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Tom Waits has made a rare public comment by paying his own tribute to the life and work of Shane MacGowan. On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends.

Nick Cave has written a tribute to Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor following their deaths.On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends. His death came five months after the news of Sinéad O’Connor’s passing.

Bruce Springsteen has written a touching tribute to Shane MacGowan following the news of his death.On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends. So far, the likes of Pete Doherty and Nick Cave have paid tribute to MacGowan- a running list of tributes can be found here.Now, Springsteen has written his own homage to the iconic singer in a post shared to social media: “Over here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Shane MacGowan.”“Shane was one of my all-time favorite writers,” he continued.

Nick Cave has paid tribute to his close friend and “the greatest songwriter of his generation”, Shane MacGowan of The Pogues.Upon the news of MacGowan’s passing on November 30 at the age of 65, Cave paid tribute to his friend by sharing that the singer was “A true friend and the greatest songwriter of his generation. A very sad day.”Cave and MacGowan had been friends for a long time. Back in 1992, the two shared a cover version together of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ and have gone on to perform together as well.In an interview with The Irish Times in celebration of MacGowan’s 60th birthday, Cave spoke about meeting The Pogues frontman.

A.D. Amorosi Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was truly a tender poet of universal concern.

The legendary singer of The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, has tragically died at the age of 65 following a long health battle after a lifetime of success in the music industry.

By now, you should be aware that Nick Cave is more than just a singer/songwriter, artist, and musician. On top of his many bands, The Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, and his solo projects, Cave has been involved in dozens of film projects; he and creative partner Warren Ellis have scored over two dozen films—for filmmakers like John Hillcoat, David McKenzie, David Michôd, and Taylor Sheridan—and he’s been the featured player in two documentaries by Andrew Dominik (Cave and Ellis’ score to the “Assassination of Jesse James” remains one of the decades best).

Nick Cave’s novel, The Death Of Bunny Munro.The actor, known for roles in Doctor Who and House Of The Dragon, will also executive produce the six-part series alongside Cave. Isabella Eklöf (Industry) will direct the Sky Original series, from a screenplay written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy).Per a press release, a synopsis for the show reads: “Following his wife Libby’s suicide, sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting.

Matt Smith is to star in and EP a Sky adaptation of Nick Cave‘s sophomore novel The Death of Bunny Munro.

Nick Cave has responded to a hopeful teenage singer who was looking for advice on confidence.17-year-old Eugenio from Rome, Italy spoke about his lack of confidence in his singing for his band’s forthcoming EP and asked the Bad Seeds singer on his Red Hand Files blog whether he should wait until he creates something he is 100 per cent proud of or just record and publish what they already have.“I don’t know if I want to record and publish an EP that I’ve been working on with a band with some friends of mine and that I’m very proud of for what regards the instrumental part,” began the fan’s message. “But I know that my singing could be better and that I could wait a little bit more to create something I’m 100 per cent proud of, but still I don’t want to wait anymore because we have the chance of recording in a great studio and I don’t want to slow down the process.

Nick Cave, Lana Del Rey, Matty Healy and more have recorded covers of World War II-era songs for the official soundtrack to The New Look.Due to premiere on Apple TV+ on February 14, the series follows Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and the fashion industry in Paris during the Second World War. It stars Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Juliette Binoche, Ben Mendelsohn and Emily Mortimer.According to Deadline, The New Look will boast an “immersive and contemporary soundtrack” produced by Jack Antonoff who has previously worked with Del Rey, Healy’s band The 1975, and Taylor Swift.It’ll also feature new versions of early to mid-20th-century tracks recorded by Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine, Beabadoobee, Perfume Genius and Antonoff’s band Bleachers.A tracklist for the collection has not yet been revealed.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are about to start mixing their new album, Cave has revealed.Writing on Facebook, the singer confirmed that having concluded his recent solo tour in North America, he is now due to “head to Buffalo to mix the new Bad Seeds album”.In July, Cave said that he was “finishing” work on the new album with the band he has led since 1983. In an entry on his Red Hand Files website, he told fans that he was to take a short break from replying to questions from fans to finish work on the album.“Thank you for your kind words,” he told a fan who asked a question about soulmates, “but before I answer I’d like to let everyone know that I am now back in the studio finishing the new Bad Seeds record.”Last month at a concert in Chicago, he debuted a new song ‘To Be Found’.

