Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one […]
While 2021 festivals are coming fast and furious, festival fans have something to look forward to in 2022, thanks to Beck, Gorillaz, Nick Cave, The Strokes, Pavement and more slated for the jam-packed Primavera Sound Festival. The two-day fest in Barcelona will also see Massive Attack, Tame Impala, the National and Tyler, The Creator on the […]
Early Bad Seeds collaborator Anita Lane died early this week. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter, Nick Cave remembered Lane as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far” and called her a “lighting in a bottle.” “You think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think that there is nothing […]
Two Nick Cave fans, Paula and Stella, wrote separately to the singer with similar questions, the gist summed up in Stella’s query: “I want to do music and I love it so much. It means everything to me but I worry that I don’t have any talent. How important is talent?” Answering via his Red […]
Last month, in his “Red Hand Files” newsletter, Nick Cave spoke of a new album he had completed with Warren Ellis. Now, you can give that record a whirl. On Thursday, after years of working together (Ellis appeared on the Let Love In album before joining as a full bandmember and he’s also part of the Cave project […]
Nick Cave announced his 18th studio album, Carnage, this morning via a brief, cryptic newsletter mention. In issue 129 of The Red Hand Files, the recluse wrote about the lockdown and his familiarity with isolation as a former heroin addict. He also lamented his inability to play live, which might be why he decided to channel […]
If you want to buy some wallpaper of Nick Cave’s drawings of naked women, it sounds like you could honestly say that you’re the only person who has it. The singer-songwriter (who’s usually accompanied by the Bad Seeds, although apparently not as bad as his commercial choice of wallpaper drawings) mentioned to Financial Times that he hasn’t […]
Nick Cave is not pleased with the BBC for censoring the Pogues’ 1987 holiday hit, “Fairytale of New York.” BBC Radio 1 started playing an alternate version of the song — with the words “f****t” and “slut” removed — last week. However, BBC Radio 2 will still play the original rendition. Meanwhile, DJs on 6 […]
Nick Cave has been quite prolific during pandemic times, and showing no signs of slowing down, he’s now teamed up with Belgian composer Nicholas Lens on a new opera. Entitled L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S, the two worked on the project at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, since both artists had the time. Lens took inspiration from his cycling […]
Following the success of his streamed performance at London’s Alexandra Palace in July, Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace is going be screened globally in theaters on Nov. 5. Two weeks after that debut, the music from the show will be released in a double album featuring all 22 songs […]