Poi E

Pātea Māori Club , Music Video – 1984

from the album Poi E (1984)

This uplifting video is as famous as the chartbusting song. Accompanied by breakdancer Joe Moana for a tour of Pātea and surrounds, the Pātea Māori Club are captured "bopping and twirling like pīwakawaka" at the local marae, in Wellington's Manners Mall, and on Pātea’s main street, where milk tankers and sheep trucks pass by the Aotea canoe remembrance arch. So does the song's creator himself: Dalvanius Prime does a pūkana out a car window. In 2010 'Poi E' re-entered the charts thanks to Taika Waititi hit Boy. A documentary on the song was released in 2016.

I probably heard about it long before I heard it. But when I did I was hooked. Seeing Māori on TV was pretty rare so it wasn't until I saw the music video that I realised how huge and amazing it was. It's the quintessential New Zealand song ...
– Boy director Taika Waititi on seeing Poi E while growing up, The NZ Herald, 7 May 2010