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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Town Pump.

Vancouver, Canada.

October 30, 1986

Caroline Polachek at Primavera Sound 2022. Shot by Laura Studarus for Spin Magazine.

Caroline Polachek at Primavera Sound 2022. Shot by Laura Studarus for Spin Magazine.

Finally, my Best Shows/Music Photos of 2013. Top 30. Might seem a little late but I don’t believe in doing lists until the year is over! Photos are in chronological order and aside from Conor and Blur, I only listed one show per artist, even if I saw them multiple times and they were both a favorite. Selects are a combo of favorite shows/photos/and of course sentimentality.

 

01) 01/26: Muse @ Staples

02) 02/15: Soundgarden @ The Wiltern

03) 03/01: Morrissey @ Staples Center

04) 03/19: Josh Ritter @ the Fonda

05) 04/13: Blur @ Coachella Weekend 1

06) 04/13: How To Destroy Angels @ Coachella Weekend 1

07) 04/14: OMD @ Coachella Weekend 1

08) 04/19: Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Coachella Weekend 2

09) 04/19: Blur @ Coachella Weekend 2

10) 04/21: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds @ Coachella Weekend 2

11) 05/18: The Rolling Stones @ The Honda Center

12) 05/18: The Rolling Stones w/ Dave Grohl @ The Honda Center

13) 05/22: Arctic Monkeys @ the Majestic Ventura Theater

14) 05/28: John Fogerty @ The El Rey Theater

15) 05/30: Stones Fest @ The Fonda Theater

16) 06/04: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers @ the Fonda Theater

17) 06/08: Andrea Bocello @ The Hollywood Bowl

18) 06/14: Atoms For Peace @ Club AMOK

19) 08/11: The National @ The Greek Theater

20) 08/17: Queens Of the Stone Age @ The Gibson Amphitheater

21) 08/25: Solange @ FYF Fest

22) 09/09: The Pixies @ The El Rey

23) 10/06: Conor Oberst w/ The Felice Brothers @ Way Over Yonder

24) 10/10: Conor Oberst @ Pappy & Harriets

25) 10/13: Helmet @ The Canyon Club

26) 10/18: Placebo @ The Wiltern

27) 10/20: Okkervil River @ The Wiltern

28) 11/04: Desaparecidos @ The Fonda

29) 11/08: Nine Inch Nails @ Staples Center

30) 12/19: Andrew Bird @ The Immanuel Presbyterian Church

  

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Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills past the stacks

On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man

In a dusty black coat with a red right hand.

 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

You have a heart and I have a key

Lie back and let me unlock you

Those heathens you hang with down by the sea

All they want to do is defrock you

I know a river, where we can dream

It will swell up, burst it's banks,

babe, and rock you

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals

Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten

But I'm glad you've come around

here with your animals

And your heart that is bruised but unbeaten

And beating like a drum

 

I will sit like a bird on a fence

Sing you songs with a happy ending

Swoop down and tell you that it don't make sense

To attack the very thing you're defending

Didn't I just buy that dress for you?

That pink paper pinafore that you keep mending

Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals

Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten

But I'm glad you've come around

here with your animals

And your heart that is banging and beating

And banging like a gong

 

I can see that they've hurt you, dear

Here is some moonlight to cloak us

And I will never desert you here

Unpetaled among the crocus

Allow me, my love, to allay your fear

As I swim, in and out of focus

But if you're gonna dine with the cannibals

Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten

But I'm glad you've come around

here with your animals

And your heart that is bruised but bleating

And bleeding like a lamb

Banging like a gong

Beating like a drum

 

Cannibal's Hymn - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

a signic riff on the legend of stagger lee, some of the various versions of which can be looked at here:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee_Shelton

 

or for a far more entertaining version (adults only!), my favourite, a song from nick cave:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyl78qQPVI

 

mansfield, ohio

 

woca

 

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (PRIMAVERA SOUND 2022)

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (PRIMAVERA SOUND 2022)

@ the Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, Jun 27

 

©2014 Doug Springer, HeavyLight.ca

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

NPR Showcase

Stubbs

South by Southwest

Austin, Texas 2013

Jaime Fernández ©

@jaimefphoto

This image is copyrighted, please do not use in any way without consent.

