Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
My favourite Nick Cave audience interaction is the one on youtube somewhere where a heckler is shouting at him during Stagger Lee. He simply replies 'fuck you' without missing a beat.
If I hear the word "Middlebrow" one more time...
would like to hear people's take on this... https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-197/feature-anwyn-crawford/
I don't like this writer very much at all, she has also written terribly about U2 in the past, but I thought it was an interesting read. I don't really agree with it, though.
‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ exemplified Cave’s ambiguous attitude to the music industry, and particularly to success in his home country. He accepted his 2007 induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame while maintaining a haughty contempt towards the honour; he dismisses song writing as ‘woman’s work’ while regularly expounding upon the elevating notion of his ‘muse’, who seems not to mind a chart success or two; and he has become determined during recent years to shape for himself, as he admitted frankly in his interview with Good Weekend, a legacy in the country that he left behind nearly thirty years ago.
That's what annoyed me the most, yeah. This idea that everything has to be taken literally. Tom Waits never drove a nail through a woman's forehead. Songs like From Her to Eternity are so obviously an artistic work of fiction. Music and art are inhabited so richly by flawed characters, but if it were left to writers such the author of that article we'd be left with nothing but vapidity.
And yeah, middlebrow is literally the last word I'd choose to describe his music.
It probably speaks volumes that after I tweeted an open criticism to the author she immediately replied "I have no time or energy for Nick Cave fan boys. Bye" and blocked me.
This album makes A Moon Shaped Pool sound like The Monkees.