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Nick Cave

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Cave speaking into a microphone.
Cave in 2012
Born
Nicholas Edward Cave

(1957-09-22) 22 September 1957 (age 63)
Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • writer
  • actor
  • composer
Years active1973–present
Spouse(s)
  • Viviane Carneiro
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    ​
    (m. 1990; div. 1996)​
  • Susie Bick
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    (m. 1999)​
Partner(s)Anita Lane (1977–1983)
Children4
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Labels
  • Bad Seed
  • Mute
  • 4AD
Associated acts
Websitenickcave.com

Nicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.[2]

Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting The Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. They relocated to London in 1980, but, disillusioned by life there, evolved towards a darker, more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock, and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world".[3] Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after moving to Berlin in 1982, and Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the year after, later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands.[4] Much of their early material is set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Also in 1988, he starred in Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he co-wrote and scored.

The 1990s saw Cave move between São Paulo and England, and find inspiration in the New Testament. He went on to achieve mainstream success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997). Turning increasingly to film in the 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western The Proposition (2005), composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012), and their garage rock side project Grinderman has released two LPs since 2006. In 2009, he released his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the semi-fictional "day in the life" film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014). His more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur's 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds' 17th and latest LP, Ghosteen (2019).

Cave maintains The Red Hand Files, a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. His work is the subject of academic study, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica ("Loverman") and Snoop Dogg ("Red Right Hand"). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007,[5] and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.

Youth, education, and family[]

Wangaratta's Holy Trinity Cathedral, where Cave served as a choirboy

Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Warracknabeal, a small country town in the Australian state of Victoria, to Dawn Cave (née Treadwell) and Colin Frank Cave.[6][7] As a child, he lived in Warracknabeal and then Wangaratta in rural Victoria. His father taught English and mathematics at the local technical school; his mother was a librarian at the high school that Nick attended.[8] Cave's father introduced him to literary classics from an early age, such as Crime and Punishment and Lolita,[9] and also organised the first symposium on the Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly,[10] with whom Nick was enamoured as a child.[11] Through his older brother, Cave became a fan of progressive rock bands such as King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull,[12] while a childhood girlfriend introduced him to Leonard Cohen, who he later described as "the greatest songwriter of them all".[13]

When Cave was 9 he joined the choir of Wangaratta's Holy Trinity Cathedral.[6] At 13 he was expelled from Wangaratta High School.[9] In 1970, having moved with his family to the Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena, he became a boarder and later day student at Caulfield Grammar School.[8] He was 19 when his father was killed in a car collision; his mother told him of his father's death while she was bailing him out of a St Kilda police station where he was being held on a charge of burglary. He would later recall that his father "died at a point in my life when I was most confused" and that "the loss of my father created in my life a vacuum, a space in which my words began to float and collect and find their purpose".[9]

After his secondary schooling, Cave studied painting at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1976, but dropped out the following year to pursue music.[14] He also began using heroin around the time that he left art school.[15]

Cave attended his first music concert at Melbourne's Festival Hall. The bill consisted of Manfred Mann, Deep Purple and Free. Cave recalled: "I remember sitting there and feeling physically the sound going through me."[14] In early 1977, he saw Australian punk rock groups Radio Birdman and the Saints live for the first time. Cave was particularly inspired by the latter band's show, saying that he left the venue "a different person".[16]

Music career[]

Early years and the Birthday Party (1973–1983)[]

Main article: The Birthday Party (band)

In 1973, Cave met Mick Harvey (guitar), Phill Calvert (drums), John Cochivera (guitar), Brett Purcell (bass), and Chris Coyne (saxophone); fellow students at Caulfield Grammar. They founded a band with Cave as singer. Their repertoire consisted of rudimentary cover versions of songs by Lou Reed, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music and Alex Harvey, among others. Later, the line-up slimmed down to four members including Cave's friend Tracy Pew on bass. In 1977, after leaving school, they adopted the name The Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original material. Guitarist and songwriter Rowland S. Howard joined the band in 1978.

They were a leader of Melbourne's post-punk scene in the late 1970s, playing hundreds of live shows in Australia before changing their name to the Birthday Party in 1980 and moving to London, then West Berlin. Cave's Australian girlfriend and muse Anita Lane accompanied them to London. The band were notorious for their provocative live performances which featured Cave shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar feedback. Cave utilised Old Testament imagery with lyrics about sin, debauchery and damnation.[17] Cave's droll sense of humour and penchant for parody is evident in many of the band's songs, including "Nick the Stripper" and "King Ink". "Release the Bats", one of the band's most famous songs, was intended as an over-the-top "piss-take" on gothic rock, and a "direct attack" on the "stock gothic associations that less informed critics were wont to make". Ironically, it became highly influential on the genre, giving rise to a new generation of bands.[18]

After establishing a cult following in Europe and Australia, the Birthday Party disbanded in 1983.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–present)[]

Cave performing in Belgium, 1986
Main article: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The band with Cave as their leader and frontman has released seventeen studio albums. Pitchfork Media calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography.[19] Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequently histrionic theatrics. Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey wrote: "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk."[2]

