The Year In Review
Maurice takes a long look
at a year of highs and lows
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- 1. Official Releases
- 1.1 The Main Releases
- 1.2 Promo's, Collectors Fun (or Burden)
- 1.3 Bootlegs
- 2. Concerts
- 2.1 Europe
- 2.2 Australia
- 3. Other Performances: Sessions, TV appearances, interviews, ....
- 4. More 1997 Highlights
- 5. In Memoriam
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Nick Cave - 1996 summary
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Contents:
1. Official Releases
1.1 The Main Releases
1.2 Promo's, Bootlegs, Collectors Fun (or Burden)
2. Concerts
2.1 Australia
2.2 Japan
2.3 Europe and South-America
3. Other Performances
3.1 Sessions
3.2 Readings
3.3 Guest Appearances
3.4 Interviews and other TV appearances
4. More 1996 Highlights
5. In Memoriam
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1. Official Releases
1.1 The Main Releases
- CD Murder Ballads
- CDs Henry Lee/King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O/Knoxville Girl
- CD To Have And To Hold
- VID Video "Ritual Habitual" features live footage and backstage
scenes from the Big Day Out festival.
- CD Current 93 album "All The Pretty Little Horses (The Inmost Light)"
features Nick on All The Pretty Little Horses and Patripassian.
- CD Witches album "Undercover" features Nick on Shivers.
- CD "Songs In The Key Of X" features Nick & The Dirty Three on
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum and on Key Of X.
- CA "The Mark Radcliffe Sessions" has a live version of O Malley's
Bar.
- CD Barry Adamson album "Oedipus Schmoedipus" features Nick on
The Sweetest Embrace.
1.2 Promo's, Bootlegs, Collectors Fun (or Burden)
CDs 1996 "Murder Ballads promo sampler"
Where The Wild Roses Grow
The Curse Of Millhaven
Lovely Creature
Death Is Not The End
Henry Lee
Mute, RCD 138
CDs 1996 "King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O", free one-track CD
with: "+ de Musique Mute/ L labels" (?)
Visa 3729
CD 1996 "Murder Ballads: The Interview" promo interview disc contains
a 40 minute interview by Jessamy Calkin. Questions are on
a booklet, answers only on the disc.
Mute, cavespeakcd1
CD/LP 1996 "Far Be It From Me", this album by Tex Perkins has a song
called "Two Wrongs", which is co-written by Nick Cave.
Polydor, 533 062-2
book 1996 "Murder Ballads" a music book out for Murder Ballads, with
arrangements for piano and guitar. 48 pages, 8.95 Pounds.
Published by Wise Publications, AM 937651. ISBN 0-7119-5815-7
There also is a booklet for Where The Wild Roses Grow only,
this has number AM 935583.
CD 1996 "Dead Is Not The End" bootleg of Koln, Bizarre Festival
17/08/96, from the (incomplete) TV/FM broadcast (it misses
Jack The Ripper from the broadcast). Filler songs are
from "Viva Las Vegas".
NC-001 (Made in Germany)
CD 1996 "The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds", so far only seen
in Estonia. Cover is a photocopy of Nick & Kylie.
Probably bootleg, despite the "Mute" label.
MUTE 601852
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2. Concerts
2.1 Australia
19/01/96 Auckland, NZ, Ericsson Stadium
21/01/96 Gold Coast, Parklands
25/01/96 Sydney, Showgrounds
28/01/96 Melbourne, Showgrounds
02/02/96 - Adelaide, Showgrounds
04/02/96 Perth, Oval
Comments: The Big Day Out tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Mercy is back, first time since 1989, featured Warren Ellis, who
also played on The Willow Garden/The Weeping Song/The Mercy Seat.
Where The Wild Roses Grow featured Kylie Minogue.
On Stagger Lee, Jim Sclavunos played drums and Thomas Wydler did
percussion. Note that the Murder Ballads are hardly represented
in the setlists.
