Nick Cave Classic or Dud

Which means you can guess my answer, and I stick my tongue out at you. :-P But shouldn't this be at ILM, or have we finally stopped caring about the distinction? ;-)

ps geoff we do not listen to neil finn here, we listen to SHAYNE CARTER!!!

Posting on the ILM forum is not something I generally do, and I figured that music fits in within the realm of everything. I did not realise the distinction was so clearly defined.

Who does your hair?

http://staal-j.greatnow.com/birthdayp.jpg

"From Her To Eternity" is a blisteringly good title track for what I recall as an unremarkable album.

From Her To Eternity and Henry's Dream are probably the only two solo Cave albums I really got into.

my mom started trying to date people on the internet & one of the dudes listed nick cave as an interest. my mom called me and was like, "IS HE THE ONE ON DRUGS???"

classic.

Went to the final tour rehearsal for the new album last night, at a leisure centre ballroom in Hove … and good God the new songs were boring, apart from Jubilee Street or whatever it's called. Not a single melody between them.

Who is George Vjestica? I'm having a hard time finding any references fro him and he appears to be the Bad Seeds's latest guitarist.
Not sure if his website has a bio cos it just looks like a glossy gallery with next to no info but could be that my server is failing to navigate it properly. Just can't find a tab or anything to get me to any info about him anyway. http://www.georgevjestica.com/

He appears on a couple of the tracks on the last lp playing 12 string guitar and is part of the current touring line up
" Nick Cave (vocals, piano), Warren Ellis (violin, flute, guitars, devices,..), George Vjestica (guitars),
Martyn P Casey (bass), Conway Savage (keyboards), Barry Adamson (keyboards,drums,xylophone) and Jim Sclavunos (drums,percussion) "

but I can't see anything beyond taht

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1219458/How-I-rock-stars-wife-Rumpole-authors-daughter-Rosie-Mortimer.html

In that picture she looks 14.

Or very young, regardless. Rock and roll.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/05/bob-dylan-nobel-favourite-songwriter

Nick Cave by Ian Rankin

“Hands up who wants to die?!!” Those were the first frantic words I heard Nick Cave sing. They’re from the opening track of a 1983 four-track EP by the Birthday Party, a thing of Grand Guignol excess culminating in a four-minute horror film (“Deep in the Woods”). From the beginning, Cave was an artist who immersed the listener in revelatory imagery and creeping doom. The Old Testament, delta blues, and Sergio Leone westerns infused his song writing. He could be urgent and kinetic, or mellow and thoughtful. “The Ship Song” could have been penned by Leonard Cohen, but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than Cave creating darkly compelling narratives such as “Red Right Hand” and “Jubilee Street”, while his album Murder Ballads has a body count that would shame Tarantino. Cave’s new album, Skeleton Tree, is a starkly intense listen, foregrounded by personal tragedy. That he makes art from his loss is testament to his sense of duty to the songwriter’s craft, and the title track (which closes the album) is full of quiet yearning, along with acceptance and resolution. The album as a whole reminds me a little of Dylan’s masterpiece “Blood on the Tracks”. Cave himself may not be getting the Nobel any time soon, but right now he is one of our very best lyricists and storytellers. It will be fascinating to see what he does next.

• Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin is published by Orion.

Posted this in the obit thread but wanted to give him abit more of a moment in the sun:

Producer/Engineer Tony Cohen has passed, aged 60
Worked with Nick from the Boys Next Door/Birthday Party all the way through the 90's

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2017/08/03/legendary-aussie-producer-and-sound-engineer-tony-cohen-dies-aged-60/

There's a synchronised/linked up showing of a concert from Copenhagen last year happening Thursday next week. Called Distant Sky after a track on Skeleton Tree.

Thought there would be talk about it already but not seeing anything.

Did anybody go to one of these Distant Sky showings last night? JUst wondering if there was anything else on the program apart from the concert film. The manager of the local cinema had the film ending 20 minutes later than it did. So wondering if there might have been any live comment or anything.

The film itself is beautifully done and the performance is pretty great.
I spent half the film wondering who the 2nd keyboardist Larry Mullins was, face rings a bell but I don't think I've sen him as a bad Seed before.
Odd to think that most of the performers on stage were about 10 years older than me cos they've retained a level of vitality.

Wish I could afford to see the Dublin gig this year. Got told somebody I met at a radio station party a couple of days back was offered tickets at €250 each by an old teacher of theirs. Heard that the tickets sold out from official outlets in 3 days.

spent half the film wondering who the 2nd keyboardist Larry Mullins was,

he's the dad of the drummer out of u2 iirc

Doing another short American tour later this year w/ Cigarettes After Sex opening. They've booked the Air Canada Center here in TO which is....ambitious imo (20k capacity!)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/286494-Larry-Mullins

Thanks. Yeah seemed to be somebody I thought I ought to know and I think I have seen the face somewhere before. Though maybe he looks like Fatty Arbuckle or someone.

http://www.fromthearchives.org/bp/Forcedexposure6.jpg
the Forcedexposure Birthday party era interview which I wish i had a physical copy of.
Hadn't realised that was the story on NYC shows, unplugged by the bouncers after a curtailed set.
Anyway glad I've seen this now and wish Forcedexposure would do an anthology of at least the first few issues cos I don't have the first few.