Nothing about The Birthday Party was like any other band in the world. Every element was perfect, original, essential & irreplaceable. I saw them just once in 1981 & didn't understand it but they changed the way I heard music forever & will always be the gold standard for me.
Great rhythm section ... they got away with what they did because of their huge bottom end live ... I only saw them once but I thought Mr P was the star of the show
I go through phases when it comes to listening to music. I don't usually go too long between "The Birthday Party are the greatest fucking band ever" phases
that funny, because I concur ! Personally, I am a heavily dedicated Jungle( the Genre pre DnB) and darker hardcore Drum n Bass/"Techstep" listener and record collector, .... (for listening reference of some my favorites re Jungle try artists: "T.Power" 1994-97(95-96 best), and Try "Squarepusher" 1994 - 2001 and, re Drum & Bass try "Current Value" 1997-2000(his techstep releases) & 2005-2009 for the most seriously HARDCORE DnB you will ever here to date, he was DnBs underground GOD. I could share more but I do think I've already said too much ;-) anyway, as much dedication as I have to other forms of music that many would see as completely unrelated and so look at people who listen to electronic for example, as far and away separate to those who'd be listening to goth, or Black metal, or classic rock or whatever else..! but alas !, my headphones and speakers never have enough time to catch breath or wash up between The Birthday Party sessions return through them! -oh P.S., another Recommendation (a band this time) is: "Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing" an New Zealand Band active from 2012/13 - 2018 (or 19 maybe). and my favorite albums are "Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (2015) " & Eeling (2013)"
@@vortexalerand9949 I do love Jungle and heavier D&B. I was a 90s teenager in the UK, so..... Squarepusher, (prime era) Aphex Twin and more recently Venetian Snares. I'll check your other recommendations out, cheers. Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing.... With a name like that, they cannot be dull! 🤣👌🏻 This notification has reminded me that a Birthday Party binge is overdue. Maybe some Teenage Snuff Film, too
I love that Nick and Rowland look like the kind of lanky freaks you'd expect from this kind of band and Tracy looks like some American cowboy tourist they asked to play bass for them.
Hee haw,they backed the damned up in 1986(i think) and I seen them in Liverpool uk.little did I know that Nick Cave became one of my favourite artists.It was a blast(off)i do not remember it that much as I am now 56 and senility is kicking in
01:14 - Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) 06:14 - The Six Strings That Drew Blood 10:58 - Deep In The Woods 16:49 - Dead Joe 21:09 - Swampland 25:52 - Fears Of Gun 30:20 - Wild World 35:03 - Big-Jesus-Trash-Can 38:58 - Sonny's Burning 42:20 - She's Hit 52:02 - 6" Gold Blade 55:46 - Pleasure Avalanche
One of my great regrets is i never saw the birthday party live. Just beautifully chaotic.....Bad Seeds are good but i always preferred the birthday party. Mutiny in heaven and the junkyard album are my faves....
This is like beggars's banquet...only a few know about this band My friend "tiny" introduce me to this kind of music..one of my ever favourites band...greetings from México 😊🎉😊
Mick Harvey on drums - near the end ti.mes for the band when they put out those 2 amazing EP's. Love Rowlands guitar sound,and Tracy's snarling bass. They played a 23 minute set in Auckland, right at the end, that I missed by 1 stinking year. 😢 RIP Rowland, RIP Tracy.
Timbuktu warmed up for them and gave me a comp. I was in the bathroom before the Birthday Party set and saw Nick gulp a handful of pills and chase it with a long pull from a whiskey bottle. I didn't know who he was at the time so was surprised to see the same guy onstage a few minutes later. I don't know how he survived the night. I remember it was a small crowd. They weren't well known. Cows were fans.
Could be he was swallowing a handful of innocent sweets in public, making it look like suspicious pills. Very image conscious guy, if you ask me. And a one of a kind singer, that's for sure. This concert of course is furious and extreme, and I think it was very impressive if you were actually there. However... I have never actually seen them live, so hey, that'll be it :-) I did see the Gun Club twice, a couple of years apart (even opening for them, both times) and I thought they were fantastic, so maybe if it had been the Birthday Party... I would feel the same about them.
