Birthday Party - She's Hit

Birthday Party at the Hacienda Club in 1983.

[@JohnMoseley]

If only I'd had a sensible adult in my life when I was 15 in 1983 to say, 'You must go and see the Birthday Party, kid. It'll be an essential part of your education.'

[@FrostedSeagull]

Ditto. Saw him in '88 though.
Yeah . . . I know it wasn't The Birthday Party 😫

[@peka7776]

For your education?🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidhatred7275]

the only person i've seen talking about them is king buzzo from the melvins

[@JohnMoseley]

@@davidhatred7275 Well, that's a connection that makes sense.

[@davidhatred7275]

@@JohnMoseley indeed. i think it took him a while to warm to cave at first tho. buzzo is my sensible adult even now i'm 40! i've seen him rocking a tee and he talks about how crazy mutiny in heaven is in the bride screamed murder album notes. high praise!

[@zachgreco7586]

Tracy Pew is a very underrated bass player

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Coolest well read dude ever.

[@Trundlecake]

The bass is key... It drives it, it is the beat. Played with what I hear no effort... just flowed

[@Hamsterzilla1349]

If I had a birthday party, that's exactly how I'd like it to be.

[@EvilCat-EnergyCatalyst]

Woman pie for the cake

[@Laraikha]

Dat bass. So many freaking lumps. Beautiful lumps at that. R.I.P. Tracy Pew.

[@genesishale7523]

this is my favourite guitar track from rowland while in the birthday party. sounds like a staggering eerie desperado. xo r.i.p.

[@XidiotX]

yeah, that bass!! tracy pew - the king!

[@johnkuijper2948]

best perfomance in Belgian club, after a adult dance party, comletelty ravaged the venue Been there seen it and live to remember, thanxz

[@tracycj2001]

And now I know where the idea for Marylin Manson's "Dope Hat" came from. Even the bass riff - wow.

[@TheKazoos]

for me, there has never been a better live band. The birthday PArty.

[@maryburke5423]

This is really tame for a birthday party gig.
I saw them several times back in Aus after their Uk sojourn…the gigs were insane…people got hurt. I remember my feet not touching the ground for whole shows

[@2ndpinkberlin]

This performance ignites a strong emotional response from me... which is what art is supposed to do.... So I'd say it's pretty good. I think it's pretty brilliantly written.

[@mothbits]

If Jim Morrison did cough syrup

[@scottpastry]

This

[@elizabethhann4028]

Yes! And also no, it's so much more than that. Nick seems like...like some mad enchanter, himself enchanted (if I can say that). And this song features one of the greatest slow dark roilling bass-guitar vamps I've ever heard. Brilliant!

[@ReverendWin-id9gp]

Lol...

[@TylerSmithPunksOnPizza]

@@elizabethhann4028 One of the very few that Tracy actually wrote

[@Roberto-nm8sw]

Absolute magic ✨

[@trevormenard]

Still relevant today. She’s still hit :’(

[@Solodolo84]

im feelin this right here, its like the doors of the 80's with darker themes. plz post more birthday party.

[@LackingEnergy]

I have decided my parents had me at the wrong time. I think I was still in the womb when this was filmed. I would of loved to of been at the Hac for this show!!! I just finished reading Peter Hook's How Not to Run a Club. It is worth a read. Hooky speaks pretty highly of Nick Cave! Too bad The Hac didn't make any money off these videos... But I am so glad they filmed all the shows because now I can live what is missed via You Tube!

[@saigonbill]

Great story. My own is that I lived for awhile on the same block he did in Berlin, so I used to see him in the neighborhood, the supermarket, etc. in late 80s. Never spoke to him though. Before that, I saw him hanging out in Danceteria in NYC a few times when I lived there.

[@shopgirls262]

Bill Murray was he tall?

[@mickmangles8000]

@@shopgirls262 6 f 4 approx

[@acaciomartins3188]

Best band ever

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Well live at least. It was like seeing a mental circus, so many characters on one stage.

[@sbooder]

You win, you get the stick!

[@ninamartin6209]

this song is really awesome

[@Kylow0]

I love a little bit of herion in my music

[@ichibadbad]

i bought this song off youtube.
but this live version is way better than the recorded one.
i wish i were there...

[@saigonbill]

Well, Birthday Party was already considered by people-in-the-know to be the most important band in the world at around the time of this show. Other groups might be packing stadiums but people at this concert probably were thinking that This is the only place to be on this planet right now. I don't think Cave was approaching his songwriting at the time less seriously.

