Earth moves for Roth with bad-sex award nomination Nov 20, 2009
On a shortlist of 10, singer Nick Cave was picked for his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, about a sex-obsessed salesman. Frankly, we would have been offended if he wasn't shortlisted,'' said Anna Frame at his publisher, Canongate. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Nick Cave and the Bad Sex: up for a rude award Nov 20, 2009
Nick Cave nominated for The Death of Bunny Munro ... NICK CAVE is used to being nominated for awards ... Nick Cave … nominated for The Death of Bunny Munro. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
"Sharing Hopes and Dreams: a Ground-Breaking Web Initiative to Mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child" Nov 20, 2009
If TV editors want further pictures, world renowned novelist and childrens' storyteller Philip Pullman, musician and writer Nick Cave, and other prominent individuals have recorded video messages in support of the HOPING-UNRWA initiative, and these will be available online on November 19th at. Buzz up. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Literary honour? Nov 20, 2009
Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro ... On a shortlist of 10, singer Nick Cave was picked for his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, about a sex-obsessed salesman. (The Age, Australia)
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Nick Cave is used to being nominated for awards. But his latest is not exactly cause for wild celebrations. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Nick Cave and the Bad Sex in Fiction award? Nov 20, 2009
Singer Nick Cave has joined Booker winner John Banville, Philip Roth and Paul Theroux on the shortlist for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award ... THE NOMINEES John Banville - The Infinities Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro Jonathan Littell - The Kindly Ones Richard Milward - Ten Storey Love Song Sanjida O'Connell - The Naked Name of Love Amos Oz - Rhyming Life and Death Anthony Quinn - The Rescue Man Philip Roth - The Humbling Paul Theroux - A Dead Hand Simon Van Booy - Love Begins in... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Devil made him do it Nov 20, 2009
Up Jumped the Devil: The neo-Gothic musical, featuring the gorgeously mordant songs of Nick Cave, has mostly been produced Down Under. (Not that Down Under Australia. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The bitter tears of Johnny Cash Nov 10, 2009
" Johnny Cash, a Bodhisattva in my book, was finished with his work here on earth. Thank you, J.C., for a job well done. -- Brian Johnson Share: Friday, Sep 12, 2003 13:00 PDT He was the Man in Black and the man with the voice that sounded like black coffee. America's greatest protest singer, a seminal figure in both rock and country, is dead at 71. By If you took every note that didn't quite hit and laid them end-to-end, they'd probably reach clear around the world. And so what? His was one of... (Salon)
PLAYLIST: Give Lennon's 'Peace' another chance Nov 10, 2009
The eclectic British songbird evokes Nick Cave on this dark highlight from her exotic, if spotty, Lights Out Zoltar. Bye Bye Bayou LCD Soundsystem. (USA Today -- Life)
Gothic horror works its magic Nov 7, 2009
She continues her love affair with Nick Cave, adding tunes by Radiohead and David Bowie. The link is that many of the characters find themselves in extremis as they inhabit pieces such as Bowie's Rock'n' roll Suicide or the phenomenon that is Cave's Little Water Song. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Swan's soup strainers reckon mo is all the go Nov 5, 2009
But current musicians like alternative rocker Nick Cave, Mr E from the Eels, the Magic Numbers, the up and coming Fleet Foxes who are almost entirely beard clad, and heart throb singer Caleb Followill of the Kings of Leon. Some of the best music at the moment is coming out of facial hair covered bands and I would say that is no coincidence. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
* With so many options, whats en e-reader to do? Oct 1, 2009
Nick Cave, a rock musician and sometime author, used an iPhone to write one chapter of his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. He and his longtime musical collaborator, Warren Ellis, then developed an original score for the book. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Hardcover: UK: Nick Caves Bunny Munro: all mouth and trousers Sep 20, 2009
Hardcover: UK: Nick Caves Bunny Munro: all mouth and trousers. The misogynistic, cocaine-fueled protagonist of Nick Caves dark novel is a scarily real send-up of contemporary Britains uber-lad culture ... According to Nick Cave, the two main influences for The Death of Bunny Munro, his second novel, are the Gospel According to St Mark and the Scum Manifesto by militant feminist Valerie Solanas, a woman perhaps more famous for shooting Andy Warhol. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Musician and Author Nick Cave Sep 17, 2009
