Nick Cave has been one of my favorite artists for years now. The first time, I heard of him was when he was the Birthday Party's singer (damn!! I lost this great concert in 1984 in Athens with Birthday Party, Fall and New Order just after Joy Division - some people confessed later that this concert was a lifetime experience). Of course Cave with Bad Seeds is quite different from the Cave with Birthday Party. In any case, I find Cave's forte being his poetical and suggestive lyrics. His persistence with God and other "divine" themes makes him sound at times more like a religious preacher than a rock singer, but that is his style anyway.

I'm sure that Cave's fans in Greece are outnumbering his fans in the rest of the world. He has, indeed, staged so many concerts in Greece that I couldn't even attempt to calculate them... Last summer he was in the line up of the Rock Festival in Athens, but a few hours before the concert a sudden storm almost destroyed the place and the whole event was cancelled. It was the only storm in 8 months in Athens... I'm sure that he's going to come this winter in Athens. I know people in Greece that love Nick Cave as a God-musician.

"Let love in" I think is my favorite Nick Cave album. His last "No more shall we part" was brilliant too. There are some songs from this album that I really long to listen to being performed live, like "As I sat sadly by her side", "Sorrowful wife" and "Fifteen feet of pure white snow".
One thing I like most about Nick Cave - except his music of course - is that all these years his attitude is consistent with his profile. He never succumbed to commercialization or changed his artistic stance in order to be established in the mainstream sphere. Nick Cave is unique.

The official Nick Cave's site is here . You can also take a look at "No more shall we part" album official site here. There is a great number of Cave's fan sites on the Net, but some of the most comprehensive are "Nick Cave On Line" (great job indeed), "Nick Cave's Collector Hell" (the title reveals everything), Mute's page for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Bad-Seed.org (excellent and very elegant work guys!!) and finally the Totally Nick Cave Page (you can send your suggestions to the web master for changing the title of this page because - as he says - "it sucks tremendously", but the content is excellent).

Back To "Music"