The Birthday Party

The J Files Podcast

Sep 28, 20231:00:00Music

Australian post-punk group The Birthday Party were loud, raucous and genre-defying. Forming in 1973 as The Boys Next Door, they found limited audiences on home turf and in 1980 they jetted overseas for a crack at breakin...

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