Shriekback

Shriekback is a rock band formed in the early 1980s by Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC and League of Gentlemen (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals), Carl Marsh (guitars/vocals), and Dave Allen, formerly of the Gang of Four (bass). They were joined by Martyn Barker on drums in 1983.

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Grote Box", 23:45 - 00:45

Line up
Barry Andrews - keyboards, vocals; Carl Marsh - guitars, vocals; Dave Allen - bass; Martyn Barker - drums; Pedro Ortiz - percussion

Set list
01 Feelers
02 A kind of fascination
03 Mothloop II
04 White out
05 All lined up

Recording
I have a radio recording of tracks 01 - 05.

Other info


Article from festival booklet

Bronski Beat

Bronski Beat was a popular British synth pop trio of the 1980s. Their music is characterized by Jimmy Somerville's soulful counter-tenor voice and quirky synthesizer accompaniment. In 1985 Somerville quit the band, stating he wanted a career which was "more political". He went on to form The Communards with Richard Coles.

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Grote Box", 22:30 - 23:15

Line up
Jimmy Somerville – vocals; Steve Bronski (Steven Forrest) – keyboards, percussion; Larry Steinbachek (Lawrence Cole) – keyboards, percussion

Set list
01 Small town boy
02 Love and money
03 No more war
04 It ain't necessarily so
05 Why
06 I feel love

Recording
I have a radio recording of tracks 01 - 06. Stop laughing. It's great! It is. Seriously.

CD/iTunes cover I found on somewhere. Props to the creator...

Other info


Article from festival booklet

The Sound

The Sound was a British post-punk band fronted by Adrian Borland, which evolved from his previous band, The Outsiders. Their career spanned 1978 to 1987. They were labelmates of fellow literate, intense post-punk groups such as Echo & the Bunnymen and The Chameleons.

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1983, "Grote Box", 21:00 - 22:00

Line up
Adrian Borland – vocals, guitar; Colvin "Max" Mayers – keyboards; Graham Bailey – bass guitar; Mike Dudley – drums

Set list
01 Monument
02 Fire

Recording
01 – 02 officially released as bonus tracks on the cd re-release of In the Hothouse (Renascent, 2002). Liner notes: “Bonus tracks are from a great Dutch festival called 'Pandora's Music Box' - September 21 1984.”

I have 01 - 02, taken from In the Hothouse.

Other info
Ian Nelson (who played Pandora's 84 with Fiat Lux) joined the Sound on saxophone for the tour to support their Heads & Hearts album a few months later, from March 1985.

Ook ik ben in een ver verleden nog bij No Nukes geweest. Helaas niet van dichtbij kunnen zien ivm de massaalheid van het geheel. Waren ze ook niet bij Pandora's Box in de Doelen Rotterdam najaar 84? (blunnie, http://www.musicmeter.nl/album/4286/info/180#messages)

Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew was a United States experimental rock and jazz group from 1982 to 1986, comprising core members Fred Frith (guitar) and Tom Cora (cello), with Zeena Parkins (harp) joining later. Best known for their live improvisation performances where they played various instruments simultaneously, they also recorded two studio albums Learn to Talk (1984) and The Country of Blinds (1986). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Crew_(band))

Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Kleine Zaal", 00:45 - 01:45

Line up
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, keyboards, bass drum, hi-hat; Tom Cora – cello, bass guitar, homemade drums, contraptions, vocals

Set list
Unknown, mostly improvised music

Recording
I have a radio recording of 2 2/3 songs (8’32”), no titles. Get them here: http://wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070817-181802.

Other info

Fred Frith on stage at Pandora's 83 (photo: Vinyl magazine number 9, 1983)

Article from festival booklet.

Force 10

I have no info whatsoever... This is a bit of a problem Googling info:



And these guys clearly weren't born yet in 1983:




Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Kleine Zaal", 02:15 - 03:00

Line up
Unknown

Setlist
Unknown

Recording
Unknown

Other info
None

Peter Hammill

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings, and occasionally for other artists.

Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Kleine Zaal", 23:15 - 0015

Line up
Peter Hamill – vocals, guitar; John Ellis – guitar; Guy Evans – drums

Set list
01 Patient (8:03)
02 The future now (3:52)
03 Last frame (7:28)
04 The comet, the course, the tail (7:30)
05 Don't tell me (5:21)
06 Porton down (5:23)
07 Empress's clothes (5:23)
08 The jargon king (3:05)
09 The second hand (7:24)
10 The sphinx in the face (5:56)
11 Stranger still (5:39)

Recording
A complete audience recording exists, released as a bootleg, not sure if this is a commercial (silver) disc or a cdr (http://www.vapp.de/ph/list83.htm). Partially broadcast on radio, as well as an interview.
I have tracks 01 – 03 from a radio broadcast, get them here: http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070814-185411.




Other info


Article from official festival booklet






Article from Vinyl magazine (1983/11) briefly mentioning Pandora's (http://www.couchnoise.com/press.htm)




Article from Oor magazine (1983/22), briefly mentioning Pandora's (http://www.couchnoise.com/press.htm).

W.A.T.

In 1982 richt Ad van Meurs het redelijk succesvolle W.A.T. op. Met deze waveband, waarin ook zijn partner Ankie Keultjes speelt, maakt hij drie albums. Het trio valt op door een apart verbond van synthesizer en (slide)gitaar. Ad and Ankie would later continue as The Watchman.

Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Kleine Zaal", 22:00 - 22:45

Line up
Ad van Meurs – guitar, voice; Ankie Keultjes – synthesizer, voice; Frank van den Nieuwenhof – bass

Set list

01 Vive la vie

02 Artlovers

03 Sizzored and homesick

04 Get famous

05 Defreeze

06 Very happy

07 Ivanhoe

08 City Indians

09 Shall I go, I go restless

10 Get famous (encore)

("Likely setlist"... Thanks to Frank van den Nieuwenhof)

Recording
I have a radio recording of 02 and 05, get them here: http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070127-112746.

Frank van den Nieuwenhof has just uploaded remastered versions of a number of tracks (01, 02, 04, 06 and 07) recorded at Pandora's onto the "World According To" Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/worldaccordingtonl

Other info
W.A.T. (from World According To) were a Dutch trio based on sequencers, slide guitar and a thin female voice. They played on Pandora's Music Box, a new wave festival in de Doelen in Rotterdam, 2-3-4 September 1983. A lot of new wave acts played there and a lot is broadcasted on Dutch public radio (and I taped it): Siouxsie & Banshees, W.A.T., Durutti Column, Die Haut (& Nick Cave), Howard Devoto, S.P.K., The Box, Peter Hammill, Skeleton Crew, Jah Wobble, Spear of Destiny, Clock DVA, Armoury Show, Kowalski, Danse Society, Fad Gadget, TC Matic. (http://www.wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry070127-112746)

New Model Army

New Model Army are an English rock band. They are widely known for their unwavering commitment to their original vision of music and performance and their ethical code. Therefore they are often labelled as a punk band.

Scheduled
Saturday, 22 September 1984, "Dance Box", 21:00 - 22:00

Line up
Justin Sullivan – vocals & guitar, Stuart Murrow – bass, Robert Heaton – drums

Set list
01 Let’s dance
02 Great expectations
03 Vengeance
04 Sex (the black angel)
05 Grandmother’s footsteps

Recording
Tracks 01 - 05 were broadcast on radio. Tracks 03 – 05 were released on the bootleg This is for the Fans, not the Militia, taken from this broadcast.



