Nick Cave

The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John Berryman, Patti Smith, Sharon Olds, folk ballads and ancient texts, The Sick Bag Song takes the form of an epic quest, turning over questions of inspiration, creativity, loss, death and romantic love. It is also a companion piece to his feature documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. The Sick Bag Song explores and develops the mystique of Nick Cave.

The Sick Bag Song

Sean O'Hagan

Drawn from over forty hours of interviews, Faith, Hope and Carnage is a thoughtful book about Nick Cave's inner life over the last six years, a meditation on big ideas including, faith, art, music, grief and much more.

Faith, Hope and Carnage

At turns dark and humane, this novel is a tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Cave's singular vision.

The Death of Bunny Munro

The original, unrevised text from the acclaimed first edition. 'And the crows - they still wing, still wheel, only closer now - closer now - closer to me. These sly corbies are birds of death. They've shadowed me all mah life' Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both . . . Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness, Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into a twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy. 'As if a Faulkner novel had been crossed with Whistle Down the Wind and then narrated by a stoned blues musician . . . extremely ambitious . . . heady.' Daily Telegraph

And the Ass Saw the Angel

Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both. . . Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness, Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into the twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke. Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit. The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in June 2020.

Stranger Than Kindness

Kusmuk Torbası Şarkısı

This second collection of Nick Cave's song lyrics and other writings covers the period from the ground-breaking album Tender Prey to the sublime simplicity of The Boatman's Call. In addition to all Cave's lyrics recorded with The Bad Seeds during this time, King Ink II includes several lyrics as yet unrecorded, as well as a number written for other artists and for the Wim Wenders films Faraway, So Close! and Until the End of the World. A short film treatment and a substantial essay on the subject of language and the Bible, "The Flesh Made Word, " are among further material which is not available elsewhere.

King Ink II

Avi Pardo

Bunny Munro'nun Ölümü

Ciprian Şiulea

Moartea lui Bunny Munro

E l'asina vide l'angelo

'I walk into the corner of my room, see my friends in high places. I don't know which is which and whom is whom, they've stolen each other's faces' Spanning Nick Cave's entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream and DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! up to his latest release, Ghosteen, this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave.

1978-2013

The Complete Lyrics

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 22 songs from Australian musician Nick Cave's critically acclaimed Idiot Prayer live album. Originally an onlinestreaming event, the songs included span Cave's career, including early Bad Seeds and Grinderman,right through to the most recent Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen . Includes the title track, plus: (Are You) the One That I've Been Waiting * Black Hair * Euthanasia * Into My Arms * Jubilee Street * The Mercy Seat * Palaces of Montezuma * The Ship Song * The Spinning Song * and more.

Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer

Somewhere between The Wasteland and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Nick Cave's new book is a hellhound road trip into the American soul

Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both . . . Compelling and astonishing, Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into a world of Gothic tragedy.

This complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spans his entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to new albums No More Shall We Part, Nocturama, Abattoir Blues and The Proposition. Brought together in one volume for the first time, these lyrics make up one of the most outstanding achievements of contemporary music.

Complete Lyrics

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 22 songs from Australian musician Nick Cave's critically acclaimed Idiot Prayer live album. Originally an onlinestreaming event, the songs included span Cave's career, including early Bad Seeds and Grinderman, right through to the most recent Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen . Includes the title track, plus: (Are You) the One That I've Been Waiting * Black Hair * Euthanasia * Into My Arms * Jubilee Street * The Mercy Seat * Palaces of Montezuma * The Ship Song * The Spinning Song * and more.

Twenty years after the publication of his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave brings us the final days of Bunny Munro, a salesman in search of a soul. Set adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while he peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself seems only to have a dim awareness of his son’s existence, viewing his needs as a distraction from his own relentless pursuit of sex, alcohol and drugs. When his bizarre road trip shades into a final reckoning, and when England’s small towns seem to become stopping points in a strange, mythical landscape, Bunny realizes that the remnants of his world -- decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psycho-killers -- lurk in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll. At turns dark and humane -- and with all the mystery and enigma fans will recognize as Cave’s singular vision -- The Death of Bunny Munro questions the nature of sin and redemption, and lays bare the imprints that fathers leave on their sons.

Death Of Bunny Munro

Dan Cameron

Pamela McClusky

Kate Eilertsen

Kenneth J. Foster

A tour of Cave's fantastical Soundsuits sculptures offers insight into his use of manufactured and handmade fabrics created from such materials as bottle caps, old toys and hair, in a volume that explores his themes of ceremony, identity and myth in various traditions and cultures.

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