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Performance
NewsFrom NME:
PATTI SMITH, Asian Dub Foundation, Marc Almond, Saint Etienne, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave, Tjinder Singh and Julian Cope are among those contributing to an exhibition as part of National Poetry Day on October 7, which this year celebrates song lyrics. The exhibition is being held at London SE1 Royal Festival Hall foyer.
Monday
99/10/02
General
NewsFrom Maurice:
The wind whispers that Nick and Susie got married a few weeks ago in a small, private ceremony. Various Bad Seeds will be flying in to London for the October 9th "blessing" ceremony. Apparently, this is why Nick cancelled the October 10th show in the Netherlands.
Monday
99/09/06
General
NewsFrom NME:
NICK CAVE's spoken-word CD of readings from his 1988 novel 'And The Ass Saw The Angel' - previously only available through mail order - will be on general release by Mute Records on October 11. The readings from the book - originally given away as a bonus CD with 'Tender Prey' - is accompanied by Mick Harvey and Ed Clayton Jones's music for a Sydney theatre production based on the book.
Apart from some possible European festival shows, Nick Cave has no other plans for the rest of the year.
Monday
99/09/06
General
NewsFrom Mute:
Nick introduces 'The Harder They Come' on Film Four (Digital) (Shown last week and repeated Thursday night). Nick's Music of The Millenium piece on the Pop Group is also repeated on 23 June as part of 4 Music.
Fuji TV in Japan should be showing a live performance being recorded on 1 June. Unfortunately I don't know whether it's going out live or will be shown at a later date.
He is now confirmed for the Cambridge Folk Festival on July 31st and The Lissard Festival in Ireland on Aug 29. Both shows will be with Warren Ellis, Jim White and Susan Stenger.
Saturday
99/05/22
Performance
NotesFrom Billy:
Mute Records is giving away a pair of tickets and a chance to meet Nick at the soundcheck during the Meltdown Festival.
http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/news/comps.htm
Wednesday
05/19/99
Tribute
NewsFrom PJ:
Wild Roses 4U-Event in Berlin
To all Cave-fanatics:
Berlin, 12.05.99, 9pm, Duncker-club, Dunckerstr.64,
Tel. +49 (0)30 - 445 95 09Two brilliant musicians are giving an extraordinary NC - EVENT. With piano, guitar and 2 voices, and afterwards a Cave party. (Note Nick will not be here.)
Saturday
05/15/99
Performance
NewsFrom Hunny:
NICK CAVE, THE PRETENDERS' CHRISSIE HYNDE and VELVET UNDERGROUND legend JOHN CALE took to the live stage together in London last night (May 12) for the taping of a TV special. The show will be broadcast in July.
http://www.music365.co.uk/autocontent/news_003157.htm
Saturday
05/15/99
Film
NewsFrom Leslie:
The film Mojo (which boasts 2 NC songs on the soundtrack) will be playing various parts of the US as part of Changing the Guard: The Festival of New British Cinema.
Co-presented by The British Council and ProActive Film Marketing, the festival will tour nationally through 1999, making its west coast premiere on June 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, followed by the Cleveland Cinematheque in July, The Art Institute of Chicago in August, Portland's Northwest Film Center and The Seattle Art Museum in September, Houston's Museum of Fine Arts in October and Ithaca's Cornell Cinema in November.
Saturday
05/08/99
Release
NewsFrom 4AD:
4AD are proud to release The Birthday Party Live '81 - '82, a collection of the best moments of three blistering live shows in London, Bremen and Athens, on Monday the 5th of July 1999.
