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00:00 The Birthday Party, bands Nick Cave, vocals, Roland Howard guitar, Mick Harvey guitar,
00:09 Phil Calvert drums, Tracy Pugh bass and the first one is called Figaro Fun.
00:15 When I look at the Birthday Party, it was just full of a kind of naive adventurousness
00:22 and we really stumbled onto something completely unique.
00:26 It was just fucking crazy.
00:30 [Music]
00:43 We had no intention of being some sort of professional product.
00:46 It was like the enemy.
00:47 [Music]
00:49 The whole thing, particularly live, is that it becomes a kind of unconscious expression of things.
00:55 It wasn't like rip up the chairs and smash the place up.
00:59 It was something from inside the psyche.
01:01 It was quite frightening sometimes.
01:03 It was quite frightening being on stage.
01:05 [Music]
01:10 There was a sense of immortality, a sense of everything was possible and you didn't
01:17 have to obey the rules.
01:19 [Music]
01:21 We felt completely alienated toward everything.
01:26 That's what came out of it.
01:27 It was very violent, very aggressive shows.
01:30 [Music]
01:32 We thought that we were the only real rock band in the world and we wanted to take it
01:36 that much further.
01:38 If we had have been a little more well adjusted to the world that we were living in at the
01:42 time, we would have played different sort of music, but we weren't.
01:45 [Music]