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I'm going tomorrow. Wasn't planning to, as I've seen him every tour for donkeys and don't really like the Warren Ellis era, but my wife's very keen, and he's always very good live, particularly when he lets the Seeds do their thing.
Your thinking on the songs I agree with - most of the recent work (and he's playing the whole new album) is meditations on a vibe, exploring love and grief, which is usually very pretty, but I still want him to be metaphorically downing moonshine by the bottle, murdering innocent women and howling at the moon while the Seeds fill the place with their racket.
Basically, guy needs to get his Grinderman hat on for a while.
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Saw Nick Cave last night.
Not sure how I ended up going. I’m not a fan…in the sense that I’m aware of his work but haven’t really sat down with it. So I thought why not? Why not go in pretty much cold to see an artist who is supposed to be hot shit?
OK definitely hot shit. Presence, charisma a voice, the bad seeds, the band - that band!
The rythmns and tones the breakdowns and the crescendos.
But he doesn’t like a song that resolves itself does he? It’s about the narrative arc I guess.
That’s the bit I find hard to hang onto, I’m traditional in that sense it’s all unfinished to me. Polished and crafted and real but open ended. I get that’s the point, like I get a joke that doesn’t quite tickle me to belly laugh.
So yeah was good, probably won’t listen to his music again on purpose though
Ok I like the Birthday Party and still do