Free Sunday afternoon?
Introduce your love to the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Barry H writes:
Ente the Dark Heart of Valentine’s Day with the music of Nick Cave played by The Van Diemens [Jack Healy and Mark Walsh]….There are songs that have defined our lives through the good times and the bad, you have heard them sheltering at the crossroads of misery and abandon, you have heard them at the altar of ecstasy and elation.
Songs that portray everything from sin, murder, love, death, regret and hope to songs that are simply enjoyed for their time defying melodies and their inexplicable lifting of the soul. When such songs and music are discussed there is one name that is routinely referred to, Nick Cave… and of course The Bad Seeds.
Fight!
The Stag’s Head, Dame Lane, Dublin 2
4pm €8
Nothing good ever came out of Australia.
Nothing ever will.
Holly vallance?
Never heard of him.
I have had an STD that would dispute that statement. All about the journey though right memes?
jeebus i thought this news story was going to say he had died and my heart actually jumped so hard it hurt. don’t DO that!
but the real question…van diemens or david noone for best Nick?
I find it a struggle to listen to Nick Cave’s music now after his son’s awful death.
Same as
Oh man, I love his intense stare.
He’s like Bowie when Bowie was being a dickhead, but it’s like full-on, 24hrs every year or two…without fail…like it was a career or something…
His genius knows no bounds, and then he releases the same album again in a different sleeve and the crowd goes apeshit quietly to their miserable selves, in their shitty little bedsit, but not forgetting to switch off the 2-bar electric fire 2hrs before their room-mate gets home from college, just in case. Open the window, just to be sure.
Sad music for sad people.
It shouldn’t be allowed.
Leonard Cohen died to make room for thi
Hang on.
I have another call. I’ll be back in a minute.
So what have you released lately that we should be listening to instead?
Other than the same old bullpoo here nightly
@Same old same old;
It’s a commonly held misconception that I’m here every night. I’m not. Not even close to it.
I’m here two or three times in any week, although I have been here quite a lot recently. More than normal. I’m not counting, but it’s definitely more than normal. I’ll grant you that.
It seems like more because when I am here I tend to stay for a very long time. 30 or 40 hours per sitting…something like that.
I have no problem in that regard. Honestly, I never used to notice it until it was pointed out to me.
I don’t know why anybody would bring it up.
Bertie did earlier on, but unlike you he has manners.
He asked about it in a civilised way, and I answered him accordingly.
You’re different.
You sound like you want me to stop, like you want to be my Mother.
Let’s see where that gets you.
The thing is you’re not funny or even remotely interesting. You just go on and on and on.
You shut up…
Precisely – take your own advice
…and the other one, you shut up too.
FYI, I’ve released wind from my back-passage that bore more resonance and relevance to modern society that this Ghoul ever mustered..
You’re all the same, you Cavitys.
You can’t name ONE SONG.
Oh, you don’t get it. It’s the body of work he’s created. He’s a artist. We loves him…
Get off the bus ye monkey spanker.. Ye can walk home, and you better have your keys with you because I’m not opening the door fer ye.
There are limits to a man’s patience.
@ Same old same old
Seeing as your critique should be held in such high regard I will change my opinion. My former opinion being that memes is by far the most interesting commentator here….No offense…The same insular group that seems to form their opinions based on the, again, no offense, sh**e that is posted here daily has become tired and lacking any relevant conversation. Mock the journal all you like but they seem to be trying to up their game.
BS. Up yo urgame. Less than two weeks out and you have produced 2 articles that aren’t mocking or “funny” to said insular group.
“Frilly meets Mercille!!” Completely pointless. Hire people BS. Re-design BS. Be the place we all feel it can be BS. It is just so disappointing that it looks like it will be after this term….I hate I check here daily…
Henry’s Dream is a brillbum
What’s a ‘brillbum’?
-Is it hipster talk for a ‘brilliant album’?
Only messing.
I know it couldn’t be.
What is it really?
No you got it. I was being lazy. Brilliant album.
Stop teasing me.
What is a ‘brillbum’?
I’m listening to the OST of ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ by Peter Gabriel.
I think it’s a brillbum.
I don’t know.
