Reviews
Back to the Garden (2009)
First-rate comeback album from 60s legends the Seeds, which finds frontman Sky Saxon reunited with the group's original keyboardist Daryll Hooper
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Interviews
Interview with Ian Broudie
Lightning Seeds' frontman Ian Broudie talks to Fiona Hutchings about his band's new album 'See You in the Stars' and vinyl.
Joe Gideon
Interview
Former Bikini Atoll and Joe Gideon & The Shark front man Joe Gideon speaks to John Clarkson about his debut solo album, 'Versa Vice', which he has recorded with Jim Sclavunos from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Sky Saxon
Interview
Sky Saxon was the singer with garage rock/psychedelic group the Seeds. He talks to Anthony Strutt about the influential 60s band, and his new album 'Back to the Garden', which released under the Seeds moniker, finds him reunited with Darryl Hooper, the group's original keyboardist
Jim Sclavunos
Interview
Jim Sclavunos is the percussionist and drummer in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He talks about working with Cave and the recent reformation of his early group, 70's No Wave punk band, the infamously atonal Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Terry Edwards/'Dora Suarez'
Interview
John Clarkson speaks to Gallon Drunk's Terry Edwards about his musical interpretation of Derek Raymond's brutal crime novel, 'I Was Dora Suarez', which recorded with Raymond and his bandmate James Johnstone in 1993, has just been reissued on CD
Grinderman
Interview
Anthony Dhanendran attends a press conference with Grinderman, the new band of Nick Cave and Dirty Three and Bads Seeds violinist Warren Ellis, at which they talk about their self-titled debut album and their first ever live performance at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival
Profiles
Profile
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Anthony Middleton looks at the mid 80's and early 90's history of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who in the second instalment of an extensive reissue campaign have just had three albums from that era, 'Tender Prey', 'Henry's Dreaam' and 'The Good Son',all re-released
Sky Saxon
1937-2009
Sky Saxon, the front man with 60's grunge punks the Seeds, died in June. Anthony Strutt reflects and looks backs on his life
Profile
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Anthony Middleton examines the early career of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who have just had their first four albums, 'From Her to Eternity', 'The Firstborn is Dead', 'Kicking Against the Pricks' and 'Your Funeral… My Trial',all re-released
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues
Neil Palmer looks at Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' new double live CD, 'Abattoir Blues'
Live
Leadmill, Sheffield, 26/11/2022
Fiona Hutchings finds that The Sheffield Leadmill packed out qt the final gig of the Lightning Seeds' recent tour but the music worth the discomfort.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, 31/10/2013
At a Halloween gig at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow Tony Gaughan watches Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play a masterclass set
All Tomorrow's Parties
Minehead, Somerset, 27/4/2007...29/4/2007
At the latest All Tomorrow's Parties weekend, this time curated by Bad Seeds and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis, Anthony Dhanendran sees sets from bands as diverse as the Only Ones, Low, Spiritualized, Grinderman and Joanna Newsom
Albums
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Murder Ballads
New writer Neil Palmer writes about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds's classic 1996 album, the theatrical and macabre 'Murder Ballads'
Features
Hitting the Right Note
Where Did It All Go Wrong, Nick Cave?
In 'Hitting the Right Note', Jon Rogers, after listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' latest album 'Push the Sky Away', asks where it all went wrong for Cave
Gig of a Lifetime
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Surbiton Assembly Rooms, Surbiton, 1984
In our 'Gig of a Lifetime' series, Adrian Janes writes of attending an early Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' gig in the unlikely setting of The Assembly Rooms in Surbiton in Outer London
Photography
Photoscapes
Andrew Twambley photographs Ssnger-songwriter Nicole Atkins and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' drummer Jim Sclavunos at YES in Manchester.