Reviews
Idiot Prayer
(2021)
Intense but quietly hopeful and resilient live piano-and-voice album from Nick Cave recorded alone in the empty Alexandra Palace in London
Abattoir Blues/lyre Of Orpheus (2004)
Surprisingly mainstream, but as always impressive two album set of new songs from the ever reliable Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Related
Interviews
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
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
Ray
Interview
Ray have been compared to acts such as the Waterboys, Nick Cave and the Chameleons. Helen Tipping speaks to them about their three albums to date, line-up problems and their plans and hopes for a less complicated and simpler future
Predominant Lunatics
Interview
Swiss four-piece The Predominant Lunatics have drawn comparisions with The Go Betweens, The Cure, Interpol and Nick Cave. Anthony Strutt talks to them about their self-released mini debut album, 'Hoping for Dusk'
Last Harbour
Interview
Melancholic, brooding and thoughtful , Last Harbour have drawn comparisions with Arab Strap, Nick Cave, Low and Tindersticks. John Clarkson speaks to the band about their recently released debut full-length album 'The Host of Wild Creatures'
Profiles
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Bleddyn Butcher: A Little History – Nick Cave and Cohorts, 1981 – 2013
Melanie Smith is impressed by Bleddyn Butcher's new book of photography which documents Nick Cave's career from the early 1980s to the present time
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
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
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
Grinderman and Suicide
Forum, London, 20/6/2007
In an impressive double bill, Jon Rogers at the London Forum sees aging rockers Grinderman and Suicide which many younger bands could learn a lot from if they were less bothered about their career strategy
Bikini Atoll
Balham Bedford, London, 12/6/2003
Drawing comparision with Joy Division and Nick Cave, Bikini Atoll are of the rising acts on the London scene. Olga Sladeckova watches them play an impressive set in London's Balham Bedford
Albums
Grinderman
Grinderman
In our 'Re:View' series,in which our writers look back on albums from the past, Jeff Thiessen re-examines the 2007 debut album of Nick Cave's raw-in-sound Grinderman project and finds that, much to his surprise, two years on it stands upo to prolonged listening
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.