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.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band that was formed in Melbourne in 1983 by lead singer Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey and keyboardist Conway Savage (all four from Australia), keyboard/percussion player Barry Adamson and guitarist George Vjestica (both from the United Kingdom), and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). The band has released fifteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.
The band was founded after the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria, Australia. Deviating from the noise rock roots of their contemporaries, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have produced alternative rock that has been influenced by various genres, such as punk rock, gothic rock, no wave and blues. Their early material—From Her to Eternity (1984), The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Your Funeral... My Trial (1986) and Tender Prey (1988)—primarily featured a post-punk sound. The band has progressively incorporated other songwriting elements; for example, the 2008 release Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! experimented with garage rock, also an influence of the side project Grinderman. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work feature prominently on their newest album, Push the Sky Away (2013), recorded after the departure of Harvey in 2009.
The Bad Seeds (band)
The Bad Seeds were an American garage rock band formed in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1964. Musically influenced by traditional blues and the raw recordings by the Rolling Stones, the group's sound was marked by primal proto-punk instrumental arrangements and vocals. The band released three singles, mostly originals penned by guitarist Mike Taylor, that have since become classics of garage rock, and have the Bad Seeds considered forerunners in popularizing the subgenre in Texas.
History
The Bad Seeds formed when Mike Taylor (lead guitar, vocals) and Henry Edgington (bass guitar), both formerly members of the teen rock group the Four Winds, teamed up with Rod Prince (rhythm guitar, vocals) and Bobby Donaho (drums), who, beforehand, were playing in the rival act, the Titans, until it's disbandment. The group, spearheaded by original material penned by Taylor and Prince, quickly established a loyal following regionally, becoming a frequent top competitor in battle of the bands contests, and appearing on the popular television program Teen Time. As music historian Bruce Eder asserts on the Allmusic website, the Bad Seeds were the "first rock group of note to come out of Corpus Christi, Texas, itself a hotbed of garage-rock activity during the middle/late 1960s".
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- 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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Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
by: Nick Cave And The Bad SeedsI remember a girl so very well
The carnival drums all mad in the air
Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
O where do we go now but nowhere
In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
And then we fucked it down again
Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
Going round and round to nowhere
The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
O where do we go now but nowhere
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
O where do we go now but nowhere
I remember a girl so bold and so bright
Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
O where do we go now but nowhere
You come for me now with a cake that you've made
Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair
Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades
O where do we go now but nowhere
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
O where do we go now but nowhere
Around the duck pond we grimly moped
Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again
And one more doomed time and without much hope
Going round and around to nowhere
From the balcony we watched the carnival band
The crack of the drum a little child did scare
I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
O where do we go now but nowhere
If I could relive one day of my life
If I could relive just a single one
You on the balcony, my future wife
O who could have known, but no one
O wake up, my love, my lover make up
O wake up, my love, my lover make up
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