The sun is high up in the sky and I’m in my car Drifting down into the abattoir Do you see what I see, dear? The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath Entwined together in this culture of … Continue reading Song of the Day: Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
OK, here’s a post for all the movie buffs out there! Or if you need something to watch this weekend? Or whenever you see this? Actually I think, I started to put this list together a very longtime ago kind-of … Continue reading Great Watching: Top 30 Aussie Films
If I haven’t got too much stuff going on or I’m trying to do on my blog, I’m adding yet another thing today! Kicking starting my yearly playlists now! Beginning where I stop last year sometime and I guess, I’m … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In… 2006
So who does remember his late 2000’s museum shows? Kind-of combining last month Cave’s website The Red Hand Files he list twelve books he recommend to a young writer to read, I’ll copy and paste that list far below but … Continue reading Great Reading: A Pile Of Nick Cave’s Fave Books
Things are now really going to get very and totally random on my blog now with this intro post of my A to Z type of list thing! Yet another series, if I don’t have too much stuff going on … Continue reading A to Z: A is for…
I’m going to ended this month of June with my Marianne Faithfull TTT post today. I think everyone must know who she is, by now? But let’s try a forgotten about her well-known boyfriend of the 60’s which I don’t … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Marianne Faithfull
To me, love for an entire album is an increasingly rare experience. It takes you back to a time, or a place, or most importantly, the people. You listen to the album over and over, so much so that when … Continue reading Love Letter To A Record: Du0 on No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
At the very start of this month I’d blogged a live piano Cave doing T.Rex cover and he’s now start the U.K. leg of his Conversations tour. He’s bring out this rarely live played Grinderman track now. This one live … Continue reading Ratting With Terriers: Nick Cave (solo & live) doing Grinderman’s Palaces of Montezuma
Far away but better sound: Close-up: So that’s two solo live versions in Stockholm and Amsterdam just last month, he’s been playing the song written by Marc Bolan on his Europe tour. Ratting with terriers on YouTube when I should be doing … Continue reading Cover Versions: T. Rex’s Cosmic Dancer by Nick Cave (solo & live)
OK, off course this is my own hiding songs or the ones I think qualified! After sending a completely bonkers message/questions to the man himself, I’ve made a playlist of all the songs I send him! He’s already answered my … Continue reading Playlist: Hiding Songs
To Love Somebody – Bee Gees My Father – Nina Simone I Threw It All Away – Bob Dylan Comfort You – Van Morrison Angel of the Morning – Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts Nights In White Satin – … Continue reading Playlist: Nick Cave’s Ten Treasured Love Songs
I know almost everyone hates/dislikes performance arts or doesn’t really enjoy it that much but I’m going cover almost all styles of art here in my blog posts art exhibitions! So my all-time performance artwork was or when over three days, … Continue reading Great Art: Joseph Beuys’ 1974’s I Like America and America Likes Me performance
Here’s something I’ve not done for a very long old while now! Made some mixtapes or well, that’s a CD-rs really because my tape desk is still rooted. I’ve been sending something to this guy who live in Canada at … Continue reading Playlist: 3 Mixtapes I send to Canada last year
Just in case you missed it? I’m going to blog about it! Sometime in the last 24 hours the first new music by Cave this year was release and it’s a duet with the author Larry “Ratso” Sloman. At 70 … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Lady of Light by Larry “Ratso” Sloman & Nick Cave
Let’s start the week with this! The other day I when looking for what the hell I could find online of when this happen on Aussie TV on Xmas night way back in 90’s? The Rage facebook page does have … Continue reading Playlist: Nick Cave Rage Guest Programmer in 1994
So James Osterberg Jr. which is his real name who has been called the grand-daddy of punk more than a few times so I’ve just gotta put together my own fave tracks fave list. Does everyone know who he is … Continue reading Top Tens Tracks: The Stooges/Iggy Pop
In opening or the very short version this was unbelievable amazing night but off course what follows is the very long version: In the end it was somehow an almost three hour show of Nick Cave greatest which starting just … Continue reading Live Gigs: Nick Cave @ Perth Concert Hall
Blondie plus I’m including a couple of Debbie Harry songs too but do some still see both Blondie and Debbie Harry as the same thing? If you are confused: Blondie is the band and Harry is the singer who sung … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Blondie/Deborah Harry
