Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Best of…
Label: Mute Format: CD, 2CD There’s a problem I always have with “Best Of” albums. To me, at least, they always bring to mind images of motorway service stations, racks filled to overflowing with...
View ArticleDaniel Miller’s Mini-Meltdown Festival
Irregular #5 The South Bank Centre, London 8th-10th April 1999 The last five to ten years have seen an exponential rise in the number of intriguing events at London’s premier Arts Council-funded...
View ArticleNick Cave and The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
Label: Mute Format: CD, limited 2CD It occurs to me as I listen to this new effort by Nick Cave that I might like to have never heard of him. In fact I add up the years and it has been at least...
View ArticleNick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Label: Mute Format: 2CD No question has ever divided the civilised world more than this one: “What did you think of Nocturama?” For every devotee willing to bask in the righteous glory that was “Bring...
View ArticleNick Cave and Warren Ellis – The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward...
Label: Mute Format: CD OK, confession time- I have yet to get around to seeing the film to which this is the soundtrack, though I have been assured by people who have and whose opinions I respect that...
View ArticleNick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Bad Seed Ltd. Last summer whilst I was living it up in my small way in the south of France, celebrating true heat and the glories of car-crash-like French music spectacles which dominate the season of...
View Article20,000 Days on Earth
Film 4 His wife mostly hides. I think she knows what he’s going to say, or rather what he’s not going to say. She’s central and peripheral in this tale and that seems about right since so is Nick. He’s...
View ArticleNick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Bad Seed It will cause no great controversy if I say that Nick Cave has been writing about love and death for most of his career. If The Birthday Party were the gleeful rictus grin of the Grim Reaper,...
View ArticleNick Cave – One More Time With Feeling
Bad Seed One More Time With Feeling was designed to ideally be watched before Skeleton Tree was released; so to watch it for the first time now, after living with that raw, naked and shivering mass of...
View ArticleNick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave And The...
BMG When Nick Cave experienced the tragedy above all tragedies as a parent in 2015, it would be no surprise that all artistic output would be set on hold. This compilation was in the process of being...
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