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Dec 10, 2019
FILM MUSIC - NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS LIVE: REVIEW
Photo by Daniel Boud NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS With Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney Opera House, December...
Oct 8, 2019
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – GHOSTEEN: REVIEW
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Ghosteen (Kobalt) It’s true of the petty and ordinary just as it is true of something great, which Ghosteen...
Oct 8, 2019
THE JOURNEY TO NICK CAVE’S GHOSTEEN BEGINS HERE: UNDERSTANDING SKELETON TREE IN WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
Today the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen, is reviewed on this page. It is an album whose emotional landscape and musical...
Jan 9, 2019
NICK CAVE LIVE: REVIEW
CONVERSATIONS WITH NICK CAVE Sydney Opera House, January 9 “We talk about it all night long/We define our moral ground/But when I crawl...
Jun 4, 2017
IF YOU BOX IT THEY WILL COME, AKA THE JOY OF SETS
There’s a new Beatles box set. Of course there’s a new Beatles box set. And that certainty is not just because it’s the 50th anniversary...
May 2, 2017
SEX FROM A BAD SEED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY IN A SWEAT WITH NICK CAVE
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Enmore Theatre, December 3, 2003 It was a dark and stormy night with thunderclaps that rocked you on your...
Jan 23, 2017
AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLIST. NOW.
An album forged from grief by an internationally renowned songwriter, a record made for $1000 by self-described “scummy little punks”,...
Jan 21, 2017
NICK CAVE LIVE: TOGETHER, NOT ALONE
NICK CAVE ICC Sydney Theatre, January 20 When they go low, we go high. Or maybe, we’re not that bad, really. Not all of us. There’s...
Jan 20, 2017
JOY, PAIN, LOSS AND THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP
On Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and things unsaid. JOY, PAIN, LOSS AND THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP “I have to say it’s so beautiful to see Nick...
Dec 28, 2016
A LOOK BACK AT 2016 PART 4: BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #11-20
It is a pretty good year when Nick Cave’s intense, deeply emotional – though never easily categorised as “sad” – and wholly satisfying...
Sep 12, 2016
NICK CAVE - SKELETON TREE: REVIEW
Nick Cave SKELETON TREE (Kobalt) Searching for one, wrapping-it-all-up, telling-us-exactly-how-he-feels meaning in this album, the first...
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