[@daviddavis3155]

I was lucky enough to see them, summer of ‘83. They were fantastic live and, their studio lps are stellar. RIP Rowland and Tracy

[@dougwoellner9216]

Probably because he was addicted to smack/ heroin like Tracy Pew

[@Tarsus790]

Well those in the know were wrong.

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

. pathetic hipsterism

[@benjones4389]

The most brilliant band I’ve ever had the privilege to die too. Helps me at my depths

[@YodaZemunski]

4:05 now that's proper cigarette etiquette

[@Petrikau]

Paul Banks has said that if Interpol was to cover a song, it would be "She's Hit".

[@kristerhellstrom5054]

The head shrinker is a quack
Anyone, anyone, anyone who'd wear their hair like that

[@Pietro07061993]

There is woman pie in here
Mr. Evangelist says, she's hit
The best cook you ever had
You can't blame the good woman now, dad

[@7thWardCreole]

*womankind

[@gcf7175]

pie

[@RockNimbie]

made me sad. for i'll never see this irl

[@GyntherMeyer]

Thanks for posting this. I never saw the Birthday Party and didn't catch Nick live till 1988 in London.

[@styxcreek]

back then they offered him cigarettes, now he'd have a dozen cameras in his face.

[@metalandhorror]

+Nathan Parsons It was more underground as well, besides The birthday party's shows were known to attract the marginalized youth and other misfits and often times even anti-social guys pissing, *yes literally pissing* on the stage.

[@Antipodean33]

+Nathan Parsons Even earlier back in Australia they'd offer him a pint glass or a jug to the head

[@toasty138]

ooh like at gg allin shows.. hehehe

[@thefilthygypsies1142]

Thanks for this upload ! 👍

[@MrGothic78]

absolutely great!!!

[@bonniobrien5273]

This song just truly kills me.... Makes me wanna come down ⬇️

[@saigonbill]

Sorry, there is more from this concert out there somewhere. I grabbed this one back when a few more from this gig were posted here, I think about a year ago. They disappeared. This is the only one I saved.
Just did a search online: the DVD is called Pleasure Heads Must Burn, mainly live from 2 Hacienda gigs in 82/83.

[@ReverendWin-id9gp]

If jim Morrison found a goth club and never left the scene

[@herrdirektor4607]

this is amazing

[@ORDOTRIO]

The best COOK you ever had..........

[@Zombie325]

Fucking love it.

[@marixazarate240]

Perfecto 😊

[@2n2equals5]

Devastatingly effective bass, especially just after 0:31

[@IronicKismet]

Wow! Where does this music come from? There seems to be really nothing derivative about it. It seems like Nick
Cave pooled this music from the ether. Truly epochal.

[@liammcooper]

tracey pew holding it down

[@ReverendWin-id9gp]

Best song

[@FuchsiasAttic1847]

Fuck, he is perfect.

[@HeadlandRoad]

Hell, I'm proud just to have lived on the same continent as Nick Cave.

[@nois1211]

no...not just you.
i consider TBP the doors that took it to the next level.

[@ZiolaBee]

Christ that was good. Again.

[@alexbericheath]

2:42 - 3:00 is one of many reasons that man is the coolest fucking thing on the planet.

[@fahrizebuth3034]

excellent

[@CarlBobUSA]

In the thumbnail I thought it was Incredible Hulk

[@stevobath]

'This is a local band for local singers.We dont want you around here do we Tubbs?' lol

[@EctInc]

This might be better recording than on the LP

[@maryburke5423]

They were essentially a live band. I saw them heaps but own few of the records from this time

[@elsykilmister]

Gracias.

[@dirtywildlove5273]

escucha el cover que hacen de los Stooges, esta de primera linea.

[@elsykilmister]

***** Bueno.

[@z1rakz1gal]

priceless.

[@dddddddd8106]

She's in parties

[@RyanHaleyNL]

your dad is awesome... :)

[@Climaxingwiresynthix]

fuck I wish I was there, I would take a drag on that ciggie as well, can you imagine there is some dude that tells his grandchildren he took a drag on Nick Cave's ciggie and they just think he's ready for the retirement home.

[@RAMLIA1]

❤❤❤

[@beaverstroodle]

hey video is bloody awesome! is there a full concert of this performance?

[@lucavalentin8515]

💖

[@angieh1313]

If J. morrison were alive...... wow!

[@triptoheaveandho]

hes very yo0ung and looks punky.. cooooolllll

[@happyjessus]

what kind of music do they play?

[@freudastaire]

@awoodworm dream concert, oh my! a great 2010 for u! Sad 2009, took Rowland S. Howard from life!

[@indhold]

@saigonbill : where did he live in Berlin? tnx

[@hellmik]

@saigonbill ,hello, im doing a research on what went on in West Berlin @ the time. My question is have u gone to the Risiko Bar and do you remember anything from that place? All best and thanx

[@NickFixHC]

I don't know why but this reminds me of True detective.