Hamburg/Germany July 2001

Reviewing 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! album, NME used the phrase "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.[20] Their most recent work, Ghosteen, was released in October 2019.[21]

In mid-August 2013, Cave was a 'First Longlist' finalist for the 9th Coopers AMP, alongside artists such as Kevin Mitchell and the Drones. The Australian music prize is worth A$30,000.[22] The prize ultimately went to Big Scary.[23]

In September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using a typewriter for songwriting after his experience with the Nocturama album, as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day".[14]

Grinderman (2006–present)[]

Main article: Grinderman
Cave and Ellis performing as Grinderman in 2008

In 2006 Cave formed Grinderman – himself on vocals, guitar, organ & piano, Warren Ellis (tenor guitar, electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals).

The alternative rock outfit was formed as "a way to escape the weight of The Bad Seeds."[24] The band's name was inspired by a Memphis Slim song, "Grinder Man Blues," which Cave is noted to have started singing during one of the band's early rehearsal sessions. The band's eponymous debut studio album, Grinderman, was released in 2007 to extremely positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2, was released in 2010 to a similar reception.

Grinderman's first public performance was at All Tomorrow's Parties in April 2007 where Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream accompanied Grinderman on backing vocals and percussion.

In December 2011, after performing at Meredith Music Festival, Cave announced that Grinderman was over.[25] Two years later, Grinderman performed both weekends at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, as did Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.[26]

Music in film and television drama[]

Cave's work was featured in a scene in the 1986 film, Dogs in Space by Richard Lowenstein.[27] Cave performed parts of the Boys Next Door song "Shivers" twice during the film, once on video and once live.

Another early fan of Cave's was German director Wim Wenders, who lists Cave, along with Lou Reed and Portishead, as among his favourites.[28] Two of Cave's songs were featured in his 1987 film Wings of Desire.[29] Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also make a cameo appearance in this film. Two more songs were included in Wenders' 1993 sequel Faraway, So Close!, including the title track. The soundtrack for Wenders' 1991 film Until the End of the World features Cave's "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World." His most recent production, Palermo Shooting, also contains a Nick Cave song, as does his 2003 documentary The Soul of a Man.[30]

Cave's songs have also appeared in a number of Hollywood blockbusters – "There is a Light" appears on the 1995 soundtrack for Batman Forever, and "Red Right Hand" appeared in a number of films including The X-Files, Dumb & Dumber; Scream, its sequels Scream 2 and 3, and Hellboy (performed by Pete Yorn). In Scream 3, the song was given a reworking with Cave writing new lyrics and adding an orchestra to the arrangement of the track. "People Ain't No Good" was featured in the animated movie Shrek 2 and the song "O Children" was featured in the 2010 movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.

In 2000 Andrew Dominik used "Release the Bats" in his film Chopper. Numerous other movies use Cave's songs including Box of Moonlight (1996), Mr In-Between (2001), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009), The Freshman, Gas Food Lodging, Kevin & Perry Go Large, About Time

His works also appear in a number of major TV programmes among them Trauma, The L Word, Traveler, The Unit, I Love the '70s, Outpatient, The Others, Nip/Tuck, and Californication. Most recently his work has appeared in the Netflix series After Life, BBC series Peaky Blinders and the Australian series Jack Irish. "Red Right Hand" is the theme song for Peaky Blinders and renditions of the track can be heard throughout the series, including the cover by the alternative-rock band Arctic Monkeys. In a Vice interview, Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy mentioned that Cave personally approved the usage of the song for the series after watching a pre-screening of the show.[31]

Collaborations[]

During the 1982 recording sessions for the Birthday Party's Junkyard LP, Cave, together with band-mates Harvey and Howard, joined members of the Go-Betweens to form Tuff Monks. The short-lived band released one single, "After the Fireworks", and played live only once. Later that year, Cave contributed to the Honeymoon in Red concept album. Intended as a collaboration between the Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch, the album was not released until 1987, by which time Lunch had fallen out with Cave, who she credits on the release as "Anonymous", "Her Dead Twin" and "A Drunk Cowboy Junkie". During the Birthday Party's Berlin period, Cave collaborated with local post-punk group Die Haut on their album Burnin' the Ice, released in 1983. In the immediate aftermath of the Birthday Party's breakup, Cave performed several shows in the United States as part of The Immaculate Consumptive, a short-lived "super-group" with Lunch, Marc Almond and Clint Ruin.[32] Cave sang on a Annie Hogan song called "Vixo" which was recorded in October 1983: the track was released in 1985 on the 12" inch vinyl "Annie Hogan - Plays Kickabye".[33]

After covering one another's songs, Cave and Johnny Cash (pictured) recorded duets together for what would be the latter's final album.

A lifelong fan of Johnny Cash, Cave covered his song "The Singer" (originally "The Folk Singer") for the 1986 album Kicking Against the Pricks, which Cash seemingly repaid by covering "The Mercy Seat" on American III: Solitary Man (2000). Cave was then invited to contribute to the liner notes of the retrospective The Essential Johnny Cash CD, released to coincide with Cash's 70th birthday. Subsequently, Cave recorded a duet with Cash, a version of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", for what would be Cash's final album, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002). Another duet between the two artists, the American folk song "Cindy", was released posthumously on Unearthed, a boxset of outtakes. Cave's song "Let the Bells Ring", released on the 2004 album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, is a posthumous tribute to Cash.

Cave played with Shane MacGowan on cover versions of Bob Dylan's "Death is Not the End" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". Cave also performed "What a Wonderful World" live with the Flaming Lips. Cave recorded a cover version of the Pogues song "Rainy Night in Soho", written by MacGowan. MacGowan also sings a version of "Lucy", released on B-Sides and Rarities. On 3 May 2008, during the Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! tour, MacGowan joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on stage to perform "Lucy" at Dublin Castle in Ireland. Pulp's single "Bad Cover Version" includes on its B-side a cover version by Cave of that band's song "Disco 2000". On the Deluxe Edition of Pulp's Different Class another take of this cover can be found.

In 2004, Cave gave a hand to Marianne Faithfull on the album, Before the Poison. He co-wrote and produced three songs ("Crazy Love", "There is a Ghost" and "Desperanto"), and the Bad Seeds are featured on all of them. He is also featured on "The Crane Wife" (originally by the Decemberists), on Faithfull's 2008 album, Easy Come, Easy Go.

Cave's ex-partner, PJ Harvey, appears on his Murder Ballads LP, notably the single "Henry Lee".

Cave provided guest vocals on the title track of Current 93's 1996 album All the Pretty Little Horses, as well as the closer "Patripassian". For his 1996 album Murder Ballads, Cave recorded "Where the Wild Roses Grow" with Kylie Minogue, and "Henry Lee" with PJ Harvey.

Cave also took part in the "X-Files" compilation CD with some other artists, where he reads parts from the Bible combined with own texts, like "Time Jesum ...", he outed himself as a fan of the series some years ago, but since he does not watch much TV, it was one of the only things he watched. He collaborated on the 2003 single "Bring It On", with Chris Bailey, formerly of the Australian punk group, The Saints. Cave contributed vocals to the song "Sweet Rosyanne", on the 2006 album Catch That Train! from Dan Zanes & Friends, a children's music group.

In 2010 Nick Cave began a series of duets with Debbie Harry for The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project.[34][35][36]

In 2011, Cave recorded a cover of the Zombies' "She's Not There" with Neko Case, which was used at the end of the first episode of the fourth season of True Blood.

In 2014, Cave wrote the libretto for the opera Shell Shock (opera) by Nicholas Lens.[37][38][39] The opera premiered at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie in Brussels on 24 October 2014[40] and was also set up at the international Weekend of War and Peace, Paris[41] on November 10 and 11, 2018 performed by L' Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at Cité de la Musique (Philharmonie de Paris)[42] with live television broadcasting on Arte[43][better source needed] and France Musique.[44]

In 2020, Cave wrote the libretto for L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S, a trance-minimal chamber opera by Nicholas Lens. A recording produced by both writers was released by Deutsche Grammophon.[45][46][47][48]

Film scores and theatre music[]

"When Cave makes a brief appearance in the film's waning minutes—playing a grungy troubadour, of course, strolling the length of a bar as he growls the oft-sung folk tribute to Jesse James—you almost get the feeling that in some ways it's been Cave, by way of his score, telling the story all along."

— Pitchfork reviewing the soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)[49]

Cave creates original film scores with fellow Bad Seeds band member Warren Ellis—they first teamed up in 2005 to work on Hillcoat's bushranger film The Proposition, for which Cave also wrote the screenplay.[50]

In 2006, Cave and Ellis composed the music for Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.[51] By the time Dominik's film was released, Hillcoat was preparing his next project, The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father and son struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Cave and Ellis wrote and recorded the score for the film, which was released in 2009.[52] In 2011, Cave and Ellis reunited with Hillcoat to score his latest picture, Lawless. Cave also authored this screenplay based on Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World. Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, the film was released in 2012.[53]

In 2016, Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film Hell or High Water, directed by David Mackenzie. The following year, they scored Taylor Sheridan's neo-Western Wind River, as well as Australian director David Michôd's War Machine.

Cave and Ellis have also scored a number of documentary films, including The English Surgeon (2007), West of Memphis (2012) and Prophet's Prey (2015). Cave and Ellis created music for the Vesturport productions Woyzeck, The Metamorphosis and Faust.[54]

Writing[]

Cave released his first book, King Ink, in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with Lydia Lunch. In 1997, he followed up with King Ink II, containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he did for the BBC in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word," discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity.

Cave reading from The Death of Bunny Munro in New York City, 2009.

While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from Mutiny, in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). On 21 January 2008, a special edition of Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel was released.[55] Cave's second novel The Death of Bunny Munro was published on 8 September 2009 by Harper Collins books.[56][57] Telling the story of a sex-addicted salesman, it was also released as a binaural audio-book produced by British Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and an iPhone app.[58] The book originally started as a screenplay Cave was going to write for John Hillcoat.[59]

Aside from movie soundtracks, Cave also wrote the screenplays for John Hillcoat's The Proposition (2005) and Lawless (2012).

As proof of his interest in scripture, so evident in his lyrics and his prose writing, Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel according to Mark, published in the UK in 1998. The American edition of the same book (published by Grove Press) contains a foreword by the noted American writer Barry Hannah.

Cave is a contributor to a 2009 rock biography of the Triffids, Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.[60]

In 2015 he released The Sick Bag Song.[61]

Acting[]

Cave's first film appearance was in Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire, in which he and the Bad Seeds are shown performing at a concert in Berlin.

Cave has made occasional appearances as an actor. He appears alongside Blixa Bargeld in the 1988 film Dandy, playing dice, singing and speaking from his Berlin apartment. He is most prominently featured in the 1989 film Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, written and directed by John Hillcoat, and in the 1991 film Johnny Suede with Brad Pitt.

Cave appeared in the 2005 homage to Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, in which he performed "I'm Your Man" solo, and "Suzanne" with Julie Christensen and Perla Batalla. He also appeared in the 2007 film adaptation of Ron Hansen's novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, where he sings "The Ballad of Jesse James".[62] Cave and Warren Ellis are credited for the film's soundtrack.[63] Nick Cave and his son Luke performed one of the songs on the soundtrack together. Luke played the triangle.[64]

His interest in the work of Edward Gorey led to his participation in the BBC Radio 3 programme Guest + Host = Ghost, featuring Peter Blegvad and the radiophonic sound of the Langham Research Centre.[65]

Cave has also lent his voice in narrating the animated film The Cat Piano. It was directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson (of the People's Republic of Animation), produced by Jessica Brentnall and features music by Benjamin Speed.[66]

Screenwriting[]

Cave at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Cave wrote the screenplay for The Proposition, a film about bushrangers in the Australian outback during the late 19th century. Directed by John Hillcoat and filmed in Queensland in 2004, it premiered in October 2005 and was later released worldwide to critical acclaim.[67] Cave explained his personal background in relation to writing the film's screenplay in a 2013 interview:

I had written long-form before but it is pure story-telling in script writing and that goes back as far as I can remember for me, not just with my father but with myself. I slept in the same bedroom as my sister for many years, until it became indecent to do so and I would tell her stories every night—that is how she would get to sleep. She would say "tell me a story" so I would tell her a story. So that ability, I very much had that from the start and I used to enjoy that at school so actually to write a script—it suddenly felt like I was just making up a big story.[14]

The film critic for British newspaper The Independent called The Proposition "peerless," "a star-studded and uncompromisingly violent outlaw film."[68] The generally ambient soundtrack was recorded by Cave and Warren Ellis.

At the request of his friend Russell Crowe, Cave wrote a script for a proposed sequel to Gladiator which was rejected by the studio.[69]

An announcement in February 2010 stated that Andy Serkis and Cave would collaborate on a motion-capture movie of the musical The Threepenny Opera. As of September 2019, the project has not been realised.[70]

Cave wrote a screenplay titled The Wettest County in the World,[71] which was used for the 2012 film Lawless, directed again by John Hillcoat, starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf.[72]

Blogging[]

Cave currently maintains a personal blog and an online correspondence page with his fans called The Red Hand Files which is seen as a continuation of In Conversation, a series of live personal talks Cave had held in which the audience were free to ask questions. On the page, Cave discusses various issues ranging from art, religion, current affairs and music, as well as using it as a free platform in which fans are encouraged to ask personal questions on any topic of their choosing.[73][74] Cave's intimate approach to the Question & Answer format on The Red Hand Files was praised by The Guardian as "a shelter from the online storm free of discord and conspiracies, and in harmony with the internet vision of Tim Berners-Lee."[74]

Legacy and influence[]

In 2010, Cave was ranked the 19th greatest living lyricist in NME.[75] Flea called him the greatest living songwriter in 2011.[76] Rob O'Connor of Yahoo! Music listed him as the 23rd best lyricist in rock history.[77] The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays was edited by academic John H. Baker and published in 2013. In an essay on the album The Boatman's Call, Peter Billingham praised Cave's love songs as characterised by a "deep, poetic, melancholic introspection."[78] Carl Lavery, another academic featured in the collection, argued that there was a "burgeoning field of Cave studies".[79] Dan Rose argued that Cave "is a master of the disturbing narrative and chronicler of the extreme, though he is also certainly capable of a subtle romantic vision. He does much to the listener who enters his world."[80]

Songs written about Cave include "Just a King in Mirrors" (1983) by The Go-Betweens,[81] "Sick Man" (1984) by Foetus,[82] and "Bill Bailey" (1987) by The Gun Club.[83]

A number of prominent noise rock vocalists have cited Cave's Birthday Party-era work as their primary influence, including The U-Men's John Bigley,[84] and David Yow, frontman of Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard. Yow stated: "For a long time, particularly with Scratch Acid, I was so taken with the Birthday Party that I would deny it",[85] and that "it sounded like I was trying to be Birthday Party Nick Cave—which I was."[86] Often compared to Cave in his vocal delivery, Alexis Marshall of Daughters said that he admires the personality and energy within Cave's voice, and that his early albums "exposed [him] to lyrical content as literature".[87]

Personal life[]

Cave left Australia in 1980. After stints living in London, Berlin, and São Paulo, he moved to Brighton, England in the early 2000s. A film about Cave's life, titled 20,000 Days on Earth and directed by artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, was released in mid-2014, shortly before his 57th birthday.[88]

Cave also appears in a 2020 short documentary by , titled I Want Everything, about Larry Sloman, who records a tribute to Cave's son Arthur.[89]

In 2017, Cave reportedly told GQ magazine that he and his family were considering moving from Brighton to Los Angeles as, after the death of his 15-year-old son, Arthur, they "just find it too difficult to live here."[90] In late 2020, local articles told of his activity and residence in the Brighton area, indicating he had not moved.[91][92]

In June 2020, Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition had its world premiere at The Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. The comprehensive exhibition shows Cave's life and work and was co-curated by the artist himself.[93]

Partners and children[]

Cave dated Anita Lane from the late 1970s to mid-1980s.[94] Cave and Lane recorded together on a few occasions. Their most notable collaborations include Lane's 'cameo' verse on Cave's Bob Dylan cover "Death Is Not The End" from the album Murder Ballads, and a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime... moi non plus/ I love you ... me neither".[95] Lane co-wrote the lyrics to the title track for Cave's 1984 LP, From Her to Eternity, as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from Your Funeral, My Trial.[96] Cave, Lydia Lunch and Lane wrote a comic book together, entitled AS-FIX-E-8, in the style of the old "Pussy Galore"/Russ Meyer movies.

Cave then moved to São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990, where he met and married his first wife, Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro. She gave birth to their son Luke in 1991. Nick and Viviane were married for six years and divorced in 1996.[97]

Cave's second son, Jethro, was also born in 1991 and grew up with his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Melbourne, Australia. Cave and Jethro did not meet one another until Jethro was about seven or eight.[98][99]

Cave briefly dated PJ Harvey during the mid-1990s.

In 1997, Cave met British model Susie Bick. Bick was the cover model on the Damned's 1985 album Phantasmagoria and a Vivienne Westwood model. Bick is also the model on the cover of the album Push the Sky Away.[100] She gave up her job when they married in 1999. Bick's and Cave's twin sons, Arthur and Earl, were born in London in 2000 and raised in Brighton.[101][102][103][104] Bick co-founded the fashion label The Vampire's Wife in 2014.[105]

Cave's son Arthur, 15, fell from a cliff at Ovingdean, near Brighton, and died from his injuries on 14 July 2015. Cave's family released a statement on the death, saying, "Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening. He was our beautiful, happy loving boy. We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time."[106][107][108] The effect of Arthur's death on Cave and his family was explored in the 2016 documentary film One More Time with Feeling, the 2016 album Skeleton Tree, and the 2019 album Ghosteen.

Cave is the godfather to Michael Hutchence's daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.[109] Cave performed "Into My Arms" at the televised funeral of Michael Hutchence, but insisted that the cameras cease rolling during his performance.

Religion[]

Cave is an avid reader of the Christian Bible. In his recorded lectures on music and songwriting, Cave said that any true love song is a song for God, and ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the Old Testament to the New. When asked if he had interest in religions outside of Christianity, Cave quipped that he had a passing, sceptical interest but was a "hammer-and-nails kind of guy."[110]

Despite that, Cave has also said he is critical of organized religion. When interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on 12 September 2010, for his BBC Radio 6 show Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service, Cave said, "I believe in God in spite of religion, not because of it."[111] Moreover, Cave has always been open about his doubts. When asked in 2009 about whether he believed in a personal God, Cave's reply was "No".[112] The following year, he stated, "I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs."[113]

These doubts were once a source of discomfort to Cave, but he eventually concluded:

Although I've never been an atheist, there are periods when I struggled with the whole thing. As someone who uses words, you need to be able to justify your belief with language, I'd have arguments and the atheist always won because he'd go back to logic. Belief in God is illogical, it's absurd. There's no debate. I feel it intuitively, it comes from the heart, a magical place. But I still I fluctuate from day to day. Sometimes I feel very close to the notion of God, other times I don't. I used to see that as a failure. Now I see it as a strength, especially compared to the more fanatical notions of what God is. I think doubt is an essential part of belief.[114]

In 2019, Cave expressed his personal disagreement with both organized religion and atheism (in particular New Atheism) when questioned about his beliefs by a fan during a Question and Answer session on his Red Hand Files blog.[73] On the same blog, Cave confirmed he believed in God in June 2021.[115]

Politics[]

In November 2017, Cave resisted demands from musicians Brian Eno and Roger Waters to cancel two concerts in Tel Aviv after Eno and Waters published a letter asking Cave to avoid performing in Israel while "apartheid remains". Cave went on to describe the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement as "cowardly and shameful", and that calls to boycott the country are "partly the reason I am playing Israel – not as support for any particular political entity but as a principled stand against those who wish to bully, shame and silence musicians." He furthermore responded with an open letter to Eno to defend his position.[116][117][118]

In 2019, Cave wrote in defense of singer Morrissey after the latter expressed a series of controversial political statements during the release of his California Son album which led to some record stores refusing to stock it. Cave argued that Morrissey should have that right to freedom of speech to state his opinions while everyone should be able to "challenge them when and wherever possible, but allow his music to live on, bearing in mind we are all conflicted individuals." He also added it would be "dangerous" to censor Morrissey from expressing his beliefs.[119][73]

In response to a fan asking about his political beliefs, Cave expressed a disdain for "atheism, organised religion, radical bi-partisan politics and woke culture" on his Red Hand Files blog. He in particular singled out woke politics and culture for criticism, describing it as "finding energy in self-righteous belief and the suppression of contrary systems of thought" and "regardless of the virtuous intentions of many woke issues, it is its lack of humility and the paternalistic and doctrinal sureness of its claims that repel me."[73] In 2020, Cave also expressed opposition to cancel culture and misguided political correctness, describing both as "bad religion run amuck" and their "refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society."[120][121]

Cave has previously described himself as a supporter of freedom of speech in both his live In Conversation events and on his blog.[122]

Discography[]

Cave performing in 2008
Further information: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party discography, and Grinderman discography

Studio albums[]

The Boys Next Door[]

  • 1979 : Door, Door

The Birthday Party[]

  • 1979 : Hee Haw
  • 1980 : The Birthday Party
  • 1981 : Prayers on Fire
  • 1982 : Junkyard

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds[]

  • 1984 : From Her to Eternity
  • 1985 : The Firstborn Is Dead
  • 1986 : Kicking Against the Pricks
  • 1986 : Your Funeral... My Trial
  • 1988 : Tender Prey
  • 1990 : The Good Son
  • 1992 : Henry's Dream
  • 1994 : Let Love In
  • 1996 : Murder Ballads
  • 1997 : The Boatman's Call
  • 2001 : No More Shall We Part
  • 2003 : Nocturama
  • 2004 : Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
  • 2008 : Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  • 2013 : Push the Sky Away
  • 2016 : Skeleton Tree
  • 2019 : Ghosteen

Grinderman[]

  • 2007 : Grinderman
  • 2010 : Grinderman 2

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis[]

  • 2021 : Carnage

Soundtracks/scores[]

  • And the Ass Saw the Angel, readings of the novel (1988), plus theatre score (1993) – text by Cave, music composed by Harvey and Ed Clayton-Jones
  • Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, soundtrack (1988) – composed with Harvey & Bargeld
  • To Have and to Hold, soundtrack (1996) – composed with Harvey & Bargeld
  • Woyzeck, theatre score (2005) – composed with Warren Ellis[123] (Not available on CD or vinyl.)
  • The Proposition, soundtrack (2005) – composed with Ellis
  • Metamorphosis, theatre score (2006) – composed with Ellis[124] (Not available on CD or vinyl.)
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, soundtrack (2007) – composed with Ellis, triangle Luke Cave[64]
  • The English Surgeon, soundtrack (2007) – composed with Ellis[125] (Not available on CD or vinyl; only available on White Lunar; see below.)
  • The Girls of Phnom Penh, soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis[126] (Not available on CD or vinyl; only available on White Lunar; see below.)
  • The Death of Bunny Munro, (7CDs), audiobook read by the author plus soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis[127]
  • The Road, soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis[128] (Soundtrack released on 12 January 2010)[129]
  • White Lunar, soundtrack compilation (2009) – composed with Ellis[126] (2CDs. Disc one contains high lights from The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road. Disc 2 contains work from The English Surgeon and The Girls of Phnom Penh, as well as four unreleased pieces "from the archives".[130]
  • Faust, theatre score (2009) – composed with Ellis[131] (Not available on CD or vinyl.)
  • The Metamorphosis, (Forvandlingen – Norwegian national theatre) soundtrack (2012)  – not released on CD  
  • Lawless soundtrack (2012) – composed with Ellis
  • West of Memphis soundtrack (2012) – composed with Ellis
  • Far from Men soundtrack (2014)
  • 20,000 Days on Earth soundtrack (2014)
  • Hell or High Water, soundtrack (2016)  – composed with Warren Ellis
  • Mars (2016 TV series), National Geographic soundtrack (2016)  – composed with Warren Ellis
  • War Machine, soundtrack (2017)  – composed with Warren Ellis
  • Wind River, soundtrack (2017)  – composed with Warren Ellis
  • Kings, soundtrack (2018)  – composed with Warren Ellis
  • The Case Against Adnan Syed, soundtrack (2019)  – composed with Warren Ellis (not released)