I have the same three tracks as well as a short interview (mp3 @ 192kbps, total time 12'24") from the State of Mind bootleg CD, which appeared later with similar artwork. Get them here: http://symphonyofghosts.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-model-army-state-of-mind-demos.html




Other info



12 of us travelled over to Rotterdam in a mini bus. It was a two day indoor music festival (Pandora's Musicbox 22/9/84). The building was similar to the NEC in Birmingham; it had loads of different venues in one big building. The whole experience was brilliant. When NMA came on I don't think the foreign audience knew what was going on, they just stood there and watched us dance through the whole gig. (http://freespace.virgin.net/biffer.a/next2.htm)

C Cat Trance

In the mid eighties, after the release of anthem Hungry, So Angry and album The Glitterhouse, Rees Lewis, the distinctive element (voice and sax) of currently obscure but hip funksters Medium Medium, left and with drummer Nigel Stone started C-Cat Trance. (http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/ccattrance.php)

Scheduled
Saturday, 22 September 1984, "Kleine Box", 02:15 - 03:15

Line up
Rees Lewis – vocals, saxophone; Nigel Stone – drums; Rob Hodgkinson - sounds, tapes

Setlist
01 She steals cars
02 Barefoot doctor
03 The old man
04 Puritaines
05 Simple Helen

Recording
I have a lossless (flac) recording of track 01 - 05, taken from a radio broadcast, total time 28'57".

Other info
C Cat Trance produced world/dance/funk sounds ahead of their time, and, with a floating membership varying between two and eight, played infrequent gigs —beginning at Pandora's Musicbox in Rotterdam in September 1984— and more often in Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Holland) than the UK. (www.myspace.com/ccattrance)

Nico and band

Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938 – July 18, 1988) was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and Warhol superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico. She is remembered for both her time in The Velvet Underground and her solo work.

Scheduled
Saturday, 12 October 1985, "Big Hall", 21:00 - 22:00

Line up
Nico – vocals, Indian pump organ; Eric Graham Dowdall – electronic percussion; Eric Random – percussion, synthesizer; Toby Toman (Phillip Tomanov) – drums; James Young (James Edward) – keyboards

Set list
01 All saints night (9:14)
02 Procession (3:48)
03 Secret side (3:33)
04 Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen (6:08)
05 Win a few (8:55)
06 König (4:27)
07 Purple lips (4:32)
08 All tomorrow's parties (3:03)
09 Fearfully in danger (6:49)
10 The end (10:10)
11 My funny Valentine (4:15)
12 Sixty/forty (incomplete version) (2:26)
13 Tananore (4:06)
14 Janitor of lunacy (4:19)
15 My heart is empty (5:15)
16 Femme fatale (3:48)

Recording
The complete show was officially released as double vinyl album Behind the Iron Curtain, Dojo, 1986. Total time 78'08". The CD re-released omits tracks 9 - 12. Tracks 10 and 11 were also released on the Live Heroes CD (Performance, 1986) and the bootleg My Funny Valentine.



I have 01 - 08 and 13 - 16, taken from (the CD re-issue of) Behind the Iron Curtain.

Other info
According to the cover of Behind the Iron Curtain, it was recorded in Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, but it was in fact recorded at Pandora's 85.

Laut Cover Liveaufnahmen aus Warschau, Budapest und Prag, September/Oktober 1985, tatsächlich aber live aus Rotterdam, "Pandora's Music Box '85" De Doelen Concertgebouw, 9.10.85 [Actually 12 October 1985 - P@ndora]. (http://mitglied.lycos.de/rafuchs/musik/nico/nico4.htm)

Note the complete bollocks in this AMG review. They keep hearing the “Eastern Europe feel” in the recording…:

AMG REVIEW: Amid the sheer quantity of "live in the 1980s"-style Nico live albums that commenced raining down in the early '80s, and which have barely abated in the years since her death, few stand out as being more (or less) valuable than any other. Inasmuch as it captures an entire concert, Behind the Iron Curtain is one of the few exceptions, a classy recording of a late-1985 show in Warsaw, Poland, as she toured on the back of Camera Obscura. Backed by the ever-faithful Faction band, the show was played out before an audience of almost unbecoming politeness — keyboard player James Young, recalling the event in his The End memoir, described the onlookers as "serious and subdued...I think the problem was that, for once, Nico was out-doomed." As the album title notes, Poland still lay behind the Iron Curtain at that time, a land where audience participation was seriously discouraged. Young wrote that the "performance was as reserved as the seating," but that is to the album's advantage. With a live set that ranges throughout Nico's career, from old road warriors like Femme Fatale and All Tomorrow's Parties to new additions My Funny Valentine and Das Lied Vom Einsamen Madchen, the playing is precise and Nico is in excellent voice. The End is as chilling as it always should be (but, all too often on live recordings, isn't), and the version of Janitor of Lunacy has an edge that still sends shivers down the spine. And what more could you want from a Nico album? — Dave Thompson (http://www.hogemark.no/rock/details/33370.html)

