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Nick Cave

August 2024

  • Nick Cave and Warren Ellis in the studio.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: existential wisdom from Nick Cave

  • Nick Cave in Milan, January 2023.

    ‘No longer in awe of my own genius’: Nick Cave talks about how he changed after sons’ deaths

June 2024

  • Dirty Three Sydney Opera House credit Daniel Boud 006b

    Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything review – aggressive and transcendent

    On their first album in 12 years, Warren Ellis and co fuse violin, guitar and drums to create wistful beauty out of distortion

May 2024

  • Massive Attack

    More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

    Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays
  • Portrait of Warren Ellis<br>France, Ivry-sur-Seine, 5 august 2021 Portrait of Warren Ellis at home. Cyril Zannettacci / Agence VU

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Warren Ellis on Steve Albini, Mad Max and the best sandwich: ‘Whipped cream and banana on white bread’

    Asked 10 random questions, the Dirty Three musician talks about watching bad TV with Marianne Faithfull, cleaning toilets and the best advice Albini gave him
  • Australian musician Mick Harvey in 2020

    ‘I can’t take Michael Bublé seriously’: Mick Harvey on songwriting, staying straight and ‘survivor’s guilt’

    As he releases his first solo album in a decade, Nick Cave’s former right-hand man reflects on ageing well – and his peers who weren’t so fortunate

April 2024

  • The Zoo’s former owner Joc Curran at the back stairs

    ‘The model is broken’: Brisbane live music venue the Zoo to close after 32 years

    Fortitude Valley institution and sister venue Stranded will soon shut as owner cites cost-of-living pressures and young people drinking less
  • Nick Cave. Photograph: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Weekend
    Nick Cave on how grief shapes his art, Marina Hyde on the Thames Water crisis, and bread’s role in British society – podcast

    This week, Marina Hyde discusses the Thames Water crisis after a sewage-plagued boat race; Simon Hattenstone interviews Nick Cave, who is about to exhibit his ceramic figurines at the Xavier Hufkens gallery, about art, love, politics and the death of his two sons; and Rachel Dixon investigates bread in Britain and what it tells us about health, wealth and class.
  • ‘When love’s on your side, it’s like a battering ram’ … (L-R) Jim White, Mick Turner and Warren Ellis.

    ‘Cynicism doesn’t get you anywhere’: Warren Ellis on Dirty Three’s return, Nick Cave – and opening a primate sanctuary

    It’s been 12 years since the Australian instrumental trio’s last album. Since then, their violinist has become Cave’s right-hand man and set up a home for abused monkeys. Now they’re back with a feverishly beautiful new album

March 2024

  • Nick Cave at the coronation of King Charles

    Nick Cave and learning through loss

  • Joc Curran at the back stairs of the venue

    Australia's best music venues
    ‘If you came to The Zoo, you respected the rules’: is this Brisbane music venue the best in Australia?

  • Nick Cave

    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’

  • Jarvis Cocker performing with Pulp at the Castlefield Bowl in Manchester.

    From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature?

February 2024

  • Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Sam Taylor-Johnson, collaborating together for Back to Black.

    Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to score Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black

    Bad Seeds duo hailed by director Sam Taylor-Johnson for ‘profoundly deep and moving’ work

January 2024

  • Michael Kiwanuka, Robert Smith of the Cure, and Ariana Grande – all expected to release new music in 2024.

    ‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024

    Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?

December 2023

  • John Crace

    Digested week
    Digested week: Some things are almost worth dying for – though not Rwanda

    John Crace
  • Sean O’Hagan

    ‘Chaos? This is natural living!’ The genius of Shane MacGowan

    Sean O’Hagan

November 2023

  • Shane MacGowan in London, 2001.

    Shane MacGowan obituary

    Lead singer and masterful songwriter for the Pogues who brought punk style and attitude to Irish folk music

October 2023

  • Nick Cave performs with the Birthday Party in London in 1981

    Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party review – documentary is a warts-and-all sonic assault

  • A contact sheet of portraits of individual band members

    The Birthday Party: the danger, drugs and rancour behind Nick Cave’s post-punk band

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