As with so many great bands: the Birthday Party were @ their very best just before they parted company....This is roughly the set they plsyed @ their final two UK gigs-The Lyceum, in March, and The Electric Ballroom, in April of '83....And, BOY, IS IT GOOD!...Like the original 35mm version of 'Apocalypse Now', this incarnation of the band is a thing of rare and exquisite beauty....'Fears of Gun' appears to describe my 20s in their entirety....Respect due from an ancient old Goth....Thank you for downloading
@Mary Burke Wish I'd been able to see those Aus shows, too! Like so many great bands, they were gone too soon. 'When love moved out on Gun, the fears they moved on in!'....Respect due from an Old Goth....
they finished in Oz with a guy called Des on drums and Mick back on guitar, I saw 2 shows in Melbourne, , 2,000 each night, Scientists in support,.............................................long way from my first Boys Next Door show in Adelaide in .78...........................
Great opener with Hamlet (pow, pow, pow)! Reminds me of seeing the (reformed) Pop Group and they kicked off proceedings with We Are All Prostitutes. Totally took me off guard!
God dammit they were so fucking cool. I love how Nick is dressed like the prom date of a mother's nightmares. Broke up with my boyfriend this winter so I could spend more quality time with my Birthday Party records.
Wild stuff. The driving bass and drums reminds me a lot of early Hunters and Collectors (especially Six Strings That Drew Blood). They were from the same city (Melbourne) and formulating at the same time.
Wow, just a couple weeks before I moved to Mpls to go to the U of M. I spent many a blissful night at First Ave / 7th St Entry but I will forever regret that I didn’t see this show.
David Kuiper , Are You just begging to have a new on ripped? what is your brain disfunction and what is the connection you are making between these three bands?? The only link I see is , you're going to need a new air supply, when you get tossed in the Little River and were all going to have a Birthday-like-Party in celebration 😉🍻🍾🎂🎸
Interesting that few years earlier they were playing to friends mostly art students in St kilda. Sorta influence by early roxy music and iggy They had so much creative vision to evolve so quickly to the most orginal and cutting band on planet by 1982 - four years Saw the 2nd last gig Glad i saw them
Ahhh, the perfect medicine for a phlegmatic Tuesday. Nick|Rowland|Tracy|Mick. Deep in The Woods, She's Hit Stirring the pot for all time... Much gratitude to Mikes Archive for uploading this.
Holy shit what wouldn’t I have given to have been there. Heard nothing but amazing things about how great they were live, and that their live shows were so wild and bizarre and violent that one had to be there to experience the craziness in full. My mom and dad are 11 years younger than Nick, both born in 1968. Mom was born on April 15th and Dad was born on January 26th, so they were both 15 at the time that this concert took place. I was born in 1999, 16 years after this gig happened. Became a fan of Nick Cave later on in college, and I must say, sometimes when watching videos of his early gigs, GOD, what wouldn’t I give to have been born earlier to experience them in person.
Thank you for the upload on this. Mick was the perfect drummer for the band at this point. Forceful and direct. I love Nick and I always will, but there are times here where I wish the camera operators would give us more of the others, especially Rowland. He's guitar work is incredible. I can see here why they had to break up. Cave and Howard on the stage together would have been like King Kong and Godzilla trying to share the stage every night. They could only work together for so long without destroying each other.
@@mickmangles8000 But also Mick Harvey had technically already quit by this point. He agreed to do the US tour but he was done so that means Nick didn't have his writing partner anymore since he stopped writing songs with Rowland after Junkyard.
@@daviddavis3155 yes, I wish there was more footage and filming focused on him both during live shows and at least a couple of decent interviews would be nice. With that said... Does anyone know of any? or have one hidden away somewhere??
@@ZeroFox1970 his girl says she bought it back more times than she could count, then posthumously gave it to a national museum because her house got robbed three times by rogue Rowland fans seeking souvenirs.
@@ZeroFox1970 And I too love how he never used effects pedals no matter how cheap and varied they got. He played 2 songs at my best mates funeral wearing blue suede shoes and Teddy boy jacket. Now he's gone too. Here's to you friend.
Hi Mike's Archive, you posted a video of Skeleton Key live at CBGB's in '97. I was wondering if I could get a copy of that? I don't see it posted on your site anymore. I was the original guitarist in that band. Thanks
Wow - any set that opens with Hamlet is an epic IMO - Top 5 Birthday Party songs for me are: Hamlet, Junkyard, Zoo-Music Girl, The Friend Catcher and Nick The Stripper (actually replace that last one w/ Fears Of Gun (fuckin' brilliant kickass bass and guitar work and Nick Cave rules of course lyric and vox-wise) - but it usually varies the further back I decide to to take that swan dive into that infinite abyss that is the squall of Mick and Rowland's guitars, Phil's frantic smashing percussion, Tracy Pew's digusting ugly bass sound while he gyrates like an evil cowboy onstage and of course Nick Cave's pigfuck squeals - his autobiography is a great read if you want to learn more about this band which was his first before the Bad Seeds and they detail the Bad Seeds up to about the late 90's iirc - anyway - cheers - big fan of this band - my second favorite aspect of Australia - the first being their outstandingly hot women - wooow - I'd bet Nick Cave probably experienced the full meal deal like Iggy Pop before him lol
I feel like I'm at the Opera as he pierced the conductor with his violin bow, it makes you want to reenact a violent scene over a Marshall Amp, there's something about the atmosphere like tannin stain on a porcelain bowel.
I agree with @WinstonTexas829. I'm Australian, so I was lucky enough to see them twice, in '82 and '83. I was a teenager. On both occasions, I was actually frightened Nick was going to top himself - he was that wild. I was so mesmerised by Nick and Roland that I didn't pay attention to the rhythm section - only recently, listening to Prayers on Fire, have I appreciated the genius of Tracey, Phil and Mick. Anyway, as Winston from Texas said, this band kinda' ruined live music for me. I've seen The Cramps and The Gun Club and Rollins Band and The Dead Kennedys and scores of other 'dangerous' bands and none have ever come close to creating the absolute terror of a Birthday Party show.
For real awesome! Thanks for pointing it out! I’m one of the fanboys who wanted to sound like this in 1990 after opening for the LAUGHING HYENAS. Excellent raw power unpretentious obviously high af repetitive tribal post punk. My current on repeat band after seeing the MUTINY IN HEAVEN doc in PHILLY last Wednesday.
Nope. Not me. I was too young in the early 80s. Never got to see them. I consider myself lucky that I saw all the "noise" bands in the 90s that were clearly influenced by this. Jesus Lizard..etc.
Nick cave never ever came near this again..and god knows he tried
Nothing about The Birthday Party was like any other band in the world. Every element was perfect, original, essential & irreplaceable. I saw them just once in 1981 & didn't understand it but they changed the way I heard music forever & will always be the gold standard for me.
40 years later, Nick Cave is at the King’s Coronation. Which is effing hilarious if you ask me.
Not really. If it confused you, he has written about it and it makes good sense.
No I was not confused. Thank you for your observation.
@@SideshowBob202 Given his explanation, what did you find hilarious?
He was??
And did a duet record some time ago, With Kyle Minouge
Tracy Pew. Damn, what a badass he was.
One of the sexiest men to ever traverse this planet.
Great rhythm section ... they got away with what they did because of their huge bottom end live ... I only saw them once but I thought Mr P was the star of the show
This is what I was listening to when i was 13 fukn hilarious.
I go through phases when it comes to listening to music. I don't usually go too long between "The Birthday Party are the greatest fucking band ever" phases
that funny, because I concur !
Personally, I am a heavily dedicated Jungle( the Genre pre DnB) and darker hardcore Drum n Bass/"Techstep" listener and record collector, ....
(for listening reference of some my favorites re Jungle try artists: "T.Power" 1994-97(95-96 best), and Try "Squarepusher" 1994 - 2001 and, re Drum & Bass try "Current Value" 1997-2000(his techstep releases) & 2005-2009 for the most seriously HARDCORE DnB you will ever here to date, he was DnBs underground GOD.
