The Boys Next Door - Shivers (1979)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1979:

The Boys Next Door's promo-video for the single 'Shivers' (May, 1979), taken from the 1979 album 'Door, Door'.

Note: Written by a 16 year old Rowland S. Howard in 1976, about an unrequited love; 'Shivers' is Howard's most famous song and is one of Australia's primary punk/post-punk anthems. Howard first recorded his song with his second band The Young Charlatans in 1978, before taking it to The Boys Next Door.
The song has been recorded by Marie Hoy for the Richard Lowenstein film 'Dogs In Space', and was a chart-hit single for The Screaming Jets in the early nineties.
This promo-video was taken from 'Nightmoves', a music television program in Australia which was produced by Mushroom records boss Michael Gudinski. ABC-TV's Countdown denied the Boys Next Door an appearance due to the song's lyrical content; however, Saturday morning children's television program 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' made no issue and had the band perform on the show. The Boys Next Door changed their name to The Birthday Party a year later.

Band Origin: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Track: Shivers
Album: Door, Door
Composed By: Rowland S. Howard
Produced By: Tony Cohen (Engineer)
Label: Mushroom
Chart Position:
Release Date: May, 1979
Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birthday_Party_(band)
- http://www.howlspace.com.au/en/boysnextdoor/boysnextdoor.htm
- http://www.myspace.com/boysnextdoornickcave

Line-up:

Nick Cave -- Vocals
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1983-present) -- Grinderman (2007-present) ]

Mick Harvey -- Guitar
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) -- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1983-2009) -- solo (1995-present) ]

Tracy Pew -- Bass
[ Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Man Or Myth? (1983) ]

Phill Calvert -- Drums
[Boys Next Door (1973-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Blue Ruin (1985-1989) -- In Vivo -- The Sunday Kind --Sugarhips -- Bulletproof -- The Enthusiasts ]

Rowland S. Howard -- Guitar
[ The Obsessions -- The Young Charlatans -- Boys Next Door (1978-1980) -- The Birthday Party (1980-1983) -- Crime & The City Solution (1984-1987) -- These Immortal Souls (1986-1992) -- solo (1999-2009) ]

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NZOZ NZOZ1979 1979 Australia Late Seventies 1970's 1970s 70's 70s

Extended Tags: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard, Tracey Pew, The Birthday Party

Musical Terms: New Wave, Post Punk, Post-Punk, Alternative, Indi, Aussie, Old Australian Music Band

Category:

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Tags:

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• Door
• 1979
• Australia
• Late
• Seventies

[shottskies]

is this the original of this song?

[nzoz1979]

@shottskies yeah

[luizyoung]

Cat Power was right.

[6819ljj]

You never cease to amaze me nzoz good music as always FKN LEGEND

[13dirty666]

one of the greatest aussie songs ever, thank god he quit drugs so he can still make music for the youth of today

[iloveknitting1]

Now Nicky Boy is all bald and religious. He was so beautiful when he was young and drug addicted

[martyrsbleedtoo3329]

everytime i listen to this song i get so entranced by the sound of his voice and the music that i dont even listen to the actual words. ive heard this song a million times and i still only know the "shiver down my spi- iy-iy-iy-iy-iyiyiyine" part.

[TheOriginalHingehead]

@shottskies

No, Roland S. Howard wrote it and performed it with The Young Charlatans before joining the Boys Next Door - TYC released it on 7" in 1978 - TBND recorded their version in 1979.

[Flippaarn]

@luizyoung what was she right about?

[crobster]

@crobster

search roland s howard

[crobster]

@nzoz1979

nope



[BenjiMordino]

@shottskies No See @SelfSufficientBand 's post

May as well be the original though. I'd add two things: rest in peace Tracy Pew (a long time gone), and rest in peace Rowland Howard (a little more recent). Australian music misses you both.

[noias68]

estou a ouvir neste momento esse som que cena :)

[bellevoyageuse]

absolutely brilliant!