MONTH January February
DAY 19 21 25 28 2 4
TOTAL # OF SONGS 12 12 12 12 12 12
Stagger Lee 1 1 1 1 1 1
Do You Love Me? 2 2 2 2 2 2
From Her To Eternity 3 6 6 3 3 3
Mercy 4 4 4 4 4 4
Jangling Jack 5
City Of Refuge 5
Loverman 5 5 5 5 6 6
Jack The Ripper 6 3 3 6 11 11
Red Right Hand 7 7 8 7 7 7
Into My Arms 8 8 7 8 8 8
Your Funeral, My Trial 9
The Willow Garden 10 9 9 9 9 9
Where The Wild Roses Grow 10 10 10
The Weeping Song 11 11 11 11 10 10
The Mercy Seat 12 12 12 12 12 12
2.2 Japan
13/05/96 - Tokyo, Liquid Room
14/05/96 - Osaka, IMP Hall
15/05/96 Nagoya, Club Quattro
17/05/96 - Tokyo, Liquid Room
18/05/96 Tokyo, Liquid Room
Comments: First live performance of O'Malley's Bar; Wild Roses was
done with Blixa doing the Kylie part. The new song Far From Me has
Nick on piano and Jim on organ. Mercy, never played in the 90s
before 96, remains in the setlist. Some old live favorites are
disappearing: Tupelo, Papa Won't Leave You Henry, and only a single
performance of The Ship Song.
MONTH May
DATE 13 14 15 17 18
TOTAL # OF SONGS 16 15 15 19 17
Stagger Lee 1 1 1 1 11
Do You Love Me? 2 2 2 2 3
I Let Love In 8 3 3 4 7
Red Right Hand 5 4 4 7 2
Christina The Astonishing 5 5 6 13
Where The Wild Roses Grow 9 6 6 14 6
Loverman 4 8 8 5 12
Nobody's Baby Now 10 9 14 17 14
Into My Arms 7 10 10 13
The Weeping Song 11 11 11 11 10
The Mercy Seat 12 12 12 12 1
Far From Me 13 13 8 5
Your Funeral My Trial 6 14 16 9
Mercy 3 7 18 16
O'Malley's Bar 13 15 15
Brother My Cup Is Empty 7 9 8
The Good Son 9 3 4
Jangling Jack 10 15
Jack The Ripper 15 17
Thirsty Dog 14 19
The Ship Song 15
From Her To Eternity 16
2.3 Europe and South-America
28/06/96 Roskilde Festival, Orange Stage
30/06/96 - Milano, Italy, Sonoria Festival
04/07/96 Kristiansand, Norway, Quart Festival
06/07/96 - Belfort, France, Eurockeennes Festival
20/07/96 - Bern, Switzerland, Gurten Festival
26/07/96 - Stockholm, Sweden, Lollipop Festival
27/07/96 - Wiesen, Austria, Forestglade Festival
14/08/96 London, Brixton Academy
15/08/96 London, Brixton Academy
17/08/96 Koln, Bizarre Festival
24/08/96 Hasselt, Pukkelpop Festival
25/08/96 * Sarajevo (on tour T-shirt but didn't take place).
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21/11/96 - Buenos Aires, Teatro Opera
23/11/96 - Buenos Aires, Estadio de Ferro, Festival
24/11/96 - Buenos Aires, Dr. Jeckill (a bar with a small stage!)
27/11/96 Santiago, Teatro Monumental, "Crazy Rock" Festival
CONCERTS
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Comments: European Festival tour. Warren Ellis on (most of) Mercy,
Willow Garden, Henry Lee, Wild Roses, The Weeping Song, The Mercy Seat,
everywhere (including South-America) except in Koln. PJ Harvey sang on
Henry Lee. Kylie on WTWRG in London, Blixa did her part on other shows.
Parts of the Koln concert, and the complete Santiago gig were
broadcast on TV. I have only little info on the Buenos Aires dates.
In Santiago, Red Right Hand was aborted and the set was shortened
due to a hostile audience yelling for Cypress Hill.
