I just love how MIck Harvery never lost his nice, totally clean, guy image through the entirety of his musical career, despite being involved with some seriously dark and aggressive acts.
The psychotic Yosser Hughes stare and cowboy gear is straight out of David Lynchs Blue Velvet. The pelvic thrusting in the leather kecks absolutely seminal. There will never be an artist like Tracy Pew ever again totally unique and gone far to early. RIP Tracy.
Yosser Hughes!!! PMSL!!! I think you'll have to explain who that is for non-UK readers...Bernard Hill, probably best known to international audiences for playing the captain in Titanic, and Theoden from LOTR: Return Of The King, and the final film. "GISSA JOB!"
@@slugluv1313 Yah, I'm not dissing you or owt, mate! Honestly! No need to apologise! In fact I should probably apologise to you-- so, sorry for being a pedantic, picky bastard!
Tracy suffered a epileptic attack in 86 if im correct after being clean from heroin and booze. He was in the shower and just like that it happened and he hit his head so many times in the bath tub that he bled out. But in the shows in a drug frenzy he just went nuts, he never jumped or anything( for what i'ved read) he would throw himself back and just give in to the music. RIP Tracy. Hell of a fuckin' tone always.
Cris, thanks for sharing that about Tracy. I never knew how he died. I saw them play live in LA on their last tour. It was simply the most ferocious, amazing, show I've ever seen.
Nah, this is what happens to "boys" when they leave Christian Brothers private boarding schools after being exposed to religion from a young age and entering the real world.
Whenever I return to the real depth of my despair, when the repressed shit comes to surface, I always return to this band. They are my Freudian nightmare to wallow in. No one like the birthday party
@@HeartsOfMold I think someone saying "boo hoo" like you read something pretentious and whiny about a project with nick cave is ironic, after all, he's the most pretentious guy on earth (I mean I love his music, but just listen to him speak)
I was 16 when I saw this on TV, one quiet Sunday night on prime time (!) in The Netherlands. I knew the band so the music was not new to me but the performance itself was a statement that is unique in the history of prime time TV to this day. Provocative, dirty, aggressive, druggy, dangerous, downright scary: cool as fuck. This night I learned there was no sexier bass than a Rickenbacker. I bought one myself later though I never masturbated inside a kick drum :-)
Yea i saw it too..in 82..i was like 15 and already had prayers on fire and. I remember the day junkyard came out. Then the tour in belgium and holland .saw 2 gigs in holland..and 2 in belgium..the brussels one was insanest😅
I saw them in about 1981 supporting Bauhaus . I was 14 and thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen . Now of course I find them laughably bad .
ah the puffy shirt episode of Seinfeld where Kramer asks his friend Tracey to wear a shirt his designer friend makes, Tracey obliges with hilarious results
I’m a long term fan of Nick Cave but until recently, hadn’t tasted any of the Birthday Party. Holy crap!?! I’d heard it was wild, but this is something else. What do you even categorise it as? Punk, Thrash, Goth? Love it!!
It amazes me that so many bad seeds fans haven't checked out the birthday party stuff it is some of the sickest bad ass rock n roll ever...glad you started they have been weirdly overlooked in many ways
@@nockee oh in that case have you heard any Gallon Drunk especially the first three albums my favourite live act similar intensity and style, and there's always the fall, oh or for something completely different Cardiacs but that's a whole other rabbit hole
It was something else. I saw them live & they tore the place & themselves up. Lydia Lunch opened for them at the Roxy. The closest band live I can describe them as playing like was is The Stooges only The Birthday Party was like 5 Iggys.
So, one of the guitarists looks like he thought he was joining Simple Minds. And then Tracy Pew was just born for this moment. Rock'n' Roll needs more bass playing car thiefs.
That’s who SA were aspiring to be…I remember going to a SA show tripping on acid. David Yow asked if anyone had seen the cover of their new album - ‘Berserker’. He handed me the mic, and I started spewing whatever lysergic razzmatazz flying through my brain at that moment. His eyes got wider and wider and he slowly attempted to pull the microphone away from me, growing almost desperate in his efforts. Needless to say, I scared the shit out of David Yow. I doubt I would’ve even gotten close to the microphone in Nick Cave’s hands in his Birthday Party pomp. Don’t put the cart before the horse, or in this case, the kicking mustang.