The Plastic Dolls

Amsterdamse groep die begint als het duo Hans ter Burg (gitaar, zang) en Jacqueline Versluijs (drums). Ondanks het beperkte instrumentarium maken ze op plaat en live veel indruk met hun rauw en rudimentair gespeelde bluesrock. De eerste opstelling doet heel erg denken aan het Amerikaanse duo The White Stripes dat eind jaren negentig succesvol is.

Scheduled
Friday, 11 October 1985, "Mini Box", 00:25 - 01:10

Line up
Hans Ter Burg – guitar, vocals; Jacqueline Versluijs – drums

Setlist
Unknown

Recording
A recording exists

Other info
Ondanks de minimale bezetting klinkt de plaat [Boys Are Worse Than Girls – P@ndora] zwaar en vol. Muziekblad Vinyl hoort invloeden van The Birthday Party, Status Quo en Foetus en noemt de plaat 'behoorlijk eigenzinnig en aanstekelijk'. Ook Oor is enthousiast en schrijft over een 'een verrassend authentiek en direct klinkend geluid'. De positieve aandacht levert veel optredens op waaronder het festival Pandora's Musicbox in Rotterdam. Ze worden terzijde gestaan door geluidsman en derde bandlid Jozef Hey. (http://www.popinstituut.nl/biografie/the_plastic_dolls.13061.html)

The Woodentops

The Woodentops were a British independent label rock band that enjoyed considerable critical acclaim, and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s. Taking their name from a slang expression referring to an acoustic guitar, the band formed in South London, England, in 1983.

Scheduled
Friday, 11 October 1985, "Small Hall", 23:40 - 00:25

Line up
Rolo McGinty – vocals, guitar; Simon Mawby – guitar; Alice Thompson – keyboards; Frank de Freitas – bass; Benny Staples – drums

Set list
01 Get it on
02 Last time
03 Have you seen the lights
04 So good today

Recording
01 – 04 Radio broadcast exists

Other info

KUKL

KUKL was an Icelandic gothic rock group in the 1980s, most notable for being one of Björk's first bands. The name translates to "witchcraft" in Medieval Icelandic.

Scheduled
Saturday, 22 September 1984, "Dance Box", 23:30 - 00:15

Line up
Björk Guðmundsdóttir – vocals; Einar Örn Benediktsson – vocals, trumpet; Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson – guitar; Birgir Mogensen – bass; Einar Arnaldur Melax – keyboards; Sigtryggur Baldursson – drums

Set list
01 A mutual thrill

02 Anna

03 Latent

04 The spire

05 Dismembered

Recording
I have a lossy recording of the above 5 tracks, total time 20'31".

Other info
Things brightened up there with Iceland's finest (albeit unopposed) K.U.L.K delivering a spunkish drunkish short set of Bow Wow Wow sounds, the words coming from the plainest boy in history and a girl with the most unsightly pageboy cut since Skafish. The guitar was groovy and the drums were bendy, and I could have listened to them for at least another 12 years if duty had not called. (NME, October 6, 1984 [Not sure if this is about Pandora’s - P@ndora])

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire - it's KUKL! Boy and girl charging around, shouting and screaming, while four others contrive to make one hell of a racket, lapsing into occasional bouts of melody. I'm not sure that it was their intention, but I found them jolly entertaining, and they should be seen if only to witness the extraordinary performance of that manic little girl. (Sounds, October 13, 1984)

The Anti Group

The Anti-Group Company, or T.A.G.C. are a side project of Clock DVA. Formed in the early 80's by Adi Newton (although the idea existed as early as 1978), T.A.G.C. (originally The Anti-Group) was conceived as an open-membership experimental multimedia collective, focused on audio, visual and textual research and production, as well as performance art and installations.

