Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[geoffm]

arh,sorry-don`t know why that din`t work.just  hit discussion on the left hand side of the page,then the ATP thread and it will pop up with a few others

[Mark_from_Perth]

Thanks Geoff, it all looks like things are set for a fine show.
We had a thunder and lightning show this morning, a couple of days early...last time I saw the Bad Seeds at this venue there was an awesome (natural) light show as a backdrop.

[Mark_from_Perth]

You know there are some shows you look forward to so much and they fail to live up to your hopes or expectations...well this wasn't one of them, it was much much more. The best Bad Seeds show I've seen without a doubt.

They played for 2¼ hrs.

Set list (pinched from elsewhere).

hold onto yourself
midnight man
dig, lazarus, dig!!!
tupelo
the weeping song
red right hand
straight to you
papa won't leave you henry
oh mama
call upon the author to explain
more news from nowhere
deanna
the mercy seat

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the lyre of orpheus
get ready for love
people aint no good
hard on for love
jesus of the moon
stagger lee

Highlights : Tupelo, Mercy Seat, Lyre (a song I don't normally get excited about), Stagger Lee, Red Right Hand, Dig...ahh stuff it, it was all great. The sound was perfect.

There was so much going on up front between Nick and the audience it was really entertaining in its own right.
Just a  little way into Dig, Nick stopped the song and cursed the security guys who were trying to haul off some poor guy for over exuberant dancing. He told them "leave him alone, leave him alone...leeeave him alone...he was only dancing". Towards the end of the set, some girl must have got a bit close and he says "did you just touch my c...k, jesus I'm 51 years old". A young guy must have grabbed the tambourine at some stage but gave it back, Cave says to him "you should have shoved it down your pants when you had it". Then just before "get ready for love" tells the stage hand to "give the tambourine to the young guy down there, that one" and then tells the guy to get ready with the tambourine....then launched into get ready for love.

And Warren Ellis was in full madman persona!

Here's a pic of the venue, it was a beautiful near 30 degree day and mild evening. Picture yourselves amongst 4500 others soaking up the special ocassion (this was when we arrived, it was darker than this when the Bad Seeds played!)



Oh yeah and Nick (my son) was blown away. He loved it. He reckoned Cave swears a lot though !! All in good fun I said, and it was. I am not going to forget this show in a long long time and I don't think he will either.

[Mark_from_Perth]

There's a few snippets turning up on youtube.

Classic moments !!

Band coming on stage

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZFEvKJT7Y

Mr Cave berating security

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=n50btMUxQjk

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DTA1z0IFofw

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq4OEYAy3HA

Intro to Lyre (and the groping incident)

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-rgWdaIBI

[Bish]

Got a shock to read this - glad he was able to bow out with a run of successful shows in Australia;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/22/2472215.htm?section=justin

[Urpal]

Nick Cave is all over this month's Mojo mag just published in the UK (including a cover mount CD of songs entitled "Bad Seeds" featuring songs by influences, a couple of non-Bad Seeds songs featuring Nick vocals etc).

There's also an interview with Nick and apparent ex Mick about the Bad Seeds albums up to Abattoir Blues in this month's Uncut magazine.

In one of them Nick says (in the context of Blixa's personal instrument of choice for one of the records) that Pedal Steel Guitar is one of his "least favourite instruments" or words to that effect!! I was offended on your behalf, Glee

Come on. There's a whole gamut of instruments out there that are more unsavoury in a rock'n'roll context - flute, oboe, and clarinet for starters.....the list could go on until just about everything is exhausted with the possible exception of the electric guitar (standard edition) and even that's not as malleable (or ductile, for the scientists amongst us ).

[glee]

Funny then that I played live with the Bad Seeds in the early nineties on at least one occasion (at Melb uni I think) and Nick said said I played the greatest solo ever on Cindy. I must admit that I've never been asked again though.

[Urpal]

So, to borrow a phrase, it's not what you play its the way that you play it. Now that I understand.

Incidentally I just me across a pic of David McComb in Uncut mag. Unfortunately not with a commemorative article wrapped around but in one of those lookalike things noting Andrew Bird's similarity of appearance. Based on the two pics offered Bird does have a resemblance.

Oddly enough, I have a longstanding client also called Andrew Bird who looks like neither, but its always struck me as parental wit that his initialized name is A C Bird. I wonder whether the musicians parents shared that joke?

[LAMF]

Just got word that Ed Kuepper has joined the Bad Seeds as Mick Harvey's replacement and will be playing with the Bad Seeds on some Festival dates in Europe around June/July. I see interesting things ahead.

[winston smersch]

Okay LAMF- no need to rub it in (ya crowing bastid !!) (signed- an envious Mofo.)

[Urpal]

How about Nick Cave?

Anyway, he's got a page on Twitter. You can find it here:


http://twitter.com/nickcave?page=6

3:14 PM Jan 16th

"On the phone with Blixa. Or his answering machine. Always hard to be sure."

Not so sure about the genuineness of that Nick Cave diary, but Jim Sclavunos Trevor-Roper did a tour diary for the Australian ATP events which verifies some of the events in it

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/01/big_jim_sclavunoss_bad_seeds_t.html

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/02/big_jim_sclavunoss_bad_seeds_t_9.html

Are you "some joker from the Brian Jonestown Massacre", Mr Ricky?

[son of albert]

Surely the Nick Cave twitter is a pastiche........

[Gazza]

Would like to think that it was a pastiche executed by Nick himself but – alas! – the email address suggests not.

[winston smersch]

"Would like to think that it was a pastiche executed by Nick himself but – alas! – the email address suggests not."


- I picked it Gazza (*struts cockily*)

[Mark_from_Perth]

I enjoyed Jim Sclavunos' blog Urpal, thanks for pointing that out.