They were better live...than performing for some TV show!! Nick had no-one to hit with his mic.. Tracey had no-one to stare out then grind in front of!! Rowland's doing Rowland though!!
@@pauliethepunk It was actually a Dutch tv show with a German name. This was made for VPRO Television, I should know cause I was the producer and co-editor :) Later I directed the documentary 'Stranger in a strange land' with Nick and the Bad Seeds in Berlin. Very honored that for the trailer of the current Copenhagen expo about Nick (Stranger Than Kindness), several shots from this clip were used.
I just love how MIck Harvery never lost his nice, totally clean, guy image through the entirety of his musical career, despite being involved with some seriously dark and aggressive acts.
The psychotic Yosser Hughes stare and cowboy gear is straight out of David Lynchs Blue Velvet. The pelvic thrusting in the leather kecks absolutely seminal. There will never be an artist like Tracy Pew ever again totally unique and gone far to early. RIP Tracy.
true but The Birthday Party was waaaay before Blue Velvet
Yosser Hughes!!! PMSL!!! I think you'll have to explain who that is for non-UK readers...Bernard Hill, probably best known to international audiences for playing the captain in Titanic, and Theoden from LOTR: Return Of The King, and the final film. "GISSA JOB!"
@@slugluv1313 It's just an observation, it's not, like, some sort of "inspiration competition", mate :)
@@vollsticks oops! sorry, was just my own observation too
@@slugluv1313 Yah, I'm not dissing you or owt, mate! Honestly! No need to apologise! In fact I should probably apologise to you-- so, sorry for being a pedantic, picky bastard!
This is the moment when humanity peaked, no doubt about it.
I love you
most underrated thing about this video is Mick looking queasy like he's won a prize to play with his favourite band
Ok I'm a bit drunk now but this comment made me laugh, haha. Spot on! Great musician.
Mick= like..bankclerk
Still sounds like a back-alley colonoscopy after all these years
Back-Alley Colonoscopy is my favorite IPA
@@Za86m hahahahahahaha!!!!!
That is extremely funny and perfectly described.
That awkward moment I come across one of my former back alley patients in the comment section.
This bass line and drum loop is so infectious, love love love it! And Nick wailing like a junky is the icing on top. The guitars sound like chainsaws
Tracy suffered a epileptic attack in 86 if im correct after being clean from heroin and booze. He was in the shower and just like that it happened and he hit his head so many times in the bath tub that he bled out. But in the shows in a drug frenzy he just went nuts, he never jumped or anything( for what i'ved read) he would throw himself back and just give in to the music. RIP Tracy. Hell of a fuckin' tone always.
Cris, thanks for sharing that about Tracy. I never knew how he died. I saw them play live in LA on their last tour. It was simply the most ferocious, amazing, show I've ever seen.
Tracy Pew was a genius
Shit he was epileptic
This is what happens when nice Australian boys move to Berlin.
Haha! Oh, I don't think they were all that nice.
This is what happens when you go to Scotch College.
Caulfield Grammar.
Was the UK first
Nah, this is what happens to "boys" when they leave Christian Brothers private boarding schools after being exposed to religion from a young age and entering the real world.
Through the various projects Nick Cave was involved in, the Birthday Party will always be my favourite.
Probably the best set of reasons I've ever seen for not developing an addiction to opiates.
ahhhh but hardly the pharmaceutical crap that dominates now
If all it took to sound like this was to shoot heroin, I'd go cop right now. The Birthday Party was a genius band.
@@thefirebrigade7317 That's not what I was inferring at all. Maybe my sentence was too hard to parse. If so that's entirely my fault.
