Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

Had a great time at the @unherd Coronation party last night, good to meet the legend Nick Cave! God save the King 👑🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/XWsbGvAbEE

— Billy (@billygoatideas) May 5, 2023

I’m a centrist because the real world is complicated and I don’t have all the answers. Fucking hate left wing people though, they’re dogmatic and disagreeable, but on the other hand I happen to find all my new very right wing friends rather agreeable (because I agree with them)

So glad I was never a fan of Morrissey, Van Morrison and now Nick Cave .. though tbf I did like the Birthday Party.

Congrats

Thanks!

From her majesty to eternity

Harry's Dream

The show I saw on the Push The Sky Away tour had Jubilee Street as like the 3rd song and it was unbelievable, one of the most extraordinary live music moments I’ve ever seen. I could have left at that point totally satisfied.

― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, October 18, 2019 8:50 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm not a fan of Cave's whole "thing" for many reasons articulated well by others in this thread, BUT I also saw him on the Push the Sky Away tour and was similarly floored by "Jubilee Street," face utterly melted. He's undeniably a brilliant performer, but I very rarely have the urge to listen to any of his records. And when I do, it's usually Push the Sky Away because I associate it with that show. Incidentally Trey Anastasio and David Fricke attended that show together, seated a few rows in front of me (Beacon Theatre NYC).

feel like our lovely ska byway ended prematurely

And no-one saw the skarny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his skaravan behind

And he calls to his mother
And he calls to his father
But they are deaf in the shadows
Of his brother's truancy
The good ska

I don't believe in an interventionist ska

Cave needs an intervention, but for reactionary beliefs, not drugs.

Push the Ska Away

― omar little, Friday, May 5, 2023 2:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

that and Skaleton Tree would be amazing reinterpretation albums

I don't think this is exactly what chaki wanted for his bday from ilx, but I guess it's a good enough celebration of our ilxor chum

I don't believe in an interventionist ska

The Ausraelites

looking aSkance at the youtubes posted on this thread!

Nick Cave pic.twitter.com/1hw8kqSFXg

— Jerseydeanne (@jerseydeanne) May 6, 2023

Go son, go down to the water
And see the women skanking there
Then go up into the mountains
The men, they are skanking too

Father, why are all the women skanking?
They are skanking for their men
Then why are all the men there skanking?
They are skanking back at them

This is a skanking song
A song in which to skank
While all the men and women sleep
This is a skanking song
But I won’t be skanking long

Father, why are all the children skanking?
They are merely crying son
Oh, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true skanking is yet... to come

This is a skanking song
A song in which to skank
While all the men and women sleep
This is a skanking song
But I won’t be skanking long

Oh father, tell me are you skanking?
Your face seems wet to touch
Oh, then I’m so sorry, father
I never thought I hurt you so much

This is a skanking song
A song in which to skank
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a skanking song
But I won’t be skanking long
But I won’t be skanking long
But I won’t be skanking long
But I won’t be skanking long

The Rude Son

Punky Reggae Birthday Party

this way lies madness

Oh no lol

I mean I really wish that he had not gone, but given that he did, this is the best possible justification. https://t.co/LD1EtRx5Dp

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) May 6, 2023

for someone whose grandad was a soviet spy he's such a soft as shit lib!

Lol I did not know this!

yep, his grandad was Arthur Wynn - the KGB's recruitment man in London!

How did he even get invited in the first place? Is Camilla a fan or something? I didn't see JG Thirwell on the guest list.

Black dye job on a 64-year-old man is not a good look btw, maybe he'll pivot to the McCartney/Cliff light brown infused with grey, also a bad look though.

he's probably been hobnobbing with all the right people for years

Gotta match the black hair plugs

Stagger Stylee

invite as plus one of current wife susie, who founded and runs the fashion label the vampire's wife (which is popular with various mid-age royals)

idk who else is on the guest list for this but cave is surely much more firmly establishment/adopted national treasure than someone like thirlwell, respectable mojo/observer aoty presence, fawning documentaries, wrote the theme tune to pesky blinders

pesky blinders that’s right

henry's dream, more like sniper's dream amirite

I think it was something to do with the Australian PM, he nominated people who could attend ... something like that anyway,

invite as plus one of current wife susie, who founded and runs the fashion label the vampire's wife (which is popular with various mid-age royals)

He was invited as one of 14 "outstanding Australians". Susie was not there, or if she was then she wasn't with her husband.

What, they managed to find 14 outstanding Australians?

(joke)

Guess Angus Young doesn't count as an Aussie then. Did they have 14 oustanding Scots too?

https://fezpage.tripod.com/billy.jpg

lol picture fail, it was a hilarious cartoon of Billy Connolly wearing a monocle from Viz.

https://fezpage.tripod.com/billy.jpg

LOL, it refuses to post!

that was one of the funniest strips Viz ever did

i thought that was supposed to be a comment on outstanding Australians

Guess Angus Young doesn't count as an Aussie then. Did they have 14 oustanding Scots too?

aiui Angus Young lives primarily in the Netherlands, not the UK

now i'm wondering whether Ant or Dec was the plus one

sorta skimming back up this thread and just had to google to see if Jim Thirlwell wrote the theme to Pesky Blinkers

scraping flat caps off the wheel