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Photograph: Wolfgang Wiggers/Flickr One of a series of gigs in late June / early July - DIE HAUT, LYDIA LUNCH, and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - performed live on this day in 1982 at the Franz Stollwerck Maschinenhalle, Köln. The abandoned factory was occupied in 1980 and became a...

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY live on this day in 1982 at the Astor Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria. Support bands were GO BETWEENS and LAUGHING CLOWNS. The concert was recorded and released as It's Still Living in 1985 through Missing Link.

John Peel had been playing records by the band since 1979, when they were known as BOYS NEXT DOOR. Between their relocation from Melbourne to London in 1980 and 1982 - shortly before moving to Berlin and soon after splitting - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY recorded four Peel sessions.This...