Eric Cantona has described his newly launched music career as being the “closest thing” that comes to his time on the football pitch.The retired Manchester United legend first teased a career in music earlier this year via a post on Instagram, which shared a preview of the music video for his lead single, ‘The Friends We Lost’. The clip showed him in a Shakespearean pose, holding a model of his own head and singing: “Watch yourself in the mirror – someone you hate, someone you love.”Now, he has described the new venture as the next best thing from being on the football pitch.“If you have a dream it should be a big dream.

Nick Cave has debuted a brand new song at his recent concert in Chicago – watch the full video below.On September 29 in Chicago, Cave performed an intimate piano ballad, and later responded to a fan who asked about the song in his newsletter. The Australian musician has slowly been releasing details about the new Bad Seeds album, revealing earlier this May that the music was “just so instantly interesting” as well as “different all the time”.In Issue 255 of The Red Hand Files, Cave elaborated on the process of writing ‘Euthanasia’, which he performed at Alexandra Palace, and a new song which he called ‘To Be Found’.“When I’m working on an album with The Bad Seeds, I occasionally record a song alone at the piano,” he wrote.

Nick Cave has shared his views on the stages of grief and how it is bullshit and shared that the process is a mess similar to love.After being asked if he believes in “acceptance” as the final stage of grief according to the Kübler-Ross model in an interview with Rolling Stone, Cave responded: “In my experience, the Kübler-Ross model of the stages of grief is full of shit. Grief portioned into orderly stages does not make sense, on any level.”He continued: “Grief, like love, is a mess.

Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave, who has previously described the prospect as a “grotesque mockery of what it is to be human” and told platforms such as ChatGPT to “fuck off and leave songwriting alone”.Others who have criticised it include Sting, who said AI “doesn’t impress” him and that songwriters will have to defend “our human capital against AI”, as well as Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, who said that art is about “a real person’s expression”.Grimes was more open to the concept, however, permitting fans to use her voice in their own AI projects – provided they share the royalties with her.

Nick Cave has responded to a fan who has asked for advice about how to enrich their current gap year.El from Frankfurt in Germany asked The Bad Seeds singer on his Red Hand Files blog how one might find purpose in “this bizarre and temporary world”.“I am 20, high school graduant, in my gap-year and I find it pointless to pursue anything in this bizarre and temporary world that is so much against my values in every way possible,” the fan’s message began. “I believe I am speaking for a generation here.

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Nick Cave has shared a playlist that was created of his “15 best songs” after being asked to make a compilation for new fans.After being asked for a playlist of his songs for new listeners who were looking for a way to navigate Cave’s “immense and bewildering” back catalogue on his site, Red Hand Files, the singer compiled a list of tracks that were sent in by his readers.The Bad Seeds frontman shared: “Feeling not best placed to judge, I instead turned to the readers of The Red Hand Files for help, asking you to send in playlists of your 15 favourite songs.”He continued: “The response was overwhelming and well over two thousand playlists have come in so far (please stop sending them now!).

Limited Edition radio show is returning to BBC Radio 6 Music this month.The actor and musician has hosted two previous instalments of the show, both in the autumns of 2020 and 2021, and kicks off this year’s 10-part series on September 17.Murphy will broadcast a “nocturnal playlist to end the weekend” from 10pm-12pm on Sundays in which he’ll “share songs from all corners of his record collection and share why they hold a special place in his life”, a press release states.The Oppenheimer star announced the news during a chat with Nemone (sitting in for Lauren Laverne) on BBC Radio 6 Music earlier today (September 1). You can listen back to the interview here (at 9.05am or 1 hour and 35 minutes into the programme).Murphy said: “It’s been a while, but I am thrilled to be back playing tunes on 6 Music, my favourite radio station in the world… the show will be a sound collage of new, old and limited edition tunes for your discerning ears… can’t wait.”Artists whose records were featured across the previous two series include Bicep, Big Thief, Carly Simon, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Julia Holter, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, Madlib, Marvin Gaye, Max Richter, Micah P.

Garbage‘s frontwoman Shirley Manson has explained why bands shouldn’t worry about placing on festival line-ups over time.Manson recently shared a photo on social media of 1998’s Reading Festival lineup, in which Garbage were headlining on the same day that New Order were performing. She explained how daunting it was to see that her band was playing above some of their idols.The singer reflected on the events of the day 25 years ago in the photo’s caption, which read: “25 years ago.