 

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you have a heart and I have a key

lie back and let me unlock you

those heathens you hang with down by the sea

all they want to do is defrock you

i know a river, where we can dream

 

nick cave and the bad seeds

  

Caroline Polachek at Primavera Sound 2022. Shot by Laura Studarus for Spin Magazine.

taken July 11, 2014 at The Shrine - just before Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds took the stage.

 

taken with the Google Camera app on Samsung Galaxy S4 - using the "Photo Sphere" panorama feature.

Red Right Hand, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

 

View On Black - Heaps better.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4qPRNh-58 - for the song - I couldnt find a decent quality actual video clip for it - this is a live recording. Pretty good!

 

Why's he holding a round thing? Well. It's a cog. Well ok it's not. But it's similar to a cog. Ok, well, it's not that either. But its the tought that counts. And its symbolism. Or something like that. Shhhh.

 

Cant really tell at normal size, but I also changed the colour slightly of the shadow the lightsaber casts in hope that it looks more like something it might actually cast.. I didn't have a real one to test my theory with :P

 

Just been playing a few old albums, which turned into a bit of a Rowland Howard fest. And maybe his voice wasn't always the greatest, but to me his distinctive style always marked him out as being one of my favourite ever guitarists.

 

After just releasing a new album, he sadly passed away almost unnoticed by the press on Dec 30th after a long battle with liver cancer. He was aged just 50.

 

RIP Rowland S Howard. - you will be missed

 

dead radio & Billy Idol's White Wedding

 

interview about the last album

 

Warren Ellis (Dirty Three, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Grinderman). 3rd September 09, Paris

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @Reggia Venaria, Turin [july 9th, 2009]

I was walking down the street on a nice sunny day in Prague, in a good mood, minding my own business, when all of a sudden a very familiar face came into my line of vision directly opposite of me. We both did a double-take and instantly recognized one another! It was Phil Shoenfelt, former frontman of the New York band Khmer Rouge, who I thought I had left for dead who I thought I had left for dead back in New York. The last time I had seen Phil was back in the ol ´80s in New York. He was with his then wife Marcia and they were both major junkies. I can remember the sight of them holding onto one another for support, looking a bit green around the gills, coming out of some seedy hotel and approaching me asking for some money. They made Sid and Nancy look like amateurs. I told them the old story about being broke and shuffled away. I had not seen either of them since that time. At the time, I thought that they would not last much longer in this world and did my best to forget. I was in shock to see a somewhat healthy looking Phil standing in front of me. I was then pleasantly surprised to find out that Phil was happily married to a Czech woman, played in several bands in Prague and Berlin and wrote several books that were published.

 

Phil and I are now very good friends once again. I went to see his bands and were inspired by both. In fact I was so inspired, I have been making a documentary film about his Berlin based band Fatal Shore for three years now. I am in the process of going through all of the footage on tapes for editing. I have over 50 tapes, which means over 50 hours of looking for the best bits for editing. My eyes are tired, but I am looking forward to completing this film. It was because of meeting Phil on that fateful day in Prague I got to know so many inspiring people. I hope to do justice with the Fatal Shore film for Phil, Chris Hughes and in respect and Honor for the incredibly talented Bruno Adams, who passed away in 2009. I filmed Phil´s band and interviewed him for Richard Lowenstein´s documentary about Rowland S. Howard. I would write Phil´s bio information, (I always do the writing about people, but I make an exception in this case) but fussy Phil would find some objection to it I am sure, so I will let write Phil Shoenfelt introduce himself in his own words.

 

Phil Shoenfelt is an English musician/singer/songwriter/author who has lived in Prague since 1995. He is a veteran of the UK and New York punk and post-punk scenes, and during the early 1980’s was the front man and principle songwriter for the New York-based band Khmer Rouge. In the five years the band was together, Khmer Rouge was a favorite on the NY club scene, and toured in the USA supporting such acts as The Clash, Tom Verlaine, Alan Vega, Nico and Billy Idol. Returning to the UK in 1984, the band did two UK tours with The Fall before finally splitting in 1986.

