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Nick appeared on the Triple J radio show with The Doctor (not Who) today. If you missed it (I certainly did), you can check out the podcast and/or download the mp3 of the show at the link below. It's a very good, lengthy interview, in which Nick talks about Amanda Palmer's version of "The Ship Song," getting an honorary doctorate, his tanned nipples(?!), and...if you're not interested yet...haha.
Doctor: Is it often that you get asked to show people your tits, uh, during a set?
Nick: Uh, no.
Doctor: I think people were shocked to realize that...
Nick: That I have nipples.
Doctor: And such tanned nipples!
Nick: Well, they are...they always were a little dark. Sorry, I haven't had a lot of sleep. No, they were one of my faaaavorite features. I don't have to rouge them or anything like that.
Doctor: Which is good cuz sooo many performers...I know Iggy rouges...
Nick: Yeah, sure he does.
PODCAST WITH NICK AND THE DOCTOR!
Just so no one misses them, there are some great bootlegs available at the nick-cave.com forums. Bootlegs include:
BOYS NEXT DOOR – Swinburne College, Melbourne | August 19th, 1977
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Later With Jools Holland | October 2004
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Alcatraz, Milan | November 2004
GRINDERMAN – Roskilde, Denmark | July 4th, 2008
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Palace Theater, Melbourne | January 2009
Here they are:
CLICK HERE.
There is also this:
Nick cave & The Bad Seeds | Live @ Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa | 04.21.2008
HERE. (Password is: doyouloveme)
Thanks to d.o.m. at the nick-cave.com forums. :D
Nick reads a story from David Eagleman's book, Sum. Brian Eno and some other people read parts from it also.
"In one afterlife, you relive all your experiences in carefully categorized groups: sleeping 30 years straight, sitting five months on the toilet, spending 200 days in the shower, and so forth. In another, you can be whatever you want, including a horse that forgets its original humanity. There are afterlives where you meet God, in one a God who endlessly reads Frankenstein, lamenting the tragic lot of creators; in another a God, female this time, in whose immense corpus earth is a mere cell. Eagleman’s engaging mixture of dark humor, witty quips, and unsettling observations about the human psyche should engage a readership extending from New Age buffs to amateur philosophers. --Carl Hays"
You can download the extract of Nick reading the story, which Caroline was kind enough to edit so there aren't any ads, here:
CLICK
Caroline also found THIS news item in which Mr. Cave states, "We’ve recorded a new Grinderman record we’re really excited about. It comes out in March. And I’ll make another Bad Seeds record later on in the year." Woohoo! Thank you, Caroline!
There are also chapter extracts to read HERE.
Thank you to i_am_a_wallet on the nick-cave.com forums for the heads-up!
Until Mr. Cave, I didn't get what the big deal about bootlegs was. However, once I started downloading some decent ones, I began to understand. The songs are performed differently each time, sometimes with entirely new lyrics...the energy is raw and palpable...the imperfections make it exciting.
Enough rambling. If, like me, you're relatively new to the bootleg scene, you may have no idea where to start. Where does one go to get bootlegs? Where can you find some good ones, and not crappy quality ones that are fuzzy and inaudible?
My lovelies, your problems are solved! THIS BLOG has a HUGE list of Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Bad Seeds, even some Grinderman and random EN stuff. SERIOUSLY, this is a GREAT place to start, so check it out!
Picture I just found, first of all:
I was going to upload a zip of this, but someone else has the same bootleg available already, and you can download each mp3 individually. This is NC&TBS from January 9th, 2009 in Melbourne.
Tracks:
1. Tupelo
2. Midnight Man
3. Love Letter
4. Moonland
5. We Call Upon the Author
6. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
7. Into My Arms
8. Get Ready for Love
9. Stagger Lee
DOWNLOAD LINKREMINDER: Less than one month until September 3rd to send in your stuff for the birthday fan book. LINK IS HERE!
(Photo by Daniel Boud)
There is a really brilliant set of live Dig!!! tracks up at THIS BLOG. I highly, highly recommend picking them up, since they're incredibly good quality and just all-around amazing performances.
It's from some iTunes live sessions in London, and the tracks are:
"Dig, Lazarus, Dig"
"Moonland"
"Midnight Man"
"Lie Down Here (and Be My Girl)"
"More News From Nowhere"
Definitely a must-grab.
