#phil calvert

[sleepnowforever]

The Birthday Party in an abandoned Church in London, 1981.

📸: David Corio

[aaronstjames]

A Millennial beard gives a cursory overview of The Birthday Party with various clips that don't come from the timeframe he's discussing, but some of the stories in the comments are fun.

[theseimmortalsouls]

nick cave, harry howard and phil calvert in edinburgh.

photo by innes reekie.

[angelfiredpod]

the way that i’ve loved them <3 the birthday party shot by david corio.

[sisterseurope]

doing the twist, dancing with toys

[theunderestimator-2]

The day Tracy Pew lost his torso but kept playing while doing his famous bent-over-backwards-onstage dissapearing act with the rest of the savages known as The Birthday Party at Polytechnic of North London, 23.October 1981, as captured by Steve Makin.

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[madamemalaussene]

I made some Birthday Party themed things on my Society6

[theunderestimator-2]

The Boys Next Door (Tracy Pew, Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard, Phil Calvert & Mick Harvey) during their final Crystal Ballroom show at the St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 16th, 1980, as documented by Wayne O'Farrell.

“...pub venues such as the Crystal Ballroom at the Seaview Hotel in St Kilda would become the locus for many of the new bands that proliferated in Melbourne in the early 1980s. Art student Nick Cave had become something of a shuffling icon along the then decrepit Chapel Street in Prahran, crossing paths with artist Howard Arkley, both no doubt on a quest for substances somewhat below the radar of the law. Cave’s bands, The Boys Next Door and, slightly later, the Birthday Party were regulars at the Crystal Ballroom alongside Ed Kuepper’s Laughing Clowns, the Go Betweens, The Saints, Whirlywirld, Essendon Airport and Primitive Calculators."

Ballroom Mayhem by Ashley Crawford

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