 

Phil then began his solo career. His first single was released on Mark E. Smith’s Cog Sinister label in 1989. A support slot with The Fall followed, as well as several concerts supporting Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds on UK tours in 1990 and 1991. Two solo CDs were released on UK independent labels in 1990 and 1993. After a Czech tour in 1994, Phil decided to move to Prague on a full time basis. Since moving here, he has recorded several more CDs, both with his Prague-based band PHIL SHOENFELT & SOUTHERN CROSS and with the Berlin-based Australian band FATAL SHORE. Although Fatal Shore ended with the death in 2009 of founder member Bruno Adams, Phil continues to play regularly with Southern Cross at venues across Europe. To date, he has had a total of 13 CDs of his music released on various labels in the UK, USA, Czech Republic, Germany and Greece. The latest is Golden Vanity, a collaboration with the late Nikki Sudden, which was released in 2009 on the UK label Easy Action. At the moment Phil is mixing the new PS & Southern Cross CD, which will be released in October 2010 by Easy Action.

 

As well as these musical activities, Phil has had two books published to date: Junkie Love (a fictionalized autobiography) and The Green Hotel (poetry and song lyrics). Junkie Love was first published in Czech translation in 1997 (as Feťácká Láska) by Maťa Books of Prague, and has become something of a cult book for young Czech readers. The book was published for the first time in English in 2001 by Twisted Spoon Press, and went on to win the Firecracker Alternative Book Award (NYC, 2002) for best book in the Drugs Books section. Since then it has it has been translated and published in Italian by Fazi Editions of Rome. A Greek translation is being prepared for publication by Electra Books of Athens, and an extract has appeared in Erotika – Drogen und Sexualitat by German philosopher Wolfgang Sterneck. In 2006 Junkie Love was licensed to Ebury Press/Random House for UK and Commonwealth distribution, and this new edition was published in July 2007. Phil’s writing has also appeared in literary magazines such as Gargoyle (USA/UK), Garageland(UK), the Prague Literary Review, Optimism (Czech Republic), Hele (Czech Republic), Blatt (Czech Republic), Apple Of The Eye, (Greece), Morgana (Germany) and Vlna (Slovakia). He is also included in the The Return of Král Majeles, a recently published anthology of post 1989 Prague writing put together by the Philosophic Faculty of Charles University. At the moment Phil is working on a new book (Stripped), an autobiographical novel set in downtown New York in the years 1979-84.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Plug Awards @ Terminal 5 - NYC - 3/6/08

 

photographed for RollingStone.com

New Orleans, LA - Preservation Hall

 

Red Right Hand

Nick Caves abd the Bad Seeds

 

Take a litle walk to the edge of town

Go across the tracks

Where the viaduct looms,

like a bird of doom

As it shifts and cracks

Where secrets lie in the border fires,

in the humming wires

Hey man, you know

you're never coming back

Past the square, past the bridge,

past the mills, past the stacks

On a gathering storm comes

a tall handsome man

In a dusty black coat with

a red right hand

 

He'll wrap you in his arms,

tell you that you've been a good boy

He'll rekindle all the dreams

it took you a lifetime to destroy

He'll reach deep into the hole,

heal your shrinking soul

Hey buddy, you know you're

never ever coming back

He's a god, he's a man,

he's a ghost, he's a guru

They're whispering his name

through this disappearing land

But hidden in his coat

is a red right hand

 

You ain't got no money?

