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).
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.
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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 released:
- 2005-07-06: Marquee, The Showgrounds, Cork, Ireland released:
- 1999-06-30: Meltdown, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK released:
- 2002-07-14: Piazza Del Plebiscito, Ancona, Italy released:
- 2002-12-10: Broadway, Reykjavík, Iceland released:
- 2005-02-27: The Sage, Gateshead, UK released:
- 1983-12-31: Man or Myth? Tour, Seaview Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia released:
- 2004-02-25: Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal released:
- 2000-01-18: Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth, Australia released:
- The Proposition released:
- 2004-09-21: Oktyabrsky Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia released:
- 2001-03-25: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, USA released:
To Have and to Hold
Released 1997- To Have and to Hold
- The Jungle of Love
- Candlelit Bedroom
- Luther
- A House in the Jungle
- Delirium
- The River at Night
- Mourning Song (Performed by Raun Raun Theatre)
- Romantic Theme
- Snow Vision
- Rose
- The Clouds
- Noah's Funeral
- The Flight
- Kate Leaves
- We're Coming - The Riot
- Murder
- The Red Dress
- I Threw It All Away
- To Have and to Hold - End Titles
- Gangstar Bone (Performed by Keeti General)
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
Released 1989- The News
- Introduction: A Prison in the Desert
- David Hale: I've Been a Prison Guard Since I Was 18 Years Old
- Glover: I Was 16 When They Put Me in Prison
- David Hale: You're Danglin' Us Like a Bunch of Meat on a Hook
- Pop Mix
- Pop Mix
- Glover: We Were United Once
- David Hale: The Day of the Murders
- Lilly's Theme ('A Touch of Warmth')
- Maynard Mix
- David Hale: What I'm Tellin' Is the Truth
- Outro: The Free World
- Glover: One Man Released So They Can Imprison the Rest of the World
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Song Of Joy
by: Nick CaveHave 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
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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
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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
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