If only I'd had a sensible adult in my life when I was 15 in 1983 to say, 'You must go and see the Birthday Party, kid. It'll be an essential part of your education.'
@@JohnMoseley indeed. i think it took him a while to warm to cave at first tho. buzzo is my sensible adult even now i'm 40! i've seen him rocking a tee and he talks about how crazy mutiny in heaven is in the bride screamed murder album notes. high praise!
I have decided my parents had me at the wrong time. I think I was still in the womb when this was filmed. I would of loved to of been at the Hac for this show!!! I just finished reading Peter Hook's How Not to Run a Club. It is worth a read. Hooky speaks pretty highly of Nick Cave! Too bad The Hac didn't make any money off these videos... But I am so glad they filmed all the shows because now I can live what is missed via You Tube!
Great story. My own is that I lived for awhile on the same block he did in Berlin, so I used to see him in the neighborhood, the supermarket, etc. in late 80s. Never spoke to him though. Before that, I saw him hanging out in Danceteria in NYC a few times when I lived there.
This performance ignites a strong emotional response from me... which is what art is supposed to do.... So I'd say it's pretty good. I think it's pretty brilliantly written.
This is really tame for a birthday party gig. I saw them several times back in Aus after their Uk sojourn…the gigs were insane…people got hurt. I remember my feet not touching the ground for whole shows
Well, Birthday Party was already considered by people-in-the-know to be the most important band in the world at around the time of this show. Other groups might be packing stadiums but people at this concert probably were thinking that This is the only place to be on this planet right now. I don't think Cave was approaching his songwriting at the time less seriously.
Sorry, there is more from this concert out there somewhere. I grabbed this one back when a few more from this gig were posted here, I think about a year ago. They disappeared. This is the only one I saved. Just did a search online: the DVD is called Pleasure Heads Must Burn, mainly live from 2 Hacienda gigs in 82/83.
[Verse I] Now, there is a woman-pie, in here! Mr. Evangelist says, she's hit! And, the best cook, you ever had... you can't blame, the good woman, now, and you, locked him up for, twenty years. Now, there's action, on the basement stairs, a monster, half-man, half-beast, grind! Hear the hatchet, grind, grind, grind! And uptown, one hundred skirts, are bleeding, and Mr. Evangelist says: [Chorus I] "She's hit! Every little bit, she's hit! Every little bit, she's hit! Every little bi-i-i-i-i-it, she's hit, she's hit, She's hi-i-i-i-i-i-it! She's hit!" [Verse II] And if only, and if only, we could all, grow wings and fly! Sweet hatchet, swing low, son! I'm feeling mighty, lonesome! Christen the bastard. Jack. Dad. The head-shrinker, is a quack! And anyway, and anyway, anyway, anyway, who would wear their hair like th-a-a-a-a-at! The vinyl is so cool, but this conversation's cruel: [Post-Chorus] "Hold my head romeo it's in a rodeo! Hold my heart daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o! Hold my heart romeo it's in a rodeo! Hold my head daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o! Hold my head romeo it's in a rodeo! Hold my heart daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!" And all the girls, across the world, and all the girls, across the world: [Chorus II] "I'm hit! Every little bit, she's hit! Every little bit, she's hit! Every little bi-i-i-i-i-it, she's hit, she's hit, She's hi-i-i-i-i-it! She's hit!" [Other] And she won't get up ...and she won't get up, she won't get up! O-o-o-o-o-oh! She's hit! Every little bit! She's hi-i-i-i-i-i-it... Goodbye! Goodbye!
Yes! And also no, it's so much more than that. Nick seems like...like some mad enchanter, himself enchanted (if I can say that). And this song features one of the greatest slow dark roilling bass-guitar vamps I've ever heard. Brilliant!
I was played the master cassette for the junkyard album by their manager Keith Glass and he asked me my opinion of the track listing and I said this should start the album. I think it ended up being first track on side 2
+Nathan Parsons It was more underground as well, besides The birthday party's shows were known to attract the marginalized youth and other misfits and often times even anti-social guys pissing, *yes literally pissing* on the stage.
Wow! Where does this music come from? There seems to be really nothing derivative about it. It seems like Nick Cave pooled this music from the ether. Truly epochal.
