The Friend Catcher// The Birthday Party

[skinjob999]

Where and when was this? It's not on the Video released by Factory is it?

[EamonnMurphy00]

Easily my favourite Birthday Party song, and one of the greatest rock songs ever committed to tape. The perfect mixture of deviancy, noise, confusion, nihilism, and angst. So, so, so, so, so, so good. 

[ifutureman]

The way Roland Howard abused that Fender Jaguar, he could have been charged with cruelty to animals :) A guitarist with vision.

[mrparsnip]

Nice false start!

[bontakt]

i wish i could go back in time and roadie for bauhaus and the birthday party...do you have a time machine please

[myteevc15]

Haha, the girl with the mohawk. True punkrawk. ;D

[drido]

Thank you so, so much.

[royalslack]

RIP Rowland S Howard

[vincedoomreaper88]

@royalslack And Tracy Pew.

[smallplotofland]

is that mick harvey on drums?

[PrickMayall]

no, that's phill calvert - mick's on guitar to nick's left

[royalslack]

No, that Phill Calvert. Mick Harvey is the guitarist on the left.

[pang5]

No, that's Phill Calvert. Mick's the guitarist to the left. :-l

[polistyrenejassband]

i like the first two birthday party records more than mutiny and junyard

[cousiwa09]

BEST EVER BP.. oh St Nick, all these years later and this one is still no. 1 for me! Thanks for the upload. Savoured every piece of it!

[psyhobill5150]

sweetest bass sound ever

[fattypattyfatty]

oh jesus. thank you for uploading this.

[junglesam]

Boy do i wish i could have seen this

[avolitekitesvara]

i did see this and i was a roadie with bauhaus and the birthday party in the eighties

[junglesam]

wow... I hadn't even been born at this point

[PsychedOut17]

yessss!!

[hornraiser]

go tracy! ha!!!

my favorite BP tune.

[yeahproductions]

What a band!

Only Australian bands can sound like this!