“We did a few covers: The New York Dolls’ ‘Personality Crisis’ and Iggy Pop’s ‘China Girl.’ We were playing to two men and a dog, a late afternoon show, doing ‘China Girl.’ With the line, ‘I feel tragic/Just like Marlon Brando,’ Nick [Cave] was crawling around on the floor with his shoe on his back, singing, ‘I feel tragic/Just like Julius Marlowe’ (Julius Marlowe was a popular brand of shoe)."

Phill Calvert, Nick Cave: The Birthday Party & Other Epic Adventures (1996), p.39