Oh how I miss the old Berlin. It almost feels like an entire world has faded away. It disappeared, leaving behind only an empty shell - and the imprint it left on me. These days, when I'm in the Oranienstraße, it's getting increasingly hard to remember how things looked back in the day. The now much shinier, renovated, upmarket facades, both of buildings and people, intrude and superimpose themselves over the memories that I still have of the area. As if they want to steal those memories from me. At least we still have those films. UA-cam is, in a way, the closest thing we have to a time machine.
How beautiful Rowland looks here, and how beautiful Blixa looks too...strange and shocking to see them in the same studio together. At the time this video was made, they were the old guitar-doll and the new guitar-doll, and Blixa was on his way up and Rowland was on his way down.
Indeed. Blixa Bargeld - "all wrapped up in his black rubber and seat-belts like a beauty-queen from another planet..." as Genevieve McGuckin said - had crashed into Nick's life, and would soon enough replace Rowland in Nick's affections.
And i was at the funeral of en and the bp..i thought i was not good blixa and nick...together..things where awesome in 1982..en+ bp best live bands .cramps and swans too
@@missyjordan909 😂🤣 I have major depressive illness and PTSD. I live to laugh. and you made me laugh. thanks. hope it wasn't too inappropriate. and hope you got to feelin' better soon... ❤🖤❤
I'm still in love with this band over 30 years later. I didn't find out about them until 4 years after the demise. Would have really loved to have seen em live.
I love it at 2:05 when Tracy gets on the drum kit. What is it that all the kids say these days..?...'like a boss'...? He just grooves effortlessly right from the start.
Imagine how much more interesting the world of music would be if more bands split up in their prime. The Birthday Party are a shining example of this. A truly unique band. Heroin and in-band tensions really have created some amazing music. Not that I'm condoning them in any way.
Haha, that's so true. One of these hard to deny but quite controversial, ambigous things that, I believe, many fans is able to catch a glimpse about, but still not to be ready to conclude/agree it openly.
In fact .when blixa joined the BP .AND EN .KIND OF DIED .I REMEMBER IT WAS LIKE 2 FUNERALS AND NEITHER EN OR THE BAD SEEDS HAVE EVER BEEN AS GOOD. 1981/1983..WERE JUST INCREDIBLE
Fascinating historical doc on the band's final days. Too bad the rest of the songs weren't featured; it would have been nice to see how "Mutiny in Heaven" came to life.
Hey there! I actually interviewed Heiner the director of this documentary. I am in the midst of editing it but i have the entire scoop AND some. Stay posted ;)
And nowhere as good as the birthday party .i ..thought even the cavemen gigs where dull compared to the BP....bp was danger..bad seeds..?..never felt any danger there
JackFromBeatStrings It cheapens Cave and The Birthday Party per-se to label them "Goth"! They certainly weren't anything as banal as a "Goth" band. "Goth" was crap like Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters Of Mercy, The Mission and Sex Gang Children et al. In opposition to this rubbish, bands like The Birthday Party were, - along with Bauhaus, The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees, - more accurately, Post Punk bands. Yes, they appealed to "Goths" and we're appropriated and adopted by them but all of these bands existed way prior to "Goth" and never identified themselves as "Goth". "Goth" was a one dimensional, naff, cartoon style developed by London trendies in a way similar way to the New Romantics. It was embarrassing and produced nothing of worth.
Beefheart1 I didn't say they were goth, I said he had cool goth hair. If I say The Ramones had cool leather jackets, it doesn't mean they were a "leather band." But yeah, I agree with what you're saying.
Oh yeah it's a razor edge we creatives walk. That's where part of the dramatic tension comes in; watching to see if the artist crashes and burns or if they some how succeed against the incredible odds! But first a word from our sponsor..
+Squarey Square Who's the sponsor? A skilled and talented musician or singer have small egos. Compare a Jazz or Opera singer with a rock singer, the latter always have big egos, the former are content with making their voice their ego. I stopped walking a razors edge years ago, I am scarred from tough events. I am content to age gracefully with perfect skin.
