THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Gladstone Hotel, Christchurch, NZ
1983-05-09

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01. Dead Joe
02. Wild World
03. Jennifer's Veil
04. Sunny's Burning
05. She's Hit
06. Fears Of Gun
07. Hamlet (Pow! Pow! Pow!)


Nick Cave - Vocals
Rowland S Howard - Guitar
Tracey Pew - Bass
Des Hefner - Drums


This came from the excellent site http://rowland-s-howard.com. Nothing has been added to it except a fingerprint file and these notes. The original notes are below mine. This is actually an audience recording and sounds very close to the master. It had not circulated widely amongst collectors in New Zealand by 1988 whereas by that time the Massey University (mixing desk 1983.05.05) and the Victoria University show (fm broadcast 1983.05.06) had and were both getting around the globe. The recordings of this concert and the Auckland show (1983-05-03) were not seen for some time afterwards but also then eventually made their way around the world.

This tour was the among the last shows the Birthday Party ever did and it set the alternative music crowd in NZ on fire. The Birthday Party had also played in NZ early 1982 as well but thus far no recordings have ever emerged from that. Des Hefner from the NZ band Marching Girls stepped into play drums after Mick Harvey announced in London previous to their arrival in New Zealand that he would not be joining the band for these concerts.

You will not regret obtaining this, its excellent quality for an audience tape and must have been recorded with a WMD6 or similar. Mayny thanks to the original taper, adamdmills for distributing it more widely and of course http://rowland-s-howard.com.

Enjoy!


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by hT 11th May 2012



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Notes:
According to the setlist at http://www.fromthearchives.com/bp/chronology.html this show is incomplete ('Deep In The Woods' is missing from the start). This is a soundboard recording, although exact details of its lineage are unknown.

**Do not sell this show. But feel free to encode it to whatever format you see fit. Oh, and don't forget to share!

Encoded by adamdmills [adamdmills at gmail dot com]