Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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Nick & amp; The Bad Seeds is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by lead singer Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout his career and currently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey and keyboardist Conway Savage (fourth from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (UK), keyboard/percussion Toby Dammit (United States) and drummer Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). The band has released sixteen studio albums and completed many international tours, and has been considered "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative punk era in the 80s and beyond".

The band was founded in 1983 after the death of Cave and former Harvey group, Birthday Party, whose members met at a boarding school in Victoria. With the release of their fifth studio album Tender Prey in 1988, they shifted from post-punk to experimental alternative rock sound, then incorporated various influences throughout their career. For example, album 2008 Dig, Lazarus, Dig! and Grinderman side-projects are strongly influenced by garage stones. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work stand out on Push the Sky Away (2013), recorded after Harvey left the band in 2009.

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History

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The project that later evolved into Nick Cave and Bad Bad began after the death of The Birthday Party in August 1983. Both Cave and Harvey were members of the Birthday Party, along with guitarist Rowland S. Howard and bassist Tracy Pew. During the recording sessions of the EP scheduled Birthday Party Mutiny/The Bad Seed , internal disagreements developed in the band. The difference in Cave and Howard's approach to songwriting was a major factor, as Cave described in an interview with On The Street : "the main reason why the Birthday Party was disbanded was that the type of song I was writing and the type the songs Rowland wrote were completely at odds with each other. "After Harvey's departure, they officially disbanded. Cave also said that "it will probably last longer, but Mick has the ability to judge things far more clearly than all of us."

The embryonic version of what would later be the Cave of Nick and the Bad Seed was formed in a Birthday Party in London in September 1983, with Cave, Harvey (acting mainly as drummer), EinstÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¼rzende Neubauten guitarist Bargeld, bassist Barry Adamson Magazine, and Jim G Thirlwell. The band was originally formed as a support band for the Cave solo project which is meant Man Or Myth? , which has been approved by the record label Mute Records. During September and October 1983, they recorded material with Flood producer, although the session was cut short due to a Cave tour with Immaculate Consumptive, another project formed with Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch, and Marc Almond. In December 1983, Cave returned to Melbourne, Australia, where he formed a temporary lineup of his support bands, due to Bargeld's absence, including Pew and guitarist Hugo Race. The band performed their first live show at Seaview in St Kilda on December 31, 1983.

After a brief Australian tour, and during the period when they were without management, Cave and his band returned to London. Caves, Harvey, Bargeld, Race and Adamson formed the first consistent line of projects, while Cave's longtime girlfriend, Anita Lane is credited as a lyricist on the band's debut album. The group, which until now has been anonymous, adopted Nick Cave and Cavemen moniker, which they used for the first six months of their career. However, they later renamed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in May 1984, referring to the EP The Last Birthday Party The Bad Seed . They began recording sessions for their debut album in March 1984 at London's Trident Studios and these sessions, along with the Man Or Myth sessions? left from September-October 1983 recorded at The Garden Studio, forming the album From Her to Eternity, was released on Mute Records in 1984. Race, and guitarist Edward Clayton-Jones's tour, went to form Wreckery in Melbourne.

Relocation to Germany and stylistic evolution (1985-1989)

After the departure of Race and Lane, the remaining members moved to West Berlin, Germany, in 1985 and released their second album The Firstborn Is Dead . The album is strongly influenced by the gothic Americana of South American music and blues, exemplified in songs such as "Tupelo" and "Blind Lemon Jefferson", which refers to the birth of Elvis Presley and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Released the following year, the Kicking Against the Pricks cover album explores this kind of influence more directly with material renditions by Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker and Lead Belly. The 1986 album also marked the arrival of Swiss drummer Thomas Wydler, a member of Die Haut, and featured guest appearances from guitarist Race, Pew, and Birthday Party Howard, who briefly toured Bad Seeds as a substitute in 1985. Pew's death from epileptic seizures also occurred in 1986.

The band garnered an increase following the release of the second 1986 album, Your Funeral, My Trial , which coincided with Adamson's departure. Tender Prey , a dark, contemplative 1988 afterwards, saw the arrival of American guitarist Kid Congo Powers - Harvey made the transition to bass - and German keyboardist Roland Wolf. The single "The Mercy Seat" records an unconverted prisoner in death prison and further enhances the group's commercial praise and attention. The song then received the honor that was covered by Cash on his 2000 album American American: Solitary Man . Despite the increasing success rate, drug-related issues of band members became problematic. The Road to God Knows Where, directed by Uli M Schueppel, depicts a five-week period from the feet of the United States from their 1989 tour.

His band cave and friends also pursue other creative ambitions today. In 1987, Bad Bad appeared in the movie Wim Wenders Wings of Desire , and Cave was also featured in the 1988 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead film, which he and the race follow write. The first novel cave And Ass Saw the Angel was published in 1989.