Qician and Author Nick Cave - TIME ... Nick Cave appears in Sydney, Australia ... Nick Cave threatened to murder me if I didn't like his book. (Time.com)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by Nick Cave (Faber ). The second novel from the singer-songwriter; this one's about a randy door-to-door salesman. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
For a dark topic, White turns to black humour Sep 7, 2009
The boldy named Suicide Show opens at the Arts Centre's BlackBox theatre space on September 30 and features music spanning Queen, Bananarama, John Lennon and Nick Cave. The words ''cabaret'' and ''suicide'' with Bananarama thrown in don't normally spring to mind for a night on the town but director Martin White, who's tackling feeling blue at the BlackBox, explains: ''It's a show to raise awareness. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Diverse group get ARIA nods Aug 27, 2009
1988 2008 (no inductees in 2000) 1988: Dame Joan Sutherland, Johnny O'Keefe, Slim Dusty, Col Joye, Vanda & Young, AC/DC 1989: Dame Nellie Melba, Ross Wilson 1990: Percy Grainger, Sherbet 1991: Billy Thorpe, Glenn Shorrock, Don Burrows, Pete Dawson 1992: Skyhooks 1993: Cold Chisel, Peter Allen 1994: Men At Work 1995: The Seekers 1996: Australian Crawl, Horrie Dargie 1997: The Bee Gees, Paul Kelly, Graeme Bell 1998: The Masters Apprentices, The Angels 1999: Richard Clapton, Jimmy Little 2001:... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pre-Order for the Digital Version of THE CRIBS' New Album - Ignore the Ignorant - Begins August 25th on iTunes Aug 19, 2009
THE CRIBS recorded Ignore the Ignorant in Los Angeles with producer Nick Launay, who has worked with such artists as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Supergrass, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, among many others. To celebrate the albums release, live dates have just been confirmed for Los Angeles and New York City. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Monkeys to release Oxfam single Aug 5, 2009
The 7" record, which will cost 2.99 with proceeds going to the charity, also comes with a download code for fans to get a free MP3 version. It is the first time Oxfam shops have sold a new release single since Do They Know It's Christmas in 1984. The limited edition single will be available through the charity's network of 700 shops from 17 August. It also features a cover of the Nick Cave track Red Right Hand as a B-side. Arctic Monkeys are also calling on fans to bring in any unwanted albums... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Mightier than the guitar Jul 23, 2009
- Nick Cave There is nothing holding you back ... for Nick Cave, songwriting "is always agony" ... He enters a field populated by a fairly select band of musicians, most notably Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Leonard Cohen and Billy Bragg, who have written and published works of serious literary intent, aspiring beyond music criticism, memoir or autobiography. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Unforgettable song cycle born of desperation and loss Jul 20, 2009
In fact her most recent album, House Of Ill Repute, which she rehearsed in New Zealand and recorded in Dublin, sounds much more like Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen meet Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. It is dark, passionate, intense and features two songs from those legendary early rock'n'roll songwriters Leiber and Stoller. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
KP must first get over himself Jul 18, 2009
Nick Cave was born there and then went and sat in a dark room in Berlin for a decade whacking junk up his arm - and not because he never made full-forward for the Warrack Eagles ... Nick Cave wants a statue built of himself as a pisstake; Pietersen really does want one. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Old rockers get keys to halls of learning Jul 18, 2009
Last year Nick Cave was made a doctor of law by Monash University and Kev Carmody accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Queensland. Bob Dylan wore academic robes when he picked up a doctor of music in Scotland in 2004. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Poetry and pop Jul 16, 2009
The intimate event features a programme of theatre, poetry, film, literature and dance - and the music stages include Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave ... Indie rock band Editors will play the main stage on Sunday night, supporting headliner Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ... Also, just supporting Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is exciting. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Triple j hottest 100 of all time Jul 12, 2009
36 Into My Arms - Nick Cave. 37 Stinkfist - Tool. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
The singer not the song? JJJ vote's in Jul 11, 2009
So far, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley and the Beatles have mixed with Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, Nick Cave, Powderfinger, Massive Attack and Melbourne musician Gotye. Buck lists the major surprise as the inclusion of Elton John's Tiny Dancer. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Six North Country wine bars Jul 7, 2009
