A few videos from the best from Australian garage scene. It actually had an influence on the later Seattle story with Sub Pop and so on.
Radio Birdman's performing the classic 'New Race'(later appearing on the 1978 album 'Radio Appears'), live at the Paddington Town Hall on the 3rd of April 1977.
The Saints' promo-video for the classic 'Know Your Product' taken from the 1978 album 'Eternally Yours'.
The Birthday Party: Nick the Stripper (1981)
Above the barely-controlled racket, Cave's vocals ranged from desperate to simply menacing and demented. Critics have written that "neither John Cale nor Alfred Hitchcock was ever this scary.", and that Cave "doesn't so much sing his vocals as expel them from his gut". Though Cave drew on earlier rock and roll shriekers; especially Iggy Pop and Suicide's Alan Vega, his singing with the Birthday Party remains powerful and distinct.
The Scientists: We Had Love (Live 2007, but released in 1983)
Beasts Of Bourbon - Psycho
The Beasts of Bourbon. Psycho (1984)
Lubricated Goat: In the Raw (1988)
The Lime Spiders. Slave Girl (1984)
'I sleep on the floor and dry my hair by hanging it out the car window' hair. The look of the day was a paisley shirt, black stovepipe trousers (holes optional), and pointy boots (holes optional). AHHH the days of my youth.
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