Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Find Beauty Amid Today s Carnage
Published Feb 25, 2021
8Nick Cave is sounding restless again. The legendary Australian musician had been sounding uncharacteristically pensive and reflective since kicking off a late-career renaissance with 2013 s ominously baroque
Push the Sky Away, leading to some of the best albums of his career. But, even at his most placid, it sounded like Cave still had the power to leap out of listeners headphones and bellow in their faces he was just choosing not to, as on 2016 s sparse, ambient
Skeleton Tree and 2019 s mournful, ornate
Now, it appears he s been forced to. Following months of mandatory, pandemic-induced downtime, Cave took a week-long studio sojourn with longtime Bad Seed and frequent film score collaborator Warren Ellis, where the duo spat out
Gareth Liddiard just announced some shows with legendary drummer, Jim White
Words by Tom Parker
The esteemed frontman of The Drones and Tropical Fuck Storm will play shows at the Theatre Royal and The Forum.
Going down just a few weeks from now, Melbourne music luminary Gareth Liddiard has announced a few solo shows going down in Melbourne, and just a short dash down the road.
Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal and The Forum will be the hosts of Liddiard’s unbridled weirdity, where the seminal Drones and Tropical Fuck Storm frontman will look to play tracks from his vast back catalogue.
dEUS and all-round
bon vivant, has excellent taste. This much is evident from the impressive spread laid out in their dressing room; Gauloises cigarettes, Spanish tempranillo, chilled Grey Goose, and a bottle of 16 year old Lagavulin, a whisky that connoisseurs note is an “intense, smoky-sweet single malt, with seaweed flavours and a huge, peppery finish.” I’ve been ushered backstage prior to the band’s soundcheck at Utrecht’s Tivoli Oudegracht, and they’ve yet to arrive. One by one they drift in from the early afternoon sunshine: violinist Klaas Janzoons heads straight for the red wine, bassist Alan Gevaert engages me in a conversation about footwear, while guitarist Mauro Pawlowski is mostly concerned with hunting down some coffee. Finally, there’s Barman himself, affable and carrying several full garment bags, keen to get things started. “We haven’t played for two months,” he confesses as they stride towards the stage, “so we have to run through basically t