Haha, Nick Cave has a perfect skin, the way worse shit happened to his hairline, as mentioned somewhere above. Still, I do understand your mindtrack, in some way. Kinda. Walking on the razor edge might be impressive looking/feeling as watching from outside, still this is impossible for those who involved in to hang in there, as it's just a side effect, hence every situation like that is mutually contradicted or how it calls. I mean paradoxically. It could be doing like'hey, let's do it for our fans'. Ok, lost my plot, rest my case.😊
@@jefrey5578 Where was it? What was he saying? Tell all ! As far as I know, there's no recorded interview with him -- just one article in Rolling Stone Australia (April 6, 2021) about him called "The Transverberation of Tracy Pew" -- plus the two songs he wrote for TheBP: The Plague ( ua-cam.com/video/6vd18HOf1Ro/v-deo.html ) and She's Hit ( ua-cam.com/video/mJ1pJzjsPco/v-deo.html ).
+david moon 100% wrong. Blixa was there because Neubauten recorded at Hansa Studios as well and The Birthday Party when moving to Berlin became friends with E.N and people like Die Haut and Malaria. Nick and Blixa became close in a time that Rowland, Mick and Tracy were falling apart. He just saw a new potential in what Blixa brings to the table. Rowland is my personal hero but at this time songs like Say a Spell didn't quite fit the band. Like The Beatles..they broke up like any other band brakes up. Clashes, money, drugs, personal ideas. The Beatles were fighting even before Yoko met John. So go study your rock n roll info.
i know, i'm justa wankin geezer. the Birthday Party are tops n me book, no substitutes 4 me. you kids can like everything & everything, i just miss Rowland.
Funnily enough the minute I saw him I thought 'piss off Blixa, you don't belong there'. Nothing against him but it was a Birthday Party session. But the band was imploding anyway, but sad that Rowland didn't even complete the final recording sessions ie. Mutiny In Heaven
complete genius on guitar rowland was. Rest In Peace Crowned Prince of the Crying Jag.
RIP Tracy!!!
Roland schooling Nick on Jennifer's veil is priceless.
Writing the song in the studio hahaha, those days are long gone
@@LardGargantuus Really?
@@equalitygreen79 an actual studio, yeah WAY to expensive, good thing everyone has one in their home now.
Nick: ???
Rowland: LISTEN
Oh how I miss the old Berlin. It almost feels like an entire world has faded away. It disappeared, leaving behind only an empty shell - and the imprint it left on me.
These days, when I'm in the Oranienstraße, it's getting increasingly hard to remember how things looked back in the day. The now much shinier, renovated, upmarket facades, both of buildings and people, intrude and superimpose themselves over the memories that I still have of the area. As if they want to steal those memories from me.
At least we still have those films. UA-cam is, in a way, the closest thing we have to a time machine.
How beautiful Rowland looks here, and how beautiful Blixa looks too...strange and shocking to see them in the same studio together. At the time this video was made, they were the old guitar-doll and the new guitar-doll, and Blixa was on his way up and Rowland was on his way down.
Tracy Pews bass is so raw and menacing
Swamplands vocal performance is insane! I can’t imagine the pain he went through singing that, Nick really gave his all.
First time viewing this. Amazing. Wish I could travel back in time. RIP BEAUTIFUL Rowland.
Crikey!! Thank you for downloading this....The BP in '83 were as good as any band I've ever seen!!....Respect due from this Old Goth
I love mutiny in heaven, love the harrowing scream at the beginning! Genius working... Thanks for this.
Wonderful document.... brings back the rawness, the times and the people that were so integral to my love of this era...Thanx
Poor Rowland
junquecousteau Ye know it, man
Indeed. Blixa Bargeld - "all wrapped up in his black rubber and seat-belts like a beauty-queen from another planet..." as Genevieve McGuckin said - had crashed into Nick's life, and would soon enough replace Rowland in Nick's affections.
Woah, what a treat this video is. Thank you!
Aaah the pain of the end of the Birthday Party. ..end of an era!
Don'tc'cha just know it. [Rowland singing to Nick, or at any rate singing about him]: "The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone away..."
And i was at the funeral of en and the bp..i thought i was not good blixa and nick...together..things where awesome in 1982..en+ bp best live bands .cramps and swans too
Wow! Swampland! The Birthday Party eps have to be close to the greatest ever recorded...
Watching this at 3am in the midst of a depression episode is a bad idea but at leAST NICK IS ENTERTAINING
Hey hope you're doing better now?
Devotees unite in a secret cult at 3am to see nick messing around
what the fuck, in the same exact situation as of the moment,.. hope you are okay
Same but 3 years later and it’s only 11 pm
@@missyjordan909 😂🤣
I have major depressive illness and PTSD.
I live to laugh.
and you made me laugh.
thanks.
hope it wasn't too
inappropriate.
and hope you got to
feelin' better soon...
