The Birthday Party - Peel Session 1981

[@janayrose874]

Best punk rock disco durge country blues jungle music band ever. Love the unpredictability.

[@dirtysci]

you nailed it ..

[@pauloamorim1730]

No doubt

[@andrewgreen5986]

My favourite John Peel session. Hit me like truck when it came out of the tinny speakers in my transistor radio way back then way after my bedtime.

[@otisfirefly4121]

Another one of the bands I fucking love, respect to you mate. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@robjones2408]

Thanks for posting this. Saw The Birthday Party twice, and they were great. SPHMB is one of the most feral Peel tracks to be recorded. Rowland S Howard was a fantastic guitarist who never got the acclaim he deserved in his short life.

[@johnniieee]

Totally blew me away live, will never forget the sweat and menace. So of it's time, when we needed a post punk blast

[@shaunwilson2537]

f yeah. Got all their records when they came out. Nothing like my own music. Had to put a lawnmower idling in the yard to even put in on and listen to amongst my flanno mates in semi-rural Australia. Took several bikie mates to their one concert in Newcastle, backed by Laughing Clowns, where I think the LSD kicked in. Music made one of them go out and throw up in carpark, or might have been seeing Tracey Pew feign fellatio on Nick Cave as he sat in a chair to sing half way through this ambivalent reaction gig. As someone born half-deaf, when I got hearing aids I had to save up for as a worker person, I felt sorry for my parents and friends having turned up the treble to get more of Rowland.

[@guyog]

Great memories! First saw them supporting Bauhaus in Cambridge early '81, then West Berlin in '82 I think

[@FFM0594]

Loved this when I heard it on JP and have been remotely and casually following Nick's journey since.

[@DaveMellor1]

My good friend Rowland. Bless his cotton socks. His brother Howard will be touring UK this summer with NDE💖🇺🇦🇬🇧💙

[@DEERXING]

Love the NDE!!! Do you know if Harry will be touring around Australia soon?

[@alexanderdragutinovic5151]

Many years before it;s time

[@marcopervo]

"Roland Around in that Stuff" sounds like the template for American post-hardcore/noise rock.

[@liamjay6844]

Sounds a little Jesus Lizard

[@freq9939]

bleak post-punk weird atonal punk

[@lcjoyce9358]

Back when we got beaten for looking so fuckin cool.

[@jamesnolan5548]

Loved The Birthday Party, but as for later on, I preferred the works of Rowland S Howard's solo effort..

[@markfisher6404]

Yes

[@elizabethhann4028]

Savage, wanton, unrestrained and feral! "Rowland Around In That Stuff" must be one of the better drug-songs I've ever heard.

[@marcopervo]

Elizabeth Hann Their best song.

[@elizabethhann4028]

Glad you think so. And thanks for writing back to me.

[@elmeromero3072]

WOW

[@williammcintosh5865]

Seen them in glasgow they where on a runaway train to explodsvill and the devil was the driver some fukin gig

[@pressureworks]

Very nice to see just how popular Nick Cave became !

[@markfisher6404]

He earned that with brilliance and dedication. what a performer

[@fiftysix9331]

Popular aka conservative

[@agstinacueva1673]

@@fiftysix9331 nick cave will never be conservative, he isnt even that popular

[@DaveMellor1]

And very rich. He is a shit though. If you have met him you would know. If you haven't met him then you don't know fuck💖🇺🇦🇬🇧💙

[@Neil-Aspinall]

He was never better than in the Birthday Party.

[@ianburma]

Very good stuff

[@davidkoval6415]

So sad bout his Son

[@cristianmatus1915]

acá en chile ,gracias al maestrisimo Rolando ramos conocí esta y otras estupendas bandas

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Those who did not see the Birthday Party live have truely missed out in ways that can't be expressed. They were psyco circus on stage but in a very attractice way.

[@fernandomartinez-mq9bx]

puta madre, que recuerdo!

[@fuzzmuff63]

Burn! Ya! Ya!

[@lostintaipei]

Yet another Stooges cover. Hard to overestimate how influential they were.

[@alondathomas293]

I got this whole session on CD---it's really good,and worth getting.

[@FFM0594]

I can also hear the future Jesus and Mary Chain within this work.

[@dirtysci]

Is it just my brain, or are the guitars flowing INTO the speakers ... ????

[@agstinacueva1673]

This is meant to be played loud or not at all

[@questionauthority9418]

Now I know where David Yow got his guttural sounds, but he gets pass because he's a badass!!!

[@otisfirefly4121]

Is there anyone else here now- I was just looking at the comments and they're a couple of years old ( and that's the newest). Fuck it as long as you're here that's all that matters bro yes? Respect to you mate I think we'd get on if we met, love the same music - I'm not being weird, I'm straight - ( I just looked at what I wrote and it came across a bit queer know what I mean, lol Take care bro ❤️ from Wales UK.

[@emilyoshiro]

rowland is god!

[@jonathansutcliffe3401]

someone else used to rave about the rowland guy.. dunno why...

[@vomeinsamenmadchensophie]

RaaaaaaaaaWwwww.....!!!

[@zetetick395]

This is beautifully mixed! - NICE post-punk punch to it! >:D (admittedly they are three fifths heroin in this pic) XD

[@written12]

Zetetik - yeah, the sound on this is great. That menacing, kinda rockabilly bass is right up there with Roland’s crazed but tasteful guitar

[@benmitchell5880]

Zetetik - wot only 3/5s.

[@ronemory7149]

The only shit worth hearing.

[@douglasarthur2673]

My advice is listen to this LOUD !!! 📢📢📢 plus why is Mick Harvey checking out the Cavesters' arse?

[@Molotovcandy]

I swear I’m the only one that likes TBP and TBS equally...

[@guritevzadze314]

What is tbs?

[@thefool7831]

@@guritevzadze314 the bad seeds I presume

[@guritevzadze314]

Never heard...

[@thefool7831]

@@guritevzadze314 I... Are you joking?

[@markfisher6404]

@@guritevzadze314 a better nick cave band.

[@spykid911]

the cramps are better, though

[@markfisher6404]

who asked?

[@williammcintosh5865]

Pish

[@fiftysix9331]

Cramps couldn't touch The Gun Club let alone Nick the Stripper

[@godimsofuckingbored]

I'm with you, mate. The Cramps didn't have to try to be cool, they just were. And the music was streets better.

[@chaunceyloveshack9530]

cramps are safe