Scheduled
Saturday, 22 September 1984, "Grote Box", 01:45 - 02:45
Swapped timeslot with Tom Verlaine

Line up
Adi Newton – vocals, electronics; Paul Browse – saxophone; Bob Baker – engineer; David Heppenstall – keyboards, computer; Glynn Heppenstal – electronics; Dennis Dean – bass; Nick Saunderson – drums
John [Carruthers - P@ndora] left to join Siouxsie & the Banshees while Dean, Paul, Nick & Adi were joined by Bob Baker and the brothers Heppinstal working as the experimental collective The Anti Group. (http://www.out-2-lunch.co.uk/newbiog.php?rec=1)

Set list
01 The delivery pt. 1 (5:41)
02 The delivery pt. 2 (17:22)

Recording
I have a radio recording of tracks 01 and 02, 23'03. Get it here: (http://pretentiousblogtitle.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html)

Other info
The first non theoretical action devised by ATG was the Film "The delivery", a 16mm tryptych projection and soundtrack, and the Anti theatre performance "The Discussion" designed for five tape recorders and multi-video projection systems. These two works were first presented at the "Der Doelen" center in Rotterdam on Sat. Sep 22nd, 1985 [1984 - P@ndora]. "The delivery" has been exhibited at the "2nd Atonal festival" in "The Ballhaus Tiergarten" Berlin, Feb 18th 1985 where the soundtrack was recorded on a mobile 24 track system. This document was released as the recording "The delivery" on Atonal Records. (http://www.clockdva.com/audiophile.html)

Newton, Browse, Dennis and Sanderson played Pandora's 83 as part of Clock DVA.

Dennis and Sanderson played Pandora's 85 with the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Quartet. They are the only artists appearing at all three Pandora's Music Box editions.

John Cale

John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his work in rock music, particularly as a founding member of The Velvet Underground, and he has worked in a variety of styles over the years. Cale created the wall of feedback and distortion that Sandy Pearlman would describe as heavy metal in a Crawdaddy! review of the first Velvet Underground LP.

Scheduled
Saturday, 22 September 1984, "Grote Box", 21:00 - 22:00

Line up
John Cale - vocals, guitar, piano

Set list
01 Amsterdam
02 Leaving it up to you
03 Buffalo ballet
04 Riverbank
05 Dead or alive
06 Guts (cut)

Recording
A complete audience recording exists, 60' (http://www.schmitt-hall-studios.com/ron/JohnCaleGigography.htm). A partial radio recording exists: tracks 01 - 06. Listen to the stream here: (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/programmas/afleveringen/3731425).

Other info

John Cale at Pandora's 1984 (Vrije Volk, 24-09-1984, taken from KIEM website)

Jah Wobble's Insane Fame

Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present.

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Kleine Box", 03:15 - 04:00
(Originally scheduled in the "Mini Box", 02:15 - 03:00)

Line up
Jah Wobble - vocals, bass; rest unknown

Set list
Unknown

Recording
Unknown

Other info
Last minute addition to the program. Wobble was the only artist on Pandora's 84 who also played in 1983.

Insane Fame is most likely a one-off project. (http://www.fodderstompf.com/GIG%20LIST/wobgigz.htm)

Schedule 1985

Acts mentioned/negotiated/listed/contracted that didn’t play: Alan Vega, 10,000 Maniacs, Wall of Voodoo, Swans, Prefab Sprout, Propaganda, Meat Puppets, Replacements, Wire.


Schedule from the official festival booklet.

