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.
Rolling Stone Anita Lane, Founding Member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, Dead at 61
Singer-songwriter co-wrote two of Cave’s signature songs, “From Her to Eternity” and “Stranger Than Kindness,” before releasing her own unique solo recordings
By Mute Records
Anita Lane, the singer-songwriter who cowrote some of the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ most memorable songs, has died at age 61.
Rolling Stone has confirmed Lane’s death; a cause and date of death has yet to be revealed.
As a solo artist, Lane wrote dark, luscious chamber pop that owed a debt to Burt Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. Her light, airy falsetto had a knack for cutting through collaborator Mick Harvey’s arrangements. As a lyricist working with the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, she had a knack for writing the eerie and morbid lyrics that were the calling cards of Cave’s early work. Cave still performs some of the Bad Seeds songs Lane co-authored such as “F
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.