“The shoot (for Nick The Stripper) had been publicized around Melbourne, and about a thousand people took up the open invitation to attend dressed in the most ridiculous garb they could muster, as if they were about to descend into hell. As well as the group’s friends, a large number of Melbourne’s down-and-outs, alcoholics and drug casualties were in attendance. Among the motley throng was an old hippie, crazed on LSD and robed as Jesus Christ…a hideous fat man who had recently been released from a mental asylum was dressed as an Egyptian eunuch, crying and howling at the moon…’Mick (Harvey) had to spend the whole time blindfolded, with all these maniacs loose,’ says Rowland S. Howard…’Nick (Cave) tried to get up on this rock and he couldn’t because he was so drunk and out of it. It was appalling,’ says (director) Evan English. ‘Some of the guys, being the rock star characters they are, were screwing some girl in the garbage in all this putrid shit. You could never find them when it was time to shoot another sequence.’” from Ian Johnston, Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, 1995.