❤🖤❤
RIP Rowland! what a fuckin genius
I'm still in love with this band over 30 years later. I didn't find out about them until 4 years after the demise. Would have really loved to have seen em live.
I followed them on tour when i was 16😊
@@Bavodekat very nice! If they were around when I was 16, I would have done the same thing!
@@Alpha-soixante believe me the bad seeds are plain boring compared to the Bp on tour😃
Love it....
Danke das du ihn hochgeladen.
I didn't know this existed. thank you for posting it, it's made my week
Awesome, I am so hooked!!!
Great riff! Fantastic atmospheric guitar work!
I love it at 2:05 when Tracy gets on the drum kit. What is it that all the kids say these days..?...'like a boss'...? He just grooves effortlessly right from the start.
Imagine how much more interesting the world of music would be if more bands split up in their prime. The Birthday Party are a shining example of this. A truly unique band. Heroin and in-band tensions really have created some amazing music. Not that I'm condoning them in any way.
Haha, that's so true. One of these hard to deny but quite controversial, ambigous things that, I believe, many fans is able to catch a glimpse about, but still not to be ready to conclude/agree it openly.
We should be glad they didn't have a broader appeal.
Why not condone it? Great art has been done on heroin. Run and buy kids!
In fact .when blixa joined the BP .AND EN .KIND OF DIED .I REMEMBER IT WAS LIKE 2 FUNERALS AND NEITHER EN OR THE BAD SEEDS HAVE EVER BEEN AS GOOD. 1981/1983..WERE JUST INCREDIBLE
Btw the birthday party were more speed and booze..band so was En..the bad seeds where heroine band. Wich is never good..see johnny thunders ect
Rowland S Howard 🎸⚡️
The song is "Jennifer's Veil", the band is BIRTHDAY PARTY, the record they are making ended up being called "Mutiny!".
The idea of the song is expressed so clearly that you don't need the master take to be moved by the documentary.
thank you for uploading
1:57 and that is a wrap Ladies and Gentlemen.
What do you mean
@@thunder_headsThat's a wrap = it's done, finished mate.
Used in film and music.
@@baabaabaa-El I meant why is it context to the video
@@thunder_heads Sorry mate!
Last time Howard, Pugh and Harvey recorded with Cave as the Birthday Party, became the Bad Seeds not long after.
@@baabaabaa-El that's so sad
Fascinating historical doc on the band's final days. Too bad the rest of the songs weren't featured; it would have been nice to see how "Mutiny in Heaven" came to life.
Hey there! I actually interviewed Heiner the director of this documentary. I am in the midst of editing it but i have the entire scoop AND some. Stay posted ;)
@@TylerSmithPunksOnPizza You said that a year ago. What's up?
Where’s it at?
Oh my fucking god I can't believe this exists!
sacre document... merveilleux
5:08 an amazing long shot. Is that Nick tapping away?
Those scribbled sheets with thick black ink have a mood of their own
Wow what a rare find! Raw and intimate, priceless! Great days indeed
Sehr schöne Doku, danke dafür. Nick Cave ist ein großer Musiker.
didnt see the birthday party but saw bad seeds in 85 at selinas then a gain at the tivoli sydney. still the best ive seen
And nowhere as good as the birthday party .i ..thought even the cavemen gigs where dull compared to the BP....bp was danger..bad seeds..?..never felt any danger there
Dem Birthday Party Blues...
Thank you.
RIP Nick Cave's hairline
+Adhesive Boi it will be missed
+Adhesive Boi HAHA! Aww!.. He had the coolest goth hair ever!
JackFromBeatStrings It cheapens Cave and The Birthday Party per-se to label them "Goth"! They certainly weren't anything as banal as a "Goth" band. "Goth" was crap like Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters Of Mercy, The Mission and Sex Gang Children et al.
In opposition to this rubbish, bands like The Birthday Party were, - along with Bauhaus, The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees, - more accurately, Post Punk bands. Yes, they appealed to "Goths" and we're appropriated and adopted by them but all of these bands existed way prior to "Goth" and never identified themselves as "Goth". "Goth" was a one dimensional, naff, cartoon style developed by London trendies in a way similar way to the New Romantics. It was embarrassing and produced nothing of worth.
Beefheart1 I didn't say they were goth, I said he had cool goth hair. If I say The Ramones had cool leather jackets, it doesn't mean they were a "leather band." But yeah, I agree with what you're saying.
I think you're right.