The Birthday Party, Mutiny In Heaven.The film is directed by Ian White and will feature new interviews with Nick Cave and bandmates Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard and Phill Calvert.It will screen in select cinemas in September and October and then be available to stream online later in the year.A new clip of the film is now available to watch below.Discussing the band’s shows in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Harvey said: “It was frightening being onstage before things got out of control.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have announced details of a new live album, created from their three performances at the Sydney Opera House last year.Titled ‘Australian Carnage’, the collection features audio taken from the pair’s performances in the Australian city, held as part of their 16-stop tour in the country at the end of 2022. The tour celebrated the release of the 2021 lockdown album, ‘Carnage’, which saw Cave and longtime Bad Seeds member Ellis come together for a new introspective side project.The live album will be released in two different formats: an 18-track digital version, which will be released this Friday (August 25), and an eight-track vinyl edition, which will arrive on December 1 via Goliath – pre-order here.To celebrate the announcement, Cave and Ellis have also shared the live version of ‘Balcony Man’, taken from the forthcoming album.

Nick Cave has responded to a question about the trans members of his fanbase, saying he loves “all my fans”.In an entry on his Red Hand Files website, Cave was asked by a fan: “How do you feel about your transgender fans or trans people in general? As a young trans woman, I’ve had equally positive and negative gender-related experiences with other fans of your work and stand curious as to where you stand on things.”After discussing another question in the entry about his Enneagram (personality test) type, Cave said that he believes he has “a weird paternal instinct toward my audience, gone berserk.”Turning his attention towards the trans fan, he then added: “I also have another impulse, which I hope is more common, and that is to treat everyone with equal love and respect, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religion or anything else. I essentially see the world as a collection of individuals, each unique in their brokenness, who have at their core a common and binding sameness of spirit.“So, Amelia, although I am slightly uncertain as to where I am supposed to stand on such things, or rather why I am supposed to stand anywhere, I will say this – I love my trans fans fully and wish them the best, as I love all my fans and wish them the best.

Nick Cave has announced a new book tour of the US for Faith, Hope And Carnage later this year.The recent book is based on 40 hours of interviews between Cave and his friend, the Observer journalist Seán O’Hagan.Beginning next month, he will take it to eight dates across the US, beginning in Washington, DC on September 23.At the second of two New York events on October 5, Cave will be joined by O’Hagan for a Q&A about the book.See the dates below.SEPTEMBER 202323 – Washington DC, Politics and Prose30 – Chicago, Seminary Co-opOCTOBER 20235 – New York, Strand Book Store5 – New York, 92nd Street Y11 – Cambridge, Harvard Book Store18 – Nashville, Parnassus Books24 – Austin, BookPeople30 – Los Angeles, Book SoupFaith, Hope And Carnage covers Cave’s perspective and personal life over the six years following the death of his son, Arthur, who died in July 2015 at the age of 15. Cave also lost his 31-year-old son, Jethro Lazenby, earlier this year.Cave narrates the audiobook along with O’Hagan , which was recorded so that the listener – when wearing headphones – is hearing the speech as though they’re sitting between Cave and O’Hagan.Elsewhere, Cave has revealed that he’s currently “finishing” work on his new album with the Bad Seeds.Last year, Cave said he was planning on writing a new album once his touring commitments had wrapped up.Then, at the start of 2023, he confirmed that work was underway and shared some early lyric ideas for the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Ghosteen’.

Ed Sheeran has shared his thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence in music, calling the technology “weird”.The ‘Subtract’ singer-songwriter spoke about AI during a recent interview with Audacy, which took place at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City.Towards the end of the conversation, Sheeran was asked whether he had seen any of the music-orientated AI projects that are becoming increasingly popular across social media.“What I don’t understand about AI is like, for the last 60 years, Hollywood movies have been telling you, ‘Don’t do it’. And now everyone’s doing it,” he responded.

Kylie Minogue has spoken about her “love” of indie bands and said she’d most like to collaborate with The Killers.The singer, who has previously worked with the likes of Nick Cave and Manic Street Preachers, has said she would love to get into studio with the Las Vegas band.She told E! Online: “I’ve always loved more kind of indie bands, like The Killers. Most collaborations I’ve done have come to me so I haven’t had to make that decision.

Nick Cave has revealed that he’s currently “finishing” work on his new album with the Bad Seeds.Last year, Cave said he was planning on writing a new album once his touring commitments had wrapped up.Then, at the start of 2023, he confirmed that work was underway and shared some early lyric ideas for the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Ghosteen’.Now, in an entry on his Red Hand Files website, he told fans that he was to take a short break from replying to questions from fans to finish work on the album.“Thank you for your kind words,” he told a fan who asked a question about soulmates, “but before I answer I’d like to let everyone know that I am now back in the studio finishing the new Bad Seeds record.“I will continue to read all the letters that come in, and will be with you in spirit, but my replies may not be that regular or very expansive over the next few weeks.”Cave confirmed that the album-writing process was underway in the first week of January. Responding to a question from Fred about his plans for 2023 on The Red Hand Files, Cave said: “My plan for this year is to make a new record with the Bad Seeds.

