Chronology: a chronological overview of known concert dates (some with setlists and/or ads), dates of studio recordings, all line-ups and other trivia related to the Australian band The Birthday Party -Information in grey italics is uncertain-
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The band played their last show as the Boys Next Door on 28-Feb-80 in Melbourne,Australia at the Seaview Ballroom. They leave for London the next day and change their name to The Birthday Party. They live in poor circumstances and have to take day jobs to support themselves. They will end up playing only 10 shows (on borrowed equipment) in the UK in 1980. |
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Nick Cave / Mick Harvey / Rowland S.Howard / Tracy Pew & Phillip Calvert |
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29-Jun-80
Note: first concert as The Birthday Party, 4 months after arriving in the UK. |
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10-Jul-80
Note: 2nd concert as The Birthday Party. |
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Jul-80 Note: These are in fact still Boys Next Door songs recorded in Melbourne in Jan/Feb-80
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07-Aug-80 Ad: Taken from UK mag Aug-80 Note: Ivo Watts-Russel of 4AD records again attends the show. |
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28-Aug-80 Ad: Taken from NME mag 23-Aug-80 |
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10-Sep-80
Setlist: Cry/ Yard/ Figure Of Fun/ King Ink |
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18-Sep-80
Note: Concert to celebrate their deal with of 4AD records. |
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08-Oct-80
Setlist: Amongst others: Figure Of Fun & The Friend Catcher. |
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11-Oct-80
Note: These are in fact still Boys Next Door songs recorded in Melbourne in Jan/Feb-80
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23-Oct-80 Ad: Taken from NME mag 25-Oct-80. |
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30-Oct-80
Ad: Taken from NME mag 25-Oct-80 |
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03-Nov-80 |
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04-Nov-80 Ad: Taken from Sounds mag 18-Oct-80 |
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Nov-80 |
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22-Nov-80
Note: First concert after their return from London and start of their first Australian tour as The Birthday Party. |
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26-Nov-80 |
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27-Nov-80 |
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28-Nov-80 AU Sydney,Paris Theatre [with Laughing Clowns & The Go-Betweens]
Setlist: King Ink/ Happy Birthday/ Guilt Parade/ Yard/
Mr. Clarinet/ Figure Of Fun/ The Friend Catcher/
Waving My Arms/ Nick The Stripper/ Safehouse/
Catman/ Cry/ The Hair Shirt/ Riddle House. |
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29-Nov-80 |
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30-Nov-80 Poster: Photo of poster. |
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04-Dec-80 05-Dec-80 06-Dec-80
Note: One of the above shows was organised by 4ZZZ FM from QLD. |
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07-Dec-80 |
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09-Dec-80 Note: Last date of the first Australian tour. |
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12-Dec-80 |
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13-Dec-80 Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ Happy Birthday/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Yard/ Mr. Clarinet/ Let's Talk About Art/ The Friend Catcher/ Waving My Arms/ King Ink/ Guilt Parade/ The Hair Shirt. |
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20-Dec-80 |
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30-Dec-80 Note: without Phil. Only doing Stooges covers. Photo: Credit Steve Gleeson. |
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31-Dec-80 Note: One of the stage-divers was kicked off stage by Tracy Pew (from Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed"). |
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Late-Dec-80 to Jan-81 |
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22-Jan-81 |
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23-Jan-81 Setlist: Encore: Loose 24-Jan-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ Mr Clarinet/ Zoo Music Girl/ The Friend Catcher/ Happy Birthday/ Yard/ Guilt Parade/ Let's Talk About Art /King Ink/ Waving My Arms/ Cry/ Catman/ Hair Shirt/ Safehouse. 25-Jan-81 Photo: Credit Alison Lea. |
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31-Jan-81 |
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05-Feb-81 Poster: Taken from the inside cover of "Inner City Sound" book by C.Walker |
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06-Feb-81 Poster: Scan of poster |
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07-Feb-81 Poster: Scan of poster |
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14-Feb-81 |
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21-Feb-81
Setlist: Happy Birthday/ Nick The Stripper/ Guilt Parade/
Zoo-Music Girl/ Yard/ Mr. Clarinet/ The Friend Catcher/
Let's Talk About Art/ Waving My Arms/ King Ink/ Figure Of Fun/
The Hair Shirt/ Catman/ Cry/ Loose. |
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11-Mar-81 18-Mar-81 Ad: Taken from Sounds mag 07-Mar-81 |
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19-Mar-81 Note: with Barry Adamson (later to become a Bad Seeds member) and Bleddyn Butcher (later to become the 'house' photographer) in the audience. |
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29-Mar-81 Flyer: Original flyer. |
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30-Mar-81 |
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31-Mar-81 Photo: Credit Harry Papadopoulos |
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Apr-81 |
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21-Apr-81
Setlist: Release The Bats/ Rowland Around In That Stuff/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Loose |
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24-Apr-81 Ad: Taken from UK mag Apr-81 |
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26-Apr-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ Happy Birthday/ Release The Bats/