He has lived many years in Berlin, 1 day he's scoring heroin in subway naturally taken to precinct he's talking Aussie no one undestood apparently he thinks he's still in bloody Melbourne hahahaha proudly my mate from down under
fuck I wish I was there, I would take a drag on that ciggie as well, can you imagine there is some dude that tells his grandchildren he took a drag on Nick Cave's ciggie and they just think he's ready for the retirement home.
gooood, look at those junks down there!! they had no idea nick will become quite more serious in his career :)) for me it seems like one of the bands who just smack something before concert to be even able to play. but nick has a hidden unique grif inside him...
@hellmik Sorry -- just looked it up on Google Maps and that place was way way out there, at least from where I used to hang out -- the name did sound familiar -- we did use to go check out places we'd heard about, some far away too, but that one's location and layout don't look familiar at all. I do remember going to see the Neubauten film (Halbe Mensch) out at UFA Fabrik -- is/was that in that same area?
@saigonbill ,hello, im doing a research on what went on in West Berlin @ the time. My question is have u gone to the Risiko Bar and do you remember anything from that place? All best and thanx
@indhold It was in Kreuzberg 36 (what we called it at the time -- is it still referred to as that?) -- on Oranien Strasse. I don't remember which number, but his seemed to be in the 20s, definitely that block. My flat was at 17, at the corner.
If only I'd had a sensible adult in my life when I was 15 in 1983 to say, 'You must go and see the Birthday Party, kid. It'll be an essential part of your education.'
Ditto. Saw him in '88 though.
Yeah . . . I know it wasn't The Birthday Party 😫
For your education?🤣🤣🤣🤣
the only person i've seen talking about them is king buzzo from the melvins
@@davidhatred7275 Well, that's a connection that makes sense.
@@JohnMoseley indeed. i think it took him a while to warm to cave at first tho. buzzo is my sensible adult even now i'm 40! i've seen him rocking a tee and he talks about how crazy mutiny in heaven is in the bride screamed murder album notes. high praise!
Tracy Pew is a very underrated bass player
Coolest well read dude ever.
The bass is key... It drives it, it is the beat. Played with what I hear no effort... just flowed
this is my favourite guitar track from rowland while in the birthday party. sounds like a staggering eerie desperado. xo r.i.p.
Dat bass. So many freaking lumps. Beautiful lumps at that. R.I.P. Tracy Pew.
If I had a birthday party, that's exactly how I'd like it to be.
Woman pie for the cake
best perfomance in Belgian club, after a adult dance party, comletelty ravaged the venue Been there seen it and live to remember, thanxz
yeah, that bass!! tracy pew - the king!
I have recognised myself in the crowd, after 41 years!
And now I know where the idea for Marylin Manson's "Dope Hat" came from. Even the bass riff - wow.
I have decided my parents had me at the wrong time. I think I was still in the womb when this was filmed. I would of loved to of been at the Hac for this show!!! I just finished reading Peter Hook's How Not to Run a Club. It is worth a read. Hooky speaks pretty highly of Nick Cave! Too bad The Hac didn't make any money off these videos... But I am so glad they filmed all the shows because now I can live what is missed via You Tube!
Great story. My own is that I lived for awhile on the same block he did in Berlin, so I used to see him in the neighborhood, the supermarket, etc. in late 80s. Never spoke to him though. Before that, I saw him hanging out in Danceteria in NYC a few times when I lived there.
Bill Murray was he tall?
@@shopgirls262 6 f 4 approx
This performance ignites a strong emotional response from me... which is what art is supposed to do.... So I'd say it's pretty good. I think it's pretty brilliantly written.
This is really tame for a birthday party gig.
I saw them several times back in Aus after their Uk sojourn…the gigs were insane…people got hurt. I remember my feet not touching the ground for whole shows
for me, there has never been a better live band. The birthday PArty.
im feelin this right here, its like the doors of the 80's with darker themes. plz post more birthday party.
Well, Birthday Party was already considered by people-in-the-know to be the most important band in the world at around the time of this show. Other groups might be packing stadiums but people at this concert probably were thinking that This is the only place to be on this planet right now. I don't think Cave was approaching his songwriting at the time less seriously.
I was lucky enough to see them, summer of ‘83. They were fantastic live and, their studio lps are stellar. RIP Rowland and Tracy
Probably because he was addicted to smack/ heroin like Tracy Pew
Well those in the know were wrong.
