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Post by dem bones on Nov 13, 2010 9:33:59 GMT
Nick Cave - King Ink (Black Spring Press, May 1988) Lucy you made a sinner out of me
Now I'm burning like a saint down in
SWAMPLAND"No, I ain't gone all soft and started liking POETRY - that's still officially for girls until I decide otherwise - but this is a collection of Nick Cave's glorious LYRICS from the Birthday Party's Prayers On Fire through to the Bad Seeds' Your Funeral, My Trial, taking in all points in between and published just days before The Mercy Seat was about to take the indie charts (and Johnny Cash) by storm. Also included are select one act plays, Salome, H.M.S. Britain 1982, Thistles In The Soul (Nick's love letter to Einstürzende Neubauten) and The Black Pearl, the grim short story scrawled on the inner sleeve of the magnificent Mutiny! ep which he would later expand into debut novel, And The Ass Saw An Angel. It is a book of RARE BEAUTY. Despite the Birthday Party's loathing of all things Goth Rock, you can see how journo's and fans roped them in with the likes of Alien Sex Fiend, Sex Gang Children, SOM and the first wave bands as Nick's lyrics are rich in horror story trappings, notably the likes of Swampland, Deep In The Woods ("Love is for fools and, God knows, I'm still one ..."), Jennifer's Veil, Dead Joe, glam rockabilly screamalong Release The Bats, Mutiny In Heaven! (incredibly, questions were raised in Parliament about the overt heroin imagery) and the approx. 300 songs in which Nick kills his girlfriend. Best Vault moment: "In conclusion, the Birth.P. are in essence a slug, nomadic, and their journey is slow and painful and always forward and their trail of slime is their art and so on and they are barely conscious of its issue which bears little resemblance to anything bar ourselves and we make no excuses for that." From Nick Cave's misanthropic Christmas message H.M.S. Britain 1982, first published in the NME.
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Post by valdemar on Apr 29, 2012 19:57:29 GMT
Ah! more of my misspent youth! The Birthday Party were a bit of an obsession with me and my friends. 'Deep In The Woods' always went well with a read of some old EC Comics, and is possibly one of the darkest songs ever committed to vinyl. It was regularly played in a nightclub I used to frequent, and always got a big cheer when put on. The whole song is great, but I particularly liked Nick's sepulchral 'End!' at the finish. His scream of 'Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast Offffffff!' from not surprisingly 'Blast Off' is wonderful, too. ;D
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 29, 2012 21:05:40 GMT
Surely the greatest living Australian - well, apart from that Kylie duet.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 1, 2013 23:48:09 GMT
Surely the greatest living Australian - well, apart from that Kylie duet. I  the Kylie duet! Uncut Ultimate Music Series: Nick Cave (July, 2013) "Kill Coati Mundi!" Archive interviews. All the albums - from the Boys Next Door's power-pop abomination, Door, Door, through to the recent Push The Sky Away - reviewed. Introduction by the great man himself. 150 pages of the Black Crow King. What more could you reasonably ask for from life? And ... I found it in Sainsb*ry's! Truly, we have come a long way from the Drunk On The Pope's Blood ep. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 2, 2013 6:18:23 GMT
Crikey, that's an early photo, unless Kylie's been tarting him up. If you get a chance, see the film he wrote called The Proposition - an unheralded classic. |
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Post by valdemar on Aug 5, 2013 3:21:35 GMT
It isn't that easy to find early pictures of Nick that would pass muster as attractive cover shots. In several of his early record sleeves, he appears 'heavily refreshed'. You must remember at this time [1984/5], he was in his 'Hard drugs - what's the worst that could happen?' phase as he started his solo career. Does anyone remember the late-night show, on, I believe, Channel 4, that was shown over Fridays and Saturdays, under the umbrella title of 'Night Network'? Well, in about 1988/9, Nick did a particularly bewildered 'interview', in which most questions were answered with a kind of 'Off me radar, John' stare. He talked broken biscuits for a while, and the unfortunate host, realising Cave was probably 'wandering on the Plains Of Leng', as it were, wisely called a halt to the proceedings. Very funny indeed.  PS. I don't know about you, but I should very much like to be 'Tarted up by Kylie',as you said. It's only a thought... the kind of thought that kept me out of the 'good' schools.  |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2015 16:13:51 GMT
Just had a rummage through a suitably cobwebbed, musty old folder and found these. Before they were seedy: The first post-Birthday Party London gig. The magnificent Avalanche and I Put A Spell On You footage doing the rounds on a popular file sharing channel originates from this performance.  Photo: Chrissie Demant: Nick and Conway struggle to suppress exhilaration at meeting dem. Virgin Megastore (RIP), Oxford Street (ditto, or just as well might be), early 1992. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 30, 2015 19:39:27 GMT
Just had a rummage through a suitably cobwebbed, musty old folder and found these. Cracking photo - they look extremely cool. I would have been in London then, but missed all the excitement. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2015 20:47:35 GMT
Cracking photo - they look extremely cool. I would have been in London then, but missed all the excitement.  Chrissie DemantAnother one from same afternoon. The Bride took some great photo's of Nick at a King Ink signing in Camden, a week or so before The Mercy Seat was released. Will try root them out. Saw the Bad Seeds at Brixton on a number of occasions - busted my head open jumping a ticket barrier coming home from one, blood everywhere, ensuing scab the size of a frisbee. Might have been the same gig Antonella Black reviewed for the NME, "Every scumbag in London was there," or words to that effect. Makes you proud. And, of course, Swampland - The Novel! |
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 23, 2019 21:33:59 GMT
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the Kylie duet!