Yard/ Waving My Arms/ Figure Of Fun/ The Friend Catcher. |
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01-May-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ Happy Birthday/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ The Friend Catcher/ Figure Of Fun/ Yard/ Rowland Around In That Stuff/ A Dead Song/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Cry/ Catman. |
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02-May-81 06-May-81 18-May-81 |
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05-Jun-81
Setlist: A Dead Song/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Nick The Stripper/ Cry/ Release The Bats. |
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Jun-81 |
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08-Jun-81 Ad: Taken from NME mag 06-Jun-81 |
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12-Jun-81 Setlist: Blast Off/ A Dead Song/ The Friend Catcher/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Rowland Around In That Stuff/ Nick The Stripper/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Happy Birthday/ King Ink/ Figure Of Fun/ Cry/ Release The Bats/ Catman. |
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17-Jun-81 Note: Start of first (8 date) tour of the UK in during which they do support for Bauhaus. |
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18-Jun-81 |
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19-Jun-81
Setlist: King Ink/ Blast Off/ Happy Birthday/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Cry/ Catman. |
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20-Jun-81
Setlist: (not in this order:) Figure Of Fun/ Cry/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ Zoo-Music Girl/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ King Ink/ A Dead Song/ Release The Bats. |
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23-Jun-81 Setlist: Cry/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Friend Catcher/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ King Ink/ A Dead Song/ Catman/ Release The Bats/ Loose. |
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24-Jun-81 |
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25-Jun-81
Setlist: King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Friend Catcher/ Blast Off/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ Catman/ Cry. |
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27-Jun-81
Setlist: Release The Bats/ Nick The Stripper/ Happy Birthday/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Friend Catcher/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ King Ink/ A Dead Song/ Catman/ Cry. |
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29-Jun-81 09-Jul-81 |
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29-Jul-81 Note: Day of the Charles & Dianna wedding. |
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31-Jul-81 |
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01-Aug-81 Ad: Taken from Sounds mag Jul-81. |
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07-Aug-81 Ad: Taken from NME mag 08-Aug-81. |
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2x-Aug-81 Photo: Credit Chris Slane. Used with kind permission. |
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23-Aug-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Catman/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink/ A Dead Song/ Cry/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Figure Of Fun. |
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25-Aug-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Catman/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink/ A Dead Song/ Figure Of Fun/ Release The Bats/ Cry/ Loose. |
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27-Aug-81 28-Aug-81 Ad: Taken from UK mag Aug-81 |
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03-Sep-81 Ad: Taken from UK mag Sep-81 |
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10-Sep-81 Setlist: Junkyard King/ Nick The Stripper/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Blast Off/ Dangerzone/ Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ King Ink/ Cry/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Figure Of Fun/ Loose. |
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18-Sep-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Cry/ Dim Locator/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ Junkyard King/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats/ A Dead Song/ Loose. |
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Sep-81 |
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1981 |
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23-Sep-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink. Photo: Credit Helena Glass (one of the Missing Link Records label owners). Used with kind permission. |
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24-Sep-81 Note: as The Birthday Boys. Due to weather conditions only 1 woman shows up. Gig cancelled. |
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25-Sep-81 Note: During "King Ink" Nick beat his head on the snare drum so hard it started bleeding upon which the club management decided to stop the concert (after only 35 min!!) (from Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed"). |
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27-Sep-81 Note: Gig cancelled by the club management due to Nick's behaviour on 25-Sep-81. |
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03-Oct-81
Setlist: Zoo-Music Girl/ Release The Bats .. and more. |
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04-Oct-81 Ad: Microfilm image from the Village Voice September 1981, courtesy of Jonathan L. |
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05-Oct-81 Note: The club is at 930 F St. in an apartment transformed into a club. The gig starts at midnight. Tracy Pew grabs a guy (a diplomat's son) in the front of the audience by his necktie and kicks him. The cops come in and most likely end the show. |
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06-Oct-81 07-Oct-81 |
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10-Oct-81 Note: Last date of tour. Money and a bottle of drugs are thrown on stage. Nick & Rowland sample some pills from the bottle on the flight from Chicago to London. Read more in Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed". Photo: Taken outstide of C.O.D.'s club. Credit Brian Shanley. |