I could share more but I do think I've already said too much ;-)
anyway, as much dedication as I have to other forms of music that many would see as completely unrelated and so look at people who listen to electronic for example, as far and away separate to those who'd be listening to goth, or Black metal, or classic rock or whatever else..!
but alas !, my headphones and speakers never have enough time to catch breath or wash up between The Birthday Party sessions return through them!
-oh P.S., another Recommendation (a band this time) is: "Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing" an New Zealand Band active from 2012/13 - 2018 (or 19 maybe). and my favorite albums are "Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (2015) " & Eeling (2013)"
@@vortexalerand9949 I do love Jungle and heavier D&B. I was a 90s teenager in the UK, so.....
Squarepusher, (prime era) Aphex Twin and more recently Venetian Snares. I'll check your other recommendations out, cheers. Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing.... With a name like that, they cannot be dull! 🤣👌🏻
This notification has reminded me that a Birthday Party binge is overdue. Maybe some Teenage Snuff Film, too
This version of "She's Hit" is sublime insanity. Tracy Pew holds it all together with that fabulous bass line and everyone else just goes nuts.
I love that Nick and Rowland look like the kind of lanky freaks you'd expect from this kind of band and Tracy looks like some American cowboy tourist they asked to play bass for them.
definitely the best band around in the early 80's they were a pleasure avalanche
don't forget yazoo
With burning pleasure heads for sure.
Fortunate enough to have cool friends who took me to see Birthday Party show at the Roxy in Hollywood this tour. 19 and I was never the same.
Hee haw,they backed the damned up in 1986(i think) and I seen them in Liverpool uk.little did I know that Nick Cave became one of my favourite artists.It was a blast(off)i do not remember it that much as I am now 56 and senility is kicking in
Totally shambolic Hamlet to kick off the show. Staggering. Horrendous. Gorgeous. Beautiful concert. Thank you for posting.
01:14 - Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
06:14 - The Six Strings That Drew Blood
10:58 - Deep In The Woods
16:49 - Dead Joe
21:09 - Swampland
25:52 - Fears Of Gun
30:20 - Wild World
35:03 - Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
38:58 - Sonny's Burning
42:20 - She's Hit
52:02 - 6" Gold Blade
55:46 - Pleasure Avalanche
One of my great regrets is i never saw the birthday party live. Just beautifully chaotic.....Bad Seeds are good but i always preferred the birthday party. Mutiny in heaven and the junkyard album are my faves....
thanks, mate!
This is like beggars's banquet...only a few know about this band My friend "tiny" introduce me to this kind of music..one of my ever favourites band...greetings from México 😊🎉😊
We are all getting older.But I did see them live.I think mr clarinet and blast off are my favourites.Hee haw my friends
Mick Harvey on drums - near the end ti.mes for the band when they put out those 2 amazing EP's. Love Rowlands guitar sound,and Tracy's snarling bass. They played a 23 minute set in Auckland, right at the end, that I missed by 1 stinking year. 😢
RIP Rowland, RIP Tracy.
Grew up in Melbourne. Would try to see them every weekend. Or Tuesday night at the Ballroom. Fun days. they were good.
Killer set, Rowland is on fire
The bass player really made this band’s sound!
And look.
Dear Tracey. Gone too young
@@bunnychacha Luckily some of us do and i'm glad to learn from his insanely solid style
Timbuktu warmed up for them and gave me a comp. I was in the bathroom before the Birthday Party set and saw Nick gulp a handful of pills and chase it with a long pull from a whiskey bottle. I didn't know who he was at the time so was surprised to see the same guy onstage a few minutes later. I don't know how he survived the night. I remember it was a small crowd. They weren't well known. Cows were fans.
Could be he was swallowing a handful of innocent sweets in public, making it look like suspicious pills. Very image conscious guy, if you ask me. And a one of a kind singer, that's for sure.
This concert of course is furious and extreme, and I think it was very impressive if you were actually there. However... I have never actually seen them live, so hey, that'll be it :-)
I did see the Gun Club twice, a couple of years apart (even opening for them, both times) and I thought they were fantastic, so maybe if it had been the Birthday Party... I would feel the same about them.
