Nick Cave

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Tarnished lullabies of sadness and bitter menace

(Bad Seed Ltd) It would be a tired cliché indeed to speculate whether Nick Cave is mellowing with age just because this new album barely makes it out of second gear. The feral sex-wolf of legend is largely absent here, but in these tarnished…

A guide to publishing companies in Scotland

The innovative companies keeping the Scottish literary scene buzzing

If one press has led the way in Scottish publishing, it’s Canongate. The team may be relatively small, but since Yann Martel won the Booker for Life of Pi in 2002, its global impact has been difficult to ignore. Canongate now publishes Barack Obama’s…

Five films scored by rock musicians

As Jonny Greenwood scores The Master, we look at soundtracks by Neil Young, Nick Cave and Daft Punk

With Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie The Master already being showered with plaudits and sweeping the board across a number of international film festivals it may be worth noting that the enigmatic director’s latest foray into the world of art-house…

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Nocturama/ Abattoir Blues, The Lyre of Orpheus and Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!

Cave's last three albums released in 5.1 surround sound

Being the kind of artist who inspires obsessive collection by his fans, this final phase of a schedule which has seen all of Nick Cave’s studio albums re-released in 5.1 surround sound with extra tracks and video makes perfect sense. The first two…

Lawless

Nick Cave-penned A-list prohibition drama starring Hardy and Oldman

John Hillcoat and Nick Cave re-team after gritty Aussie western The Proposition for Lawless, another tale of strong-willed men living in a period of violence and uncertainty. This time round, the action takes place in prohibition-era America…

Grinderman split

Music Gossip

Nick Cave has announced the split of his Grinderman project. The singer said the group are "over" as they played the final date of their current Australian tour at the Meredith Music Festival this weekend. He told the crowd: "That's it for…

Nick Cave's portrait gallery

Music Gossip

A gallery of fans' "shocking" portraits of Nick Cave hangs at his record company's offices. The frontman of rock groups The Bad Seeds and Grinderman said he gets sent an unusual amount of fan-made art devoted to him sent to his record company, Mute…

Nick Cave makes Irregular appearance in Edinburgh

No, you didn’t just hallucinate that. Nick Cave’s popping down to the Roxy. This Canongate Books/Edinburgh International Film Festival multimedia event brings the Aussie music/film/literature icon, who will be reading from his novel, The Death of Bunny…

Nick Cave, Jackie Kay and Alan Warner set for Dundee Literary Festival 2010

Watch out Edinburgh, there’s a new kid on the east coast block. Well, OK, chances are Dundee’s bookish extravaganza might never quite reach the exalted status of the capital’s world-beating literary fiesta but it’s making a very strong case for itself…

Nick Cave reading in Edinburgh at Canongate literary cabaret night Irregular

Ladiezangenulmen! Mr! Nick! Cave! Canongate pull off something of a coup with an appearance by the Lord of Darkness at their literary cabaret night. Thanking their lucky stars that they’re on this line-up are writer David Whitehouse and musician Jed…

Nick Cave book reading announced for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

Musician and author Nick Cave will be appearing at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival. He will be reading from his book The Death of Bunny Munro, published by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate. The reading will be part of the…

Book and Literary festivals in Scotland 2010

With Glasgow’s Aye Write! and Aberdeen’s Word behind us for another year, Scotland’s book lovers are now holding their breath for the real heavyweight of the nation’s literary calendar, the Edinburgh Book Festival (Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Sat…

Pere Ubu, Mogwai, Thomas Truax and Zombie Zombie set for The Glasgow Music and Film Festival

The Music and Film Festival is a strange beast, full of contradictions and tangents that threaten to pull apart its coherence, but ultimately make it the most exciting strand of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Co-curated by the Arches, and featuring…

The Hot 100 2009

Compiled by List staff through a painstaking process of review and debate, the Hot 100 is the comprehensive list of Scottish creative talent, covering both individuals and organisations who’ve made a standout contribution to culture in 2009. This year’s…

All Tomorrow's Parties

(E) 83min (Warp Films) It’s been ten years since All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) began their high concept underground music happenings at the Bowlie Weekender in Camber Sands holiday camp. Since then the invited musicians of the calibre of Patti Smith…

Interview with Sum author David Eagleman

Brian Eno composed a score for it. Stephen Fry sent sales rocketing when he mentioned it on Twitter and Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Miranda Richardson have been recorded reading from it. Kirstin Innes meets David Eagleman, author of Sum, one of 2009’s…

Books hitlist

Imprint A strong looking line-up for this East Ayrshire book festival with the likes of James Kelman, James Robertson and Jackie Kay in attendance. Various venues, Sat 7–14 Nov. James Ellroy Borders Books and GFT, Glasgow, Thu 5 Nov…

Hitlist: Books

Literary highlights this fortnight

Vic Reeves, Heroic Poetic Extravaganza, And Another Thing … Hitchhiker Celebration, Nick Cave, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay: Voice, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay: Voice, Denise Mina and Alan Bissett, Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh: Diverse City

Book to the Future

Considering the future of how we read

It’s not quite meltdown yet. The good news is, some stories are projected to sell well in the coming year – the adventures of a young magician, the new Dan Brown, also some book called The Bible (sometimes bought in two parts, doubling sales potential).

Books hitlist

Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro is only veritable polymath Cave’s second novel, presumably, the band, the film scores and the film scripts all kind of got in the way a little bit of him getting round to another one until now. Here he reads from it…

Hear this! - Upcoming gigs and albums Autumn 2009

SEPTEMBER 14 Sep Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 After ‘retirement’, Glastonbury and gigs converting Coldplay fans to the joys of rap music, his masterful album trilogy is now complete. 14 Sep Muse The Resistance The band’s fifth album, it’s tinged…

T in the Park: Goes pop

Nick Cave battered Kylie to death with a rock and in doing so resurrected pop. For when the implausible twain married larynxes – on 1995’s hit murder ballad, ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ – it caused a schism in the pop continuum. By 1996, the prince of…

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…

Grinderman - Man alive!

Less is always more. Inevitably, however, there are times where that worn analogy just won't stick. In the case of Grinderman, the rock band that includes Nick Cave in its line-up, more is most certainly more. Now, Cave has never been backward at…