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Oct-81 |
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14-Oct-81 |
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16-Oct-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Cry/ Bully Bones/ Junkyard / Nick The Stripper/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ King Ink. |
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23-Oct-81 Photo: Credit by Steve Makin |
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24-Oct-81 Note: with James Johnston (now in Gallon Drunk and also The Bad Seeds) in the audience Ad: Taken from UK mag Oct-81 |
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27-Oct-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ Dim Locator/ King Ink/ Bully Bones/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Little Doll. |
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03-Nov-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Nick The Stripper/ Release The Bats(*)/ Junkyard/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Cry(*)/ Little Doll(*). |
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04-Nov-81
Setlist: amongst others: Release The Bats. |
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06-Nov-81
Setlist: Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Bully Bones/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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07-Nov-81 |
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08-Nov-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Bully Bones/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ Blast Off/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats. |
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09-Nov-81 Setlist: Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Bully Bones/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ Blast Off/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats. |
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10-Nov-81 Note: At a disco. The PA was unearthed which resulted in both band and audience getting electrical shocks. |
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13-Nov-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Cry/ Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats. |
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14-Nov-81 Setlist: Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Nick The Stripper/ She's Hit/ Blast Off/ Junkyard/ Bully Bones/ King Ink/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Loose/ Cry. |
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17-Nov-81
Setlist: Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Nick The Stripper/ She's Hit/ Blast Off/ Junkyard/ Bully Bones/ King Ink/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Figure Of Fun/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Loose. |
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25-Nov-81 |
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26-Nov-81
Setlist: Junkyard/ A Dead Song/ Dim Locator/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Nick The Stripper/ Blast Off/ Release The Bats/ Bully Bones/ King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Loose /She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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27-Nov-81
Setlist: Nick The Stripper/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Bully Bones/ Junkyard/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Dim Locator/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Jackson. |
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30-Nov-81 Setlist: (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Nick The Stripper/ Cry/ Junkyard/ Bully Bones/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Dim Locator/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Loose. |
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02-Dec-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ She's Hit/ Bully Bones/ Six Inch Gold Blade. |
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Dec-81 |
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11-Dec-81
Setlist: Junkyard/ A Dead Song/ Six Inch Gold Blade/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ She's Hit/ Nick The Stripper/ Dim Locator/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink/ Release The Bats. |
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Mid-Dec-81 |
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24-Dec-81
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Blast Off/ Nick The Stripper/ A Dead Song/ Bully Bones/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Six Inch Gold Blade/ Cry. |
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26-Dec-81 27-Dec-81 Note: Both dates cancelled and moved to 04/05-Jan-82. |
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31-Dec-81 Setlist: (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Junkyard/ A Dead Song/ Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Nick The Stripper/ Release The Bats/ King Ink/ Six Inch Gold Blade/ Blast Off/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Loose. |
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Jan-82
Note: Either late 1981 or early 1982. |
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Jan-82 |
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04-Jan-82 05-Jan-82 |
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06-Jan-82
Setlist: Cry/ She's Hit/ The Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Nick The Stripper/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Bully Bones/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Loose. |
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09-Jan-82 10-Jan-82 |
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15-Jan-82
Setlist: King Ink/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Junkyard/ Blast Off/ Release The Bats/ Nick The Stripper/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Dead Joe. |
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16-Jan-82
Setlist: New Age/ Downtown Swinging Town/ I Don't Care, Yeah/ Dead Joe/ Ring Of Fire. |
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Jan-82 |
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22-Jan-82
Setlist: Encore: Jackson (with Lindy Morrison from The Go-Betweens drumming and Jade Adrenalin from Adelaide band The Bad Poets as guest vocalist,duetting with Nick).
