Photo by Daniel Boud NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS With Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney Opera House, December...

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...

Today the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen, is reviewed on this page. It is an album whose emotional landscape and musical...

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...

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...

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...

An album forged from grief by an internationally renowned songwriter, a record made for $1000 by self-described “scummy little punks”,...

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...

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...

It is a pretty good year when Nick Cave’s intense, deeply emotional – though never easily categorised as “sad” – and wholly satisfying...

Nick Cave SKELETON TREE (Kobalt) Searching for one, wrapping-it-all-up, telling-us-exactly-how-he-feels meaning in this album, the first...