Rowland's tone.......
A BRILLIANT UPLOAD, YOU SIR AND/OR MADAM ARE A GOD AMONG GROVELLING SHIT STAINS
_All of us were better looking when we were younger..._
WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!! Where the fuck did this come from! Good job, Mr. Bar-Hen. Wow.
Love it!
It also helps when you can do that in one of the cooles studios ever
Here you see how great blixa and nick and the BP..where
Awesome !
Far away and long ago....
❤❤❤❤
OH MY WHAT JOY
a great film of a terrifying perfect band "behind the scenes"
The sound of a band breaking up.
oh yeah... and drugs!
Same here Michael, seen clips before, but not the whole thing, cheers.
What I wanna know is what is that box Rowland is fiddling with on top of his amp at 4:27?
looks like maybe a speaker soak to drive the amp more without the volume...
Amazing! Well I jumped...
The kings.
How's the tension between Rowland and Nick…
He's already told him!
The best Art always arises out of conflict, ho ho.
+Squarey Square And as always where there is too much tension or conflict bands fall apart, very quickly, like a few bands I was in, in the past.
Oh yeah it's a razor edge we creatives walk. That's where part of the dramatic tension comes in; watching to see if the artist crashes and burns or if they some how succeed against the incredible odds! But first a word from our sponsor..
+Squarey Square Who's the sponsor? A skilled and talented musician or singer have small egos. Compare a Jazz or Opera singer with a rock singer, the latter always have big egos, the former are content with making their voice their ego.
I stopped walking a razors edge years ago, I am scarred from tough events. I am content to age gracefully with perfect skin.
you're a waste of space then.
Haha, Nick Cave has a perfect skin, the way worse shit happened to his hairline, as mentioned somewhere above. Still, I do understand your mindtrack, in some way. Kinda. Walking on the razor edge might be impressive looking/feeling as watching from outside, still this is impossible for those who involved in to hang in there, as it's just a side effect, hence every situation like that is mutually contradicted or how it calls. I mean paradoxically. It could be doing like'hey, let's do it for our fans'. Ok, lost my plot, rest my case.😊
Which I told you before.
Amazing document.. had no idea it existed!
Blixa at the controls 16:57. I put to 11 Jah ?
If those walls could talk...
Wow
I wonder how many times in this session Nick had to remind himself that he is not meant to sound like Morrison .
Not once i guess
🎯
Being in a band really is this boring, even The Birthday Party
How stupits are you ??? This is exactly how most recording sessions go.
Blimey, the drugs kinda got in the way. To me it's their best release, but f### this is pretty painful to watch xxx
How many of Nick's ah fuck made it on the record ?
Wuts the first song called?
Don't know if you've found it by now, but it's Jennifer's Veil.
And I still have never heard Tracey speak before
I have, in a pub... Him speaking quite alot actually, lol..
I realised this too recently, and may want to keep it this way
@@jefrey5578 Where was it? What was he saying? Tell all ! As far as I know, there's no recorded interview with him -- just one article in Rolling Stone Australia (April 6, 2021) about him called "The Transverberation of Tracy Pew" -- plus the two songs he wrote for TheBP: The Plague ( ua-cam.com/video/6vd18HOf1Ro/v-deo.html ) and She's Hit ( ua-cam.com/video/mJ1pJzjsPco/v-deo.html ).
The wonders of heroin!!
VS speed?
chingón!!
i hate blixa, he killed this band, kinda like yoko & the beatles
+david moon How wrong you are
+david moon 100% wrong. Blixa was there because Neubauten recorded at Hansa Studios as well and The Birthday Party when moving to Berlin became friends with E.N and people like Die Haut and Malaria. Nick and Blixa became close in a time that Rowland, Mick and Tracy were falling apart. He just saw a new potential in what Blixa brings to the table. Rowland is my personal hero but at this time songs like Say a Spell didn't quite fit the band. Like The Beatles..they broke up like any other band brakes up. Clashes, money, drugs, personal ideas. The Beatles were fighting even before Yoko met John. So go study your rock n roll info.
i know, i'm justa wankin geezer. the Birthday Party are tops n me book, no substitutes 4 me. you kids can like everything & everything, i just miss Rowland.
I miss him alot
Funnily enough the minute I saw him I thought 'piss off Blixa, you don't belong there'. Nothing against him but it was a Birthday Party session. But the band was imploding anyway, but sad that Rowland didn't even complete the final recording sessions ie. Mutiny In Heaven