The Birthday Party - Live 81-82Never released on Vinyl before and now gets released a double set housed in a Gatefold sleeve with CD version. The Birthday Party's 17 track set 'Live 1981 1982' is a vicious and incendiary assault on the nature of traditional both rock music and its various offspring. Words like 'intense' are consistently overused when describing rock bands, but the Birthday Party worked overtime to make sure that they fully deserved them. Recorded at three european

s re-joined the band

there are musicians willing to pick up their instruments and follow his lead

With the Orwellian themes as a loose backdrop

but James Ford and Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco have really gone to extremes this time: they've completely abandoned every tool they previously used to make music

the openeråÊBiscuit TownåÊsets out its stall irresistibly as Marshall sings about rapidly disintegrating romance and personal dissolution with acute

And external ones actually - people seem to enjoy it as the background to their conversations

and dream associations

Recorded with Keith Cooper and Andrew McCalla in the band's home-town of Memphis

Various - Electronic Beats Compilation 2013 vinyl LP on GEMA

For Rustie

struggling to comprehend the things we do

Hayes‰۪ newly completed ‰Û÷Slurrup‰۪ is leaner and meaner than anything he‰۪s done all millennium