Nick Cave

[CaledonianGonzo]

I think you might be right. It was inevitable this thread would turn into a "they arent as good as they used to be" thread eventually........

People have been saying that about Cave since the mid 1990s / The Boatman's Call-era.

Glad to see the setlist getting mixed up a little. Hoping for The Ship Song this evening.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Good for you! Someone had to.

Don't bring your doom-mongering into this thread. Cave is every bit as good as he used to be. Hair aside.

[russycarps]

People have been saying that about Cave since the mid 1990s / The Boatman's Call-era.

Glad to see the setlist getting mixed up a little. Hoping for The Ship Song this evening.

I think it was the release of the good son that really narked people off too. I'm sure there's someone that posts on here that was a fan but went off them after the release of that album..

Stupid rehab ruins everything

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Good Son definitely split people when it arrived and scared away a lot of the Birthday Party fans. Oddly, that's one that I really like.

[Zoo Music Girl]

You sound like my mum, Gonzo She always asks me if he played The Ship Song. Gonna take her along to a gig at some point. I tried to scare her off with the Glasto performance but she bloody loved it.

[CaledonianGonzo]

My dad is 70, but he quite likes Cave after I bought him The Boatman's Call a few years back. He loves Leonard Cohen and I suppose they're mostly operating in the same sort of territory.

[Zoo Music Girl]

It's a bit weird as I instinctively feel my parents should dislike the music I like but the older I get the less this is true.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Gang together with your parents and mock your grandparents who're still listening to Max Bygraves and George Formby.

Unless they're the cool sort of grandparents who listen to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I would if I had any left!

I think it's as much to do with my parents having mid-life crises as it is to do with my tastes maturing. And the fact that my mum probably fancies a bit of Nick.

[russycarps]

setlist from last night. Very nice. Brighton still the best looking setlist of the tour though I'd say.

• 1. We No Who U R
  2. Jubilee Street
  3. Do You Love Me?
  4. Tupelo
  5. Red Right Hand
  6. From Her to Eternity
  7. West Country Girl
  8. Into My Arms
  9. Watching Alice
  10. People Ain't No Good
  11. Higgs Boson Blues
  12. Hiding All Away
  13. The Mercy Seat
  14. Stagger Lee
  15. Push the Sky Away
  16. We Real Cool
  17. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
  18. Deanna
  19. Mermaids

[Zoo Music Girl]

setlist from last night. Very nice. Brighton still the best looking setlist of the tour though I'd say.

• 1. We No Who U R
  2. Jubilee Street
  3. Do You Love Me?
  4. Tupelo
  5. Red Right Hand
  6. From Her to Eternity
  7. West Country Girl
  8. Into My Arms
  9. Watching Alice
  10. People Ain't No Good
  11. Higgs Boson Blues
  12. Hiding All Away
  13. The Mercy Seat
  14. Stagger Lee
  15. Push the Sky Away
  16. We Real Cool
  17. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
  18. Deanna
  19. Mermaids

Ooh it's a beauiful thing to see Watching Alice and Are You The One? on there. No new song then? Maybe he's getting bored of it already?

[Zoo Music Girl]

I think Brighton was great for Nobody's Baby Now mainly. If I could make one setlist up from the two London gigs I went to I'd be most happy with that though.

Just remembered something from the Sunday gig. He introduced Mermaids by saying "This song is going to be a stone-cold classic. You might not realise it now but one day you are going to wake up and just know it." Apparently.

[russycarps]

I think the new one was dropped after he saw me say I'm not keen on it.

Mermaids I like, but its not even the best song on the album!

Yeh, brighton got stranger than kindness (granted we got that saturday) AND sad waters AND are you the one...

I hope someone filmed watching alice though

Edited November 1, 2013 by russycarps

[russycarps]

one thing I am certain of is that we will get bloody love letter AGAIN on sunday.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I think the new one was dropped after he saw me say I'm not keen on it.

Mermaids I like, but its not even the best song on the album!

Yeh, brighton got stranger than kindness (granted we got that saturday) AND sad waters AND are you the one...

I hope someone filmed watching alice though

Did they really get all of those at Brighton? Yeah, okay, then that was the best. Home town loyalties and all that.

Why do you hate Love Letter so much? Is it because no one has ever written you one?

[russycarps]

Did they really get all of those at Brighton? Yeah, okay, then that was the best. Home town loyalties and all that.

Why do you hate Love Letter so much? Is it because no one has ever written you one?

Yeh they got 2 extra songs, I was just looking at it then.

I dont hate love letter, just think there are loads of better slow ones he could do. Like, literally any other one he's written.

Now I think about it I dont think I ever have received a love letter. I mean I've written hundreds but never got any replies...

Watching Alice really would suit me down to the ground.

How depressing.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Well, if Nick ditched the new song for you then he might ditch Love Letter too.

If you're reading this, Nick, I would really like to see New Morning and Plain Gold Ring. Those are new additions to my wishlist.

Excitement levels for Sunday are rising pretty high now!

[russycarps]

yeh that reminds me, those rotten shits still havent replied to my "when does it start" question.

Sigh looks like it's going to be a whole afternoon spend in shitty camden. I cant bear the place

[Zoo Music Girl]

yeh that reminds me, those rotten shits still havent replied to my "when does it start" question.

Sigh looks like it's going to be a whole afternoon spend in shitty camden. I cant bear the place

Who did you ask? Koko? I emailed them too.

I love Camden. It reminds me of my misspent youth. Which I am still misspending as an adult.

[Zoo Music Girl]

By the way, you don't *have* to get your wristband at 3pm. You can get it until 6:30pm, if you want to risk leaving it later.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Aye it's gonna be a real sweat pit in there.

Have you seen this review of the manchester gig? It's pretty good, especially the beginning where they talk about previous trips the band have made to the city

http://louderthanwar.com/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-manchester-oct-2013-live-review/

Just read this review - the intro in particular is really interesting. Think he gets a bit carried away with the adjectives though and I don't really understand the description of "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" as "touching"!

Pretty awesome photos from the Sunday gig here:

http://thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-at-londons-hammersmith-apollo-140196

[russycarps]

Just read this review - the intro in particular is really interesting. Think he gets a bit carried away with the adjectives though and I don't really understand the description of "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" as "touching"!

Pretty awesome photos from the Sunday gig here:

http://thelineofbestfit.com/photos/live-photo-gallery/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-at-londons-hammersmith-apollo-140196

aye, the actual concert report was w*nky, but it amused me to see him just go off and get pissed/drugged up with some random nutters

he does take a fine photo indeed

[Zoo Music Girl]

Yeah I like the fact they didn't know it was really him for ages.

That he does. He waved the photographers off again like he did at Glasto!

I was in a great spot to take some photos myself but was too scared in case it angered him. And those around me obviously.

[Osama Jim Laden]

I'm 99.9% sure from her to eternity will be dropped.

Come and join me in my misery!

That will be a horrible shame..

[When Jokers Attack]

The new song was played last night. Mermaids was before the encore.

Stranger Than Kindness had been played in Edunburgh tonight according to a friend.