23-Jan-82 |
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24-Jan-82
Setlist: King Ink/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Zoo-Music Girl/ 6" Gold Blade/ The Dim Locator/ Junkyard/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Release The Bats/ Nick The Stripper/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Loose. |
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26-Jan-82 31-Jan-82 01-Feb-82 |
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05-Feb-82 Setlist: The Dim Locator/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ King Ink/ Loose/ The Friend Catcher. |
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Feb-82 |
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10-Feb-82 Flyer: Taken from Definitive Missing Link Recordings 1979-1982 CD box set booklet. |
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16-Feb-82 |
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18-Feb-82 |
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19-Feb-82
Setlist: She's Hit/ The Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard(*)/ Release The Bats/ Nick The Stripper/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse/ The Hair Shirt. |
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20-Feb-82
Setlist: Junkyard/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Nick The Stripper/ Release The Bats/ A Dead Song/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ King Ink/ Funhouse/ Catman. |
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28-Feb-82
Note: Cancelled. |
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05-Mar-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Junkyard/ Zoo-Music Girl/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ 6" Gold Blade/ Release The Bats/ King Ink/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse/ Nick The Stripper. |
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Mar-82 |
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Mar-82 |
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15-Mar-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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16-Mar-82 18-Mar-82 20-Mar-82 Note: All 3 were cancelled. |
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25-Mar-82
Setlist: (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Dead Joe/ Junkyard/ Kewpie Doll/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ The Dim Locator/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Release The Bats/ King Ink/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl. |
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27-Mar-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ King Ink/ Zoo-Music Girl/ 6" Gold Blade/ The Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ She's Hit/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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21-Apr-82
Setlist: King Ink/ Dead Joe/ The Dim Locator/ 6" Gold Blade/ Zoo-Music Girl/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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22-Apr-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ Junkyard/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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23-Apr-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ King Ink/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Zoo-Music Girl/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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25-Apr-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Junkyard/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit/ Zoo-Music Girl/ 6" Gold Blade/ A Dead Song/ King Ink/ Release The Bats/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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06-May-82
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ She's Hit/ Zoo-Music Girl/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn. |
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08-May-82
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Several Sins/ Zoo-Music Girl/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Release The Bats/ Funhouse/ Sad Dark Eyes/ A Dead Song. |
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26-May-82
Setlist: The Friend Catcher/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ 6" Gold Blade/ Dead Joe/ Sad Dark Eyes/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Nick The Stripper. |
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27-May-82
Setlist: The Friend Catcher/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ Sad Dark Eyes/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ 6" Gold Blade/ Kewpie Doll/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink. |
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03-Jun-82
Note: start of the 'This is the last day of the rest of your life'-tour. |
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04-Jun-82
Note: Lydia joins The Birthday Party on "Dead In The Head". |
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05-Jun-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ Junkyard(*)/ The Friend Catcher/ Big Jesus Trash Can(*)/ Sad Dark Eyes/ A Dead Song(*)/ Dead In The Head(*)/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)(*)/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn(*)/ She's Hit(*)/ Release The Bats/ Catman/ Loose. |
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06-Jun-82
Setlist: The Friend Catcher/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Sad Dark Eyes/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Dead In The Head/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ Dead Joe/ Funhouse/ Nick The Stripper. |