MONTH June July August November
DATE 28 4 6 26 14 15 17 24 21 27
TOTAL # OF SONGS 13 16 14 16 17 17 15 15 8
Stagger Lee 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
From Her To Eternity 13 2 2 2 2 6 2 2 * 3
Do You Love Me? 8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 *
Brother My Cup Is Empty 3 15 * 4 5 4 5 *
Red Right Hand 4 5 * 5 4 4 5 4 4
The Good Son 5 6 * 6 5 *
Loverman 6 7 * 7 6 2 6 6 5
Jack The Ripper 8 * 8 15 15 15 15
Mercy 9 9 * 10 7 7 8 9
The Willow Garden 10 10 * 11 8 14 10 * 7
Henry Lee 11 *
Where The Wild Roses Grow 11 14 11 11 11 11 *
The Weeping Song 12 12 * 12 12 12 12 12 *
The Mercy Seat 1 13 * 13 13 13 13 13 * 8
Nobody's Baby Now 9 14 14 14
Black Betty 4 15 10 8 * 1
Thirsty Dog 16 * 17
I Let Love In 7 8 *
Christina The Astonishing 14
Black Hair 9 10
Into My Arms 10 9
Are You The One That I've... 16 7
Your Funeral, My Trial 9 7 *
Little Empty Boat 16
O' Malley's Bar 17
The Ship Song * 6
City Of Refuge *
The Singer (aborted) *
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3. Other Performances
3.1 Sessions
24/02/96 "The White Room", Channel 4, session, with PJ
Harvey
Stagger Lee - Henry Lee
26/02/96 Mark Radcliffe show, BBC Radio 1, session
Henry Lee - O'Malley's Bar
3.2 Readings
07/07/96 London, Royal Albert Hall, "Poetry Olympics" w. Warren Ellis
Dead Joe - Black Hair - The Mercy Seat
28/07/96 "The Proms", London, BBC Radio 3,
The Word Made Flesh - Into My Arms
06/09/96 Dublin, Whelan's Tent, "In The City" Festival
The Word Made Flesh - Green Eyes
3.3 Guest Appearances
With The Dirty Three:
20/01/96 - Brisbane, The Zoo
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
??/01/96 - Sydney, Annandale Hotel
29/04/96 - Berlin, Knaack-Klub
Sad Waters
With Tim Rose:
15/10/96 - London, Putney, The Half Moon
Long Time Man, Hey Joe
3.4 Interviews and other TV appearances
Relatively, there are very few broadcast interviews this year
(and the Swedish interviews below were recorded in 1995 already):
96 "Murder Ballads - The Interview", radio promo
08/02/96 "ZTV Nytt", ZTV, Sweden, interview
23/02/96 "Artist Special", ZTV Sweden, interview
10/03/96 "Modern Rock Live", US radio interview
24/04/96 "Planet Rock Profiles", Irish TV
18/05/96 "Metropolis", ARTE TV Germany, interview
31/07/96 MTV, Mick Harvey interview
11/96 MTV, Nick Cave says no to awards
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4. More 1996 Highlights
(In no particular order.)
* We get video clips to Henry Lee and Stagger Lee.
* Nick appears in the August issue of the porn magazine "Hustler"
* Nick wins ARIA awards, and doesn't want to be part of the MTV Awards.
* Number one chart positions and huge sales (over 600,000)
for Murder Ballads.
* The goodson mailing list has survived Nick's success. Many new people
have joined us, but the mailing list has remained one of the finest
lists. Thanks everybody. Thanks Oliver for running it so well.
* Rerelease of Birthday Party catalogue on Shock Records.
* Peter Sempel shows another film with NC content in New York City.
* 1996 covers of Nick Cave songs by
- Teodross Avery (Loverman),
- Goethes Erben (Sitz Der Gnade (= The Mercy Seat))
- New Waver (The Mercy Seat)
- Frank Bennett (Red Right Hand)
- Paul Kelly (God's Hotel, now on a live album)
- Midnight Oil (The Good Son, live only)
- Howard New (Straight To You, live only)
* Many covers and parodies of Where The Wild Roses Grow.
* Robert Brokenmouth publishes his book "Nick Cave - The Birthday Party
and Other Epic Adventures".
* Rebroadcasts of "September Songs","Straight To You", and other
documentary-like items (e.g. JJJ-specials), mostly in Australia.
* By now, numerous compilation albums contain Nick Cave songs, and
several are used in film soundtracks.
* New old Boys Next Door live recordings (audio and video) have
surfaced.
* Nick appears in Michael Hausman's film "Rhinoceros". (Yet to be
released.)
* Einstuerzende Neubauten's Ende Neu.
* Nick appears in Dirty Three's video clip "Everything's Fucked".
* Theatre play for The Ass Saw The Angel in Denmark; many new
translations and reprints of this book, as well as of King Ink.
* The Cave Inn "http://www.zephyr.net/users/cave/" has become a fine
WWW site for Nick Cave information. Thank you, Ross, you did a great
job! Other WWW sites are coming up as well.
* The Bad Seeds record a fantastic successor to Murder Ballads. It's
called "The Boatman's Call" - to be released in February 1997.
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5. In Memoriam
Jeffrey Lee Pierce died in March 1996. We miss you, Jeffrey.
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