Schedule 1983

Amazing lineup for this first edition of Pandora’s Music Box. Looking at the schedule I cannot help but drool and think how amazing it would be to have actually been there…

Looking more closely, I notice the timetable. And I notice that I would have had to be institutionalized after a weekend like this! See, I’m one of those guys who go to festivals to see bands play. Sure, boozing with friends is great, atmosphere is important, but to me the most important thing is who’s playing. And I wanna see them. Now take a look at the schedule for 3 September and tell me how I would’ve been able to see the bands that I like in this lineup: Death Cult, Clock DVA, Spear of Destiny, Armoury Show, Fad Gadget, Kowalski, Big Country, Virgin Prunes, Danse Society, Xmal Deutschland & TC Matic? Basically: I’m not so crazy about the Violent Femmes, I would’ve wanted to see the rest, at least partially. Maybe it’s best that I wasn’t there…

Acts mentioned/negotiated/listed/contracted that didn’t play: China Crisis, Marine Girls, Cabaret Voltaire, Cocteau Twins, Eyeless in Gaza, Gun Club (played 1984), Fleshtones (played 1984), Bernard Szajzner, 23 Skidoo, Southern Death Cult (merged into Death Cult who did play), Nico (played 1985), Alarm, Everything but the Girl, New Order, Blancmange, End Games, Bauhaus (disintegrated before the festival).

The Gun Club and Cabaret Voltaire are in the official Pandora’s 1983 booklet but they are not on the schedule. They were both cancelled at the last minute. The Gun Club managed to get their act together in time for Pandora's 84.


Schedule from the official festival booklet.

Schedule 1984

Acts mentioned/negotiated/listed/contracted that didn’t play: Red Guitars, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (played 1985), Working Week, Tones on Tail (ex-Bauhaus, Bauhaus was supposed to play in 1983 but disintegrated before the festival), Rank & File, DVA-tion (Adi Newton project, who appeared with the Anti Group).

Test Dept. is in the official booklet, but not on the schedule. They must have been negotiated but not booked.

Als ik lees over het festival Pandora's Music Box in 1984, dan lopen de rillingen me over de rug. Wat een programma had dat en wat jammer dat ik daar toen te jong voor was. (http://dertigers.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_dertigers_archive.html)


Schedule from the official festival booklet.


Schedule from Oor magazine (1984, #19), published just before the festival. Working Week are off the schedule, and Belfegore is replaced by the March Violets.


Flyer handed out during the festival with final schedule (thanks to Surfling). Johnny Thunders appears on both nights, Jah Wobble changed venue and Gene Loves Jezebel are gone from the schedule.

L'Attentat

In de jaren tachtig en negentig actieve Amsterdamse rock & roll-band met een geduchte reputatie in het clubcircuit.

Scheduled
Saturday, 12 October 1985, "Dance Hall", 21:25 - 21:50 (time slot shared with Fatal Flowers)

Line up
Allard Jolles – guitar, vocals; Daan Akkerman – guitar; Gerard Kortooms – bass; Willy Demacker – drums

Set list
01 One track mind (together with Fatal Flowers)

Recording
Unknown

Other info
L'Attentat shared a timeslot with the Fatal Flowers. The Fatal Flowers started off, after half an hour L'Attentat joined them for one song and then finished their set alone.

Jolles played Pandora’s 84 as drummer for Claw Boys Claw.

Claw Boys Claw

Guitar band from Amsterdam fronted by charismatic singer Peter te Bos that is influenced by garage punk of bands like Gun Club and the Stooges. Gradually, the band's musical style develops into the direction of melodic swamp rock. (http://www.hollandrocks.nl/bio/bz344.html)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 21:15 - 21:45

Line up
Peter te Bos – vocals; John Cameron – guitar; Bobbie Rossini – bass; Allard Jolles – drums

Set list
01 Shake it on the rocks
02 Cosmic blue
03 Venus

Recording
I have a radio recording of tracks 01 - 03

Other info
Jolles played Pandora's 1985 as singer/guitarist for L'Attentat.

