Halloween, Birthday Party Style

Happy Halloween, everyone!





From tumblr, unsure who.







Photo by Rob Miller:

Let Love In: Live Performances

Let Love In, Live Track-By-Track

01. Do You Love Me? (via thesoulbreath)


02. Nobody's Baby Now (via almeidasuzana)


03. Loverman (via charlesaf)


04. Jangling Jack (via StinkyBohoon)


05. Red Right Hand (via capeshokusa) - not synced on my computer, but uh...so?


06. I Let Love In (via creationbaby)


07. Thirsty Dog (via saddinos)


08. Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore - can't find it live
CLICK HERE (audio only) Thank you, csakjutka!

09. Lay Me Low - no video but here's audio from CountOfSaintGermain


10. Do You Love Me? Pt. 2 - can't find a live version
CLICK HERE (audio only) Thank you, csakjutka!

Tender Prey: Live Performances

Every song I could find from Tender Prey, live. Where there are no videos, it is simply because I could not find any live performances. If you know where there are videos of these songs, please let me know. Enjoy!

01. The Mercy Seat (via scmm42>


02. Up Jumped the Devil

03. Deanna (via Stiffkittens01)


04. Watching Alice (via ved76)


05. Mercy (via Morbazzan)


06. City of Refuge (via thesoulbreath)


07. Slowly Goes the Night

08. Sunday's Slave

09. Sugar Sugar Sugar (via csakjutka)


10. New Morning (via sofarfromme, off the Live at the Paradiso DVD)

54th Birthday, Moscow Style

HAPPY 54TH BIRTHDAY, MR. NICK CAVE! Thank you for all the art you contribute to the world, and for just being so badass. Hope your birthday was filled with glorious things and that you have many more!

Sorry these aren't embedded; my phone doesn't let me do so and I am too scatterbrained right now to get online. It would greatly be to your benefit, however, to watch this awesome Cave interview footage from 1998 (thanks to nightspell9 for uploading, and Laura for pointing these out to me). They are long and some chick talks over top a lot of it, but still amazing.

Also, nightspell9 has great concert footage uploaded you should all check out. AWESOME!

Part 1: CLICK HERE

Part 2: CLICK HERE

Nick Cave and...

Today, I present you all with a smorgasbord of songs/videos in which Mr. Cave is singing with someone else, or featured on another band's song. Enjoy, and thank you for all the youtube users (youtubers?) for sharing these videos!

(I know he's done songs with PJ Harvey, Kylie Minogue, and more with Anita Lane and Lydia Lunch, but as those are the ones most of us have already heard, I will leave those up to you to check out.)

Thank you to my dearest Stooges, Laura and Colin, for helping me with this list.

























I can't embed Nick and UNKLE's "Money and Run," but if you've not seen it, it's a great song and video. You can check it out RIGHT HERE.

Also, I couldn't find "Free to Walk" with Debbie Harry on youtube, but the song's out there somewhere.

Heathen Child Song of the Year

If you haven't heard the GREAT news, Grinderman picked up Song of the Year at this year's MOJO Awards. :) YAAAAAAY! Much congratulations to them; they definitely deserve it!

Here's the video of them accepting the award:
CLICK HERE

Here's an amaaaaazing version of Kitchenette to celebrate (thanks, herecomethewolfman *wink*):

Hair Telegraph

To pick up the new Grinderman single, "Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man". I always buy through Mute's official website. Keep in mind, however, that for me here in the United States, it takes around a month to receive my order. That being said: worth the wait? I think so.

LINK TO MUTE'S ORDER PAGE HERE

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This is from the March 2001 Telegraph. I will assume I found it on Tumblr; if you know whose it is, let me know because it's LOVELY. Text from this article can be FOUND HERE.

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Here is Nick with some awesome hair:





And here is Billy Corgan being a douche like always, and Nick being amusing:

Summer, Hurry Up!

How this term at college has made me feel:

(Pic from tumblr somewhere.)

This whole concert the performance below is from made me fall in love with Cave's music all over again, and it actually made me cry...and it's not easy to get me to cry. Thi



And for something completely different:


Thanks to thesoulbreath, as always, for sharing such amazing videos!

As of next Thursday, it will be summer break for me, and you know what that means? MORE UPDATES!