But also, unfortunately, a fairly good set of reasons to develop one too. hahaha
Or booze or speed😅
R.i.P Roland s Howard the six strings that drew blood
Whenever I return to the real depth of my despair, when the repressed shit comes to surface, I always return to this band. They are my Freudian nightmare to wallow in. No one like the birthday party
Same
Absolutely
Boo hoo
@@HeartsOfMold I think someone saying "boo hoo" like you read something pretentious and whiny about a project with nick cave is ironic, after all, he's the most pretentious guy on earth (I mean I love his music, but just listen to him speak)
Love it
That beat is incredible. Half of 1/2 time. Amazing.
Junkyard is one of my favorite records. You need it on vinyl.
Top of the Pops was never this good. Ever!
don't forget Milli Vanilli
I was 16 when I saw this on TV, one quiet Sunday night on prime time (!) in The Netherlands. I knew the band so the music was not new to me but the performance itself was a statement that is unique in the history of prime time TV to this day. Provocative, dirty, aggressive, druggy, dangerous, downright scary: cool as fuck. This night I learned there was no sexier bass than a Rickenbacker. I bought one myself later though I never masturbated inside a kick drum :-)
Yea i saw it too..in 82..i was like 15 and already had prayers on fire and. I remember the day junkyard came out. Then the tour in belgium and holland .saw 2 gigs in holland..and 2 in belgium..the brussels one was insanest😅
This is straight up inspirational. Blimey
This is it - this is as good as it gets.
Not sure if it's intended to be hilarious but I found it to be 😂👍 I thoroughly enjoyed this!
Nick Cave is a clown, after all
💀💀💀💀💀@@sexobscura
Eine schöne Art, sich rechtzeitig vom Punkrock zu verabschieden. In der Hinsicht unerreicht bis heute.
Never ever seen anything like it..saw it on tv in 1982..followed them on tour..this video is just beyond great..its like 😮😮😮😮😮😮wow..
just brilliant
Heavenly racket
Mick looks like the supply teacher
Tracy Pew Genious
The Birthday Party was all about Roland and Tracy
*Rowland
@@ChevyRae *eat me
Edgy opinion
True. But even more about Tracy.
Eggsackley!!
this is the craziest and amazing ive ever seen in my life. wtf!
truly incredible stuff
This still blows me away every time I see it
Awesome footage of one of the great early 80s bands...
that snare sounds HUGE!
Tracy Pew gyrating is everything.
DAMN eternally kicking myself for not seeing The Birthday Party LIVE -- pure fire genius
I saw them in about 1981 supporting Bauhaus . I was 14 and thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen . Now of course I find them laughably bad .
They were epic live.
Yea me too but bauhaus are the bad ones
@@rogerlegends166your ears fell off
AMAZING !!!!
Nice man spread there Tracy
If aliens landed and asked what the 20th century was and I could only show them one thing, it would be this
The bassist has exquisite drip
Swing it, Tracy!!!
ah the puffy shirt episode of Seinfeld where Kramer asks his friend Tracey to wear a shirt his designer friend makes, Tracey obliges with hilarious results
Rowland kills!!!!!!
Just so great.
This band was so unique..
Three one g did a Compilation called Release the bats.. got some banger covers!
I once did a fire spitting performance on a cruise ship to Release the bats lol
Perfection 😂
I have a better version on DVD. Will upload in to youtube when i am sober again. Might take some time. Cheers.
You sober yet?
Go on
@@andershansson2245 Christ .. could you go to rehab already?
@@brigwood7658 waiting for mp3 and photos at the show my sober, responsible friends.
Finally coming a documentary late 2023. This is the melting pot of everything later.
O senhor da bateria trouxe-me aqui
art
Perfect
THE BEST!
I’m a long term fan of Nick Cave but until recently, hadn’t tasted any of the Birthday Party. Holy crap!?! I’d heard it was wild, but this is something else. What do you even categorise it as? Punk, Thrash, Goth? Love it!!
It amazes me that so many bad seeds fans haven't checked out the birthday party stuff it is some of the sickest bad ass rock n roll ever...glad you started they have been weirdly overlooked in many ways
Blown away by this. Been looking for modern post punk bands to listen to and this shit was here the whole time. God damn
@@nockee oh in that case have you heard any Gallon Drunk especially the first three albums my favourite live act similar intensity and style, and there's always the fall, oh or for something completely different Cardiacs but that's a whole other rabbit hole
Undefineable
It was something else. I saw them live & they tore the place & themselves up. Lydia Lunch opened for them at the Roxy. The closest band live I can describe them as playing like was is The Stooges only The Birthday Party was like 5 Iggys.