I just imagine Phil Collins choking about not being the best drummer in Genesis AND not getting the job as narrator on Thomas The Tank Engine.
-That must hurt.
Next up is ‘Viva Dead Ponies’.
-The soundtrack to my Cavity-free and well-spent youth. You could do worse, but don’t play it at work. You’ll get sacked if you do so don’t.
I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
Do you love living in a democracy?
Do you?
Do you?
You don’t.
You never did and you never will.
Cathal should be King.
Cork people know who I mean.
He always sounded kind of terminally angry to me. I can see how his tone resonates with you though.
What did your first wife die of?
I have only one wife.
She’s probably still alive for all I know, but if you look into her eyes you can see that she’s dead inside so I don’t know if that really counts.
Is she alive?
Is she living in Roscommon?
Who cares either way?
But yeah, Fatima Mansions were the second-best Irish band ever.
You were right about that.
Then it all went MBV.
More smack, Vicar
PS, soso.
It’s almost 9:15pm.
Just giving you a heads-up: The off-license closes in less than an hour..
Throw on some trackies, get yerself a bockle or two and let’s make a night of it.
It’s not like anyone is going to knocking on your door anytime soon, or ringing your phone.
I’ll keep you warm.
I’ll make you sweat.
Lost in the Former West
I wasn’t in to that music the first time round.
The Loyaliser is a great song from Fatima Mansions.
Old Nick has made good albums. I have The Good Son, Henry’s Dream and an earlier one Your Funeral, My Trial.
Henry’s Dream is extremely intense, especially the song John Finn’s Wife. What album of his should I get next
Oh man.
You should’ve seen them live.
They were fierce and fury personified, and they took no prisoners
Cathal put every ounce of his soul into everything like it was his last breath.
I’ve never seen anything remotely like it before or since, and I saw them 5 times.
Their YouTube legacy does them no justice.
There are no words.
sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq might know better – it was Murder Ballads or The Good Son for me…
I know nothing about St Nick apart from how he sounded like an old man all the time, and that the people who loved him the most left their bedrooms the least.
I never succumbed to his aura. I had stuff to do.
@Peter Dempsey
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus is pretty good, imo.
Although I am not as knowledgable on the subject as you are, so forgive me if it isn’t up there with the albums you mentioned. Here’s a taster:
http://youtu.be/JquzYr-5bE4
I think they began to lose it around the time of <i<'Lost in the Former West', 'The Loyaliser'. and ‘1,000%’.
You could see how Cathal was hurting himself and it was obvious that he needed to stop.
‘Viva Dead Ponies’ was their calling-card and their swansong for me personally, but you can never overestimate the sheer power of ‘Blues For Ceausescu‘
It’s sounds a bit like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvsgWD_pAQ
I love that band so much.
Cathal C is Scott Walker without testicles
‘If you can’t shift this crate of Brillo Pads by Friday, vengeance will be mine.’ – Jesus.
Rory – thanks for the suggestion
sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq – I did see Fatima Mansions play live. They were on stage early Saturday during the one of the Feiles , I think it was 1991. I saw them at a later time, around Lost In the Former West
Viva Dead Ponies is the best Irish album I have heard.
I think Coughlan was in another band (aside from Microdisney) called Bubonic who had an album called 20 Golden Showers
Peter, you are so close to being right that I don’t want to correct you.
20 Golden Showers was their second album., and the ‘band’ were called ‘Bubonique’.
It was Cathal Coughlan and Sean Hughes* acting the bollix.
*Yes, THAT Sean Hughes, the one with the funny-looking head.
They released a couple of 12” singles too, my favourite of which was a cover of an old Bobby Goldsboro song called ‘Summer (The Fist Time)’. It’s still frightening and subversive as f after all these years, and it goes a little something like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYe6UlIjEQ
I still can’t remember the name of their first album.
But their most accessible song has to be this one, even if it isn’t as funny as their other $hit;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF0p5UEaKc
Aah Bubonique. Sean Hughes the unfunny comedian. He appeared on a Cinerama (Wedding Present side project) song before.
does this come with Nialler’s imprimatur. Has he signed off on it. Otherwise I ain’t going. kind of wanky a nick cave tribute band. I thought bs was cutting edge! Irish hip hop etc.