Continuing my own version of the history of art or just starting it here on my blog with post number four after the three last week. I’ve now moved on to some dead artists this week, well that is at … Continue reading Great Art: Howard Arkley’s 1999 Nick Cave Portrait & Studies
Here she comes breakin’ through my window In the early morning hours For the moment, I am disrupted But in time she’ll make me smile All the wonderous animals Roamin’ round the earth Bring us songs of calm They do … Continue reading Hiding Songs: Lily And Parrots by Sun Kil Moon
I did post two of these last month so this is now the third one, this is like two in one and most likely the last one ever I’ve blog about! Here’s the newspaper cutting from 1982′ NME magazine at … Continue reading Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer: The Birthday Party’s Rowland S. Howard & Nick Cave
ISSUE #16 / JANUARY 2019 What would be a list of 10 of your most favourite pieces of music, by artists other than yourself? And number 11 must be a Gun Club song. G, FALLS CHURCH, USA Can you put … Continue reading Nick Cave answer my question on his website The Red Hand Files
So one more blog post this year before, I think I’ll give it rest or have a break for a week or so after this one today, OK? I did one like this the end of last year for the first … Continue reading Blogging Highlights: 2018
My blog turning a lot of lists, not that’s a bad thing really! So someone asked for something like this once and I think I did promise to blog something like this a longtime ago or both? Anyway it’s a … Continue reading Great Reading: Top 50 Books
I’ve caught an autumn flu and I’m bedridden. But sometimes it’s so nice to be sick, don’t you think, because I can go to bed and I don’t have to do anything and I can watch nature documentaries and read … Continue reading Wicked Songs: Cabin Fever by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
So Marianne back with her brand new album pretty soon! Once again she roped in some very famous friends to work with which looks like from the outside looking in like some kinda fun party than working. Anyway a couple … Continue reading Wicked Songs: The Gypsy Faerie Queen by Marianne Faithfull featuring Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
So here’s part two of this set of posts about, well the English music mag called Mojo after posting the first one here’s what happen next. Well, here’s the copy’s I still have and what’s in them or some of … Continue reading Magazines: Mojo magazine 2002-3
So here’s something totally random because I blog like a liquorice allsorts bag. Well, I did once wrote a blog post about six months ago for a mag I disliked at some point but god knows why? I forget the reason? … Continue reading Magazines: MOJO magazine 2000-1
In Australia everyone know’s who Paul Kelly is and if not, where the bloody hell have you been? Now I could say the same to everyone overseas too but here’s his bio link, if you need it? Trying to not … Continue reading Top Ten Tracks: Paul Kelly
Something different for Sunday again, some reason I just wanna hear one of these tracks today so blogging a few now but I will leave it at four because it could go on forever and suppose to be just the … Continue reading Soundtrack Songs: X-Files
Flashback show yet again today! This just might be my all-time BDO year or was the first one? I don’t know, anyway order of seen acts of this year was by my bad/good memory: Shihad, Ammonia, The Jesus Lizard, Dirty Three, Magic Dirt, Regurgitator, Spiderbait, Elastica, TISM, Rage … Continue reading Live Gigs: Big Day Out 1996 @ Perth Oval
So this makes two posts of Kim Salmon in a row of this Aussie singer-songwriter and can be filed under other artists covering him and him covering other artists songs all in one post today. After yesterday’s post I realised … Continue reading Cover Versions: Kim Salmon
So we are getting a four track EP culled from the live gig movie at the end of September, I don’t know about this idea? I did want to just watch it all again but maybe that’s still coming? Later … Continue reading Shall Be Released: Distant Sky EP by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds + Cover Versions: Yet Even More Cave Covers
Sean Hughes once joked Engelbert Humperdinck would cover Nick Cave’s biggest hit ballad! Roger is far from Engelbert but I guess it’s the closest it’s been, you know? As far as huge rock n roll 60’s/70’s monster gods singers goes, you … Continue reading Cover Versions: Cave’s Into My Arms by The Who’s Roger Daltrey
Pretty quite week blogging, I guess? Thursday morning and it’s only the second post, no! Third blog post, want am I talking about? I don’t know? Off course, it’s yet another yearly playlist! I don’t know if I’m drive everyone … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In… 2003?
So should I do more of the 2000’s? Yeah, off course! Well, I did this blog post standing on my head with both hands tied behind my back and typing will my nose, it was that bloody easy! So Monday … Continue reading Playlist: Where I Was In… 2002?
