Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music There’s little question that the Birthday Party — Nick Cave’s first major band — was one of the most aggressive and confrontational groups of the ‘80s if not all of rock history.
Their bruising, brutal sound and genuinely dangerous concerts are the stuff of legend, but as Cave’s intensity has been channeled into more-refined and less-blunt art, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how genuinely crazy the Birthday Party’s concerts were.
This clip, from the forthcoming documentary of the group, “Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party,” should bring it all back and then some.
In it, we hear guitarist Rowland S. Howard’s highly entertaining memories of the group’s U.S. tour, especially a gig at New York’s Ritz that became so aggressive and unhinged onstage that the club’s management shut it down, to the extreme displeasure of the audience. “It was just great to have that feeling that you were capable of upsetting people so much,” Howard says in the clip.
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