He'll get you some

You ain't got no car? He'll get you one

You ain't got no self-respect,

you feel like an insect

Well don't you worry buddy,

cause here he comes

Through the ghettos and the barrio

and the bowery and the slum

A shadow is cast wherever he stands

Stacks of green paper in his

red right hand

 

You'll see him in your nightmares,

you'll see him in your dreams

He'll appear out of nowhere but

he ain't what he seems

You'll see him in your head,

on the TV screen

And hey buddy, I'm warning

you to turn it off

He's a ghost, he's a god,

he's a man, he's a guru

You're one microscopic cog

in his catastrophic plan

Designed and directed by

his red right hand

Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex @ The Scotiabank Arena in Toronto - October 28, 2018

 

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I was rushing around Berlin filming interviews for Australian filmmaker Richard Lowenstein for his documentary about Rowland S. Howard. I was very curious about meeting with Christoph Dreher. I had heard so much about him. When The Birthday Party first came to Berlin they stayed with Christoph Dreher. When I met Christoph I was having difficulty because I had to film with two cameras without any help or assistance. I was all thumbs and a bit awkward, but Christoph graciously put up with it all and told some great stories about Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard, Mick Harvey and the Birthday Party band members who had stayed in his loft. Christoph was there from the beginning in Berlin involved with music and film. He was one of the first revolutionary music pioneers in Berlin when he founded the post-punk band Die Haut in 1980. Die Haut was primarily an amazing instrumental band with sometime guest singers such as Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Oliver Schütz etc. The first line up of the band consisted of Thomas Wydler, Martin Peter, Remo Park and Christoph. He had studied film-making and started making music videos for his band Die Haut and then went on to make music videos for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for songs such as "Tupelo", "The Singer" and "Mercy Seat“. He then went on to make numerous music documentaries as director and writer and won lots or awards such as the Grimme Preis. He made a lot of incredible music documenteries for German TV ZDF such as "POP ODYSSEE 2 - HOUSE OF THE RISING PUNK" covering the New York punk scene and the 18 part series "LOST IN MUSIC" for ZDF/arte/3sat. Since 2000, Christoph is a well respected professor teaching audiovisual media at Mez Akademie for Design in Stuttgart and he still continues to make film

Nick Cave and the bad seeds

Buenos Aires. Argentina

now that is that i call singstar kids party style :)

 

Camera: Sony DSLR-A900

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)

Aperture: f/4.5

Focal Length: 30 mm

ISO Speed: 250

Flash: On, Fired and set to 85mm

1. We No Who U R (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

2. Jubilee Street (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

3. Wide Lovely Eyes(Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

4. Higgs Boson Blues (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

5. From Her To Eternity (From Her To Eternity, 1984)

 

6. Red Right Hand (Let Love In, 1994)

 

7. Stranger Than Kindness (Your Funeral…My Trial, 1986)

 

8. Jack The Ripper (Henry’s Dream, 1992)

 

9. Deanna (Tender Prey, 1988)

 

10. Papa Won't Leave You Henry (Henry’s Dream, 1992)

 

11. Love Letter (No More Shall We Part, 2001)

 

12. God Is In The House (No More Shall We Part, 2001)

 

13. The Weeping Song (The Good Son, 1990)

 

14. The Mercy Seat (Tender Prey, 1988)

 

15. Stagger Lee (Murder Ballads, 1996)

 

16. Tupelo (The Firstborn Is Dead, 1985)

 

17. Push the Sky Away (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

Nick Cave – Vocals

Martyn P. Casey – bass, vocals

Conway Savage – piano, organ, vocals

Jim Sclavunos – percussion, drums, organ, melodica, vocals

Warren Ellis – violin, fender mandocaster, loops, mandolin, tenor guitar, viola, bouzouki, accordion, flute, lute, piano, programming, percussion, vocals

Barry Adamson – drums, percussion, vocals

Ed Kuepper – electric guitar, vocals

 

McFarlin Auditorium

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX

14 March 2013

 

1. We No Who U R (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

2. Jubilee Street (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

3. Wide Lovely Eyes(Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

4. Higgs Boson Blues (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

5. From Her To Eternity (From Her To Eternity, 1984)

 

6. Red Right Hand (Let Love In, 1994)

 

7. Stranger Than Kindness (Your Funeral…My Trial, 1986)

 

8. Jack The Ripper (Henry’s Dream, 1992)

 

