Nick Cave, Bad Seeds Members Are Grinderman
Nick Cave and three members of his Bad Seeds-- Warren Ellis (also of Dirty Three), Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos-- will release their as-yet-untitled debut album as Grinderman on March 5 via Mute in the UK.
Grinderman's music is "an instinctual yawlp that...resurrects the demons of each musician's past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos' late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey's ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis' avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath," according to a press release.
"No Pussy Blues"-- the song streaming from the band's MySpace page-- could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges' reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like. It's noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic.
As previously reported, Dirty Three's ATP in April will include sets from Grinderman and Nick Cave solo. Cave also has some European solo dates scheduled for the rest of November.
Finally, Cave has re-teamed with John Hillcoat, director of 2005's Cave-written film The Proposition, for the next installment in Cave's screenwriting career: Death of a Ladies' Man. According to various reports, The Proposition's Ray Winstone plays the film's protagonist, a sex-addicted traveling salesman who takes his son on a road trip after his wife commits suicide. Cheery! Production began in September.
Nick Cave dates:
11-09 Nurnberg, Germany - Meister
11-10 Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle
11-11 Mainz, Germany - Phoenixhalle
11-13 Vienna, Austria - Konzerthaus
11-14 Bonn, Germany - Beethovenhalle
11-17 Zurich, Switzerland - Kongresshaus
11-19 Helsinki, Finland - Finlandia Hall
11-20 Riga, Latvia - Arena
11-22 Dresden, Germany - Kulturplast
Grinderman's music is "an instinctual yawlp that...resurrects the demons of each musician's past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Jim Sclavunos' late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey's ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis' avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath," according to a press release.
"No Pussy Blues"-- the song streaming from the band's MySpace page-- could be mistaken for a track from the Stooges' reunion album, or at least what we hope that record will sound like. It's noisy, funny, raw, and totally cathartic.
As previously reported, Dirty Three's ATP in April will include sets from Grinderman and Nick Cave solo. Cave also has some European solo dates scheduled for the rest of November.
Finally, Cave has re-teamed with John Hillcoat, director of 2005's Cave-written film The Proposition, for the next installment in Cave's screenwriting career: Death of a Ladies' Man. According to various reports, The Proposition's Ray Winstone plays the film's protagonist, a sex-addicted traveling salesman who takes his son on a road trip after his wife commits suicide. Cheery! Production began in September.
Nick Cave dates:
11-09 Nurnberg, Germany - Meister
11-10 Stuttgart, Germany - Liederhalle
11-11 Mainz, Germany - Phoenixhalle
11-13 Vienna, Austria - Konzerthaus
11-14 Bonn, Germany - Beethovenhalle
11-17 Zurich, Switzerland - Kongresshaus
11-19 Helsinki, Finland - Finlandia Hall
11-20 Riga, Latvia - Arena
11-22 Dresden, Germany - Kulturplast
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