This is the only band approved Birthday Party live album. The release will be available on CD only (CAD9005CD). Tracklisting is as follows:
The Venue, London 1981
1. Junkyard
2. A Dead Song
3. Dim Locator
4. Zoo Music Girl
5. Nick The Stripper
6. Blast Off
7. Release The Bats
8. Bully Bones
9. King Ink
10. Pleasure Heads Must BurnBremen, Germany 1982
11. Big Jesus Trashcan
12. Dead Joe
13. The Friend Catcher
14. 6" Gold Blade
15. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
16. She's HitAthens, Greece 1982
17. Funhouse
Saturday
05/08/99
General
PlansFrom Anders Gullestad
BA, one of my local newspapers, had a short interview with NC&tBS Manager Rayner Jesson yesterday. Here are the most important bits:
Nick will start to practice and record demos with the Bad Seeds at the end of the year (which suggests/ hopefully means that the next album will be NCBS and not just NC).
1999 has been a year off for Nick (like we didn't know that already). His private life was messed up, and he needed to get away from his routines, but now he's feeling much better (thanks to miss Bicks, probably), and is keeping sober.
Nick's decided that since he's only doing a few live shows this year, he wants them all to be first class. Jesson stresses that it's unique for NC to do three shows in two days (Bergen Blues and Roots Festival, 1st and 2nd of May in Norway), but he's doing it because he likes the philosophy behind the BBRF.
Sunday
05/02/99
Release
PlansFrom Maurice:
There will be a new live Birthday Party album out. Material from London 81 (Drunk On the Pope's Blood) gig, Bremen 82 (from a famous bootleg) and at least "Funhouse" from Athens 1982 with Jim "Foetus" Thirlwell on sax.
Earlier, Feb 99 was mentioned as release date, as well as April 99. I have reliable info that the CD has been mastered in March.
Sunday
05/02/99
General
NotesFrom The (London) Times 13 Feb 1999:
Pop stars want to be write-on
Sensitive pop stars are throwing down drumsticks and microphone stands in favour of fountain pens and feint-ruled exercise books for the delights of Litpop. Not always known for its intellectual stamina and wide vocabulary, the rock world is creating novels, short stories and poetry.
[... bla, bla, bla, U2&Rushdie ... Robbie Williams ...]
Some of the writing can be quite good. Nick Cave, the Australian singer-songwriter who led the way in 1996 with his acclaimed novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, is giving a solo performance in the form of a lecture at the Royal Festival Hall in March. As organiser of this year's Meltdown Festival in May, Cave is also making sure that there will be book-readings as well as music.
[... Belle & Sebastina ...]
Even pop stars who were writing writing before they played guitar are given a hard time for their literary aspirations. Cave thinks it is difficult to transcend the image projected on to them. He said: "It's a bit like singers being in movies. It's a very dangerous area really.
"When I wrote my book there was a hierarchy that existed and it was outragious to think that a rock star could ever write a novel. Part of what fuelled me is that everyone said I couldn't do it and in those days I had something to prove."
The rest of the article mentions Bono, KLF, Martin Amis, Michael Stipe and Diamanda Galas. The first three stanzas of Junkyard are printed under the heading: Nick Cave, the Australian singer, wrote a poem which appears in the anthology called "King Ink". There is a not too cool picture of Nick in his ugly leatherjacket, too.
(Thanks to Dirk R.)
Sunday
05/02/99
Performance
NewsFrom NME, 5 Feb 99
NICK CAVE will be hosting this year's Meltdown Festival, to be held over two weeks at London's Royal Festival Hall starting on June 24.
The singer, author and actor will choose the bill and work with organisers to shape Meltdown 99, the seventh to be held at the South Bank venue. Last year's event was hosted by John Peel.
Organiser David Sefton said: "We asked Nick to do it because he's got such a diverse range of talents and he's done so many different things.
It will be very diverse, which is what Meltdown is all about." Cave and Meltdown organisers are now working on securing the artists they have on their shortlist.
(Thanks Oliver)
Sunday
05/02/99
Release
NewsRE: 'And The Ass Saw The Angel' Date: 5 Jan 99
The press release for this mail order only CD, with readings by Nick Cave and music by Mick Harvey & Ed Clayton-Jones, is now finally up on the Mute web site at http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/cave/cave.htm
The CD is available exclusively from the Mute Bank for 7.99 pounds plus postage and packing or as part of a special offer (see order form for details at http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/cave/assform.htm ).
Sunday
05/02/99
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