The Driving Thing of It: A Conversation with Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey discusses his decades-long music career, working on cover songs written in another language, and finding longevity in the music business.
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Posts Tagged: the birthday party
Nick Cave Monday #49: “Fears of Gun”
Heartbreak drives a man to drink. Especially when he’s in love and his lady has booted him out of the house. And he drinks and he drinks, until days later, when the hangover kicks in. Then he waits, because only time can heal a morning of sickness after a night of woe.
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Nick Cave Monday #36: “Dead Joe”
Even though we’re in the month of May, we can always use a little bit of Christmas spirit. The Birthday Party, Nick Cave’s pre–Bad Seeds band, gave us a song that we can sing anytime of year. There was this dude named Joe. Well, he’s dead, totally mangled in a car wreck. It’s such a bloody […]
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Nick Cave Monday #14: “Wild World”
There’s a soundtrack for when I’m about to fall in love with a girl. That precious gap of time between getting to know each other physically and mentally before diving in the pool of vulnerability and embracing love and commitment. Laying in bed, talking, cuddling, kissing, ravishing.
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Nick Cave Monday #7: “No Pussy Blues”
Some men on their 50th birthday buy a convertible, grow a mustache, shag a yoga instructor and enter what society calls a midlife crisis. Nick Cave had the greatest midlife crisis ever, which included growing a mustache straight out of a ’70s porn film.
...moreNick Cave Monday #3: “Shivers” To “Junkyard”
A Quick Video Evolution of Nick Cave from 1979 – 1982.
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Nick Cave Monday #2: “From Her To Eternity”
“From Her To Eternity” is one of Nick’s sexiest songs. It was the title track on the first album from The Bad Seeds and really defined what was going to come with this new project from Nick and the guys. Nick Cave and Mick Harvey had recently moved on from the disbanding of their previous […]
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