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07-Jun-82 Note: Lydia joins The Birthday Party on "Dead In The Head". |
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08-Jun-82
Setlist: Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Sad Dark Eyes/ Release The Bats/ Dead In The Head/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ She's Hit. |
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25-Jun-82
Setlist: Dead In The Head/ 99 Ways/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Release The Bats/ Sad Dark Eyes/ Zoo-Music Girl/ Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ She's Hit. |
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26-Jun-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Dead Joe/ The Friend Catcher/ Release The Bats/ 6" Gold Blade/ Sad Dark Eyes/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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27-Jun-82 Note: Lydia joins The Birthday Party on "Funhouse". |
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29-Jun-82 Note: Lydia joins The Birthday Party on "Funhouse". |
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01-Jul-82
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can(*)/ Dead Joe(*)/ The Friend Catcher(*)/ A Dead Song/ 6" Gold Blade(*)/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)(*)/ She's Hit(*)/ (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Funhouse. |
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02-Jul-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ The Friend Catcher/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ Kiss Me Black/ 6" Gold Blade/ Dead Joe/ (Sometimes)Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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03-Jul-82
Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ Junkyard/ Dead Joe/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ The Friend Catcher/ Release The Bats/ 6" Gold Blade/ Zoo-Music Girl/ She's Hit/ (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn/ Funhouse/ Nick The Stripper. |
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Jul-82 |
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10-Jul-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Dead Joe/ The Friend Catcher/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ 6" Gold Blade/ Release The Bats/ Kiss Me Black/ She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse/ Nick The Stripper. |
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Jul-82
Setlist: Junkyard/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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22-Jul-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Dead Joe(*)/ 6" Gold Blade/ A Dead Song(*)/ The Dim Locator/ Junkyard(*)/ Release The Bats(*)/ She's Hit/ (Sometimes) Pleasure heads Must Burn(*)/ Big Jesus Trash Can(*)/ Funhouse. |
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23-Jul-82 Setlist: Big Jesus Trash Can/ The Friend Catcher/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ 6" Gold Blade/ The Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ (Sometimes) Pleasure heads Must Burn/ Nick The Stripper. |
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24-Jul-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Dead Joe/ The Friend Catcher/ Release The Bats/ Junkyard/ The Dim Locator/ 6" Gold Blade/ (Sometimes) Pleasure heads Must Burn/ She's Hit/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Funhouse. |
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05-Aug-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ (Sometimes) Pleasure heads Must Burn/ 6" Gold Blade/ Junkyard/ Release The Bats/ The Friend Catcher/ The Dim Locator/ A Dead Song/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Zoo-Music Girl/ King Ink. |
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Aug-82 |
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| The band leaves London and moves to Berlin. First at Mark Reeder's [Die Unbekannten] place then later when Anita Lane arrives all move to Dresdener Strasse 11 (Christophe Dreher's [Die Haut] place). Phill Calvert quits and joins The Psychedelic Furs (1982-84) and then Blue Ruin (1985-91). Later he forms The Sunday Kind (1992-93), The Sugarhips (1998) and In Vovo (2002). | |
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Nick Cave / Mick Harvey / Rowland S.Howard & Tracy Pew |
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Aug-82 |
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17-Sep-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Sonny's Burning/ 6" Gold Blade/ Deep In The Woods/ The Dim Locator/ Fears Of Gun/ Still Burning/ Release The Bats/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Funhouse/ Junkyard/ Loose. |
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23-Sep-82 Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ 6" Gold Blade/ Dead Joe/ Deep In The Woods/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/She's Hit. |
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Oct-82
Note: Weeks in advance both bands had been offered unlimited supply of free drinks to attract customers to this new club. The concert was cancelled by the club owners (2 Turkish arms dealers) when they found out they would never be able to recoup these expenses and certainly after they saw the flyer -with a photo of Nick & Rowland- to advertise the concert. The club closed soon after.(From Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed"). |
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14-Oct-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ 6" Gold Blade/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Release The Bats/ Sonny's Burning. |
