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Uploaded on Apr 7, 2007

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_Birt...)
- http://www.howlspace.com.au/en/boysne...
- http://www.myspace.com/boysnextdoorni...

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

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  • Adam Sewell

    Who else just heard this on Triple J and just dropped everything and listened...amazing

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  • nzoz1979

    I think Triple J listeners have been doing that for the past 30 years.

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  • EdwardSuperR

    The Nightwatchman and Brave Exhibitions, two other songs from the same album Shivers comes on (Door, Door), should have also been released as singles and given radio play. Shame they did not.

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  • nzoz1979

    so many should-haves in hindsite. there were two other promo-videos made ('After A Fashion' and 'The Hair Shirt'), which are now lost forever (apparently). This band also did a performance on Hey Hey Its Saturday... God knows if that exists.

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  • nzoz1979

    because there is legend attached to this clip... you might be more talented and your version may be better, but the reality is, you're just another youtube uploader... not somebody who has spent over thirty years building an international following...

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  • luizyoung

    Cat Power was right.

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  • James Lees

    thank you very much for uploading this Australian classic, the Screaming Jets did I good version, but the original is the best... thank you very much :)

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  • Tim Keppie

    Shivers should be Australia's National Anthem,much better than the one they've got!

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  • Conleth Craig

    this band wer the true australian punks with class-luv ya nic you are the man a true shakesspero

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  • Pazuzuomen

    Technically it was originally a Young Charlatan's song, but since Rowland Howard who wrote it was in both bands, the point is a bit moot.

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  • Rex Freckle

    Yes mate.Rowland wrote this when he was about 15.....

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  • Rex Freckle

    Haha.......

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  • BlueMondayMo

    It was written by a 16 years old boy? And it sounds like it. But it's kind of cool anyway...

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  • helpstreettrussed11

    Most people don't realise Rowland Howard wrote the song, I personally agree with the comments about Nightwatchman being single quality, so catchy...

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