The Bad Seeds had the music for a song called “Mutiny,” but Cave had yet to write lyrics. “When you’re an intravenous drug user,” Cave said, “blood plays a big part of your life.” This particular drawing was done after a long day in the studio recording the Birthday Party’s last album. In the mid-Eighties Nick Cave sometimes drew with his own blood. Image Credit: Nick Cave private collection/Courtesy of Harper-Collins Publishing Mick, for example, became my chief collaborator, completely indispensable, for twenty years, and Phill, well, I always had a real soft spot for Phill, he was a lovely guy, but his drumming was ultimately at odds with what the band wanted to do, I think.” I’m very glad I didn’t implement some of those changes. Image Credit: Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne/Courtesy of Harper-Collins PublishingĪsked to comment on the list, Nick Cave has said, “I wrote that when I was very young … and confused. The couple split in 1983 but they continue to keep in touch.

Besides “Stranger Than Kindness” and “From Her to Eternity,” Lane also contributed lyrics to “A Dead Song,” “Dead Joe,” and “Kiss Me Black,” using the exquisite corpse method, by passing a piece of paper back and forth, trading lines. “The desire to possess her is a wound.” Cave met Lane in 1977, when they were both at art school in Melbourne and Lane lived with her progressive parents and older brother. “Ah wanna tell you about a girl,” Cave begins. Image Credit: Photographer unknown/Reproduced by kind permission of Dawn Cave/Courtesy of Harper-Collins PublishingĪnita Lane and Cave wrote “From Her to Eternity” together. Howard, to form the Boys Next Door in 1977. Performing at school socials such as those hosted by Korowa Girls’ School, along with church halls, the band – then unnamed and driven to gigs by members’ parents – performed covers and some original material.Īfter completing their Higher School Certificates and launching themselves into art school, hairdressing and the public service, Cave, Calvert, and Harvey came back together and were joined by Tracy Pew, and later Rowland S. Influenced by David Bowie and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Nick Cave in costume and make-up, prancing on stage, was joined by his more subdued friends Phill Calvert, Chris Coyne, John Cocivera, Howard (last name unknown), Mick Harvey, and Brett Purcell in a group established while students at Caulfield Grammar. Image Credit: Photographer unknown/Reproduced by kind permission of Dawn Cave

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