Stanislas at the Window

From the Boodle Boodle Boodle booklet - came with first 500 copies, 1981

Pier of Yokohama, Japan

A literally pissed off Tracy Pew punches a guy from the audience in the face after he got up on stage and started actually pissing on him (spot the arc in shot no.1?) during a Birthday Party gig at Köln, Germany, on Nov. 17, 1981, as captured by Gernot Huber.

“…Koln’s Stollwerck Club makes the set of “Escape From New York” look like some neatly designed suburban retreat. A disused chocolate factory crumbling behind two 12-foot wire fences, gutted of anything remotely plunderable, vandalised windowless and wantonly graffitied, the harsh concrete corridors stink like urinals.

Many corners are puddled with vomit and a uniquely psychotic breed of Euro-punk-hippy wanders around in straggling tribes, begging, gobbling, and scratching their asses.

The last time The Birthday Party played here there was trouble. Subtly billed as “the most violent band in Britain”, they’d drawn a mangy crowd of mutants so intent on upholding the image of outrage that one of their glue ga-ga-ed rabble had clambered onstage and pissed down Tracy’s leg. Strangely enough, his head wound up split open by the machine-heads on Tracy’s bass…”

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