Luke Turner
, April 28th, 2021 10:35
The Australian artist collaborated with the likes of Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten and lots more across her career
Anita Lane has died, aged 62, a representative for her label has confirmed.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1959, Lane was a classmate of the Birthday Party s Rowland S. Howard, and co-wrote several tracks for the band with Nick Cave. After the Birthday Party split, she co-wrote Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity , and Stranger Than Kindness , arguably two of that band s finest songs.
Lane also worked with Kid Congo Powers, Gudrun Gut, Die Haut and Einstürzende Neubauten across her career, while she contributed vocals to Mick Harvey s Serge Gainsbourg tribute albums, and released a superb cover of These Boots Were Made For Walking with Barry Adamson.
Published Apr 28, 2021Anita Lane the frequent Nick Cave collaborator who was a member of both the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party has died. The news broke early today online and was quickly confirmed by Cave s wife Susie and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis. No exact cause of death has been revealed, but Lane was reportedly 61.
After meeting Cave in the late 70s, the Australian songwriter went on to join him in the Birthday Party, co-writing such songs as A Dead Song from
Prayers on Fire and Dead Joe and Kiss Me Black off
Junkyard.
After the Birthday Party broke up in 1983, Lane continued to collaborate with Cave and the Bad Seeds. She can be heard on such songs as the title track from their album
Eleanor Philpot
, March 9th, 2021 08:14
For years Anita Lane was overshadowed by her collaborator and ex-boyfriend Nick Cave. Eleanor Philpot argues that we instead need to see the singer as an artist whose exploration of female sexuality was way ahead of its time
I started listening to Anita Lane by accident, during one of those heartbreaks so painful you become physically unwell. I spent my days incapacitated in the bath, repeatedly listening to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Boatman’s Call and sobbing. It was during one of those sessions of weeping that the cruel murmuring of ‘Green Eyes’ segued into the Spotify album radio.