Harvey No Longer A Bad Seed
News posted Thursday, January 22 2009 at 03:00 AM.
Related: Mick Harvey, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.
Mick Harvey's performance with The Bad Seeds at Perth's Belvoir Amphitheatre on January 20, appears to have been his last with Nick Cave's acclaimed collective.
After 25 years as a multi-instrumentalist for The Bad Seeds, Harvey is leaving the band he formed with Cave in 1983 to pursue other projects.
"For a variety of personal and professional reasons I have chosen to discontinue my ongoing involvement with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds," Harvey said in a statement today (January 22). "After 25 years I feel I am leaving the band as it experiences one of its many peaks; in very healthy condition, and with fantastic prospects for the future.
"I'm confident Nick will continue to be a creative force and that this is the right time to pass on my artistic and managerial role to what has become a tremendous group of people who can support him in his endeavours, both musically and organisationally."
Harvey described his performance with the Bad Seeds at the Mt Buller leg of the inaugural ATP as "one of the many highlights of my involvement with the band throughout the years".
"I shall continue working on the Bad Seeds back catalogue re-issues project over the coming year and look forward to the new opportunities I shall be able to accommodate as a result of my changed circumstances."
In addition to his work with the Bad Seeds, Harvey is an acclaimed solo artist and producer in his own right. Over the years he has collaborated with artists including PJ Harvey, Anita Lane, Robert Forster, Conway Savage and Rowland S. Howard.
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I'd like to reiterate - THIS FUCKING SUCKS
The Bad Seeds are nothing without Mick.
or should that be The Bad Seeds are Grinderman without Mick.
boom tish
but seriously folks...
Booourns
this has totally bummed my week.
factual inaccuracy at the top of the article, his last gig with the bad seeds was on tuesday night at the belvoir ampitheatre in perth.
AAP got it wrong too. It's been amended.
wow, that was fast jose.
they don't pay me the big bucks for nothing.
Well, you can't be a ''Bad Seed'' forever.
Sad.
first Blixa, now Mick - soon the band will be renamed Warren Ellis & The Bad Seeds.
Af ew years ago that might have seemed like an interesting idea ....
sigh
Thanks for all the fish, Mick
wow.. ok... well bands evolve I guess.
Glad to have seen him with them at ATP then..
Nice work throughout the years Mick.. best o luck with everything else..
wow
(even more) glad i was there... i wish mick well... he always seemed to be the one that kept the bad seeds functioning...
More like pushed out the door... They've been trying to get rid of him for years, silly cunts. Well they still have the showboat bush ranger... Zzz.
'Tis more like what grogblog says, from hearsay... I wonder who wrote the statement..
How can you be posting here 15 seconds ago but disappeared from teh chats? I am offended ;)
I'm just that quick, raven.