Nick Cave - 1986-09-27 - Batschkapp, DE (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Venue: Batschkapp, Maybachstrasse 24

City: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Date: Saturday, 1986 September 27

Recording Info:

Audience-recording - Taper: unknown, sure from Frankfurt am Main - Lineage: unknown gear > MC > CD-R > Flac > Dime - Very good recording (clear & dynamic), I bought that tape in 1986 or 1987 at the fleamarket or in front of the Batschkapp, I can´t remember.

Nick Cave

Mick Harvey

Blixa Bargeld & Thomas Wydler (before change)

CD1 TT 42:49

01. By the time I get to Phoenix

02. I´m gonna kill that woman

03. Train long suffering

04. Your funeral my trial

05. She fell away

06. Long time man

07. Knocking on Joe

08. Jack´s shadow

CD2 TT 38:32

01. Sad waters

02. From her to eternity

03. The singer

04. Stranger than kindness

05. All tomorrow´s parties (Velvet Underground cover)

06. The carnival is over

Reminder of this concert:

I attended this concert in one of the first rows on the right side. I was a big Birthday Party-Fan then but not so into Nick´s solo-recordings. A friend took me there and I was very grateful for this. The venue was crowded and I saw for the very first time an artist high on drugs on stage. I noticed that because Nick acted a bit weird, he was some kind of shy, said not that much and let the others talk. Between the songs there were quite longer breaks for re-tuning or whatever as he went to the backside of the stage, sat on his heels and stared on the floor. But when he sang, everything was ok and he did a fantastic job. After the concert me and my friend witnessed how the band´s van hit a street lantern aside the venue while the driver tried to get the bus in the right position. After that - it was very dark - my friend was hit by a person who ran into him mumbling "sorry". Then we saw who it was. It was Nick who tumbled and was bent over trying to get to the bus. I don´t know on what drugs he was into, but I don´t think it was alcohol.

Two years later I attended another concert of Nick at the Volksbildungsheim in Frankfurt am Main. This concert was quite the opposite of this gig. Nick wore a grey suit and was clean as hell. But believe me, the Batschkapp-concert was far better. Their Velvet Underground cover-version "All tomorrow´s parties" is just pure magic.