The Friend Catcher// The Birthday Party

#2

July 2, 1982
Stollwerck
Koln, Germany

1. Hamlet (Pow,Pow,Pow)
2. The Friend Catcher
3. Release the Bats
4. Junkyard
5. Kiss Me Black
6. 6" Gold Blade
7. Dead Joe
8. (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
9. She's Hit
10. Big Jesus Trash Can
11. Funhouse

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the birthday party
• nick cave
• mick harvey
• rowland s. howard
• tracy pew
• phill calvert

[smallplotofland]

is that mick harvey on drums?

[PrickMayall]

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

[avolitekitesvara]

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

[psyhobill5150]

sweetest bass sound ever

[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.

[vincedoomreaper88]

@royalslack And Tracy Pew.

[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.

[pang5]

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

[royalslack]

RIP Rowland S Howard