Nick Cave
Australian singer and writer; fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; answers fans in The Red Hand Files.
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- Nick Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer, the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which he formed in 1983 after The Birthday Party broke up.
- With Warren Ellis he has scored films including The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Road, and the two formed Grinderman.
- He wrote the novels And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) and The Death of Bunny Munro (2009).
- In September 2018 he started The Red Hand Files, where he answers questions from fans.
Key facts
- Born
- 22 September 1957, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia1
- Bands
- The Boys Next Door, later The Birthday Party (late 1970s to 1983); Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (formed 1983); Grinderman (2006 to 2011, and again in 2013)1
- Albums
- The Bad Seeds' 18th studio album, Wild God, came out in August 20241
- Novels
- And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989); The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)1
- Film scores
- With Warren Ellis: The Proposition (2005, which Cave also wrote), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009), Hell or High Water (2016)1
- The Red Hand Files
- Answers questions from fans, from September 20182
- Honours
- ARIA Hall of Fame (2007); Officer of the Order of Australia (2017)1
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