The iPod might play Wilco, Nick Cave or the White Stripes. The couch in the front window is the best place to read. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Headless Heroes, 'The Silence of Love' Jul 6, 2009
Those lines come from the song Nobody s Baby Now, originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Diane is reflecting in a haunted house of pathos. It s a devastatingly beautiful moment, one among many, on The Silence of Love, a gorgeous new album of cover songs all about the joy - but mostly the sorrow - of love. (Boston Globe)
Culture transforms convict isle Jun 29, 2009
Industrial sublime Cockatoo Island houses a thriving arts scene, with musicians including Nick Cave playing there ... It has been the stage for rock musicians such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - but it is not the Sydney Opera House or the Metro ... Industrial sublime … Cockatoo Island houses a thriving arts scene, with musicians including Nick Cave playing there. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Springsteen overtime lands Glastonbury festival fine Jun 29, 2009
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Thrill me Cilmi: teen star a hit as headline Jun 29, 2009
Australian music veterans Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were scheduled to perform today. Rolf Harris will also get his wobble board out during the weekend. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Blur bring curtain down on Glasto Jun 29, 2009
Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Glasvegas and Calvin Harris were among the other stars to appear across the site. Tom Jones belted out his hits to the delight of the crowd. (BBC News)
Living End defies tradition to take out top song award Jun 24, 2009
In a ceremony at new Docklands venue Peninsula last night, the band pipped Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Empire of the Sun, Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, and Kate Miller-Heidke. It is quite a coup for the much-loved band, which in 15 years had never previously been nominated for the prize. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Save FBi campaign Jun 5, 2009
NICK CAVE believes it is "crucial to the cultural fabric of the city". Rose Byrne thinks it would be "unacceptable to see it go". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
APRA nomination no Idol promise May 28, 2009
That category this year pits the lean frame of Nick Cave against the tiny frame of Kate Miller-Heidke, the rootsiness of Chambers and Nicholson against the eyeshadow and glitter of Empire Of The Sun, and all of them against the three-piece rock of the Living End. All are strong candidates. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Husband and wife duos for top APRA gong May 27, 2009
Others in the category are Nick Cave for Dig Lazarus Dig, Empire of the Sun's Walking On A Dream, and Chris Cheney for The Living End's White Noise. The nominations were announced at an event in Sydney today, with The Potbelleez dominating with three nods. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Status Quo booked for Glastonbury May 26, 2009
Among other performers confirmed for the festival are The Prodigy, Glasvegas, Kasabian, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Doves and Will Young. US hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas will be taking to the Jazz World stage, alongside The Streets, Jamie Cullum and Roots Manuva. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Radiohead piece together new LP May 19, 2009
Greenwood will contribute to Loops, which will also feature writing by the likes of Nick Cave, Paul Morley, Simon Armitage and Jon Savage. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A 'Spring' sing May 15, 2009
"The Road" is directed by Australian John Hillcoat, with music composed by countryman Nick Cave. (Cave worked on Hillcoat's movies "Ghosts of the Civil Dead" and "The Proposition," and Hillcoat directing a video for Cave's song "Babe I'm on Fire.") The Schwartzes, who run the Waltham-based PR firm Schwartz Communications, have other projects in the works, including a film based on Pete Takeda's nonfiction book "An Eye at the Top of the World" and a script by Paul Schrader. (Boston Globe)
And now, here's a number for Richard Branson May 13, 2009
THE rocker Nick Cave calls it "crucial to the cultural fabric of the city" and the pop star Ben Lee calls it "a true alternative", but the Sydney community radio station FBi 94. 5FM is fighting off another label: recession casualty. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Now a 'Gladiator' sequel in the pipeline May 11, 2009
LONDON: Fans of Ridley Scott's Oscar-nominated "Gladiator" just might have a visual treat if a sequel to the hit, written by musician Nick Cave gets a nod by Hollywood bosses. Cave was asked to write the screenplay at the request of Scott and star Russell Crowe but the idea was eventually scrapped after the film's studio decided it was too hard to follow on from the first film, in which Crowe's character, Maximus, dies, reports themirror. (India Times)
Letters to Sunday Datebook May 4, 2009
I suggest he also check out Nick Cave doing "I'm Your Man" and Rufus Wainwright doing "Everybody Knows." Both live performances. Rick Klein. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Worthy Versions Apr 12, 2009
