Nick Cave 2017 tour

[Looby]

Unfortunately that seems not to be the case from friends who’ve been to other shows on the tour. I didn’t get a ticket for those very reasons and now bitterly regret it. Apparently they’re at absolute peak form and the shows are amazing. Sorry

Yeah this. I really didn't want to see him at my local big venue as it's horrible but he was fucking incredible and so were the band. Every song was perfect. Just brilliant and wonderful and included a stage full of fans for Stagger Lee and Push the sky away.
So many people are kicking themselves for missing out because it's a big venue tour but it really didn't matter. Although the BIC is far smaller than the O2.

 

[Voley]

Unfortunately that seems not to be the case from friends who’ve been to other shows on the tour. I didn’t get a ticket for those very reasons and now bitterly regret it. Apparently they’re at absolute peak form and the shows are amazing. Sorry

You'll hate me for saying this but the Bournemouth gig was about as good as I've ever seen him. I never thought I'd see him do a gig as good as Brixton Academy on the Murder Ballads tour but he did. Absolutely incredible.

 

[bimble]

is he still going around with that rasputin violinist fellow?

 

[Voley]

is he still going around with that rasputin violinist fellow?

Yes.

 

[bimble]

Just looked him up (rasputin violinist) , whose name is Warren Ellis.
How Nick Cave could you get :
According to wikipedia "while playing at the local tip, he found an abandoned piano accordion. He took it to school and his teacher showed him how to play it.. "
This the intro to him winning a scholarship to a private school where he studied classical music, obvs.

 

[Voley]

He used to be (or could well still be, I dunno) the front man for The Dirty Three bimble. They're pretty good. They supported The Bad Seeds at that Brixton gig that I mentioned earlier. He sat in on a couple of tunes that night and next thing he was a permanent member and Nick's main songwriting partner. I like him. He plays this tiny guitar that's not much bigger than a violin and makes a right fucking racket with it. And he's really good at scratchy weird loopy electronic stuff. And he has a Rasputin beard. The full package really.

 

[bimble]

I like him too, and I'm an extremely harsh judge of violinists, musically
I had a couple of really special nights out years ago where i got to hang out with them a bit (ex boyfriend was writing something with nick cave), and he (Rasputin violin man) was great, even more darkly charismatic than nick himself. I have real respect for them, proper artists they are.

 

[Voley]

Just had another listen to Skeleton Tree. It really is a quite beautiful record. And I've been trying to remember all the gigs I've been to. I think this is it:
Glastonbury - around 'Let Love In' time. 'Papa Won't Leave You Henry' blew me away and I was a fan from then on.
Brixton Academy - 'Murder Ballads' era. With Kylie. Totally ace from start to finish.
Royal Albert Hall - 'Boatmans Call' tour. Bit subdued, this one, but I did manage to blag a girl onto a nonexistent guestlist who then promptly fucked me off so mopey songs were sort of apt really.
2x nights at Brixton Academy that I got into for nothing. Can't remember what record he had out. He did 'Curse Of Millhaven' as the encore and had to read the words off a sheet of paper.
Glastonbury again. Greatest Hits type set in the mud in the middle of the afternoon. I witnessed a look of genuine disgust on a hippy face when 'Stagger Lee' got going that was priceless.
Bournemouth the other night. Possibly the best of the lot.

 

[billy_bob]

Re Rasputin-bloke:

If you watch One More Time with Feeling, it becomes increasingly clear that Cave might be the poet but Warren Ellis is probably the musical heart of at least the last decade of their work. The sight of him conducting the swell of strings at one point made all the hairs on my neck stand up.

 

[billy_bob]

Re Rasputin-bloke:

If you watch One More Time with Feeling, it becomes increasingly clear that Cave might be the poet but Warren Ellis is probably the musical heart of at least the last decade of their work. The sight of him conducting the swell of strings at one point made all the hairs on my neck stand up.

Also: how many musicians can you think of whose style of playing their instrument is instantly recognisable as them and no-one else? I find I can come up with surprisingly few: Hendrix or Marr on guitar, Dylan on harmonica, Ringo on drums ... a handful of others. Ellis's fiddle playing I would add to that shortlist.

 

[cyril_smear]

well he was never known to steal a basic geological-formation based dwelling.

 

[billy_bob]

 

[belboid]

Summat about Caves, I presume.

 

[braindancer]

Cave and the Seeds were fucking ace at the enormo-dome on Saturday. I was surprised at how heavily the set featured material from Skeleton Tree as you wouldn't have thought they would work well in such a cavernous space but they really did. I don't know if it was pre-planned but in the last song of the encore, Push the Sky Away, Nick went for a wander through the crowds in the balcony and seemingly stumbled across Bobby Gillespie and got him to sing the final chorus - which was a nice end. Amazing gig....

 

[billy_bob]

Summat about Caves, I presume.

Oh, Nick Cave, yes. Ha ha.