The Birthday Party - Peel Session 1981

The complete session recorded by The Birthday Party on 2 December 1981 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 10th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Big Jesus Trash Can (0:07)
2. She's Hit (3:06)
3. Bully Bones (8:41)
4. Six Inch Gold Blade (11:22)

[@robjones2408]

Saw the Birthday Party twice in London 1981 and 82, and they were utterly fearsome.
Of course they didn't last, but on a good night they were one of the most exciting groups onstage.
Tracy Pew and Roland S Howard were great, great musicians.
R.I.P lads, you were up there with the very best.

[@tok1964]

Rowland……

[@hazelthemcwitch]

@@tok1964 correcting someone’s spelling, not very punk of you 😂

[@emilyoshiro]

god bless ROWLAND S HOWARD!!

[@scott7521]

He was so underrated.... fantastic sound.

[@scott7521]

@Chainsaw Aunt Sally You didn't, but society on the whole certainly would marginalize someone like him. Glad you didn't though.... sounds like you have good taste.

[@elizabethhann4028]

If this ain't rock'n'roll, then I don't know what is. "Six-Inch Gold Blade" must be one of the purest most primal rock songs that I've ever heard.

[@ten10strips85]

It is, and you do!

[@phoebelane7003]

Thank God the only production present is that of BBC Engineers in brown coats getting the sound spot-on.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

This sounds like hard-core punk beat poetry!!

[@janedelaney4815]

Fight music scrounge .

[@michaellorenzen7410]

Rowland is /was a guitar God rip

[@ladyb2423]

Yes!!!!!!! Endangered Species - Nick we love you

[@mioffer1]

Sex - in every wild chord. God bless the Birthday & the Peel Sessions .

[@elizabethhann4028]

I agree with you.

[@amnm920]

How have I not, as far as I recollect, and I often recollect incorrectly, have I not heard Bully Bones before. It's too groovy to have been missed.

[@pabloimireia]

Rowland puto amo.

[@hazelthemcwitch]

I often put Big Jesus Trashcan blasting in my car driving home from work and scream along with Nick Cave, esp the part @ 1.49 as it helps release the frustration of suffering yet another day working with the massive shit stain that is my manager!

[@littlefiresproject4519]

6 years before jesus lizard

[@oxygen69able]

I couldn't believe how much they ripped off this band. I want my fucking money back.

[@waypointman]

@@oxygen69able Well, Scratch Acid must have been simultaneously active at the time (6 years before Jesus Lizard? )..I was familiar with David Yow at the time, and he was doing his own thing for sure. Never really put together the similarities either though, pretty uncanny, but a coincidence IMO..

[@pabloimireia]

BARBARIE.

[@TheBoffomundoShow]

Captain Beefheart

[@ten10strips85]

Captain & Tennille

@@ten10strips85 xXxRiPxXx

[@ladyb2423]

Nope

[@modifiedcontent]

Pop Group more than anything

[@markkil]

Captain Sensible

[@dreamingdex]

gutter boys

[@soup_is_good_food5743]

What a joke. Talk about a bunch of silly teenagers. "BOO! Are you scared?" Honestly.

[@paleskinnybones]

Well I wanna Rock yeah I wanna rock I wanna Rock

[@janedelaney4815]

Well you re entitled to an opinion , but it's irrelevant.

[@soup_is_good_food5743]

@@janedelaney4815 Of course, all our opinions are irrelevant, positive and negative alike. That doesn't stop anyone from saying what they want.

[@wormy5935]

Not everything can be Frankenchrist.