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October 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 95: The Birthday Party – “Junkyard”

Breathless Nick Cave fans make me want to not like him at all. (And while we’re on it, that fucking song of his, Breathless, that’s just about the single fucking worst thing he’s done!) But I am not not-a-Nick-Cave-fan. I am a fan. And I first heard about The Birthday Party by reading about Cave. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1980s, 1982, 95, Birthday Party, Eighties, Junkyard, Murder Ballads, Nick Cave, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 95: The Birthday Party – “Junkyard”, The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party – “Junkyard” ·

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April 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Cave Dwelling

My friend Mark gets these amazing hook-ups. He makes guitar pedals and they’re pretty good. Apparently. Popular. And so he fronts up all over the place, backstage at gigs, around and about. He’s always got a story – or two – about meeting this amazing person, or seeing this legend. And now we have two […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cave Dwelling, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Short Story, Short Story: Cave Dwelling, The Bad Seeds ·

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January 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (January 17, Wgtn)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds TSB Bank Arena Tuesday, January 17 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ return to Wellington is just the third show of the brand new tour, the first dates in a couple of years, the first since the release of Skeleton Tree, the first since the death of Cave’s son […]
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September 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree Bad Seed Ltd. I wrote a bit about this album (my immediate response to hearing it) and linking it to Lou Reed’s Magic and Loss. It wasn’t just about linking two albums informed by death, it was about the feeling that a first listen to Skeleton Tree […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Else Torp, Lou Reed, Magic & Loss, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, One More Time With Feeling, Skeleton Tree, The Bad Seeds ·

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June 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds: Two NZ Shows (September 2016)

Kid Congo Powers (b. Brian Tristan) has the very great claim to fame as founding memer of The Gun Club, and a musical tourist who stopped by in The Cramps and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds too. There are other musical projects – The Divine Horsemen, Die Haut and The Angels of Light. His […]
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March 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Nick Cave: The Sick Bag Song

The Sick Bag Song Nick Cave Canongate Books; Main edition Nobody walks the line between hi-brow and gutter-punk, between deeply moving and utterly pretentious quite like Nick Cave. You get the feeling – here – and elsewhere across his canon of songs, movie-scripts, soundtracks, plays and lectures that he knows that too. Knew it first, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Diary, Journal, Leonard Cohen, Memoir, Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds, The Sick Bag Song, Tour ·

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December 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Nick Cave (Dec 8, Wgtn)

Nick Cave St James Theatre Monday, December 8 Billed as Nick Cave’s solo show – he in fact performed with nearly half of his regular backing band, The Bad Seeds. And the material was entirely from that band’s catalogue, none of the earlier work or any of the tantalising side-project material from Grinderman or the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Dominion Post, Gig, Gig Review, Live, Monday December 8, Nick Cave, St James, The Bad Seeds, Warren Ellis, Wellington ·

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November 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Gallon Drunk: The Soul of The Hour

Gallon Drunk The Soul of the Hour Clouds Hill Eight albums in now for Gallon Drunk – here’s the latest, The Soul of the Hour. They’ve been at it, on and off, since the early 90s but in recent years they’ve issued a very strong comeback. James Johnston (vocals, guitar, keys), Ian White (drums) and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Gallon Drunk, Grinderman, Morphine, Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds, The Soul of the Hour ·

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August 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Creating 20,000 Days on Earth: A chat with filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth

Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth believe the key to their film – 20,000 Days on Earth – a hybrid feature-film/documentary, an impressionistic glimpse into Nick Cave’s world (for a day) – is trust. Nick Cave trusted them. They trusted him. They trust each other. Pollard and Forsyth met at art school and have a partnership […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged 20 000 Days on Earth, Art, Blixa Bargeld, Cave, Doco, Documentary, Feature Film, Film, Iain Forsyth, Interview, Jane Pollard, Mick Harvey, Music, Music Documentary, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away, Rowland S. Howard, The Bad Seeds, UK, Visual Artists, Warren Ellis, Writing ·

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August 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

20,000 Days on Earth: Film

20,000 Days on Earth Directors: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard Corniche Pictures/BFI/Film4 Here is Nick Cave – running about his day, his 20,000th day on earth – here is Nick Cave in a film that is part impressionistic doco, part subverted feature film, it’s the rock-doc as prose-poem, and it’s been co-created with love (and – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20 000 Days on Earth, Biopic, Blixa Bargeld, Doco, Feature Film, Film, Film Review, Grinderman, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Kylie Minogue, Music, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away, Ray Winstone, The Bad Seeds ·

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January 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live From KCRW

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live From KCRW Bad Seed Ltd In the same way that Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most recent studio album – the wonderful Push The Sky Away – is a dreamy, soft-focus-lighting/sharp-focus-on-the-writing reimagining of the band so too this low-key live document captures this “new” version of the band, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Jack The Ripper, Live From KCRW, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Push The Sky Away, The Bad Seeds, The Boatman's Call ·

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April 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1532

Grinderman, Grinderman (2007) For about seven years I reviewed music on TV on the Good Morning show. It was a lot of fun. Although, TV being TV, you take a pay-cut every year and are supposed to be grateful for the fact; I started off reviewing music every week and it was fun and useful […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2007, Get It On, Good Morning, Grinderman, LP, Nick Cave, No Pussy Blues, Norah Jones, The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, TV, Vinyl ·
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