@@bietelesq.796 lol Nick was always completely off his chops during these years. He speaks very candidly about it.
nah those definitely weren't sugar pills
I totally see Cows being fans. The soundscapes are definitely in line. Cows are the American BP
I even know where he got those alleged pills. 😎🤙
As with so many great bands: the Birthday Party were @ their very best just before they parted company....This is roughly the set they plsyed @ their final two UK gigs-The Lyceum, in March, and The Electric Ballroom, in April of '83....And, BOY, IS IT GOOD!...Like the original 35mm version of 'Apocalypse Now', this incarnation of the band is a thing of rare and exquisite beauty....'Fears of Gun' appears to describe my 20s in their entirety....Respect due from an ancient old Goth....Thank you for downloading
Yeah this almost captures the Aus shows, but they were more violent and utterly awesome
@Mary Burke Wish I'd been able to see those Aus shows, too! Like so many great bands, they were gone too soon. 'When love moved out on Gun, the fears they moved on in!'....Respect due from an Old Goth....
they finished in Oz with a guy called Des on drums and Mick back on guitar, I saw 2 shows in Melbourne, , 2,000 each night, Scientists in support,.............................................long way from my first Boys Next Door show in Adelaide in .78...........................
Great opener with Hamlet (pow, pow, pow)! Reminds me of seeing the (reformed) Pop Group and they kicked off proceedings with We Are All Prostitutes. Totally took me off guard!
God dammit they were so fucking cool. I love how Nick is dressed like the prom date of a mother's nightmares. Broke up with my boyfriend this winter so I could spend more quality time with my Birthday Party records.
Hey, that's a good reason to break up. The BP is forever!
You are making the hard but critical life decisions that pay off in the end.
I got Bad Seeds tickets if you're interested (taking a shot here 😂)
Solid choice. I'm breaking up with my future boyfriend now in order to spend my life watching and listening.
The Jesus Lizard's favorite band.
Didn't know that.makes sense.thx for info.
@@zlatkoigric5084 I was kidding. Sort of. I have no idea who the Jesus Lizard's favorite band is. But they sure sound a lot like the Birthday Party.
@@davelines like i've said,makes sense. You got me good.nothing special,but good. Happy easter u koksukr.
@@zlatkoigric5084 same to you
About 20 bands in the midwest started to sound a lot like this after this tour rolled through..
Been waiting for this to be reuploaded a long time. Best version of Hamlet. That bass and drums is killing it.
Its awesome but think this version just edges it out: ua-cam.com/video/ByrpGQ10fvk/v-deo.html
Saw them on the mutiny tour Leeds UK
@@citizenerased000 reupload? Link broke
They broke up only 2 months later. Such a shame. Tracy Pew and Rowland S. Howard are legends.
So mind blowing! So happy this exists!
Wild stuff. The driving bass and drums reminds me a lot of early Hunters and Collectors (especially Six Strings That Drew Blood). They were from the same city (Melbourne) and formulating at the same time.
Beyond cool. Sick to be able to see this. I remember seeing there star on first Avenue and always wondered what that show would have been like.
Wow, just a couple weeks before I moved to Mpls to go to the U of M. I spent many a blissful night at First Ave / 7th St Entry but I will forever regret that I didn’t see this show.
Superb set list!
Time def over now , glad I’ve gotten it
They paved the way for little river band and air supply
David Kuiper , Are You just begging to have a new on ripped? what is your brain disfunction and what is the connection you are making between these three bands??
The only link I see is , you're going to need a new air supply, when you get tossed in the Little River and were all going to have a Birthday-like-Party in celebration
😉🍻🍾🎂🎸
Cheers, cobber, fair old belly laugh out of that
Yeah and this totally helped Dolly Parton find her true direction
Indeed
😂.
Saw them a week before this at the Roxy in LA
holy shit thank you
Interesting that few years earlier they were playing to friends mostly art students in St kilda. Sorta influence by early roxy music and iggy
They had so much creative vision to evolve so quickly to the most orginal and cutting band on planet by 1982 - four years
Saw the 2nd last gig Glad i saw them
This kind of band doesent exist anymore the perfekt line up nick rollie tracy and mick❤❤😂😂😂😂
Can you image is Prince walked into this show ? Lmao
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much
Thanks…this is great. Saw them many times in Aus.
