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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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, […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 – […]Archive
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, […]Archive
April 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman