Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 3 August 1985
Rave from the Cave ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 23 January 1988
AFTER A YEAR AWAY, NICK CAVE RETURNS FROM THE WILDERNESS WITH ANOTHER LADELFUL OF PEARLS AND PESSIMISM. CHRIS ROBERTS MEETS THE MAN WHO SEES EVERYTHING ...
Seeds of Discontent: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kilburn National Ballroom, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 23 July 1988
FROM THE TOP of his lank, greased-back hair to the bottom of his Old Testament soul, old Nick is Bible black. To invoke such well-known ...
Nick Cave: The Needle And The Damage Done
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 13 August 1988
NICK CAVE – the voice of desperation; singer, writer, actor, junkie! JACK BARRON, branded by the Bad Seed a "filthy little prick", gets to grips ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Tender Prey (Mute LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 24 September 1988
LET US PREY ...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Elysees Montmartre, Paris
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 17 December 1988
TONIGHT THE Angel saw the Ass, and still isn't convinced. ...
Nick Cave: The Return of the Prodigal Son
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
Throughout the turmoil of the 80s, Nick Cave was on some sort of slow development course. From the pithy pop blunders of Boys Next Door ...
Nick Cave: Worshipping The Son
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 24 November 1990
For the second of our special Fan Files, we look at Nick Cave, the singer who's so damn slinky and shaggable that even women want ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream (Mute)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 25 January 1992
HAVING LONG sneered and sped past the 'Buffoon Goth' pigeonhole reserved for him when he first arrived on these shores, the Nick Cave who thrives ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 15 March 1992
JON SAVAGE MEETS THE SINGER KNOWN AS THE PUNK MESSIAH ...
Nick Cave: The Tunes They Are A Changin'
Interview by Mark Petracca, Cover, April 1992
They say he is a brooding auteur. A madman. A shaman. Yet, those who say those things have often held him in such high regard ...
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 23 May 1992
ARE YOU ready to have your heart skewered on a grill? Just remember, if you will, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' cover version of ...
The Nick Cave View: It's Dark Inside
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 31 July 1992
NICK CAVE, the lanky singer-songwriter of the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is not one to mince words, even — or especially — if ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Live Seeds
Review by Mick Houghton, MOJO, November 1993
THE LIVE ALBUM is a tricky beast to handle. More often than not it's a contract filler, a pause for thought when the ideas have ...
It's The 'Looza Baby, Why Don't You Kill It?
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994
LOLLAPALOOZA once had the chance to be the greatest rock'n'roll circus the planet had ever seen. But, in spite of the live spectacle of VERVE, ...
Various Artists: Lollapalooza '94, Sam Boyd Stadium University of Nevada Las Vegas July 1,1994
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1994
THE DIFFERENCE between Lollapalooza 1994 and Lollapolooza Past is that this year Perry Farrell and colleagues decided the music being offered couldn't just be loud, ...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads (Mute/All formats)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 3 February 1996
HOW DO you prevent any rational person from committing murder? ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1997
"I DON'T believe in an interventionist God/But I know, darling, that you do" ('Into My Arms'). Those are the first lines of the album; Cave's ...
Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, May 2001
Tenth solo album from Saint Nick ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, September 2004
HEY, LOOK, I believed once. I realised I was buying well-read misogyny, suckered into being controlled by a perfect simulacrum of anarchy. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2004
AFTER THE TEPID reception for last year's Nocturama, Cave and the Bad Seeds could have been forgiven for taking time out to lick their wounds. ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Dazed & Confused, October 2004
ON ABATTOIR BLUES, the cheerily-titled first half of the new double album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, there is a song called ‘There ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Hastings Pier
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, November 2004
MANY ROCK STARS would recoil at the notion of playing an end-of the-pier ballroom in a shabby South Coast retirement town, but Nick Cave appeared ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 2005
"THE WORK," Cave told MOJO, "of a genius." Though his tongue was presumably not too many miles from his cheek, he was spot on. This ...
Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, March 2009
"TEA? PIECE OF CAKE?" says Nick Cave civilly. After an earlier on-tour interview at the Malmaison Hotel, Manchester, he's invited MOJO to his office, a ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, April 2009
With all 14 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds albums being remastered and reissued, Kris Needs chronicles one of music's most compelling catalogues, with help ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2009
AS ONE CONTRIBUTOR to the episodic documentary that features across the DVDs of these four reissues observes, Nick Cave was well on his way to ...
Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 24 July 2009
The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival ...
Howl: An interview with Warren Ellis
Interview by Mark Mordue, The Sun-Herald, 10 January 2010
WHEN THE American author Mark Twain visited a Victorian gold mining town back in 1885, he was inspired to write: "It was as if the ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Tender Prey, The Good Son, Henry's Dream
Review by David Quantick, Uncut, May 2010
The dark masters caught in transition, and all the better for being reissued, says David Quantick. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
Review by Mark Mordue, The Monthly, February 2013
WE DON'T OFTEN go on journeys with musicians any more. Not over the length of an album. From iTunes to Spotify, we live in an ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 February 2013
RECENT YEARS have seen messageboards, pop gossip sites and magazines alike indulging in the pursuit of Brighton-based Nick Cave spotting. Nick Cave spotted waving a ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Her Majesty's Theatre, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 11 February 2013
AT 55 NICK CAVE remains an impressive advert for the dissolute life. Squint at the guy on the stage of Her Majesty's Theatre and – ...
This Moral Coil: A Conversation With Nick Cave
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, 12 April 2013
"ASK ABOUT our Seven Deadly Sins packages," tempted the intentionally sexed-up outgoing recorded message of the hotel in Perth where Nick Cave was holed up ...
The Persistence of Punk: X, Nick Cave and New Order live in L.A.
Live Review by Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2014
IT WILL BE 40 years in December, 2015, since the release of Patti Smith's Horses, on Clive Davis' Arista label, arguably the beginning of the ...
All Points East: Victoria Park, London
Live Review by Tim Cooper, Louder Than War, 4 June 2018
Saturday 2nd June: The National, The War On Drugs, Future Islands, Warpaint, Cat Power Sunday 3rd June: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Patti Smith, St ...
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
Review by Mark Mordue, The Electrified Journalist, 6 October 2019
NOTE: I wrote these notes upon a first listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Ghosteen. I tried to evolve the words into something ...
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