Nick Cave
Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition, ceramic sculpture and writing novels. Over the last few years his The Red Hand Files website and ‘In Conversation’ live events have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans.
Seán O’Hagan is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians over the last four decades. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and is photography critic for the Guardian.
Stranger than Kindness, the new collection from Nick Cave traces his transformation from Aussie teenager into an international artist. This book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes.
The Observer
The Observer
Nick Cave sat down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the paperback release of Faith, Hope and Carnage to discuss the book, music, writing, happiness, loss, religion and more.
“Songs are little dangerous bombs of truth”
Read an extract in the Observer from Faith, Hope and Carnage, the new book by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan – a meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more.
Observer
“‘I am damned,’ thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die”
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2014 tour of North America.