P.S.
I am obsessed with E. Neubauten now. I KNOW, complete 180 from how I used to be, but now I can't get enough of them. Blixa is a fucking genius.

Money and Run: Hologram Nick

If some of you didn't know, Nick is featured on a track from the new UNKLE EP (Only the Lonely). The song is called "Money and Run," and it's a pretty unique collaboration. It's not my usual style of music, but after falling in love with this song, I gotta say, I'm kinda liking UNKLE.

Anyway, check out this UNKLE performance of the song including a huge hologram of Mr. Cave. Yep. You read that right.

(thank you, jutkacsak, for finding this better-quality video for me!)


In other news...I FINALLY LOVE JUNKYARD. That's been the ONE album I've never fully succumbed to, and yesterday, the mood was right or something (listening to PiL beforehand may have helped). I. Love. It. It's like I have a different brain now or something. I thought it was white noise before, but now...totally loving it. Laura must be so proud of me.

To celebrate I am posting this:

Nick Cave's Toilet Pleasures

Laura found this and I laughed so hard I spit all over the screen. It's short but...AHAHAHAHA. Kudos to Laura for being obsessed with looking up toilet videos all the time.

The Boys Next Door: Swinburne College (thank you, prickmayall!)

If you don't follow prickmayall on youtube, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! In addition to the following, they have so many great Cave-related videos. Go. Look. BECOME GRATEFUL. :D

I mean...The Boys Next Door...LIVE.





Why Tumblr can rule:
TenderPrey and Warm-Arterial-Spray. They find things I have NEVER seen (pics, etc.). Go and be amazed!

Um...It's Nick's Fault, Seriously (andy6588's video)

Because, deep down, there's a little perv in all of us...

Melbourne: Palace Theatre (jiw64)

So, how 'bout that Big Day Out, huh? Okay, I didn't go...I'm in freakin' America, but hopefully some of you got to check it out and were thoroughly entertained.

I have some stuff to scan sometime this week, woot-woot!

Here are some short (yet amazing quality) videos by youtuber jiw64 (THANK YOU!). These are from the January 17th show at Melbourne's Palace Theatre:







Side-note: Amanda Palmer (solo artist and of The Dresden Dolls) does a lovely version of The Ship Song on her new album...and she met Mr. Cave and freaked out about it in her blog. I love her (you might not, and that's fine), but her blog about it was TOTALLY how I felt when I met him:
SQUEEING

Oh...did I, your deranged blogstress, not mention I met Mr. Nick Cave? Honestly, I figured most of you knew from my Facebook. Whoops. If you wanted details, let me know. I just assumed most of you knew. Haha. But yes, he was SO SWEET! It was AMAZING. My life...is complete.

11/27/10 Seattle: Videos

My videos from the Saturday, November 27th Grinderman show in Seattle are up! It took place at the King Cat Theatre.

Most of my videos are short clips, since I didn't realize how AMAZING my memory card was, and I didn't want to spend too much time screwing with videos. I was also RIGHT ON a speaker monitor, so the audio on most of these is pretty horrid. Some of you will be like, WHY even both sharing that; it's awful! Because they're MINE, and that pleases me. Plus, the video quality is spiffy. :)

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Set list:

Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man
Worm Tamer
Get It On [bad audio]:


Heathen Child [two clips with HORRID audio]:


This one is Cave rockin' it like he does, at least [the guy just in frame on the left is Bill: he rocks AND just got engaged to his fellow Cave-lovin' sweetheart...CONGRATULATIONS, BILL!!!]:


Evil! [bad audio; Warren going nuts]:


When My Baby Comes [bad audio]:


What I Know (we got the manly version; my only qualm with the show-I would have preferred a sensitive version)

Honeybee, Let's Fly to Mars (from this point on, audio is MAGICALLY better-I don't get it) [short clip; I was wracked with nerves, preparing for The Grinderbunny Moment; see: previous entry]:


Kitchenette [seen in previous entry; note Grinderbunny]:


No Pussy Blues [FULL song; note Grinderbunny falling onto Jim's drum at 2:27 and how he keeps trying to play with him on there...also, Nick momentarily forgets the line "I combed the hairs across my...head!" *wink*]:


Bellringer Blues

===ENCORE===
Palaces of Montezuma
Man in the Moon
When My Love Comes Down [three clips]:






Love Bomb [FULL SONG: amazing; he proclaims his love, then starts in front of me, does some epic eyebrow things, and at 2:57 smiles adorably at Warren and magically looks 35 again]:


Grinderman [three clips, the last being about two and a half minutes]:




Last one's rather intense...Nick and Warren are MADMEN. [I like how my scream cracks at 1:42, showcasing how much I was yelling all night]:


THE SHOW WAS ABSO-FUCKIN'-LUTELY FANTASTIC. Best show I have ever, EVER seen. If you can see Grinderman, GO...for the love of ALL...GO!!!