De band is in 1984 één van de hoogtepunten tijdens de tweede editie van het vooruitstrevende festival Pandora’s Music Box in Rotterdam. (http://www.50jaarnederpop.nl/canon.php?id=35)

Scientists

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Garage Box", 22:15 - 22:45

Line up
Kim Salmon – vocals, guitar; Tony Thewlis – guitar; Boris Sujdovic – bass; Brett Rixon – drums

Set list
00 Backward man

Recording
Unknown

Other info
At the time, it seemed as if none of us did anything for the first year in the UK but stand in queues and pay exorbitant VAT- inflated prices when we got to the end of them. In retrospect, and at the risk of boasting, I can only be amazed at how far we got in that small amount of time. Firstly, we had a local release for Blood Red River on Rough Trade. Next we virtually walked into All Trade Booking Agency and got a whole stack of shows at places like Dingwalls, The Electric Ballroom, The Lyceum and The Clarendon Garage. As well, Tony and I rather cheekily wrote Kid Congo a letter telling him we were going to support the Gun Club on their UK tour. There was no talk of this with the agency - we just did it 'off the bat' and that seemed to clinch it taking care of exposure over the rest of England for us. The next step was for the Dutch fellow previously mentioned [Willem Venema – P@ndora] to walk in to All Trade and see our photo and then book us into Futurama in Belgium and the Pandora's Box festival in Rotterdam. At Pandora's Box we found ourselves in front of a huge jampacked room which moved back a full metre the moment we launched into our set. After that we got our picture taken a lot and I ended up having to do loads of interviews for foreign mags that I would never be able to read unless they were in the three sentences of Deutsche that I know. As Boris pointed out to me, this gig set us up for Holland and Belgium over the next couple of years. It wasn't long after these festivals that we made it to Paris and then Hamburg.
Back in the UK, our audience at this stage was comprised partly from the network of Cramps and Gun Club fans who had been alerted to our existence by the tireless efforts of Scotsman and Next Big Thing writer Lindsay Hutton and partly from a curiosity amongst punters as to what kind of act could draw the particular kind of adjective from the ink of the three British trade papers, NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, that we did. I was quite happy at that stage of my life to be referred to as the "lowest form of uncaring anti-social filth" in what amounted to a music tabloid with a circulation of hundreds of thousands so long as they meant we were great. We got quite a bit of coverage and most of it was positive in that kind of way. At Pandora's Box a Belgian chap called Paul Delnoy asked if he could make a record with us on his label. He did not seem to have enough English to understand 'no' (we were tied up contractually) which is why we ended up in Brussels at the end of the year trying to make up another record from scratch that didn't overlap with the material we were working on for our next proper album. (http://www.citadel-records.com/mailorder/600/discs/scient.html)

Defunkt

Defunkt is a punk-funk-jazz collective that was founded 1978 in New York, United States and is still active. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunkt)
Led by singing trombonist Joe Bowie (younger brother of famed jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie), the seven-man Defunkt peddled black funk with dry bounce. Originally formed as James Chance's horn section, Defunkt also had ties with the world of avant-garde jazz, putting it in a unique and culturally resonant position. (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=defunkt)

Scheduled
Friday, 11 October 1985, "Big Hall", 01:40 - 2:50

Line up
Joe Bowie - trombone; Kim Clarke - vocals, bass; Ronny Drayton - guitar; Bill Bickford - guitar; John Mulkerin - trumpet; Kenny Martin - drums (line-up confirmed by John Mulkerin)

Set list
Unknown

Recording
Unknown

Other info
... Beveiliging die probeerde mensen met dansen te laten stoppen toen Defunkt speelde... (Henk den Toom)

Die Haut with Nick Cave

Die Haut were an experimental German post-punk post-rock industrial band, who enjoyed underground success in the 1980s, with such records as the Nick Cave collaboration Burnin' The Ice. The only constant member has been Christoph Dreher.
Formed as an instrumental rock quartet, many of their recordings and live performances featured an array of international guest vocalists.

Scheduled
Friday, 2 September 1983, "Feestzaal", 22:00 - 23:00

Line up
Christoph Dreher – bass; Remo Park – guitar; Martin Peter – guitar; Thomas Wydler – drums; Nick Cave – vocals on*

Set list
01 Der Karibische Western
02 ?
03 ?
04 Tokyo-Express
05 ?
06 Virginia
07 Pleasure is the boss*
08 The victory
09 Stow-a-way*
10 Truck love*

Recording
A complete (?) audience recording exists: 01 - 10, 45'.
The gig was partially broadcast on Dutch radio, I have 08 and 09 taken from this radio broadcast.

