It’s lunchtime in a sweltering Belgrade airport and Nina Kraviz glides past me and joins the queue, as if she hasn’t just banged out techno to thousands of diehards in the moat of a Serbian […]
Tag: Nick Cave
In this together: Nick Cave’s growing bond with fans
When our rock stars hit 60 it’s usually time for retrospectives, best-ofs and classic album tours, but Nick Cave is an artist who’s continually raging against the dying of the light. Cave turned 60 last […]
Black rain come down: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds in 10 songs
There’s a case to be made for Nick Cave being a rock’n’roll shape-shifter of David Bowie’s equal, even if he’s looked like a spindly Thin White Duke in a black suit for 30-odd years. I’m […]
Shane MacGowan beyond the Streams of Whiskey
When the National Concert Hall announced a 60th birthday tribute to Shane MacGowan, there was a collective wtf double-take that he’d managed to make it this far — and the same cliches were flying around […]
Real Gone is a bit of an outlier – even for Tom Waits
Tom Waits is a heritage act who doesn’t really play ball with the nostalgia crowd. Whenever there’s a rare news bulletin from Waits HQ I get a naive jolt of hope that he’s going on […]
Primavera round-up: PiL, Grinderman, Suicide, Salem
Public Image Limited (Llevant Stage, Thursday) John Lydon’s not impressed with the passive crowd: “Fuck sake this is PiL man, we are your only friends in the music industry.” This finally gets a cheer, he […]
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