Next up: pics from the show, and Eulogy for a 'Stache news(!!!)

The Adventures of Grinderbunny!

I AM SO SORRY THIS IS SO LONG. I have more stuff to share, but I'll wait a bit, haha.

I have lots of things to share about the November 27th Grinderman show, but I figured many of you would be wanting to know how the Grinderbunny/thank you's turned out, so I am starting with that.

The Adventures of Grinderbunny!

First of all, THANK YOU so much to everyone who submitted thank you's to be included in this fan project for Nick. I hope you will all be pleased with how things turned out, and let me assure you that Mr. Cave...well...just read on...

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After only sleeping two hours the night before (I was WAY too excited), we went to get breakfast, but I really couldn’t eat.

ALL PHOTOS AND VIDEOS BY ME.

Since we brought my brand new camera, we had to take my bag into the restaurant with us. Grinderbunny (a stuffed bunny...The Death of Bunny Munro; get it?) had a mustache and bushy, Cave-like eyebrows. I had taken the thank you’s from fans, folded them into origami crows (of course!), put them into an envelope, and pinned it to Grinderbunny’s back to toss onstage. Anyway, he had to come in because he was in my bag and I did not want ANYTHING to happen to that thing.

Grinderbunny before we left that morning. He looks pissed.


Oh, and here are the fan thank you’s, folded into crows (the envelope said, “thank you, Nick. Open the birds” on it.


Grinderbunny is grumpy without his cup o’ joe.


He’s only fifteen inches tall, but he can drive pretty well, actually.


Grinderbunny mugshot? Or just worried about leaving us behind? Don’t be afraid, Bun-Bun. Nick Cave will take care of you.


My husband and I started making Grinderbunny say things in a Nick Cave accent, and this horridly annoying video is the result:


Grinderbunny's MUSTACHE FELL OFF TWICE, but we were able to get some more glue and some tape. Tape? Yes, tape...fail. But I could NOT give Nick the Grinderbunny without the 'stache. But yes, luckily there was a grocery store nearby. Phew.

I knew Nick didn’t play guitar on two of my favorites, which would be played back-to-back, “Honeybee” and “Kitchenette.” I figured I would time The Throw of Grinderbunny between those songs. I was going to try to record a video of The Throw to Nick’s feet as soon as “Honeybee” was over. Therefore, when “Honeybee” began, my heart IMMEDIATELY began pounding like I can’t even explain. I got super light-headed and panicky (I have anxiety anyway). This was when he would either give the Grinderbunny a “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!” look, or say, “I don’t have the mustache anymore; let it go!” or something. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT. So yes. Here is a video clip from “Honeybee”.

Just know that I felt so anxious and panicky during the duration of this song. It’s about my FAVORITE GM song, aaaand knowing The Moment was arriving…stressful:


I’d been trying to hide the bunny from EVERY FAN ALL DAY, by the way. I wanted it to be a surprise for everyone. After the freaking fiasco with the ‘stache falling off, the fact that I didn’t get The Throw recorded isn’t that surprising. My husband should have recorded it, but I told him, “No! I can do it.” Right. Um, NO, Andrea…FAIL.I WAS GOING TO RECORD THE THROW. That was ALWAYS my plan…HOWEVER…somehow, in the excitement…I bumped the “record” button again and recorded NOTHING involving The Throw.

BUT I can tell you what happened pretty exactly.

As soon as “Honeybee” ended, I stopped hiding Grinderbunny and got ready to toss him at Nick’s feet. BUT NICK ENDED THE SONG STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I looked up at him and HANDED GRINDERBUNNY RIGHT TO HIM. He carried it as he stepped over the monitors, and then turned to face us and BEAMED A HUGE SMILE and LAUGHED. I was NOT expecting him to LAUGH. Then he looked right into my eyes, then back to the bunny, still amused as hell, and said, “THANK YOU! It’s GRINDERBUNNY!”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! HE TOTALLY DUBBED IT GRINDERBUNNY, JUST LIKE I HAD BEEN REFERRING TO IT ALL ALONG!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!