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15-Oct-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ 6" Gold Blade/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ The Dim Locator/ She's Hit/ Release The Bats/ Sonny's Burning/ 16 Tons/ Funhouse. |
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16-Oct-82
Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ 6" Gold Blade/ Wild World/ Dead Joe/ The Dim Locator/ Deep In The Woods/ Fears Of Gun/ Release The Bats/ She's Hit/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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15-Nov-82
Setlist: Deep In The Woods/ Marry Me(Lie!Lie!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Sonny's Burning. |
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22-Nov-82
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Deep In The Woods/ 6" Gold Blade/ Dead Joe/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Sonny's Burning/ Loose. |
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23-Nov-82 Note: The gig descended into chaos with Nick Cave jumping from the low stage to fight with a member of the audience. The concert was filmed by the venue. |
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25-Nov-82
Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ Deep In The Woods/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ 6" Gold Blade/ Pleasure Avalanche/ She's Hit/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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Dec-82 Note: Nick Cave's first live guest appearance with Die Haut. They perform songs from the "Burnin' The Ice" album. |
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18-Jan-83
Note: Nick and Tracy host the 3 hour program and are interviewed by Bram Van Splunteren (who in 1987 would make the TV documentary "Stranger in a strange land" about Nick Cave). Their selection includes songs by The Stooges/ Archie Shepp/ Hank Williams/ Tennessee E. Ford/ Kris Kristofferson/ Captain Beefheart/ The Walker Brothers/ Van Morrison/ Alex Harvey/ The Saints/ Red Crayola, etc.. Also broadcast are 7 tracks from their concert at the Vera, Groningen on 05-Jun-82. |
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19-Jan-83 Note: Jeffrey Wegener (ex- Laughing Clowns) joins for Dutch 5 dates tour only. Plays drums half of set. |
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20-Jan-83
Setlist: Six String That Drew Blood/ Sonny's Burning/ She's Hit/ 6" Gold Blade/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Big Jesus Trash Can. |
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21-Jan-83
Note: With Jeffrey Wegener on drums for half of set. |
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22-Jan-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Fears Of Gun/ Deep In The Woods/ Wild World/ Dead Joe/ She's Hit/ Sonny's Burning/ The Friend Catcher/ Six Strings That Drew Blood. |
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23-Jan-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Fears Of Gun/ Deep In The Woods/ 6" Gold Blade/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ She's Hit/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Sonny's Burning/ The Friend Catcher. |
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24-Feb-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)(*)/ Say A Spell/ Fears Of Gun/ Pleasure Avalanche(*)/ 6" Gold Blade(*)/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World(*)/ Six Strings That Drew Blood(*)/ Sonny's Burning(*)/ Swampland/ She's Hit(*). Ad: Taken from NME 19-Feb-83 |
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25-Feb-83 Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Say A Spell/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Deep In The Woods/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ 6" Gold Blade/ Sonny's Burning/ Swampland. Poster: Photo of poster. |
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26-Feb-83 Ad: Taken from UK mag Feb-83 |
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27-Feb-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Say A Spell/ Fears Of Gun/ Pleasure Avalanche/ 6" Gold Blade/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Sonny's Burning. |
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07-Mar-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Say A Spell/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ Fears Of Gun/ Deep In The Woods/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Swampland/ Sonny's Burning/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ She's Hit. |
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24-Mar-83
Note: Start of 2nd tour of the U.S.A |
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25-Mar-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Say A Spell/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Sonny's Burning. |
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26-Mar-83 Photo: Credit Catherine Ceresole |
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28-Mar-83 Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ Swampland/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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30-Mar-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Say A Spell/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ Swampland/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Sonny's Burning. |
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30-Mar-83
Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Deep In The Woods/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ 6" Gold Blade/ Swampland/ Wild World/ Pleasure Avalanche/ She's Hit. |
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31-Mar-83 Note: Nick Cave and Henry Rollins attend this concert by the Minutemen and meet for the first time. |