9. Deanna (Tender Prey, 1988)

 

10. Papa Won't Leave You Henry (Henry’s Dream, 1992)

 

11. Love Letter (No More Shall We Part, 2001)

 

12. God Is In The House (No More Shall We Part, 2001)

 

13. The Weeping Song (The Good Son, 1990)

 

14. The Mercy Seat (Tender Prey, 1988)

 

15. Stagger Lee (Murder Ballads, 1996)

 

16. Tupelo (The Firstborn Is Dead, 1985)

 

17. Push the Sky Away (Push The Sky Away, 2013)

 

Nick Cave – Vocals

Martyn P. Casey – bass, vocals

Conway Savage – piano, organ, vocals

Jim Sclavunos – percussion, drums, organ, melodica, vocals

Warren Ellis – violin, fender mandocaster, loops, mandolin, tenor guitar, viola, bouzouki, accordion, flute, lute, piano, programming, percussion, vocals

Barry Adamson – drums, percussion, vocals

Ed Kuepper – electric guitar, vocals

 

McFarlin Auditorium

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX

14 March 2013

 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in concerto al Rock en Seine Day 2 di Parigi foto di Andrea Ripamonti per www.rockon.it

I can't be certain but think I booked this before getting tickets for Glastonbury. Probably saw it advertised in the NME & marvelled at the line up, the main draw being R.E.M. after the shows in May.

 

Travelled up to London before getting on our coach at Victoria. Arrived at Brussels & the coach parked up in a space at the rear of a number of buildings that all seemed to have sheets of corrugated metal covering the windows. The reason being, as we were informed by our driver, was due to the red light district being around the corner.

Pleased to discover that our accommodation was the 4 star Brussels Sheraton so after dropping off our luggage we went out to look around. Naturally our curiosity led us to the street around the corner. I recall desperately avoiding eye contact with the naked girls sat just inches away, separated only by a sheet of glass, & my pace quickening as they knocked on the windows. Relieved to reach the end of the street we then headed on to the more genteel delights of the Grand Place.

 

Returning to the hotel we discovered that some of the bands were staying at the our hotel after seeing fans waiting outside. Headed off to the hotel bar where Nick Cave was holding court. Waiting for the lift to return to our room & when the doors opened Joe Jackson stepped out.

 

The crowd at the festival seemed remarkably sedate & it was easy to stroll right up to the front of the stage. We took photos (with varying degrees of success) of most of the acts though sadly not Lou Reed who was touring the New York album at the time. I can only think it was down to the light level by the time he took to the stage.

 

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1. We No Who U R

2. Jubilee Street

3. Abattoir Blues

4. Tupelo

5. Stranger Than Kindness

6. Mermaids

7. From Her to Eternity

8. Love Letter

9. Far From Me

10. Higgs Boson Blues

11. Hiding All Away

12. The Mercy Seat

13. Stagger Lee

14. Push the Sky Away

Encore:

15. We Real Cool

16. Deanna

17. Red Right Hand

18. Jack the Ripper

19. Give Us A Kiss

1. We No Who U R

2. Jubilee Street

3. Abattoir Blues

4. Tupelo

5. Stranger Than Kindness

6. Mermaids

7. From Her to Eternity

8. Love Letter

9. Far From Me

10. Higgs Boson Blues

11. Hiding All Away

12. The Mercy Seat

13. Stagger Lee

14. Push the Sky Away

Encore:

15. We Real Cool

16. Deanna

17. Red Right Hand

18. Jack the Ripper

19. Give Us A Kiss

1. We No Who U R

2. Jubilee Street

3. Abattoir Blues

4. Tupelo

5. Stranger Than Kindness

6. Mermaids

7. From Her to Eternity

8. Love Letter

9. Far From Me

10. Higgs Boson Blues

11. Hiding All Away

12. The Mercy Seat

13. Stagger Lee

14. Push the Sky Away

Encore:

15. We Real Cool

16. Deanna

17. Red Right Hand

18. Jack the Ripper

19. Give Us A Kiss

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