The Birthday Party
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The Birthday Party/The Virgin Prunes: Ace Cinema, Brixton
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 4 December 1982
WITH CHANNEL 4's cameras peering over their shoulders, both sets of Wild Men of Pop felt a little inhibited. Mindful of television's cold, reducing stare, ...
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The Birthday Party: Mick Harvey speaks
Interview by Clinton Walker, RAM, November 1980
Nine months ago, the Boys Next Door packed their ambition and what little equipment they possessed and beaded for London. They left Australia simply because ...
The Birthday Party, Mass: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 11 April 1981
WALKING THROUGH the doors we were confronted by a half-demonic Greek grin from Harry Pop. From behind it the unmistakeably masochist vowels soon intoned: "You've ...
4AD Records: Bloodless Revolutions
Interview by Tony Fletcher, The Face, May 1981
TONY FLETCHER TALKS SMALL BUSINESS WITH A SUCCESSFUL ALTERNATIVE ...
Theatre Of Hate, Modern English, The Birthday Party: London University
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981
LATE AGAIN, so I missed most of the Birthday Party — who I was looking forward to the most, as it happens. Theirs is the ...
The Birthday Party: Abbo — The Album
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 13 June 1981
WHEN THE Birthday Party were recording their Prayers On Fire LP back "home" in Melbourne, Split Enz were recording Waiata in the studio next door. ...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
Merit Badges Goes To Dianaland ...
Sometimes Pleasure Heads Must Burn - A Manhattan Melodrama starring the Birthday Party
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981
IT'S A CHILL, exposed night in New York City. The East Coast has only just recovered from a week of torrential rains, and winds sweeping ...
Primal Pain at the Psychos' Party: The Birthday Party at the Venue, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 13 March 1982
WHEN The Birthday Party last desecrated this tabernacle of modern nightlife, a generally sloppy show produced the intemperate engorgement of Drunk On The Pope's Blood, ...
After The Pope's Blood: Gatecrashing The Birthday Party
Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 3 April 1982
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY? Well, yeah, like in blowing out candles on a cake. This party is a crashed party and anyone with a part of ...
The Birthday Party: The Bad Seed EP
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 5 February 1983
"IF, LOVING a woman more than anything in the world, or anticipating the possibility of such a love, one were suddenly to see her chained ...
The Birthday Party: The Sound and The Fury
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 26 March 1983
Reared under the hothouse conditions of Melbourne, London and Berlin, The Birthday Party's bad seed has finally blossomed into a magnificent demon flower. On one ...
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, Smash Hits, 28 April 1983
A celebration of lunacy and loud noise imported from Australia. Peter Silverton finds it quite inviting. ...
The Birthday Party: Mutiny! (Mute 29); Siouxsie & the Banshees: Nocturne (Polydor Shah 1)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 26 November 1983
TO HELL AND BACK ...
Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 1984
AND SO THE Birthday Party finally — well what? ... "break up" seems an inadequate term. Implode? OD? Burn-out? It's a difficult task to do ...
Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, Stiletto, February 1984
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY are probably the most important rock band Australia has ever produced. They made music that was blatantly rock at a time when ...
Nick Cave: If This Is Heaven I'm Bailing Out
Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 12 May 1984
THE ENIGMA of The Birthday Party, like that of Kaspar Hauser, begins with grunts in the darkness and ends in murder. ...
Exit The '80s — Goth: Bats Out Of Hell
Overview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 September 1989
It's been the decade of the goth — but, somewhere along the line, the innovation of the Birthday Party, the Banshees and the Sisters gave ...
Nick Cave: Worshipping The Son
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 24 November 1990
For the second of our special Fan Files, we look at Nick Cave, the singer who's so damn slinky and shaggable that even women want ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michel Faber, Rock's Backpages, August 2002
Novelist Michel Faber remembers the Young Nick Cave. ...
The Lyre of Cave: An Interview
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2004
RBP: Could you have imagined, all those years ago, that you’d have this amazingly even and consistent career? ...
Want To Rule Britannia? Australian Bands Breaking The UK
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Drum Media, 2005
As a rash of homegrown bands start to make waves overseas, Jenny Valentish looks at the long and bloody history of Australian bands and the ...
Overview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, October 2005
"WE HATED BEING called goth," muses the impeccably suave Flesh For Lulu frontman Nick Marsh. "If they called you a goth then you couldn't be ...
Rowland S Howard: Storm Und Twang – The Prophet Of St Kilda
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, May 2006
From icy reverb to noirish twang, Jenny Valentish pays tribute to Australia's most influential guitar fiend, Rowland S Howard... ...
Nick Cave: Back to the Ballroom
Book Excerpt by Clinton Walker, 'Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave', 2009
I FIRST MET Nick Cave in Melbourne in early 1978 when we were both, I daresay, players in a new music underground that was still ...
30 Years On: We Return to the Birthday Party's Junkyard
Retrospective and Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 30 April 2012
Julian Marszalek talks to Mick Harvey about Australian post-punks' high watermark statement. ...
4AD Records: The "pure" label behind Pixies and Cocteau Twins
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Aston, The Guardian, 10 October 2013
Little was known about Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, the enigmatic founders of celebrated indie label 4AD, until they were tracked down in the US. ...
4AD Records: Labelled with Love
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
The Man Who Inspired Nick Cave: Mick Harvey on the Greatness of the Late Rowland S. Howard
Retrospective and Interview by Ken Scrudato, BlackBook, 18 February 2020
THE CULTURAL landscape is littered with the faded memories of those who came and went without the honours corresponding to the levels of their actual ...
see also Boys Next Door, The
see also Nick Cave
see also Crime & The City Solution
see also These Immortal Souls
see also Mick Harvey
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