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01-Apr-83
Setlist: Sonny's Burning/ Swampland/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ 6" Gold Blade/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ She's Hit/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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06-Apr-83 Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Swampland/ Fears Of Gun/ Wild World/ Big Jesus Trash Can/ Sonny's Burning/ She's Hit/ 6" Inch Gold Blade/ Pleasure Avalanche. |
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Apr-83 |
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08-Apr-83 Photo: Credit Catherine Ceresole |
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10-Apr-83
Setlist: Swampland/ Sonny's Burning/ 6" Gold Blade/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit. |
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Apr-83
Note: Blixa Bargeld (of Einstürzende Neubauten) visits the band in the studio. Footage from these sessions was used by Heiner Mühlenbrock for his film "Die Stadt" ("The City"). In 2008 a DVD-R, "Mutiny! - The Last Birthday Party", containing this film was released through The Birthday Party website. |
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26-Apr-83
Setlist: Swampland/ 6" Gold Blade/ Sonny's Burning/ Pleasure Avalanche/ Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Jennifer's Veil. |
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Nick Cave / Rowland S.Howard / Tracy Pew & Des Heffner |
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01-May-83
Note: Start of last tour, arranged by concert promoter Ken West (now Big Day Out organizer). With Des Heffner (from Marching Girls) replacing Mick on drums. |
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03-May-83
Setlist: Deep In The Woods/ Sonny's Burning/ Jennifer's Veil/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit. |
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05-May-83
Setlist: Dead Joe/ Deep In The Woods/ Sonny's Burning/ Jennifer's Veil/ Wild World/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit. |
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06-May-83
Setlist: Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Jennifer's Veil/ Sonny's Burning/ She's Hit/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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09-May-83 Setlist: Deep In The Woods/ Dead Joe/ Wild World/ Jennifer's Veil/ Sonny's Burning/ She's Hit/ Fears Of Gun/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!). |
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13-May-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Wild World/ Junkyard/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Deep In The Woods/ Sonny's Burning/ Jennifer's Veil/ Dead Joe/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit. |
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14-May-83
Setlist: Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Deep In The Woods/ Wild World/ Sonny's Burning/ Junkyard/ She's Hit. 18-May-83
Note: Nick was bitten on the leg by a hospital clerk named Sarah, and knocked to the ground by the former lead singer of The Shuffling Hungarians (from Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed"). |
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20-May-83
Setlist: Hamlet (Pow! Pow! Pow!)/ Fears of Gun/ Deep In The Woods(*)/ Dead Joe/ Jennifer's Veil(*)/ Junkyard(*)/ Six Strings That Drew Blood(*)/ Sonny's Burning(*)/ She's Hit(*)/ Wild World(*). 21-May-83
Setlist: Junkyard/ Sonny's Burning/ Wild World/ Six Strings That Drew Blood/ Deep In The Woods/ Fears Of Gun/ Dead Joe/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ She's Hit/ Jennifer's Veil. |
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09-Jun-83
Setlist: Junkyard/ Sonny's Burning/ Wild World/ Six Strings That Drew Blood(*)/ Deep In The Woods(*)/ Dead Joe/ Fears Of Gun/ She's Hit/ Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)/ Jennifer's Veil. |
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Aug-83 Note: Towards the end of the sessions Blixa Bargeld (of Einstürzende Neubauten and then recording in London) replaces Rowland S.Howard on "Mutiny In Heaven". Mick Harvey also participates. |
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After the "Mutiny!" EP sessions Tracy Pew returns to Melbourne, where he resumes studying. He joins Nick Cave on his short Australian "Man or Myth ?"-tour in Dec-83/Jan-84 and later he joins the Saints touring band of 1984. He also guests on Nick Cave's "Kicking Against The Pricks" album in Nov/Dec 1985. He died on 07-Nov-86. Rowland S.Howard joins (together with Mick Harvey) Crime & The City Solution in January 1985 and later forms These Immortal Souls (1987-98). In 1994 he permanently returns to Melbourne where he ocassionally does solo (acoustic) concerts. In 1999 he records his first -and to date only- solo album "Teenage Snuff Film". Mick Harvey briefly joins Plays With Marionettes (Hugo Race's band) and later Nick Cave in the Bad Seeds (1983-). |
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| During September/October 1983 Nick Cave enters the Garden Studios, London with Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Jim G.Thirlwell and later Barry Adamson to start the recording of his -then titled "Man Or Myth"- solo EP which in February/March 1984 at Trident studios expands into the first Bad Seeds album "From Her To Eternity". That story can be read here. | |
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Home Made by Hans (don't forget to remove the anti spam section). |
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