The Nick Cave (book) thread

[El Jefe]

so you didnt even know him!! he's a great great man!

care to explain how?

 

[Termite Man]

so you didnt even know him!! he's a great great man!

so you know him then ? I'd have thought friends in common is more knowing someone than liking a band they were in !

 

[Madusa]

care to explain how?

ive got a feeling.

 

[ouchmonkey]

Ian Johnston's 'Bad Seed' is a pretty good Cave bio if that's what yer after.
good few years old and i don't know if he's updated it but basically the Birthday Party and early solo years are the really interesting stuff. After that he slowly straightens up and flies right, gets more professional etc. but somehow doesn't start making crap music as is the usual path
Johnston also wrote 'The Wild, Wild World Of The Cramps' so clearly a man of taste.
There's also a Cave bio by someone with the marvellous name Robert Brokenmouth. I think he's australian so possibly had better stuff on the early years. I can't remember - it's donkeys since I read them.

Head On/Repossessed is also a really fun read - I'd expect even if you don't know anything about the people involved, although it's hard to tell.

 

[ouchmonkey]

ive got a feeling.

is it an itch?

 

[Madusa]

just a hunch.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Head On/Repossessed is also a really fun read - I'd expect even if you don't know anything about the people involved, although it's hard to tell.

I've always wondered, does your username come from the Teardrops song Ouch Monkeys???

 

[Madusa]

hang on, how do you know Jamie Fox's son?

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Yes.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

hang on, how do you know Jamie Fox's son?

Pub.

 

[Madusa]

yeah but isnt Jamie Fox american?

 

[HobgoblinMan]

yeah but isnt Jamie Fox american?

Yes. They have pubs in America.

 

[Madusa]

dick

 

[Madusa]

can you offer a bit more information?

 

[HobgoblinMan]

dick

???

 

[Madusa]

???

for your obtrusity.

is that a word?

 

[HobgoblinMan]

As I said yesterday with your ears needing a doctor, your eyes may need one too, as I never said Jamie Fox. I said.... James. Perhaps it's the Pedro sun that's damaged ye eyes.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

is that a word?

According to Mac dictionary: "No Entries Found".

 

[Madusa]

rofl

Oh yes!

Can you understand why I was so confused now? I thought you were going on about the actor Jamie Fox lolol. I think I need to go out.

 

[HobgoblinMan]

Rodney, you plonker.

 

[Termite Man]

So which mod dustbinned the other threads

 

[ebay sex moomin]

Head On/Repossessed shits on everything. Best book ever!!!

I'd second that. Read it/them 3 times- they just get better each time

 

[ouchmonkey]

I've always wondered, does your username come from the Teardrops song Ouch Monkeys???

It actually does.

and you're the first person to ever notice/point it out.
(I've used it for years elsewhere too - it kinda stuck)

If I had a prize to give you could win it.

but I don't.

 

[Endeavour]

It was asked in one of the binned threads if Nick Cave still lived in Brixton and I remembered reading this a while ago in The Indy.

...........there is music to make and novels to write and movies to complete, all in his office in the basement of a Victorian mansion block in Hove, West Sussex.........

Cave lives in the top floor of this block in Hove, overlooking the sea. "I officially leave the house. I put on a suit and come to work." He means this literally: today, he's in blue pinstripe. Doesn't he ever stroll down in his trackie bottoms? Cave stares. The temperature drops. Bats fly, cobwebs quiver, an old door creaks. "I don't," he says slowly, "have any trackie bottoms."

Really? Why not? "Well, they do something weird to your crotch, don't they? You can't walk around in them." I can. If I was going to roll out of bed and slide down here to browse among the many books, sit at the beautiful black piano and play with the chords to "Changes" by David Bowie and "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles (both on his music stand) I might do it in my trackies. On the shelf are what look suspiciously like running shorts and shoes. (Trot out in those and he'll look like a 118 ad.) So is he really saying that if he's going to be on his own in here all day, he still wears a suit?

"Yeah. I do actually." Why? "I just always have. I don't know how to answer that." Pause. "There is a period of preparation that happens upstairs. You know, I won't go into the details but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...uited-booted--and-very-very-dark-1031230.html