Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - London, 1984
NON didn't end up playing due to being denied entry to the UK.
Per Boyd: "We actually were supposed to play on the same bill with Nick Cave in London but when I went to London to do this I was deported from the country to Germany.
As absurd as it sounds, they thought I was going to move to England to pursue a career as a pop star.
I didn’t have a work permit and they called all these people, the National music press and all these places and whatever to see how legit I was and everybody wanted to give the best endorsement of me, so everybody said “Oh yeah, Boyd is this great musician, he’s really popular, all these people like him, which was complete nonsense. (laughs). So these people said, you know we believe that you want to move to England and live here because you have a promising career as a pop star and I just laughed and said “No”. Then I said “Do you seriously think that someone who is a citizen of The United States of America would want to come live in England”? It’s like jumping on a sinking ship and rats are leaping off of this place, and they didn’t like that at all. So it was like “Goodbye Mr. Rice, we’re sending you to Germany”.