Good clean fun
Hello Mat Korvette
I feel like the guy in the cowboy hat just impregnated someone.
Yea your mama😂
Ok Kids, beat that !
Best
forces of nature
If The Mars Volta were Australian in the 80’s
This is the freakiest shit I ever seen!
Wow..is this you Nick? 😆 09-07-2024
CocaCola with the Coka in it.
No smoke machine necessary.
So, one of the guitarists looks like he thought he was joining Simple Minds.
And then Tracy Pew was just born for this moment. Rock'n' Roll needs more bass playing car thiefs.
Yea mick harvey has always been a boring dude..he s..really dull on stage
Tracey at 2:08 tho…. pissed meself.
4:25 too. horizontal bass. then the drummer loses his stick...
👍👌❤️
El rey
Heroin is coooool😎
Nono
Reminds me of Scratch Acid
That’s who SA were aspiring to be…I remember going to a SA show tripping on acid. David Yow asked if anyone had seen the cover of their new album - ‘Berserker’. He handed me the mic, and I started spewing whatever lysergic razzmatazz flying through my brain at that moment. His eyes got wider and wider and he slowly attempted to pull the microphone away from me, growing almost desperate in his efforts. Needless to say, I scared the shit out of David Yow. I doubt I would’ve even gotten close to the microphone in Nick Cave’s hands in his Birthday Party pomp.
Don’t put the cart before the horse, or in this case, the kicking mustang.
I prefer his earlier work
So. Many. Drugs.
yeah but really gooood drugs :)
Auuusssstttttraaalliiaa omg St Kilda private school Melbourne Caulfield Grammar sick
4:05 - 4:15 best part
I am the best
Good smak
They were better live...than performing for some TV show!!
Nick had no-one to hit with his mic..
Tracey had no-one to stare out then grind in front of!!
Rowland's doing Rowland though!!
lip sync and air guitar ? If so the greatest example of the form.
Les groupes de black metal feraient bien d'aller se remaquiller
The Fall meets Tom waites
Nooo tom waits and the fall .are ultra dull compared to these hells on legs😂
What in this context is "Gottendammerung"?
Gotterdammerung 2000 was a German television show from the early 80's.
@@pauliethepunk Thank you!
It was a Dutch TV show broadcast by the VPRO on Sunday Evening.
@@pauliethepunk It was actually a Dutch tv show with a German name. This was made for VPRO Television, I should know cause I was the producer and co-editor :) Later I directed the documentary 'Stranger in a strange land' with Nick and the Bad Seeds in Berlin. Very honored that for the trailer of the current Copenhagen expo about Nick (Stranger Than Kindness), several shots from this clip were used.
Gelukkig heeft de censuur knop tracy en zijn basgitaar nog niet getroffen. Bram van splunteren bedankt
👁El ojo
I love Ed Sheeran's cover of this, dare I say it, I think I might even prefer it.
Huh??
No dimwit Blixa around yet, good times
Quite true.
I prefer AC/DC. 🇦🇺
WORST VOCALS EVER.
Im sorry about your stupidity.
Are we supposed to like this because it’s soo different or because the band is going out of their way to be different.
Just another''if i don't like it, no one else should''complainer.
Dreadful
You're either all in or have no idea, pity the fool.
Horrible
@Practicalicalicalica Agreed, leave us alone.
In the best possible way, fixed it for you.
Not everybody can be intelligent
Poor Roland. No matter how hard he tried to look cool, he just couldn't pull it off.
I thought he looked pretty cool
@@alexbowles9034 He was the epitomy.
What is your idea of cool? A guy wearing a bandana or his cap turned backwards?
@@twinpeaksVVV Clearly none of that here, that's a start. WTF are you on about?
I disagree..he was super cool on stage
Everyone remembers the first time they saw the camera slowly pan to Tracy Pew's gyrating pelvis.