The Birthday Party - Live 81-82 (Transparent Red With Black Dust Vinyl)

Birthday Party - Live 81-82 (Transparent Red With Black Dust Vinyl)

The only band-approved live recording from the seminal post-punk band The Birthday Party. Morphing from what was originally Melbourne’s The Boys Next Door in 1980, the band comprised singer songwriter Nick Cave; multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mick Harvey; singer, songwriter and guitarist Rowland S.Howard; bass player Tracy Pew and drummer Phill Calvert.

An essential record, Live 1981-82 stitches together tracks from a London date in 1981, a German show in Bremen in 1982 and an absolute gem cut from a show in Athens, Greece (a version of the Stooges' classic 'Funhouse').

Live 81-82 pressed on limited edition double vinyl with a gatefold sleeve, in new transparent red with black dust colour variant.

Tracklisting

The Venue, London 26 November 1981:

1. Junkyard
2. A Dead Song
3. The Dim Locator
4. Zoo-Music-Girl
5. Nick The Stripper
6. Blast Off!
7. Release The Bats
8. Bully Bones
9. King Ink
10. (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn

Aladin, Bremen, Germany 1 July 1982:

1. Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
2. Dead Joe
3. The Friend Catcher
4. 6" Gold Blade
5. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
6. She's Hit

The Sporting, Athens, Greece 17 September 1982:

1. Funhouse