Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its diverse output and ever-evolving line-up. Prior to this, he fronted the Birthday Party, one of the most extreme and confrontational post-punk bands of the early 1980s. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman, releasing its debut album the following year.

Referred to as rock music's "Prince of Darkness", Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.NME described him as "the grand lord of gothic lushness".

Cave has also worked as a composer for films, often in collaboration with fellow Australian musician Warren Ellis. Their films together include The Proposition (2005, based on a screenplay by Cave), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). Cave is the subject and co-writer of the semi-fictional "day in the life" documentary 20,000 Days on Earth (2014).

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Nick Cave (performance artist)

Nick Cave (born 1959 in Fulton, Missouri, USA) is an American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist. He is best known for his Soundsuits: wearable fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey. He resides in Chicago and is director of the graduate fashion program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Early life and education

Nick Cave was raised in the town of Fulton, in central Missouri, by a single mother. He had many siblings, and the family was of modest means. Cave attributes his interest in found objects and assemblage to his childhood circumstances.

Cave learned to sew in the fiber department of the Kansas City Art Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1982. Also during his time he began studying dance through an Alvin Ailey program, both in Kansas City and New York City. Cave went on to get a masters degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1989.

  • 1984–1986 Graduate Studies, North Texas State University, Denton.
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    Nick Cave

    ALBUMS

    Lawless

    Released 2012

    The Road

    Released 2010

    White Lunar

    Released 2009

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    Released 2007

    Nick Cave i przyjaciele: W moich ramionach

    Released 2003

    Duende

    Released 1999

    And the Ass Saw the Angel

    Released 1999

    To Have and to Hold

    Released 1997

    Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

    Released 1989

    Burnin’ the Ice

    Released 1983

    2007-04-29: All Tomorrows Parties, Minehead, UK

    2005-07-06: Marquee, The Showgrounds, Cork, Ireland

    1999-06-30: Meltdown, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

    2002-07-14: Piazza Del Plebiscito, Ancona, Italy

    2002-12-10: Broadway, Reykjavík, Iceland

    2005-02-27: The Sage, Gateshead, UK

    1983-12-31: Man or Myth? Tour, Seaview Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia

    2004-02-25: Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

    2000-01-18: Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth, Australia

    The Proposition

    2004-09-21: Oktyabrsky Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

    2001-03-25: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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    Song Of Joy

    by: Nick Cave

    Have mercy on me, sir
    Allow me to impose on you
    I have no place to stay
    And my bones are cold right through
    I will tell you a story
    Of a man and his family
    And I swear that it is true
    Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
    She was a sweet and happy thing
    Her eyes were bright blue jewels
    And we were married in the spring
    I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring
    Or what life had in store
    But all things move toward their end
    All things move toward their their end
    On that you can be sure
    La la la la la la la la la la
    La la la la la la la la la la
    Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping
    And for many days to follow
    She grew so sad and lonely
    Became Joy in name only
    Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow
    And a dark and grim force set sail
    Farewell happy fields
    Where joy forever dwells
    * Hail horrors hail *
    Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition
    As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night
    Those lunatic eyes, that hungry kitchen knife
    Ah, I see sir, that I have your attention!
    Well, could it be
    How often I've asked that question
    Well, then in quick succession
    We had babies, one, two, three
    We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly
    They were their mother's children
    Their eyes were bright blue jewels
    And they were quiet as a mouse
    There was no laughter in the house
    No, not from Hilda, Hattie or Holly
    'No wonder', people said, 'poor mother Joy's so melancholy'
    Well, one night there came a visitor to our little home
    I was visiting a sick friend
    I was a doctor then
    Joy and the girls were on their own
    La la la la la la la la la la
    La la la la la la la la la la
    Joy had been bound with electrical tape
    In her mouth a gag
    She'd been stabbed repeatedly
    And stuffed into a sleeping bag
    In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives
    Method of murder much the same as my wife's
    Method of murder much the same as my wife's
    It was midnight when I arrived home
    Said to the police on the telephone
    Someone's taken four innocent lives
    They never caught the man
    He's still on the loose
    It seems he has done many many more
    Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood
    The police are investigating at tremendous cost
    In my house he wrote 'his red right hand'
    That, I'm told is from Paradise Lost
    The wind round here gets wicked cold
    But my story is nearly told
    I fear the morning will bring quite a frost
    And so I've left my home
    I drift from land to land
    I am upon your step and you are a family man
    Outside the vultures wheel
    The wolves howl, the serpents hiss
    And to extend this small favour, friend
    Would be the sum of earthly bliss
    Do you reckon me a friend
    The sun to me is dark
    And silent as the moon
    Do you, sir, have a room
    Are you beckoning me in
    La la la la la la la la la la
    La la la la la la la la la la




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