Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots. He has a reputation, which he disowns, for singing dark, brooding songs which some listeners regard as depressing. His music is characterised by intensity, high energy and a wide variety of influences. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave)

Scheduled
Saturday, 12 October 1985, "Big Hall", 02:40 - 03:40

Line-up
Nick Cave – vocals; Blixa Bargeld – guitars, vocals; Mick Harvey – guitar; Barry Adamson – bass; Thomas Wydler – drums

Set list
01 Avalanche
02 Tupelo
03 Well of misery
04 Sad dark eyes
05 Blind Lemon Jefferson
06 Wanted man
07 Say goodbye to the little girl tree
08 Knocking on Joe
09 Train long suffering
10 Saint Huck
11 I put a spell on you
12 Mutiny in heaven

Recordings
This show has been extensively bootlegged over the years, but never officially released. Tracks 01 – 12 were on the bootleg LP (and later CD) Pandora’s Misery (complete audience, PMB 131085 (FR,198?)), 03 – 11 were released on the bootleg CD's He Put A Spell On Us (incomplete radio broadcast, Wild Angel records -NCCD2 (NL,1992)). The release is wrongfully credited as being recorded in Amsterdam, 1984. It is in fact Pandora's 1985. The same tracks were also released as In Funeral Night (incomplete radio broadcast, BRX 007).
I have a lossless (flac) copy of He Put A Spell On Us.


Front cover of (CD version of) Pandora's Misery


Front cover of In Funeral Night


Front cover of He Put A Spell On Us

Other info
Both Bargeld and Harvey played Pandora's 85 twice: Bargeld was also in Einsturzende Neubauten, Harvey also played in Crime & the City Solution.


Nick Cave on stage at Pandora's 1985 (http://www.fromthearchives.com/nc/chronology.html)


Nick Cave on stage at Pandora's 1985 (photo by Marcel Snoek - huge thanks to Jeroen)

On stage at Pandora's 85 (Sounds 26 October 1985)

Article from festival booklet


Eric Brus descibes his experiences of the show in literary magazine Passionate, issue 3, May/June 1997. (http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_pas002199701_01/_pas002199701_01_0051.htm)

Matador

Matador was founded in 1982 for experimenting in sound and visual arts. Their first performance was in June 1982 at the Documenta in Kassel at which time Beate Bartel was still busy with Liaisons Dangereuses and Gudrun Gut and Manon Duursma with Malaria!

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Kleine Box", 22:45 - 23:30

Line up
Gudrun Gut – ; Manon Duursma – ; Beate Bartel – ;

Setlist
Unknown

Recording
Unknown

Other info
Gut and Bartel were both part of the first line-up of Einstuerzende Neubauten. First Gut leaves because she cannot stand Bargeld’s bossing around. Bartel leaves as well after the next gig and together they focus on their own band Mania D.

Palais Schaumburg

Palais Schaumburg was a new wave band from Hamburg, Germany. The style was classified as Neue Deutsche Welle, and strongly characterized by their avant garde music and dadaistic attitude. Shortly after their debut album was released, Holger Hiller and FM Einheit left the band. Hiller started his solo career and Einheit joined Einstürzende Neubauten. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Schaumburg_%28band%29)

Scheduled
Friday, 21 September 1984, "Grote Box", 01:15 - 02:15

Line up
Ralph Hertwig – ; Thomas Fehlmann – ; Moritz von Oswald – percussion?

Set list
01 Sprung über vier Pferde
02 What's the time
03 Three young men

Recording
Unknown

Other info
Einheit (playing Pandora’s 85 with Einsturzende Neubauten) was a founding member of Palais Schaumburg.

Palais Schaumburg's show at Pandora's was marred by technical difficulties leading Hertwig to conclude that the show was "anti-publicity for our tour through the Netherlands in two weeks" (Vrije Volk review, 24-09-1984)

Crime & the City Solution

Crime and The City Solution were a rock music band formed by Australian singer and songwriter Simon Bonney. They completed four studio albums and a number of E.Ps during it's existence, and a live album has since been released. Further early recordings have resurfaced on the internet. Parallels have been drawn between Crime and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The long term influence of the band has yet to be acknowledged. Crime were famed for their live performances. Bonney has since gone on to record solo material.

Scheduled
Friday, 11 October 1985, "Dance Hall", 22:30 - 23:15

Line up
Simon Bonney – vocals; Rowland S. Howard – guitar; Mick Harvey – guitar; Harry Howard – bass; Epic Soundtracks – drums

Set list
01 Five Stone Walls

02 The Coal Train

03 Rose Blue

04 The Dangling Man

05 Trouble Come This Morning

06 The Wailing Wall

07 Down A Path (a.k.a. The Blue Room)

08 The Last Day

09 The Kentucky Click
Thanks to tapesfor2 for the setlist

Recording
A complete, good audience recording exists, 45". Track 04 was broadcast by VPRO radio.

Other info
Harvey played Pandora’s 1985 a second time as member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds (on Saturday). Both Harvey and Rowland S. Howard were ex-Birthday Party, together with Nick Cave. In fact, Rowland had filled in as guitarist for the Bad Seeds in April 1985 to do a short British tour, when Blixa Bargeld was too busy recording Einstürzende Neubauten’s Halber Mensch album.


Article from festival booklet


Rowland S. Howard (?) at Pandora's 85 (http://www.itlooksdifferent.com/?id=76)

Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The band is often classified as industrial music or electronica. One of their 'trademarks' is the use of custom made instruments (usually, but not always, made out of scrap metal and building tools) and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Neubauten has always experimented with sounds, originally in noise music and recently in very diverse styles.

Scheduled
Friday, 11 October 1985, "Big Hall", 21:00 - 22:00

Line up
Blixa Bargeld – vocals, guitar, keyboards; Alex Hacke - guitar; Marc Chung – bass; N.U. Unruh (Andrew Chudy) – percussion; FM Einheit (Frank Martin Strauss) – percussion

Set list
01 Halber Mensch
02 Zerstörte Zelle
03 Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
04 Negativ nein
05 Vanadium-I-Ching
06 Sehnsucht
07 Spaltung (a.k.a. Armenisch Bitter)
08 Yü-Gung (fütter mein Ego)
09 Letztes Biest (am Himmel)

Recording
A good radio recording of tracks 01 - 09 exists, 48". Misses Der Tod ist ein Dandy and Abfackeln!.

Other info
Hacke and Einheit both also played on Pandora’s 1985 as part of Mona Mur (on Saturday). Bargeld played Pandora's 85 also as member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds (on Saturday).


Article from official festival booklet


Einstürzende Neubauten live at Pandora's 1985 (Oor, 1985/21)

Mona Mur

Mona Mur is a German vocalist - born Sabine Bredy in Hamburg to Polish parents, 1960, who first graced the music scene in 1982. In her quest for the angry sound of her times she soon hooked up with FM Einheit, Marc Chung and Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten. Together with Einheit, Hacke, organ virtuoso Nikko Weidemann ("Flucht nach Vorn"), bassist Th. Stern ("Crime and the City Solution") and Siewert Johannsen ("Stricher") she started a new incarnation of Mona Mur in 1985, playing many concerts in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Bremen (with "Sonic Youth") and Berlin - foundation stones for her cult image until today.

Scheduled
Saturday, 12 October 1985, "Mini Box", 22:00 - 22:45

Line up
Mona Mur - vocals; Alex Hacke - guitar; Steward Johanssen - guitar; Nicolay Weidemann - keyboards; Thomas Stern - bass; F.M. Einheit - drums

Set list
Unknown

Recording
Unknown

Other info
Both Hacke and Einheit also played Pandora’s 1985 as members of Einsturzende Neubauten.

Konzerte: 1984-1986 Auftritte in Berlin (Metropol "Nackt unter Kannibalen", Loft (mit Caspar Brötzmann Massaker), Hamburg, Bremen (mit SONIC YOUTH), Kopenhagen, Malmö, Amsterdam ("One World Poetry"), Rotterdam ("Pandora's Box"), Live - Mitschnitte bei SFB und NDR 1995 Auftritte mit Christian St.Clair 1996/97 Auftritte mit der Pianistin Evelyn Ulex ("Songs from a Black Room") (http://www.darkdimensions.de/labels/monamur.htm)


Article from festival booklet


Official band photo 1985 (http://www.monamur.net/esource/11.html)


During soundcheck at Pandora's 85 (http://www.monamur.net/esource/09.html)