WoW!...Craxy GOOD!
Glorious!!!! Many thanks!!!
Ahhh, the perfect medicine for a phlegmatic Tuesday.
Nick|Rowland|Tracy|Mick.
Deep in The Woods, She's Hit
Stirring the pot for all time...
Much gratitude to Mikes Archive for uploading this.
I was at this gig
Great share, much thanks
So close to the end.
? ? ? ?
@@jodymcdougle8810 They played their last gig a couple of months later.
@@JoeMullanMusic probably a couple weeks later
this is amazing!!
Holy shit what wouldn’t I have given to have been there. Heard nothing but amazing things about how great they were live, and that their live shows were so wild and bizarre and violent that one had to be there to experience the craziness in full. My mom and dad are 11 years younger than Nick, both born in 1968. Mom was born on April 15th and Dad was born on January 26th, so they were both 15 at the time that this concert took place.
I was born in 1999, 16 years after this gig happened.
Became a fan of Nick Cave later on in college, and I must say, sometimes when watching videos of his early gigs, GOD, what wouldn’t I give to have been born earlier to experience them in person.
Actually, Dad was 15, Mom was 14. Point still stands though.
@@flannerymonaghan-morris4825
Any chance yuo can be more self absorbed and make it abt urself..//?? LOOOL
Well best video ever
Thank you for the upload on this.
Mick was the perfect drummer for the band at this point. Forceful and direct.
I love Nick and I always will, but there are times here where I wish the camera operators would give us more of the others, especially Rowland. He's guitar work is incredible. I can see here why they had to break up. Cave and Howard on the stage together would have been like King Kong and Godzilla trying to share the stage every night. They could only work together for so long without destroying each other.
Nick fell out of love with Rowland when Blixa came along ...
The end of a great bromance and the beginning of another.
@@mickmangles8000 But also Mick Harvey had technically already quit by this point. He agreed to do the US tour but he was done so that means Nick didn't have his writing partner anymore since he stopped writing songs with Rowland after Junkyard.
@@mickmangles8000 and then fell out of love with Blixa when Warren came along. Not sure where Mick sits in all of this..
CHAOS CHAOS CHAOS CHAOS
Saw their last appearance in nyc at the peppermint lounge. May have been in 1983 as well.
Yea the pep lounge was a great place for shows, saw so many good bands there
SONNYS BURNING 🔥🔥🔥
Amazing ❤️
Captain Tracy Pew
Aaron76 isn’t he the best, or what! Love this
@@daviddavis3155 yes, I wish there was more footage and filming focused on him both during live shows and at least a couple of decent interviews would be nice.
With that said... Does anyone know of any? or have one hidden away somewhere??
noise rock is life
First saw them in 1980 supporting Subway Sect in Newcastle....
Thanks for uploading this! I gladly subscribed to your channel and "clicked that bell"! Its nice to meet you. I'm Jody from Atlanta.
13:25 on Deep in the Woods!
Mixed emotions about my fellow MPLS citizens at the time. Very chatty folk🤔
Thanks for the upload
Its amazing how Roland used the same guitar all the way till his death.
And pawned it umpteen times.
@@robleahy5759 pawning something is not a problem not being able to get it out is.
@@ZeroFox1970 his girl says she bought it back more times than she could count, then posthumously gave it to a national museum because her house got robbed three times by rogue Rowland fans seeking souvenirs.
@@robleahy5759 lol that's awesome that's commitment.
@@ZeroFox1970 And I too love how he never used effects pedals no matter how cheap and varied they got. He played 2 songs at my best mates funeral wearing blue suede shoes and Teddy boy jacket. Now he's gone too. Here's to you friend.
Hi Mike's Archive, you posted a video of Skeleton Key live at CBGB's in '97. I was wondering if I could get a copy of that? I don't see it posted on your site anymore. I was the original guitarist in that band. Thanks
Skeleton Key were great!
