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hiponion  said about 3 years ago  or at  3:38PM on Sunday, January 14 2007.

We haven't really had a thread about the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party, have we? (Other than 'NICK CAVE DEAD' or some other joke thread)

Two of the best Australian bands ever. Cave is a genius.

If you look in the gmail account I have some presents for any fans around.

Share the love here!


beertickle  said about 3 years ago:

my 2006 resolution was to listen to more Cave....i failed though a friend advised me that she listened to enough to make up for the both of us.


locky  said about 3 years ago:

what are the account details


hiponion  said about 3 years ago:

PM sent!


jonty  said about 3 years ago:

there's a sexy new dvd of the orpheus/abbatoir tour coming out, 2 dvds+2 cds i think. pretty sure it was mentioned in another thread here... I WANTS IT

hope there's another tour this year, but i doubt it. at the town hall in 05 was awesome.


Modi  said about 3 years ago:

Boys next door: Great

Birthday Party: Great

Early Bad seeds: Great

Last album: Great

Albums from "Let Love In" until the second last one can pretty much get fucked. Boring boring old man music.


BADALEX  said about 3 years ago:

Interview with Nick Cave on Ghost of the Civil Dead where he says how they used his fame to push the movie and how basically it sucked:Great.

Ghost of the Civil Dead however, is a really shit film.


hiponion  said about 3 years ago:

There's a new gift in the gmail.


puretokyo  said about 3 years ago:

has anyone got the full text of the classic article, 'a man called horse' written about him in the bad old days? it's online but you have to register. i'm sure we'd all love to read it


JtotheStotheH  said about 3 years ago:

yeah i'd love to read that.

i'm down with mr nick.

jrekl.


hand hell  said about 3 years ago:

I've got the actual Zig Zag magazine with Antonella Black's "A Man Called Horse" article. It's a pisser!
Obviuously I can't post it, so here's a sweet picture of the BP instead (gratuitous).

Alt text


annehelena  said about 3 years ago:

I've got a book of some wonderful Antonella Gambotto interviews (it's called Lunch of Blood), one of which is a Nick Cave interview from Zig Zag magazine, January 1985. Same thing? Did she get married/divorced?

It also has a really great postscript to it, I'll write it out for you sometime soon (but not now). It's an absolute cracker, in the postscript it says that he told two other journalists shortly after it was published that if he ever saw her again he would 'kill her'.


hand hell  said about 3 years ago:

Same thing, yeah. The original article had some very unflattering photos of Mr Cave looking like a stoned giraffe.


annehelena  said about 3 years ago:

Yeah well I'm not surprised! One of the best bits:

"Sighing, I ask him if he feels he has been deeply wounded in love.
His head droops. And slowly but surely, he begins to dribble. He finally says: 'Uh ... is this leading on from the other question?'
I reply yes.
He lifts his head. 'That was a lucky ... coincidence, wasn't it?"


puretokyo  said about 3 years ago:

hahaha!

gold

yeah annehelena, it's the same woman. nick wrote a song about her and another journo called 'scum' after the article came it. it's a pretty rugged little number...


puretokyo  said about 3 years ago:

and hand hell, that is a solid photo you posted... did lydia lunch invade mick's hairspray can that morning? and how come mick harvey looks the same as in every other photo taken in the last twenty five years?


puretokyo  said about 3 years ago:

and by mick, i mean nick.


annehelena  said about 3 years ago:

Yeah I knew he wrote 'Scum' about her. I can't remember if that was in the postscript as well, but I read somewhere that she was pretty chuffed!


puretokyo  said about 3 years ago:

geez nick was good between 80-88 (with a slight resurgence for henry's dream). what the fuck happened? he's a wanker. if i saw him today i'd throw a brick at him.


damselfly  said about 3 years ago:

i would like to read that interview. i am sure i would get a good laugh out of it.


annehelena  said about 3 years ago:

I'll type it up and post it sometime.


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gottagetawookie  said about 11 months ago:

http://www.thedeathofbunnymunro.com/events.html
A Night With Nick Cave

Nick Cave has announced a series of events throughout Europe to coincide with the publication of The Death of Bunny Munro. Taking place in intimate theatre settings these unique shows will be a mix of readings and live music, with Cave joined by Warren Ellis and Martyn Casey.

11th October: Palace Theatre, London, UK. Tickets on sale 7th September.