. pathetic hipsterism
Still relevant today. She’s still hit :’(
Sorry, there is more from this concert out there somewhere. I grabbed this one back when a few more from this gig were posted here, I think about a year ago. They disappeared. This is the only one I saved.
Just did a search online: the DVD is called Pleasure Heads Must Burn, mainly live from 2 Hacienda gigs in 82/83.
[Verse I]
Now, there is a woman-pie, in here!
Mr. Evangelist says, she's hit!
And, the best cook, you ever had...
you can't blame, the good woman, now,
and you, locked him up for, twenty years.
Now, there's action, on the basement stairs,
a monster, half-man, half-beast, grind!
Hear the hatchet, grind, grind, grind!
And uptown, one hundred skirts, are bleeding,
and Mr. Evangelist says:
[Chorus I]
"She's hit! Every little bit,
she's hit! Every little bit,
she's hit! Every little bi-i-i-i-i-it,
she's hit, she's hit, She's hi-i-i-i-i-i-it!
She's hit!"
[Verse II]
And if only, and if only, we could all, grow wings and fly!
Sweet hatchet, swing low, son!
I'm feeling mighty, lonesome!
Christen the bastard. Jack. Dad.
The head-shrinker, is a quack!
And anyway, and anyway, anyway, anyway,
who would wear their hair like th-a-a-a-a-at!
The vinyl is so cool, but this conversation's cruel:
[Post-Chorus]
"Hold my head romeo it's in a rodeo!
Hold my heart daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o!
Hold my heart romeo it's in a rodeo!
Hold my head daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o!
Hold my head romeo it's in a rodeo!
Hold my heart daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!"
And all the girls, across the world,
and all the girls, across the world:
[Chorus II]
"I'm hit! Every little bit,
she's hit! Every little bit,
she's hit! Every little bi-i-i-i-i-it,
she's hit, she's hit, She's hi-i-i-i-i-it!
She's hit!"
[Other]
And she won't get up
...and she won't get up,
she won't get up!
O-o-o-o-o-oh!
She's hit! Every little bit!
She's hi-i-i-i-i-i-it...
Goodbye!
Goodbye!
this song is really awesome
i bought this song off youtube.
but this live version is way better than the recorded one.
i wish i were there...
Best band ever
Well live at least. It was like seeing a mental circus, so many characters on one stage.
Paul Banks has said that if Interpol was to cover a song, it would be "She's Hit".
The most brilliant band I’ve ever had the privilege to die too. Helps me at my depths
Absolute magic ✨
There is woman pie in here
Mr. Evangelist says, she's hit
The best cook you ever had
You can't blame the good woman now, dad
*womankind
pie
You win, you get the stick!
Thanks for posting this. I never saw the Birthday Party and didn't catch Nick live till 1988 in London.
If Jim Morrison did cough syrup
This
Yes! And also no, it's so much more than that. Nick seems like...like some mad enchanter, himself enchanted (if I can say that). And this song features one of the greatest slow dark roilling bass-guitar vamps I've ever heard. Brilliant!
Lol...
@@elizabethhann4028 One of the very few that Tracy actually wrote
I was played the master cassette for the junkyard album by their manager Keith Glass and he asked me my opinion of the track listing and I said this should start the album. I think it ended up being first track on side 2
I love a little bit of herion in my music
back then they offered him cigarettes, now he'd have a dozen cameras in his face.
+Nathan Parsons It was more underground as well, besides The birthday party's shows were known to attract the marginalized youth and other misfits and often times even anti-social guys pissing, *yes literally pissing* on the stage.
+Nathan Parsons Even earlier back in Australia they'd offer him a pint glass or a jug to the head
ooh like at gg allin shows.. hehehe
Thanks for this upload ! 👍
Wow! Where does this music come from? There seems to be really nothing derivative about it. It seems like Nick
Cave pooled this music from the ether. Truly epochal.
The head shrinker is a quack
Anyone, anyone, anyone who'd wear their hair like that
made me sad. for i'll never see this irl
absolutely great!!!
saw them in brixton, 1982 (the one that was on channel 4). I feel like it was a week ago, not 42 years!