[@mjtorjan]

+vhnoise Have anything to do with the fact he and Warren Ellis composed "All The Gold" for True Detective's second season?

[@craigmac303]

the second seasom of TD was crap unfortunately.

[@72daystar]

If .. I was back.. back , when I abused my body.. ... more... I would have abused my body to this.

[@christopherdalessandro9832]

dark bro

[@saigonbill]

it depends -- where are you?

[@toriymoi6082]

Nick cave + the girl in white 5ever

[@saigonbill]

@hellmik Sorry -- just looked it up on Google Maps and that place was way way out there, at least from where I used to hang out -- the name did sound familiar -- we did use to go check out places we'd heard about, some far away too, but that one's location and layout don't look familiar at all. I do remember going to see the Neubauten film (Halbe Mensch) out at UFA Fabrik -- is/was that in that same area?

[@isaacmora-]

Why is it delayed?

[@kulimanga]

gooood, look at those junks down there!! they had no idea nick will become quite more serious in his career :)) for me it seems like one of the bands who just smack something before concert to be even able to play. but nick has a hidden unique grif inside him...

[@shudson7043]

GODD

[@daftendz]

this coming from a guy with a fight club avatar........

[@ArmageddonC]

no man he's the cave

[@WingedDiskRecords]

Is this from the PRAYERS ON FIRE video?

[@saigonbill]

Sorry, I don't know -- I don't have the full concert -- I reposted this song, someone else posted it originally.

[@xxxxxxxxxxx67508]

I can't see the girl in white anymore. I'm really confused. Someone said she appears at 2:12 but i don't see her anymore.And i used to.

[@slipperypessimist]

She's way in the back around 2:12... And then at 3:43 Cave's approached her

[@johnharmon5905]

I thought it was the Incredible Hulk in yhe cover photo.

[@finnmayer4067]

u no i lik dis song remines me of hallcka funtims

[@DebraReynoldsGhosthippy]

Im hit,every little bit.

[@Msokeable]

superb
(i'm drunk)

[@28g34ajbsd]

god

[@blindpink]

Is he a local singer ?

[@rogeliogonzalezmarti]

mientras esto sucedía nadie me lo presentó.

[@ArmageddonC]

hahahaha

[@tambert3897]

Happy Birthday to...why are there cigarettes on the birthday cake?

[@saigonbill]

@indhold It was in Kreuzberg 36 (what we called it at the time -- is it still referred to as that?) -- on Oranien Strasse. I don't remember which number, but his seemed to be in the 20s, definitely that block. My flat was at 17, at the corner.

[@danielbengtsson9833]

I let youtube auto play for 2-3h and I come back to this? What the fuck is this shit?!?!?

[@alyssagonzalez3756]

Daniel Bengtsson the studio version is a bit less abrasive for a first time listen

[@QuimChaos]

@awoodworm ho my fucking doG! long time without references to Pere Ubu!

[@socketofdavis]

mr. evangelist said she's hit..

[@lucylovic]

Evil begets 😈evil

[@finnmayer4067]

fasho

[@sirkevin1967]

And christen the bastard Jack.....

[@vladimiro83]

Heroin

[@Emily-tl9it]

Vladimiro Goncalves go away

[@vladimiro83]

Lol
Go fuck yourself!
:-*

[@Emily-tl9it]

edgy boy

[@rockhardioallcock6059]

Vladimiro Goncalves I agree. Smartest comment I’ve ever had the good fortune to read. If only everyone felt this way.

[@steveminshew6906]

Velvet Underground...Stooges...Joy Division...Swans...Birthday Party...The Jesus Lizard...Daughters...next?

[@ianturner1546]

Bauhaus ... Killing Joke ... The Fall ... Swell Maps

[@catwald0]

he is so wasted om fg

[@anthonypetercoleman3575]

The Doors did this shit first really

[@saigonbill]

I've been a fan of both, and can easily see that both were hipsters. Morrison was one of the most posey front men ever. Hipsterism is a key component of rock.

[@saigonbill]

What did the Doors do first? Whatever it was, I'm kinda doubting they were the first ever at it. But they were great and cool, we agree on that.

[@noisepollution6761]

I spent 20 years on the jesus lizard ditched them for birthday party and cursed earth. I don't know much who the fuck was this wish I was there notice how kids then weren't nearly as excited and annoying as they are today wonder if scratch acid heard of them

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Be careful bud. Melbourne's The Birthday Party were one of the most original bands to ever grace the Earth. If you did not have the chance to see them live I feel totally sorry for you.