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Nick Cave live at Pandora's 83 (Vinyl magazine 1983/9)

Cave's shoes (Vinyl 1983/9)

Die Haut with Nick Cave at Pandora's 83 (photo credit unknown)

Nick Cave's second live guest appearance with Die Haut. They perform songs from the Burnin' The Ice album recorded in Aachen in December 1982. (http://www.fromthearchives.com/nc/chronology.html)

Nick Cave saw the Virgin Prunes' performance on Saturday night and wrote about it in the book Judas Jesus by Rolf Vasellari (Black Sheep Press (Zurich, Switzerland), 1987). (http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/general/discog2.html)

A concert in Rotterdam
Nick Cave on Dave-id Busaras/Virgin Prunes:
"... a strange child reluctantly and most awkwardly mount the stage, as if coaxed from the wings by some pageant-crazed mother, stand centre-stage and sing a song, solus, in a voice that held such a weird sadness within each expulsion and took flight with such ghostly brilliance that an entire morning of systematic inebriation spent in the bar was wasted, for this drunken wretch that had stumbled into the hall, now that the child had left the stage, sat stricken sober by his magical appearance and quite weak from listening and though I cursed the little bastard as I made my way back to the bar, I will never forget the simple pain of that opening song and the eerie beauty of its doing." (http://www.iol.ie/~murraycp/dave-id.html)

He may have been sober on Saturday night, but by all accounts, he was a drunken mess on Friday.

... Nick Cave die te dronken was om er een begrijpelijk woord uit te krijgen... (Henk den Toom)

Cave and Wydler both played Pandora's again in 1985 as Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

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Virgin Prunes

The Virgin Prunes was an Irish gothic rock band. The band formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1986 after the departure of member Gavin Friday. The rest of the band continued on without him for a while as The Prunes, but they too ended activities by 1990.

Scheduled
Saturday, 3 September 1983, "Grote Zaal", 01:15 - 02:15

Line up
Gavin Friday - vocals; Guggi - vocals; Dave-id Busarus - vocals; Dik - guitar; Strongman - bass; Mary D'Nellon - percussion

Set list
01 Dave-Id Performance: The white history book
02 Dave-Id Performance: Uncle Arthur's lonely world
03 Dave-Id Performance: (title unknown)
04 Dave-Id Performance: Uncle Arthur's lonely world
05 Deadly sins
06 Sons find devils
07 Theme for thought
08 Walls of Jericho
09 Caucasian walk

Recording
I have a complete lossless (flac) audience recording of tracks 01-09, 59'46"

Other info

Gavin Friday on stage at Pandora's 83 (Vinyl magazine 1983/9)

Nick Cave (who played Pandora's 83 with Die Haut) saw the Virgin Prunes' performance and wrote about it in the book Judas Jesus by Rolf Vasellari (Black Sheep Press (Zurich, Switzerland), 1987). (http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/general/discog2.html)

A concert in Rotterdam
Nick Cave on Dave-id Busaras/Virgin Prunes:
"... a strange child reluctantly and most awkwardly mount the stage, as if coaxed from the wings by some pageant-crazed mother, stand centre-stage and sing a song, solus, in a voice that held such a weird sadness within each expulsion and took flight with such ghostly brilliance that an entire morning of systematic inebriation spent in the bar was wasted, for this drunken wretch that had stumbled into the hall, now that the child had left the stage, sat stricken sober by his magical appearance and quite weak from listening and though I cursed the little bastard as I made my way back to the bar, I will never forget the simple pain of that opening song and the eerie beauty of its doing." (http://www.iol.ie/~murraycp/dave-id.html)

Mijn kennismaking met de Virgin Prunes was een shock. Ik zag ze -totaal onvoorbereid- tussen Anne clark en TC Matic op Pandora's Music Box. Zó uit de provincie, van travistie had ik nog nooit gehoord... en van The Virgin Prunes al helemaal niet. Niet dat ik sindsdien met jarretelles loop, maar het heeft wel het een en ander teweeg gebracht. (dix, http://www.musicmeter.nl/album/16902)

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