The actual name of this bootleg of a radio broadcast in 1982 is "A Social Gathering for the Celebration of the Anniversary of Someone's Birth", it's a stupid long name and it is credited to The Birthday Party AND Lydia Lunch even though all she does is yap a bit on Funhouse. Anyone that has read anything about The Birthday Party knows that they were a live band and their albums really don't live up to seeing them play, I was still listening to my mother singing from inside her belly when they first came to the UK so I, like many of you, have to rely on bootlegs and the great officially realised CD. There is also the incredible "Pleasure Heads Must Burn" video which I won't say much about cause I'm gonna try and find it online and post it some other time.
I first got into Nick Cave when I was 18, I remember the first time I tried playing "From Her To Eternity" I had to turn it off cause it was just noisy noise, it didn't take long for me to get a grip on myself and love it like it should be loved (A Box For Black Paul!!!). I got a shit load more Nick Cave albums before I got The Birthday Party stuff. I had "Junkyard" as my alarm clock CD for about a year, fuck knows what Hasan and Wendy upstairs thought every morning! I used to hear them getting jiggy up there, he was all "ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh" and she was all like "ooh, ohh, ohh" so I reckon they got off lightly, he could barely speak a word of English, I remember hearing her trying to explain Spiderman to him once and he had no idea what she was on about, two 40 year olds, married with no obvious form of communication, making Spiderman noises outside my door, welcome to Swansea...
Anyway, this bootleg was released in 1987 and is from a German radio broadcast in 1982, the gig was in Bremen. The sound quality is good and the content kicks ass, the setlist is pretty short but sweet as a nut:
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Dead Joe
The Friend Catcher
A Dead Song
Six-Inch Gold Blade
Junkyard
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Pleasureheads Must Burn
Funhouse (with Lydia Lunch).
Download from any of these links...
http://sharebee.com/027f042d
http://www.badongo.com/file/8832733
http://rapidshare.com/files/107413302/the-birthday-party-a-social-gathering.zip.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WUQ3XNGB
http://www.zshare.net/download/10526227c83c9725/
I would suggest that when you click on any of the download links you shout "BLAST OFF! BLAST OFF!!!" at the top of your lungs, it will enhance your enjoyment of the recording tenfold.
There's a load of cool info on The Birthday Party here: http://www.fromthearchives.com/ if you are bored in work.
Ch-ch-check this out too:
14/04/2008
The Birthday Party - A Social Gathering... Bootleg
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BITE!! Thanks so much for the links ur the best. Have you seen Pleasure Heads Must Burn concert dvd? Its only amazing
yeah, its really great, there is a dvd of the mutiny sessions coming out very soon :-D
this is wicked
especially enjoying funhouse
nice one!
Excellent stuff. Nick never really returned to the angst of these days, for better or worse (worse in my opinion, though I do not at all take away from his current endeavours). Besides, now we have Blixa and Einsturzende Neubauten, thank God.
Ich Bins,
Et Ux.
Damn they were good! I saw the band often as a teenager living in Melbourne, Australia and being in a band myself. We had some amazing bands getting around in those days and as long as you were happy to venture in to the seedier areas of Melbourne the punk and post-punk scene was awesome. On any given night you could catch The Saints, The Birthday party, The Painters and Dockers, as well as James Freud and Berlin, A young INXS, Kids in the Kitchen, The uncanny X-men, Real Life (of 'send me an angel fame), and a thousand others. Billboard in the City or the Crystal Ballroom in StKilda were our favourite spots and the latter saw some brain-snapping shows by Nick and the lads. He was always going to be huge. About our age, he had a presence and a raw fury hidden behind a perfect couldn't-give-a-shit facade. I remember talking to him a few times and was quite surprised to find a young guy really into music and totally into the process of making it and talking about it, then he'd get on stage and turn into a screaming, vicious, lunatic spitting out lyrics like abuse.
What an incredible time... for a taste, see the movie ”Chopper“ which features the Birthday Party playing, and one of my old hangouts, the infamous 'Bojangles'.
thank you so much for this, ive been trying to find a birthday party bootleg for so long, and its amazing quality. if you ever find a Cure concert, this would be just about the best website ever.
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