The Birthday Party
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1982
Date
Venue
City
State
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Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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Stollwerk
Köln
Germany
Zoo Music Girl
Dim Locator
A Dead Song
Nick, The Stripper
She's Hit
Blast Off
Junk Yard
Bully Bones
King Ink
Big Jesus Trash Can
Figure Of Fun
Release The Bats
Refectory
Sydney
Australia
Cry
She's Hit
Dim Locator
A Dead Song
Nick the Stripper
Zoo Music Girl
Bully Bones
King Ink
Release the Bats
(Sometimes) Pleasureheads must Burn
Loose
Royal Oak Hotel
Melbourne
Australia
Astor Theatre
Melbourne
Australia
King ink
Zoo Music Girl
The Dim Locator
She's Hit
A Dead Song
Pleasure Heads
Junkyard
Blast off
Release The Bats
Nick The stripper
Big Jesus Trash Can
Dead Joe
The Seaview Ballroom
Melbourne
Australia
Dead Joe
King Ink
Zoo Music Girl
She's Hit
The Dim Locator
A Dead Song
Junkyard
Release the Bats
Nick the Stripper
Big Jesus Trash Can
Funhouse
Catman
Tracy Pew is replaced by Chris Walsh (then of The Moodists).
Riverside Studios
London
UK
Dead Joe
Big Jesus Trash Can
Tracy Pew is replaced by Barry Adamson (then of Magazine)
Hammersmith Palais
London
England
Warehouse
Liverpool
UK
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)
Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Big jesus Trash can
Funhouse
The Clarendon
Hammersmith
England
Clarendon Ballroom
Hammersmith - London
England
The Friend Catcher
Pleasure Heads
Six Inch 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
Clarendon Ballroom, Hammersmith
London
England
The Friend Catcher
Junkyard
Release The Bats
Sad Dark Eyes [The Loved Ones]
(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
Nick Cave (vocals)
Mick Harvey (guitar)
Rowland S.Howard (guitar)
Tracy Pew (bass)
Phillip Calvert (drums)
Vera
Groningen
Netherlands
Hamlet
Pleasure Heads
She's Hit
King Ink
Zoo Music Girl
Loose
Big Jesus Trash Can
A Dead Song
Funhouse (w/Lydia Lunch)
Agony Is The Ecstacy (w/Lydia Lunch)
Pleasure Heads
Vera
Groningen
The Netherlands
Dead Joe
Junkyard
The Friend Catcher
Big Jesus Trash Can
Sad Dark Eyes
A Dead Song
Dead In The Head (w. LYDIA LUNCH)
Hamlet (Pow! Pow! Pow!)
(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
She's Hit
Release The Bats
Catman
Loose
"The Front Row Is Not For The Fragile"
Ballhaus Tiergarten
Berlin
Germany
Dead In The Head (w. Lydia Lunch) / 99 Ways (w. Lydia Lunch)
Hamlet
Dead Joe
6-inch Gold Blade
Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Release The Bats
Sad Dark Eyes
King Ink
Junkyard
Big Jesus Trash Can
Catman
Versuchsfeld
Hamburg
Germany
Hamlet
Dead Joe
Friend Catcher
Release The Bats
6 Inch Gold Blade
?
Dead Joe
Junkyard
Pleasure Heads
She's Hit
Big Jesus Trash Can
? (w/ Lydia Lunch)
Aladin
Bremen
Germany
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Dead Joe
The Friend Catcher
A Dead Song
6" Gold Blade
Junkyard
Hamlet (Pow! Pow! Pow!)
She's Hit
Sometimes Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Funhouse*
* - w/ Lydia Lunch
Stollwerck
Köln
Germany
Hamlet(Pow!Pow!Pow!)
The Friend Catcher
Release The Bats
Junkyard
Kiss Me Black
6" Gold Blade
Dead Joe
Pleasure Heads Must Burn
She's Hit
Big Jesus Trash Can
Funhouse
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Lydia Lunch opened w/ Rowland S. Howard -- "The Agony Is The Ecstasy" (approx. 9 min)
Lydia later joins The Birthday Party onstage for "Funhouse"
Aladin
Bremen
Germany
Big Jesus Trash Can
Dead Joe
The Friend Catcher
A Dead Song
Six Inch Gold Blade
Junkyard
Release The Bats
Hamlet(Pow! Pow! Pow!)
Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Funhouse (w. LYDIA LUNCH)
"A Social Gathering For The Celebration of Someone's Birth"
Radio Bremen FM broadcast
Batschkapp
Frankfurt
Germany
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 (Lydia Lunch joins on vocals)
Nick The Stripper
Zig Zag Club
London
England
Hamlet (Pow!Pow!Pow!)
Dead Joe
The Friend Catcher
Release The Bats
Junkyard
6" Gold Blade
(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Kiss Me Black
She's Hit
Big Jesus Trash Can
Funhouse
Nick The Stripper
Nick Cave (vocals)
Mick Harvey (guitar)
Rowland S.Howard (guitar)
Tracy Pew (bass)
Phillip Calvert (drums)
Retford Porterhouse
East Midlands
England
Unwanted Intro
Hamlet
Dead Joe
Friend Catcher
Release the Bats
Junkyard
Dim Locator
6" Gold Blade
(Sometimes) Pleasureheads Must Burn
She's Hit
Big Jesus Trashcan
Funtime (Stooges)
Music Hall
Berlin
Germany
Sporting festival
Athens
Greece
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
[with The Fall & New Order]
Note: With Jim Thirlwell on sax during last 3 songs. First concert with Line-up#2. Nick pushes the 6 bouncers off stage. Audience storms stage (from Ian Johnston's biography "Bad Seed").
Music Hall
Berlin
Germany
Sonny's Burning
Six Inch Gold Blade
Dead Joe
Deep In The Woods
Fear Of Gun
Hamlet (pow pow pow)
E: She's Hit
Plan K
Brussels
Belgium
Hamlet
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
Ace Cinema
Brixton
UK
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)*
*Broadcast on UKTV Channel 4 02/28/1983.