CAVEMEN (The Birthday Party, The Go-Betweens and others)
16 January 1982
'Missing Link Records Party'
Tiger Lounge, Royal Oak Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
(with openers Sunburnt Pharaohs and Precious Little)
2nd generation soundboard source> Maxell XLII C90 cassette> Sony TCD5 playback> Microtrack II WAV 44.1/16bit> CD Wave Editor tracksplit> Traders Little Helper FLAC level 8
01 Downtown Swinging Town (internal cut + quick fade out/in)
02 I Don't Care, Yeah
03 Dead Joe
04 Ring Of Fire.
Note: A private Missing Link Records party. The Birthday Party (without Phill Calvert) with members of The Go-Betweens and others. They perform as The Cavemen.
Intro 1:40 part to first song is just band noodling around that's been called 'New Age' on other recordings and listings but I've combined it all here as track 1 'Downtown Swinging Town'.
An audience recording exists in lossy mp3 that I'd love to hear in lossless quality if anyone can share.