Growing success (1989-1997)

After some time in New York City, Cave moved to SÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â£ o Paulo, Brazil, shortly after the last tour for Tender Prey and, after successfully completing a drug rehab program, began experimenting with piano-driven ballads. The result of this post-rehabilitation period is the 1990's The Good Son . Featuring a sad and miserable tone, the album was well received both critically and commercially, and produced the single "The Weeping Song" (featuring vocals from Bargeld) and "The Ship Song".

Two established Australian musicians, Casey of the Triffids and solo artist and keyboardist Savage, replaced the remaining Powers and Wolf. The addition of Casey on the bass allows Harvey to return to the guitar. Their next record, 1992 Henry's Dream , marks a shift toward a louder rock sound. Producer David Briggs, known for his work with Neil Young, is listed for the recording process. The tour for this album was documented on 1993 live album Live Seeds and featured a new group aggressive sound.

In mid-1993, the group returned once more to London and recorded Let Love In , the follow-up album. Let Love In expanded to a more complete ensemble sound set up at Henry's Dream and featured contributions from Howard, Ellis, Tex Perkins (Beasts of Bourbon) and David McComb (The Triffids ). Some popular songs, such as "Red Right Hand" (shown in the Scream movie series) and "Loverman" (later covered by Metallica), are taken from the album. During the promotional tour for the album, American percussionist and drummer Jim Sclavunos joined the group.

In 1996 the band released Murder Ballads , their best-selling album to date. Focused on the subject of murder, the album covers the cover of folk songs "Henry Lee" - a duet with British rock singer PJ Harvey, with whom Gua has a brief relationship - and "Where the Wild Roses Grow", a duet with Australian pop idol Kylie Minogue. The Minogue collaboration is a mainstream hit in the UK and Australia, and won three Australian Recording Industry Association Awards (ARIA), including Song of the Year. It was at this point that Ellis of the Kotor Three began working regularly with the band and eventually became Cave's main collaborator.

The voice of The Boatman's Call, released in 1997, is a radical departure from the archetypal narrative and violence of the band's past, featuring songs about relationship, loss, and longing, often with rare arrangements. Gua revealed his mindset during the album's creation in a 2008 interview: "When I made that half record I was angry because certain things had happened in my love life that really made me angry, and some of those songs came right from I do not regret making it... those songs are moments when you feel a certain way.When... you just think, 'Fuck - help!' "The tour corresponding to the album was later documented on the 2008 live album Staying at the Royal Albert Hall. After releasing the album, Cave started a short hiatus, during which time he remarried.

Completion of further music; Bargeld's departure (1997-2005)

After the Cave hiatus, the band supervised the release of the Original Seeds, compilation of material from other artists affecting the group, as well as their best of album The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds . The proper follow-up for The Boatman Call is 2001's No More Shall We Part . This recording features guest appearances by Kate & amp; Anna McGarrigle and generally well-received in the review: one critic praises the album as "a whole tragic and beautiful album of love songs without irony, sarcasm, or violent resolution", while also stating that the work risks moving to "schmaltz".

The band later released Nocturama in 2003. The album marks a return to a band-oriented and collaborative arrangement, since the previous release involves a decrease in input levels from Cave's bandmates. Nocturama compiled mixed reviews, with critic Eric Carr stating that "in fact, it may still be the group's best work since Let Love In , but it has the potential to become so much more ". Shortly after the album's release, Bargeld left the band after 20 years to devote more time to EinstÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¼rzende Neubauten.

In 2004 the band released two famous discs of Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, with Bargeld replaced by British actor, guitarist and organist James Johnston, member of Gallon Drunk and former guest member of Bad Seeds from the tour Lollapalooza ten years earlier (Johnston only played the organ on the recording, because Harvey contributed the guitar pieces). Created as two separate albums packaged together, this recording features a diversity of style settings, including aggressive rock and ballad chorus. In 2005 the band released B-Sides & amp; Rarities , a collection of three volumes, 56 songs from B-sides, rare and compilation songs released on Mute Records in Europe, the US and the UK. The Abattoir Blues Tour, a two-CD, two-DVD box set with performances from an album promotional tour, was released in 2007 in Europe and the United States. The tour included guest supporter Ase Bergstrom, Geo Onaymake, Eleanor Palmer and Wendi Rose.

Also in 2005, Cave completed the work on his script for The Proposition, a Western film made in the 19th century Australia directed by John Hillcoat, who also directed and co-wrote Ghosts of the Civil Dead . Cave and Ellis collaborated on film scores, a partnership that would later also print the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Robert Ford Coward (2007) and The Road (2009) ).

Grinderman; Harvey's departure (2006-2012)

After operating for several years as a tour support band for Gua's solo work, members of Bad Seeds Ellis, Sclavunos and Casey formed a new side project of Grinderman with Cave in 2006. The band, featuring Cave playing guitar for the first time, played a garage rock Music influenced that still retained much of The Bad Seeds' aura and released a self-titled debut album in 2007. In October 2007 Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and, in his acceptance speech, also inaugurated the members of The Bad Bibit and Birthday Party , after explaining, "I really can not accept this until we get some straight things.What I do not know why I'm here and The Bad Seeds is not?"