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Tower of Song" ... But in the hands of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, it becomes a boisterous rockabilly rave-up that the band would stretch out to more than 30 minutes when it performed live. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Metamorphosis Apr 9, 2009
Gravity is defied in this twisted tale that Nick Cave helped score. Creepy crawly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
5 things in April Apr 6, 2009
San Francisco: "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" would make a great CD title by the brooding singer. But Nick Cave the costume artist is not that Nick Cave. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Music's gentle man Mar 28, 2009
Ed Kuepper, Paul Kelly, the Reels, Crowded House, the Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, the Warumpi Band, Sunnyboys and the Jackson Code. The songs were Down Below, Under the Milky Way, The Way I Made You Feel, Randwick Bells, Quasimodo Dream, Into Temptation, Cattle and Cane, (Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For, Black Fella/White Fella, Alone With You and Bring Yourself Home to Me. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Growing in extremes Mar 27, 2009
Harvey has collaborated with Mark Lanegan, Josh Homme (above), Gordon Gano, Tricky, Sparklehorse, Thom Yorke and Nick Cave, but these are her defining albums. Rid of Me (1993). (The Age, Australia)
Pet Shop Boys to head up Latitude Mar 25, 2009
The Pet Shop Boys will headline the Latitude Festival alongside Grace Jones and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Festival chief Melvin Benn said the pop duo's singer Neil Tennant had asked to play at the three-day event. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Being Faithfull Mar 19, 2009
" The album also features an array of guests, including Keith Richards, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Antony Hegarty, all friends of Faithfull. "They're people I got to know before I worked with them. They're brilliant. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Faithfull's story set for screen Mar 14, 2009
Page last updated at 12:22 GMT, Friday, 13 March 2009. By Ian Youngs Music reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Success is on fire Mar 13, 2009
Part of the fascination stems from the band's origins - a peripatetic past so evocative it might have been penned by Nick Cave. Before the fire and sex, it was all fire and brimstone. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Killers head to T in the Park Feb 19, 2009
Other acts already confirmed for the festival, which runs from 9 to 12 July, include Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Razorlight and Elbow. The Killers first appeared at T in the Park in 2004 when they took to the Radio 1/NME stage. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Killers top 'T In The Park' lineup Feb 19, 2009
Razorlight, Nick Cave ad Seeds, Katy Perry, Elbow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pendulum, Peter Doherty and White Lies are also on. Further announcements about the 180 artists at the three-day event are expected soon. (Digital Spy)
Peaches Geldof: a life in tattoos Feb 17, 2009
It wasn't so much that Peaches Geldof was cavorting topless on a south American beach that caught public attention yesterday, as the fact that her semi-clad state revealed an impressive collection of more than 20 tattoos, including names of friends and lovers, bluebirds, hearts, a flower, a cat, angel wings, rosary beads, a noose and a book, a daisy chain running from her thigh to her ribs, and lines from the Nick Cave song Into My Arms, sung at the funeral of her mother, Paula Yates. Tattooing... (guardian.co.uk)
Faithfull life Feb 15, 2009
Still, it's an impressive list: Nick Cave croons through a reading of the Decemberists' The Crane Wife, while Antony Hegarty adds his trademark warble to Smokey Robinson's Ooh Baby Baby. Rufus Wainwright, Jarvis Cocker, Cat Power and Sean Lennon all make appearances, while Faithfull enlists old comrade Keith Richards for Merle Haggard's Sing Me Back Home. (The Age, Australia)
My Bloody Valentine Feb 13, 2009
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. She's hairy, bleeding, fanged, mad and cuffed at the ankles and wrists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Burma-bound on Smithy hunt Feb 9, 2009
Apart from the omission of veterans You am I and Nick Cave, the biggest surprise was the overlooking of the great breakthrough story of the past 12 months, the indigenous performer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. Melbourne teenager Gabriella Cilmi, who swept last year's ARIA Awards, was also snubbed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stars snubbed for top music honour Feb 8, 2009
Veterans You Am I, Nick Cave and Augie March failed to land a slot, while nascent nominees dominated. Based on the successful England-based Mercury Mercury Prize, the AMP, as it is known, was established four years ago by music industry veteran Scott Murphy. (The Age)
