The Birthday Party (band)

The Birthday Party was an Australian rock music group, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It launched the careers of the internationally renowned singer and songwriter Nick Cave and of the respected musicians and songwriters Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard. Their early music found them sometimes classed as goth rock, but they disliked the label, and in retrospect, sound very different from most goth rockers.

Trivia

• Some sources say the band took its name from the Harold Pinter play The Birthday Party. http://www.heathenworld.com/bandname/a-e.html, others say it was prompted by Cave mis-remembering a party scene in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.