12th October: Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland. Tickets on sale 10th September.

13th October: Picture House, Edinburgh, UK. Tickets on sale 7th September.

14th October: Royal Theater Carre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tickets on sale 12th September.

15th October: Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerp, Belgium. Tickets on sale 19th September.

17th October: Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany. Tickets on sale 11th September.

19th October: Theatre Marigny, Paris, France. Tickets on sale 10th September.

20th October: China Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden. Tickets on sale 10th September.

22nd October: Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Italy. Tickets on sale 7th September.

24th October: Casino Alianca Poble Nou, Barcelona, Spain. Tickets on sale 15th September.

25th October: Palace Theatre, London, UK. Tickets on sale 7th September.



tammy539  said about 11 months ago:

Wow, It's a business aint it tho.
The Birthday Party however, seemed like, well, just a party..?


TimChuma  said about 10 months ago:

What's with the band names being written on the wrapping of the George Hotel in Melbourne being rennovated? ''Nick the Stripper'' is one of them.


shaun  said about 9 months ago:

''Cave is both a rampant misogynist and an arch-snob but it’s actually his snobbery that bothers me more – or rather, the way that his snobbery, amplified and encouraged by others, lends to his misogyny an air of respectability, as if it were something to be admired.''

Massive Nick Cave take down @ Overland.


madirishchef  said about 9 months ago:

Nice article, about time too.


postergirl  said about 9 months ago:

That article is by ex-chat emmy hennings (in case you didn't realise)


Modi  said about 9 months ago:

shaun beat me to the punch. But yeah, brilliant piece of writing.


HEB  said about 9 months ago:

while regularly expounding upon the elevating notion of his ‘muse’

Actually, Cave stopped listening to her a while back
Her absence is behind Grinderman and Bunny Munro


samiek  said about 9 months ago:

This is a very true article.
I use to be a fan when i was a teenager too.


FrankieTeardrop  said about 9 months ago:

Excellent article. Worth the read and spot on in its analysis. I'd love to quote the best bits here, but that would mean reproducing the whole article.


starfucker  said about 9 months ago:

Impressive article.
Caught a cab to Sth Yarra to score some smack with Nick. Hardly knew the man. Seemed a nice enough fellow when there was some gear about.


silvertone  said about 9 months ago:

postergirl said 6 hours ago: That article is by ex-chat emmy hennings (in case you didn't realise)

I guess the $150000 ran out? Still, good on her...


happycow  said 15 days ago:

Nick Cave voted muso PM

Rocker Nick Cave has been voted the musician Australians would most like to see installed as prime minister.

The singer behind the bands Grinderman and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fought off competition from Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning and John Butler in the MySpace poll.

On hearing the news, Cave joked: ''My first political act will be to introduce legislation forcing all Australians to lower their expectations.''

Other musicians apparently worthy of running the country include Paul Kelly, Jimmy Barnes, Dame Edna Everage and Kylie Minogue.

More than 300,000 votes were cast in the fantasy poll ahead of the federal election on Saturday.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/19/2987422.htm


noneabove  said 15 days ago:

Interesting how musicians who have the vaguest interest in politics (Butler and Fanning) were outvoted by a man who has repeatedly confessed to having none.

Probably says a lot about Australia, really.


happycow  said 15 days ago:

Nah, I reckon Nick Cave just voted for himself a few thousand times so he could get in the news again.


ocelotl  said 15 days ago:

Oh man, I just came across the Overland article linked above. Anwyn/Emmy - wonderful stuff.


angelicIV  said 15 days ago:

what a strange poll. I might get a billiards champion to build me a skyscraper.


noneabove  said 15 days ago:

Oh man, I just came across the Overland article linked above. Anwyn/Emmy - wonderful stuff.

I could nitpick a handful of points I disagree with in that article, but seeing as I come to the same conclusion as the author it's probably not worth it. I think what I particularly like about it is the fairly dispassionate but weighty dismissal she gives him, like she's saying I have every reason to get very angry about your place in the world, but you're such a bum and it's all so obvious I can't be bothered with the actual anger. Which is pretty much how I feel about him these days, too.


scallywag  said 15 days ago:

i was listening to highway 61 revisited last light and had a lightning bolt moment on how much nick cave and bad seeds owe to bob dylan and the band...

anyhow, just thought i'd share that all with you.


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