The envelope our thank you’s were in survived and were still pinned to Grinderbunny, and Nick immediately walked over to Jim’s drums, put Grinderbunny on part of them, and then the band launched into “Kitchenette”.

KITCHENETTE VIDEO CLIP; WATCH FOR THE GRINDERBUNNY!!!


Note the bunny perched just-so on Jim’s drums. At some point the bunny loses a shoe, but not in these:




I just love that Nick is obviously thinking, “awww, they gave me a gift; it’d make them super stoked if I put this on the drums.” BECAUSE IT TOTALLY DID. I WAS FREAKING OUT. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. It was the coolest thing EVER, and I turned to Nick (my Nick) and said, “this almost makes up for not meeting him earlier,” AND IT IS SO TRUE. The Grinderbunny Experience was…AMAZING.

Grinderbunny started tipping precariously due to Jim’s INSANE, BADASS drumming:


The Grinderbunny hung out for awhile, but during "No Pussy Blues," he fell onto one of Jim’s drums 02:31 into the song. Jim tried to keep playing with the bunny there, as you can see. Then he got tossed off the drum and to the floor, where he hung out for the rest of the night.

At 03:20 or so, some girl yells out after Nick says, “she didn’t want to,” “I DO!” and another girl yells, “I DO, TOO!” and he laughs at it and says, “I do, too,” which amuses me to no end. Then he wanted the crowd to clap so the camera gets put down for a bit. Which is cool, cuz you can see how the camera’s jumping around due to the speakers.

Video is high defintion if you click it and then make it full-screen. :)


Thank you all SO MUCH for taking part in this. I know he will love our thank you's and he was DEFINITELY amused by Grinderbunny. :D

WHAT THE HELL???!!! GRINDERBUNNY IS ON FACEBOOK! ;D

New(ish?) B&W Portraits

I do not remember where I found these, sadly.

Oh, and Laura, who I love, just pointed out this great video interview:
TADA! Thank you, and you are awesome in an epic way. :D

Grinderman Live (polewka123's vids)

First of all...Grinderman? Tour? Blog? Why, yes. AND IT'S RIGHT HERE! Bookmark so you can keep up with the 'men on tour.

Now then...polewka123 on youtube has these great videos of Grinderman live. AWESOME, and much thanks to them for sharing. Makes me so excited about the late November show. :D

Happy Birthday! And Grinderman Being Bearded and Crazy

Mr. Cave, you are still talented, amazing, and lovely. CHEERS!


Someone on the nick-cave.com message board shared this:
Grinderman...behind the scenes! Fifteen minute flute solos!


Also, don't forget about Mr. Cave's belated birthday thing HERE. Photoshop in gladiator gear, make gladiator-themed crap, pose with a wolf, etc.

Rock That Piano

If any of you post Cave-related stuff on tumblr, you should link to the blogs you get stuff from. Not just because I see stuff from here there (not that I own copyright on pics, mind you), but because I see stuff over there all the time and I'm like...WHERE did you find that?!

This has nothing to do with Grinderman. Someone just shared this link with me and I hadn't seen this performance. It's fantastic!

(This still is a bit unfortunate...I hate when youtube does that.)

Tender Prey: Live Videos

Something I have been wanting to do for awhile is to go album by album, posting my favorite live videos for each song (if possible). Inspired by my post featuring original versions of songs on Kicking Against the Pricks.

I am starting with Tender Prey, as it is my favorite Bad Seeds album. I hope you enjoy.

When I couldn't find a particular song live, well...share a version if you have one!

01. The Mercy Seat


02. Up Jumped the Devil (can't find - if you do, even just mp3, let me know)

03. Deanna (come on, it cracks you up, too)


04. Watching Alice


05. Mercy


06. City of Refuge


07. Slowly Goes the Night (can't find - provide if you have it)

08. Sunday's Slave (can't find - provide if you have it)

09. Sugar Sugar Sugar (SERIOUSLY provide if you have it; love this song)

10.