NICK CAVE & The Bad Seeds

Venue: Batschkapp, Maybachstrasse 24
City: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date: Saturday, 1986 September 27

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Recording Info:

Audience-recording - Taper: unknown, sure from Frankfurt am Main - Lineage: unknown gear > MC > CD-R > Flac > Dime - Very good recording (clear & dynamic), I bought that tape in 1986 or 1987 at the fleamarket or in front of the Batschkapp, I can´t remember.

Reminder of this concert:

I attended this concert in one of the first rows on the right side. I was a big Birthday Party-Fan then but not so into Nick´s solo-recordings. A friend took me there and I was very grateful for this. The venue was crowded and I saw for the very first time an artist high on drugs on stage. I noticed that because Nick acted a bit weird, he was some kind of shy, said not that much and let the others talk. Between the songs there were quite longer breaks for re-tuning or whatever as he went to the backside of the stage, sat on his heels and stared on the floor. But when he sang, everything was ok and he did a fantastic job. After the concert me and my friend witnessed how the band´s van hit a street lantern aside the venue while the driver tried to get the bus in the right position. After that - it was very dark - my friend was hit by a person who ran into him mumbling "sorry". Then we saw who it was. It was Nick who tumbled and was bent over trying to get to the bus. I don´t know on what drugs he was into, but I don´t think it was alcohol.
Two years later I attended another concert of Nick at the Volksbildungsheim in Frankfurt am Main. This concert was quite the opposite of this gig. Nick wore a grey suit and was clean as hell. But believe me, the Batschkapp-concert was far better. Their Velvet Underground cover-version "All tomorrow´s parties" is just pure magic.


Band line-up:

Google says they changed the line-up in September 1986, so it was:

Nick Cave / Mick Harvey / Blixa Bargeld/ & Thomas Wydler (before change) or
Nick Cave / Mick Harvey / Blixa Bargeld/ Kid Congo Powers/ Roland Wolf & Thomas Wydler (after change)

Both, Blixa Bargeld and Kid Congo Powers are heros to me, but I can´t remember if they were playing that night, at least Blixa must have so.


Setlist:

CD1 TT 42:49

1. By the time I get to Phoenix
2. I´m gonna kill that woman
3. Train long suffering
4. Your funeral my trial
5. She fell away
6. Long time man
7. Knocking on Joe
8. Jack´s shadow

CD2 TT 38:32

1. Sad waters
2. From her to eternity
3. The singer
4. Stranger than kindness
5. All tomorrow´s parties (Velvet Underground cover)
6. The carnival is over

Entire show

Comments are appreciated and would be very nice! Keep on sticking together! Enjoy!

Rendel