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Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957 ) is an Australian rock Musician , Songwriter , Author , Screenwriter and occasional Actor , best known for his work in the Rock And Roll band Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. He currently resides in the United Kingdom . HISTORY Cave was born in the small town of Warracknabeal in the state of Victoria , Australia , the son of Dawn and Colin Cave, brother of Tim (b. 1952), Peter (b. 1954) and Julie (b. 1959). As a child, Cave lived in Warracknabeal and then Wangaratta in rural Victoria , Australia . His father was a teacher of English and Literature , his mother a librarian. Raised as an Anglican , he sang in the boys Choir at Wangaratta Cathedral. He was often in trouble with the local school authorities, and so his parents sent him to Boarding School at Melbourne 's Caulfield Grammar in 1970. The following year he became a "day boy" when his family moved to Suburb an Melbourne. There was a piano in the family home, and Cave joined the school choir under choirmaster Norman Kaye . In 1973 at Caulfield, Cave met Mick Harvey , Tracy Pew and Phill Calvert , with whom he founded his first band, later to be named The Boys Next Door . Guitarist Rowland S. Howard later joined the band, in 1978. Cave's collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Harvey continues to this day. Cave also studied painting at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1976, but dropped out in 1977 to pursue music. In late 1978, shortly after Cave's 21st birthday, his father was killed in a car accident. The band played a role in Melbourne's Post-punk Music Scene of the late 1970s, playing hundreds of live shows in Australia, before changing their name to The Birthday Party in 1980 and moving to London , then West Berlin . Cave's Australian girlfriend and Muse Anita Lane accompanied them to London. The band were notorious for their provocative high-energy live performances which featured Cave shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar Feedback . After numerous recordings and establishing a cult following in Europe and Australia, The Birthday Party disbanded in 1984. Howard and Cave found it difficult to continue working together and both were somewhat exhausted from alcohol and drug use. Cave and Harvey went on to form the first version of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , whose name indicates the shift in Cave's role from band-member to band-leader, and coincides with a shift in Cave's songwriting from Expressionism towards lyrical and detailed narratives. The Bad Seeds were founded as an international backing group with German guitarist Blixa Bargeld (from Einstürzende Neubauten ), British bassist Barry Adamson (formerly of Magazine ) and Australian guitarist Hugo Race . Lane was also a creative influence and sometime Lyricist . This line-up recorded their debut album, released in 1984, '' From Her To Eternity ''. That year, while he was based in '', '' Kicking Against The Pricks '', '' Your Funeral, My Trial '' and '' Tender Prey ''. In 1988, Cave also released his book '' King Ink '', a collection of lyrics and Play s, including some from his collaboration with American '' Enfant Terrible '' Lydia Lunch . Cave left West Berlin shortly before the fall of the , UK, and is married to British Model Susie Bick, with whom he has twin sons, Arthur and Earl. Cave's music is featured in several of Wim Wenders ' movies, including '' Wings Of Desire '' (in which Cave also appears, in a live performance), '' Until The End Of The World '', '' Faraway, So Close! '' and '' Soul Of A Man ''. Cave also acted in '' Ghosts ... Of The Civil Dead '', a 1989 Independent Movie written and directed by John Hillcoat, and in the 1991 film, '' Johnny Suede '', with Brad Pitt . In 1996, Cave and the Bad Seeds released an album, '' Murder Ballads '', which was, as the title suggests, a collection of songs about Murder . It included "Henry Lee," a duet with British rock singer PJ Harvey (with whom he had a brief relationship), and "Where the Wild Roses Grow," a duet with Australian pop idol Kylie Minogue . The latter was a mainstream hit, winning three ARIA Awards including "Song of the Year". His next album, '' The Boatman's Call '', was marked by a radical shift away from Archetypal and violent narratives to biographical and confessional songs about his relationships with Carneiro and PJ Harvey. After the album's release, Cave took time out to rehabilitate from his heavy Heroin and Alcohol habits. Rejuvenated, he resurfaced with his complex, moody, and much-acclaimed '' No More Shall We Part '' in 2001. In 1998, the same year that Cave issued a "Best Of" , Leonard Cohen , and others (''Original Seeds Volume 2'' was issued in 2004.) In addition to his performances with The Bad Seeds , Cave has, since the 90s, performed live 'solo' tours with Cave on piano and a bass/drums/violin trio with a fluctuating line-up. The current trio are Bad Seeds' Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis (nicknamed the ''Mini-Seeds''). In 2000, one of Cave's heroes, Johnny Cash, covered Cave's "The Mercy Seat" on the album ''American III: Solitary Man'', seemingly repaying Cave for the compliment he paid by covering Cash's "Muddy Water" and "The Singer" on his ''Kicking Against the Pricks'' album. Cave was then invited to be one of many rock and country artists to contribute to the liner notes of the retrospective '''' album (2002). A similar duet, the American folk song "Cindy", was released post-humously on the "Johnny Cash: Unearthed" boxset. After the release of the 2003 album '' Nocturama '', which failed to excite reviewers, Bargeld announced he was leaving the band to devote more time to Einstürzende Neubauten, leaving Mick Harvey as the only surviving original member of the band other than Cave himself. Undisturbed, the very next year Cave released his first double record - the acclaimed two-disc set '' Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus ''. In 2005, Cave and the Seeds released ''B-Sides & Rarities'', a comprehensive three-disc, 56-track collection of B-side s, rarities and tracks that appeared on film Soundtrack s. Following the Boxing Day Tsunami , Nick Cave appeared at the Wave Aid fundraising concert in Sydney , to raise funds for aid organisations working in disaster affected areas. '' The Proposition '', a film written by Cave, directed by John Hillcoat and starring Guy Pearce , Ray Winstone , Danny Huston , John Hurt , David Wenham and Emily Watson , was filmed in Queensland in 2004 and premiered in October 2005 to mostly positive reviews. The generally Ambient soundtrack was recorded by Cave and bandmember Warren Ellis , and was released a week before the film. TRIVIA
DISCOGRAPHY FOR NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Studio albums #'' From Her To Eternity '' (1984) #'' The Firstborn Is Dead '' (1985) #'' Kicking Against The Pricks '' (1986) #'' Your Funeral, My Trial '' (1986) #'' Tender Prey '' (1988) #'' The Good Son '' (1990) #'' Henry's Dream '' (1992) #'' Let Love In '' (1994) #'' Murder Ballads '' (1996) #'' The Boatman's Call '' (1997) #'' No More Shall We Part '' (2001) #'' Nocturama '' (2003) #'' Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus '' (2CD) (2004) Live Albums and Compilations
Other Nick Cave albums
Selected list of Video & DVD releases
BOOKS BY NICK CAVE
THE BAD SEEDS See main article under Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds for band line-ups and other information. AWARDS
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