project began following demise of Birthday Party

The project that later evolved into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds began following the demise of the Birthday Party in August 1983. Both Cave and Harvey were members of the Birthday Party, along with guitarist Rowland S. Howard and bassist Tracy Pew . During the recording sessions of the Birthday Party’s scheduled EPs Mutiny/The Bad Seed , internal disputes developed in the band. The difference in Cave and Howard’s approach to songwriting was a major factor, as Cave explained in an interview with On The Street : “the main reason why The Birthday Party broke up was that the sort of songs that I was writing and the sort of songs that Rowland was writing were just totally at odds with each other.” Following the departure of Harvey, they officially disbanded. Cave also said that “it probably would have gone on longer, but Mick has the ability to judge things much more clearly than the rest of us.”