Buster Stiggs is best known as a member of New Zealand punk pioneers The Suburban Reptiles and the band which grew out of the Reptiles, The Swingers.
On the eve of The Swingers’ brief Australian success, he left the band and immediately joined top Australian band Models, serving long enough to record with them and enjoy a stint in post-punk/new romantic London. Stiggs’s time in high-profile bands lasted about five years, yet his influence was felt both before and after his period of prominence.