Notable contributions and appearances[]

  • Send Me A Lullaby (1981) album by The Go-Betweens, features Cave's vocals on After The Fireworks.
  • Die Haut and Nick Cave: Burnin' the Ice (1982), features Cave's vocals on Stow-A-Way, Truck Love, Pleasure Is The Boss, Dumb Europe)
  • Department Of Enjoyment NME Cassette Tape 011 (May 1984), cover of I Put A Spell On You by Nick Cave & The Cavemen.
  • Annie Hogan Plays "Kickabye" EP (1985), features Cave's vocals on Vixo. Recorded in October 1983, Cave also produced.
  • (1987), features Cave performing The Altra Virago Or The Vargus Barking Spider
  • Wings Of Desire (1987). Cave appears in the film performing The Carny and From Her To Eternity.
  • Cover of "Helpless" by Neil Young (1989) for the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge.
  • Leonard Cohen: I'm your Fan (1991), Nick Cave Tower Of Song.
  • Until The End Of The World (1991), Nick Cave (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World.
  • In Weiter Ferne, So Nah! (aka Faraway So Close!) (1993), Nick Cave Faraway So Close and Cassiel's Song.
  • Zero Effect (1994), Nick Cave Into My Arms.
  • Batman Forever soundtrack (1995). Cave contributes the track There is a Light.
  • Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files (1996), Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum and a cover of The X-Files theme song, performed by Nick Cave and Dirty Three.
  • Oedipus Schmoedipus (1996) album by Barry Adamson, Cave appears on The Sweetest Embrace.
  • September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1997) produced by Hal Willner. Cave contributes a cover version of "Mack the Knife".
  • Mojo – Original Soundtrack (1997), Nick Cave & Gallon Drunk on The Big Hurt and Nick Cave on Mojo.
  • Nick Cave i Przyjaciele (Nick Cave and Friends) (1999). A tribute album by Polish musicians. Cave appears on Into My Arms and The Weeping Song.
  • Music for Expelling The Demon (1999), a short animation by Devlin Crow, written by . *The Acid House (1999), Nick Cave/Barry Adamson, Sweetest Embrace.
  • , a tribute album to Michel Polnareff. Nick Cave contributes a cover version of Goodbye Marylou.
  • Ute Lemper's Punishing Kiss (2000). Cave co-wrote (with ) Little Water Song.
  • "Red Right Hand" in Scream 3 (2000), alternate version, sometimes referred to as Red Right Hand 2, also included on Cave's B-Sides & Rarities album.
  • He Died With A FelaFel In His Hand (2001), Nick Cave The Mercy Seat (Live) & Into My Arms.
  • Intimite (aka Intimacy) (2001), Nick Cave In The Ghetto.
  • To Be By Your Side – from the OST for French documentary film Le Peuple Migrateur (2001).
  • I Am Sam (2002). Cave contributes a cover version of The Beatles' "Let It Be", which was later issued as the B-side to a cover version of "Here Comes the Sun".
  • "Bad Cover Version" single by Pulp (2002). Cave contributes a cover version of Pulp's "Disco 2000".
  • Sunday Morning (2002). Cave performs a cover version of The Velvet Underground's debut album (song) with Chris Coco on Coco's album Next Wave.
  • American IV: The Man Comes Around (2003) duet with Johnny Cash on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
  • Kiss of Love (duet with Sam Brown) from Jools Holland's 2003 album Small World Big Band Friends 3 – Jack O The Green.
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appear on the Martin Scorsese series The Blues (2003) singing J. B. Lenoir's "I Feel So Good".
  • Shrek 2 (2004), Nick Cave People Aint' No Good.
  • The Passion Of The Christ – Songs Inspired By (2004), Nick Cave Darker With The Day.
  • Harry Smith Project Vol 1 (2006), Nick Cave John The Revelator and Vol 2 Shine On Me.
  • "I'm Your Man" and "Suzanne" performed by Cave in the documentary/concert film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006).
  • Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006). Cave contributes the tracks Fire Down Below and Pinery Boy.
  • Seasick Steve's song Just Like A King, from the album I Started Out With Nothin' (2008) includes Cave's vocals.
  • Californication Season 2 (2009), Nick Cave Moonland.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010). Cave contributed O Children.
  • Leonard Cohen By En Boca De (2011), Nick Cave Avalanche.
  • Trentemøller – Late Night Tales (2011), Nick Cave & Warren Ellis The Proposition #1.
  • Nick Cave and Neko Case cover The Zombies song She's Not There for HBO show True Blood.[132] (2011)
  • Pirate Jenny. Shilpa Ray with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (2013).[133]
  • Nick Cave's Grinderman contributed Honey Bee for HBO show True Detective in the end of the episode "Who Goes There". (2014)
  • Nick Cave and Warren Ellis covered "All the Gold in California" from Larry Gatlin for the ending of first episode of the second season of True Detective. (2015)
  • In the Xbox 360 game, Alan Wake, Up Jumped the Devil is the end credits song of Episode 3.
  • AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs Of Marc Bolan & T.Rex (2020). Cave contributes Cosmic Dancer.