So many modern bands owe to BP, listen to Just Mustard and you’ll see the seeds (pun not intended) of these guys
Brilliant -thank you for posting this
❤🌹🦅
Wow - any set that opens with Hamlet is an epic IMO - Top 5 Birthday Party songs for me are: Hamlet, Junkyard, Zoo-Music Girl, The Friend Catcher and Nick The Stripper (actually replace that last one w/ Fears Of Gun (fuckin' brilliant kickass bass and guitar work and Nick Cave rules of course lyric and vox-wise) - but it usually varies the further back I decide to to take that swan dive into that infinite abyss that is the squall of Mick and Rowland's guitars, Phil's frantic smashing percussion, Tracy Pew's digusting ugly bass sound while he gyrates like an evil cowboy onstage and of course Nick Cave's pigfuck squeals - his autobiography is a great read if you want to learn more about this band which was his first before the Bad Seeds and they detail the Bad Seeds up to about the late 90's iirc - anyway - cheers - big fan of this band - my second favorite aspect of Australia - the first being their outstandingly hot women - wooow - I'd bet Nick Cave probably experienced the full meal deal like Iggy Pop before him lol
I feel like I'm at the Opera as he pierced the conductor with his violin bow, it makes you want to reenact a violent scene over a Marshall Amp, there's something about the atmosphere like tannin stain on a porcelain bowel.
Can I just point out 43:30 hahah. like shadows out of time
thats adorable
" my birthday today... fifty five years old... hahaha "
The rhythm section is fantastic! Always preferred Mick's drumming.
I agree with @WinstonTexas829. I'm Australian, so I was lucky enough to see them twice, in '82 and '83. I was a teenager. On both occasions, I was actually frightened Nick was going to top himself - he was that wild. I was so mesmerised by Nick and Roland that I didn't pay attention to the rhythm section - only recently, listening to Prayers on Fire, have I appreciated the genius of Tracey, Phil and Mick. Anyway, as Winston from Texas said, this band kinda' ruined live music for me. I've seen The Cramps and The Gun Club and Rollins Band and The Dead Kennedys and scores of other 'dangerous' bands and none have ever come close to creating the absolute terror of a Birthday Party show.
Fukyeah mate!!
Saw the BP in 82..
Went to plenty of other gigs, but these blokes were the most violent!!
Hey look, it's Prince.
There are few comments about Prince but as I can see nobody has noticed the drum kit. So, the real question is: where Grant Hart was at the time?!
The Birthday Party!!!!
I wonder if Prince was there that evening.
21:07
For real awesome! Thanks for pointing it out! I’m one of the fanboys who wanted to sound like this in 1990 after opening for the LAUGHING HYENAS. Excellent raw power unpretentious obviously high af repetitive tribal post punk. My current on repeat band after seeing the MUTINY IN HEAVEN doc in PHILLY last Wednesday.
Where for art thou BABY FACE???
I seriously wonder if Prince was there...
Nope. Not me. I was too young in the early 80s. Never got to see them. I consider myself lucky that I saw all the "noise" bands in the 90s that were clearly influenced by this. Jesus Lizard..etc.
👁El ojo
I love Nick Cave but im still trying to enjoy the Birthday Party's actual music...it's been tough
you needed to hear this first, this was his genius
i'm still going at it but jesus christ, tuneless, joyless thrashing....where's the melody? where's the songs?@@flogginga_dead_horse4022
Drugs help
One can only imagine what the Americans thought of this?
Did they headline this show? Amazing that they sold out a 1500 seat club in the midwest...
The Bedwet Party
This makes me laugh out loud. Dude with the cowboy hat makes this group. Its either the worst band I have ever heard, or the best.
Passion ❤
The bass is what draws me into this band, very hypnotic.
They are like from another dimension, it's a pity that today's music has turned into total shit.
Imagine you are in PRINCE territory and you kill it......😮😮😮😮😮
REALLY BAD TRIP YOOO
On the gear eh? Must look and cringe
Damn! This was a few months before I started going to First Avenue. Epic show.
The crowd talked through the whole show.