This song just truly kills me.... Makes me wanna come down ⬇️
this is amazing
4:05 now that's proper cigarette etiquette
If jim Morrison found a goth club and never left the scene
He has lived many years in Berlin, 1 day he's scoring heroin in subway naturally taken to precinct he's talking Aussie no one undestood apparently he thinks he's still in bloody Melbourne hahahaha proudly my mate from down under
The best COOK you ever had..........
This might be better recording than on the LP
They were essentially a live band. I saw them heaps but own few of the records from this time
Gracias.
escucha el cover que hacen de los Stooges, esta de primera linea.
***** Bueno.
Perfecto 😊
Devastatingly effective bass, especially just after 0:31
no...not just you.
i consider TBP the doors that took it to the next level.
My mate from Melbourne, bloody hell
2:42 - 3:00 is one of many reasons that man is the coolest fucking thing on the planet.
Best song
Hell, I'm proud just to have lived on the same continent as Nick Cave.
tracey pew holding it down
fuck I wish I was there, I would take a drag on that ciggie as well, can you imagine there is some dude that tells his grandchildren he took a drag on Nick Cave's ciggie and they just think he's ready for the retirement home.
'This is a local band for local singers.We dont want you around here do we Tubbs?' lol
Fuck, he is perfect.
Christ that was good. Again.
@awoodworm dream concert, oh my! a great 2010 for u! Sad 2009, took Rowland S. Howard from life!
I don't know why but this reminds me of True detective.
+vhnoise Have anything to do with the fact he and Warren Ellis composed "All The Gold" for True Detective's second season?
the second seasom of TD was crap unfortunately.
gooood, look at those junks down there!! they had no idea nick will become quite more serious in his career :)) for me it seems like one of the bands who just smack something before concert to be even able to play. but nick has a hidden unique grif inside him...
hey video is bloody awesome! is there a full concert of this performance?
priceless.
excellent
In the thumbnail I thought it was Incredible Hulk
She's in parties
If .. I was back.. back , when I abused my body.. ... more... I would have abused my body to this.
dark bro
hes very yo0ung and looks punky.. cooooolllll
If J. morrison were alive...... wow!
your dad is awesome... :)
I thought it was the Incredible Hulk in yhe cover photo.
@hellmik Sorry -- just looked it up on Google Maps and that place was way way out there, at least from where I used to hang out -- the name did sound familiar -- we did use to go check out places we'd heard about, some far away too, but that one's location and layout don't look familiar at all. I do remember going to see the Neubauten film (Halbe Mensch) out at UFA Fabrik -- is/was that in that same area?
💖
this coming from a guy with a fight club avatar........
Nick cave + the girl in white 5ever
❤❤❤
Is this from the PRAYERS ON FIRE video?
What’s truly unsettling is the girl dressed to look like Snow White in the audience😮!
Sorry, I don't know -- I don't have the full concert -- I reposted this song, someone else posted it originally.
@saigonbill ,hello, im doing a research on what went on in West Berlin @ the time. My question is have u gone to the Risiko Bar and do you remember anything from that place? All best and thanx
I let youtube auto play for 2-3h and I come back to this? What the fuck is this shit?!?!?
Daniel Bengtsson the studio version is a bit less abrasive for a first time listen
no man he's the cave
what kind of music do they play?
GODD
Happy Birthday to...why are there cigarettes on the birthday cake?
@saigonbill : where did he live in Berlin? tnx
@indhold It was in Kreuzberg 36 (what we called it at the time -- is it still referred to as that?) -- on Oranien Strasse. I don't remember which number, but his seemed to be in the 20s, definitely that block. My flat was at 17, at the corner.
Im hit,every little bit.
it depends -- where are you?
mientras esto sucedía nadie me lo presentó.
Is he a local singer ?
superb
(i'm drunk)
Why is it delayed?
u no i lik dis song remines me of hallcka funtims
@awoodworm ho my fucking doG! long time without references to Pere Ubu!
god
mr. evangelist said she's hit..
Heroin
Vladimiro Goncalves go away
Lol
Go fuck yourself!
:-*
edgy boy
Vladimiro Goncalves I agree. Smartest comment I’ve ever had the good fortune to read. If only everyone felt this way.
Velvet Underground...Stooges...Joy Division...Swans...Birthday Party...The Jesus Lizard...Daughters...next?
Bauhaus ... Killing Joke ... The Fall ... Swell Maps
And christen the bastard Jack.....
hahahaha