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their 14th studio album Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! in 2008 and received high level critical acclaim. Inspired by the biblical story of Lazarus's resurrection from Bethany by Jesus Christ, the album continues the punk-inspired and rock-inspired garage explored on the debut album Grinderman, resulting in what it calls "NME" as "gothic psycho-sexual kiocalypse". The group then embarked on a North American and European tour is support of the album, with a seven-piece lineup that does not include Johnston, who has left the group after the album is over.

Cave and the band's first Australian edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival held in various Australian locations during January 2009. On January 22nd, after the festival was over, Harvey announced his departure from the band after 25 years, citing "personal and professional reasons". Harvey concluded his public statement by stating, "I will continue working on the project back project Bad Seeds back-issue over the coming year and look forward to new opportunities that I can accommodate as a result of my changing circumstances." Harvey's departure was the end of a 36-year-old music collaboration between Cave and Harvey, and Cave was left as the only original member of the group. The band enlisted guitarist Ed Kuepper, formerly of the Saints and the Laughing Clowns Australian band, as a tour member to complete the scheduled 2009 summer festival date. Also in 2009, Cave published his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro, and Mute Records began working on a series of remastered versions of the Bad Seeds' re-catalog (several remastered albums including documentaries from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard ).

Following this series of activities, Bad Bad became inactive while Grinderman reactivated and released Grinderman 2 in 2011. The group also attracted further attention when their song "O Children" appeared in the 2010 film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 . In December 2011, Grinderman broke up shortly after the Australian tour. Their last performance was at the Meredith Music Festival in rural Victoria.

Push Sky Away and Skeleton Tree (2013-present)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 15th studio album Push Sky Away was released in mid-February 2013. During the recording of the album, former member Barry Adamson rejoined the band as a bassist, then assumed multi instrumentalist roles (percussion , keyboard, vocals) on the next tour. Kuepper briefly returned as a band tour guitarist, but was replaced by George Vjestica for a European tour; Vjestica's 12-string guitar-playing is featured on some of the songs Push The Sky Away .

During the Cave Nick & amp; The Bad Seeds summer tour of the US in 2013 a small incarnation of the band recorded Live from KCRW (Cave, Ellis, Casey, Sclavunos and Adamson). In 2014 Nick Cave & amp; The Bad Seeds toured North America with Ellis, Adamson, Sclavunos, Casey plus Conway Savage and George Vjestica. Cave started a solo tour in Australia & amp; New Zealand at the end of 2014 and Europe in 2015 with Adamson on keyboards and percussion, joining the rhythm parts of Wydler and Casey, and with Ellis as a leading multi-instrumentalist. In May 2015, Toby Dammit replaced Adamson as a tour member; Adamson has not been back since, and Dammit does not participate in sessions for Nick Cave & Bad Seed Album.

On June 2, 2016, the official website of Nick Cave announces a documentary film titled One More Time With Feeling (directed by Andrew Dominik) which aired on September 8, 2016. This accompanies the 16th studio album titled Skeleton Tree (released September 9, 2016), from which no singles were released. By 2017, Cave has started writing songs for the upcoming 17th Bad Seed album, which is set to complete the band's music trilogy starting with Push the Sky Away .

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Members

Timeline

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Discography

Studio albums

From Him to Eternity (1984)
The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)
Kicking Against Pricks (1986)
Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)
Tender Prey (1988)
Good Boy (1990)
Henry's Dream (1992)
Let Love In (1994)
Ballad Killings (1996)
The Boatman's Call (1997)
No More Will We Part (2001)
Nocturama (2003)
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Dig, Lazarus, Dig! (2008)
Push Sky Away (2013)
Tree of the Framework (2016)

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Awards

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2014 The Ivor Novello Awards: Best Album Award for songwriting for "Push The Sky Away"
ARIA Awards 2013: Best Independent Release to Push The Sky Away
ARIA Awards 2013: Best Adult Contemporary Album to Push The Sky Away
MOJO Awards 2008: Best Album 2008 ("Dig, Lazarus Dig !!!")
2007 ARIA Hall of Fame: inductee (Cave); inductees of honor (Harvey, Ellis, Savage, Casey)
MOJO Award 2004: 2004 Best Album ("Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus")
2001 ARIA Awards: Best Male Artist for No More Will We Part (although this album is credited to Nick Cave and Bad Bad)
2001 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) 75th Anniversary: â€‹â€‹"The Ship Song" voted on 30 Top Australia APRA songs
Grammy Awards 2017: Best Music Movie for One More Time with Feelings
ARIA 1996 Award: Song of the Year, Single of the Year, and Best Pop for "Where the Wild Rose Is Growing"