show, Shindig!. Although many local guest acts appeared on both shows, there were notable stylistic differences between them. The Go!! Show was more closely modelled on Ready, Steady, Go! and was aimed at a slightly older, more sophisticated audience, it featured more local music, and it cost more to produce. but that never materialised. ==Kommotion label==

Like The Go!! Show, the success of Kommotion also gave rise to a short-lived pop record label of the same name. The label was set up to promote artists who appeared on the show. It is believed to have been owned by pop entrepreneur Ivan Dayman. Some early releases were produced by Nat Kipner (father of musician Steve Kipner), who went on to briefly manage and produce The Bee Gees before they left Australia, but most of the Kommotion Records releases were produced by Pat Aulton. The label folded in 1967 when Dayman's Sunshine promotions and recording company went broke, around the same time that the TV show was cancelled. ==Series cancellation==

Although the device of miming to overseas releases proved popular and highly cost-effective, it was in fact this very practice that brought about the demise of Kommotion—the series was cancelled in early 1967 after Australian Actors Equity imposed a ban on miming on all music TV shows, due to concerns that the practice was denying work to Australian musicians. Like many other Australian pop shows of the period, most of the original tapes of Kommotion were subsequently erased or disposed of. The small amount of material that has survived was copied from the Channel 0 archive in the 1990s and copies have since circulated widely among collectors of Australian popular music. The floor manager for both Kommotion and The Go!! Show was Ralph Baker, who became well known in Melbourne in the late 1960s as Melbourne's version of "Deadly Earnest", the late night horror movie presenter. There was a local 'Earnest' in several capitals, with Sydney's Ian Bannerman being the original. Baker subsequently became the original floor manager on 0-10's later pop show Uptight. ==See also==