Nick Cave has recalled being “high” while taking to the stage with Kylie Minogue on Top Of The Pops.The Bad Seeds frontman was speaking as part of The Louis Theroux Podcast recently when he discussed the making of his 1995 track ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ — which saw him join forces with the Australian pop star.Describing the message behind the song, he said: “It was a murder ballad that ends with the character killing his beloved… It was quite something at the time for Kylie to take on.”“I certainly wasn’t in showroom condition,” he continued. “Her management were like ‘This is a bad idea’ because we were a bunch of dark drug-addicted monstrosities… but she was determined to do that.”The 65-year-old songwriter then told the host that he struggles to “remember much” about his time performing the song with Minogue on Top Of The Pops, although the two did remain close after the appearance.“We have stayed very good friends,” he explained.

Nick Cave and Blondie‘s Debbie Harry have teamed up to cover The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s ‘On The Other Side’. Listen to it below.The cover is the first single from the fourth and final volume in the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series titled ‘The Task Has Overwhelmed Us’. The series is formed from new interpretations of songs by the late mind behind the Gun Club.Pierce only performed ‘On The Other Side’ live on a handful of occasions, but has now been cemented by the duo.

Chvrches have paid tribute to the “world’s greatest goth” – The Cure’s Robert Smith during their set at Glastonbury Festival today (June 23).Performing on the Other Stage, the band paid tribute to Smith before performing ‘How Not To Drown‘, which they released together in 2021.After a performance by lead singer Lauren Mayberry, the band said of Smith: “Wherever you are, that one was for fucking Robert Smith.”They went on to call him “the legend, the world’s greatest goth,” before joking, “Susie [Cave] might have something to say about that,” in reference to Nick Cave. Mayberry then joked “don’t ignite old feuds”.Elsewhere in the set, Mayberry was forced to handle a wardrobe malfunction.

Nick Cave has recently revealed that two of his books are currently in the works to become TV series or movies.Speaking to NME as part of a recent “good faith conversation”, Cave shared that the adaptation of his book, The Death Of Bunny Munro, into a TV series was “chugging along”. The adaptation was mooted over a decade ago with the Black Seeds frontman stating he originally wrote the story as a screenplay, but had it published as a novel after it failed to move forward.The Death Of Bunny Munro is a dark and humorous book centred around the life of a sex-addicted cosmetics salesman after his wife commits suicide.Cave had previously mentioned that Actor Ray Winstone was “dying” to play the part of Bunny telling Empire more than a decade ago that: “[Winstone] really loved the script when we first handed it to him.

Nick Cave has spoken about what to expect from the next Bad Seeds album, and if there’s a chance of more music from Grinderman any time soon.Earlier this year, the Australian musician was criticised by a fan for losing the anger that was present in much of his earlier work.In a post on his blog The Red Hand Files, Cave shared a note from the fan who asked: “When did you become a Hallmark card hippie? Joy, love, peace. Puke! Where’s the rage, anger, hatred?”In response, Cave said the death of his son Arthur was behind the shift in his energy. “Things changed after my first son died,” he wrote.

Nick Cave has discussed his decision to attend King Charles’ coronation this month after being criticised for the choice.Addressing the invitation on his blog The Red Hand Files ahead of the coronation, Cave responded to fans who appeared confused at his decision to attend, with one writing: “What would the young Nick Cave have thought of that?!”After defending the decision, Cave has now spoken to NME about the response to his decision, and that fans have disowned him because of it.“I don’t want to get into this at all, but I just had a guy write into the Red Hand Files,” Cave began. “He said, ‘I’m a longtime fan, I love your work, and it gives me great sadness to pack it all up in a box and take it down to the secondhand shop because I can no longer listen to you because you went to the coronation.”He added: “It just feels to me that the wrongs get less and less and less.

Nick Cave has said that he was 'extremely bored and completely awestruck' when he attended King Charles III's Coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6. The Australian singer-songwriter, 65, known as the vocalist for the rock band Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, was chosen as part of a group of 14 “outstanding Australians” to attend the event.

Nick Cave has discussed the influence that fellow Australian Barry Humphries – the comedian and satirist known for his characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson – had on him growing up.Cave discussed the late Humphries, who died last month aged 89, during an interview with John Wilson for BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life program. During the appearance, Cave discussed formative influences and experiences that affected his own life and creative practice, including Humphries along with Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and his wife Susie Cave.Humphries began performing in Melbourne in the 1950s.