A new documentary, Mutiny in Heaven, charts the rise and fall of the Australian band, the Birthday Party, known for their debaucherous badassery and drug-addled journey to greatness.
‘Not for the fragile’: Nick Cave performs with the Birthday Party in London in 1981. A new documentary, Mutiny in Heaven, charts the rise and fall of the Australian band.‘Not for the fragile’: Nick Cave performs with the Birthday Party in London in 1981. A new documentary, Mutiny in Heaven, charts the rise and fall of the Australian band.
“We didn’t do anything to try and be likable,” we hear Harvey comment shortly after the film enters its second hour. And boy does that seem true. Emerging in the late 70s from the noise and stink of Melbourne’s “St Kilda scene”, which we’re told was a “dangerous” and “deranged” community of artists working outside the system, Cave and co were the rough and rowdy people your parents told you to stay away from.
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