Spoken-word lectures[]

  • "The Secret Life of the Love Song & the Flesh Made Word: Two Lectures" (2000)

Live albums[]

  • 1993 : Live Seeds
  • 2007 : Abattoir Blues Tour
  • 2008 : Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  • 2013 : Live from KCRW
  • 2020 : Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace)

Bibliography[]

Publications by Cave[]

Publications with contributions by Cave[]

  • The Gospel According to Mark. Pocket Canons: Series 1. Edinburgh, Scotland: Canongate, 1998. ISBN 0-86241-796-1. UK edition. With an introduction by Cave to the Gospel of Mark.

Awards and honours[]

  • 1990 Time Out Magazine: Book Of The Year (And the Ass Saw the Angel).
  • 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards: Nick Cave formally requested that his nomination for "Best Male Artist" be withdrawn as he was not comfortable with the "competitive nature" of such awards.
  • 1996 ARIA Awards: Song of the Year & Single of the Year & Best Pop Release ("Where the Wild Roses Grow").[134]
  • 1996 APRA Music Awards: Songwriter of the year.[135]
  • 1997 ARIA Awards: Best Original Soundtrack (To Have and to Hold).[134]
  • 2001 APRA Music Awards: "The Ship Song" voted in the Top 30 Best Australian Songs of the previous 75 years.[136]
  • 2001 ARIA Awards: Best Male Artist (No More Shall We Part).[134]
  • 2004 MOJO Awards: Best Album of 2004 (Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus).
  • 2005 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards: Best Musical Score (The Proposition).
  • 2005 Inside Film Awards: Best Music (The Proposition).
  • 2005 AFI Awards: Best Original Music Score with Warren Ellis (The Proposition).
  • 2005 Q magazine: Q Classic Songwriter Award.
  • 2006 Venice Film Festival: Gucci Award (for the script to The Proposition).
  • 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame: inductee (Cave); honorary inductees (Harvey, Ellis, Savage, Casey)
  • 2008 Awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Laws, by Monash University.[137]
  • 2008 MOJO Awards: Best Album of 2008 (Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!).
  • 2008 ARIA Awards Male Artist of the Year (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!).[134]
  • 2010 made an honorary Doctor of Laws, by University of Dundee.[138]
  • 2011 MOJO Awards: Song of the Year for "Heathen Child" by Grinderman
  • 2011 Straight to you – Triple j's tribute tour to Nick Cave for his work in Australian music for Ausmusic Month
  • 2012 Doctor of Letters, an honorary degree from the University of Brighton.[139]
  • 2013 ARIA Awards: Best Independent Release for "Push The Sky Away"
  • 2013 ARIA Awards: Best Adult Contemporary Album for "Push The Sky Away"[50]
  • 2014 International Istanbul Film Festival: International Competition: FIPRESCI Prize for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2014 Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Documentary Directing Award & Editing Award for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2014 Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec: Grand Prix competition – official feature for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2014 Athens International Film Festival: Music & Films Competition Golden Athena for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2014 The Ivor Novello Awards: Best Album award for song writing for "Push The Sky Away"
  • 2014 British Independent Film Awards: The Douglas Hickox Award Best Debut Director for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2015 Cinema Eye Honors: Outstanding Original Music Score for "20,000 Days on Earth"
  • 2017 Order of Australia: Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) "For distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, songwriter, author and actor, nationally and internationally, and as a major contributor to Australian music culture and heritage."[140]

See also[]

Further reading[]

  • Bad Seed: A Biography of Nick Cave, Ian Johnston (1997) ISBN 0-316-90833-9
  • The Life and Music of Nick Cave: An Illustrated Biography, Maximilian Dax & Johannes Beck (1999) ISBN 3-931126-27-7
  • Liner notes to the CDs Original Seeds: Songs that inspired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kim Beissel (1998 & 2004), Rubber Records
  • Kicking Against the Pricks: An Armchair Guide to Nick Cave, Amy Hanson (2005), ISBN 1-900924-96-X
  • Nick Cave Stories, Janine Barrand (2007) ISBN 978-0-9757406-9-9
  • Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave, eds. Karen Welberry and Tanya Dalziell (2009) ISBN 0-7546-6395-7
  • Nick Cave Sinner Saint: The True Confessions, ed. Mat Snow (2011) ISBN 978-0-85965-448-7
  • Baker, John H., ed. (2013). The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays. Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1841506272.
  • A Little History: Nick Cave & cohorts 1981–2013, Bleddyn Butcher (2014) ISBN 9781760110680
  • Nick Cave: Mercy on Me (2017), a graphic biography by Reinhard Kleist[141]
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book, Reinhard Kliest (2018), ISBN 9781910593523
  • Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, Mark Mordue (2020)

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