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  Background group_or_band
  Origin Melbourne , Australia
  Genre Rock <br> Post-punk <br> Gothic Rock
  Years Active 1984 - Present
  Label Mute Records
  Associated Acts The Birthday Party <br/> Grinderman
  URL Official Website


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a Rock band with international personnel.


HISTORY


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was originally formed in (vocals, songwriter, keyboards, harmonica) and multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey . They were joined by Einstürzende Neubauten member Blixa Bargeld (guitar), Hugo Race (guitar), and former Magazine member Barry Adamson (bass, piano). With this line-up, the band recorded and released their debut album, '' From Her To Eternity '' (1984). The group has been through many personnel changes, with Cave and Harvey remaining the constants. During their initial Australian tour, Birthday Party Bass Guitar ist Tracy Pew also performed with the band.

Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey write, "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk, although in a more subdued fashion than his work with the Birthday Party." {Link without Title}


LINE-UP


The core foursome


Apart from the remaining core members of Harvey, Cave, and Wydler, the group comprises musicians selected personally by Cave:


Regulars on band's records


In addition to his performances with the Bad Seeds, Cave has, since the '90s, performed live 'solo' tours with Cave on piano, Ellis on violin and a fluctuating bass/drums line-up. The current trio are Bad Seeds' Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis (nicknamed the ''Mini-Seeds'').


Past members, guest and touring musicians



Line-up chronology

  • May 1984–September 1984: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson, and Hugo Race.

  • October 1984–March 1985: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, and Barry Adamson.

  • June 1985–July 1986: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson, and Thomas Wydler.

  • July 1986–September 1986: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, and Thomas Wydler.

  • September 1986–September 1989: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Wolf, and Thomas Wydler.

  • October 1989–May 1990: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, and Thomas Wydler.

  • May 1992–April 1994: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Conway Savage, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler.

  • February 1996–September 2001: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Conway Savage, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos.

  • February 2003–March 2003: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos.

  • April 2003—: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, James Johnston.



Nationalities

Band leader Cave moved from Melbourne to London in 1980 . Since forming The Bad Seeds in 1984 he has lived in Berlin , São Paulo , London , and Brighton ( UK ). The various international members of the band meet to record and tour. Nationalities of the current and ex-members are:
  • Australian : Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Hugo Race, Martyn P. Casey, Conway Savage, and Warren Ellis

  • British : Barry Adamson and James Johnston

  • German : Blixa Bargeld and Roland Wolf

  • Swiss : Thomas Wydler

  • American : Kid Congo Powers and Jim Sclavunos



DISCOGRAPHY


Studio albums


#'' 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) #29
#'' Let Love In '' (1994) #12
#'' Murder Ballads '' (1996) #8
#'' The Boatman's Call '' (1997) #22 (#155)
#'' No More Shall We Part '' (2001) #15 (#180)
#'' Nocturama '' (2003) #20 (#182)
#'' Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus '' (2CD) (2004) #11 (#126)
#''TBA'' (2008)


Live albums and compilations



Selected list of Video & DVD releases

  • ''The Road to God Knows Where'' - US tour documentary film

  • ''Live at the Paradiso'' - Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • ''Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Videos''

  • ''God Is in the House'' - Live in Lyon, France

  • ''The Abattoir Blues Tour'' - 2DVD/CD, Live at the Brixton Academy, Hammersmith Apollo, etc.



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