Nick Cave: The Fixes Page

Nick Cave, circa 1990

Are you a Nick Cave Addict? You are not alone. I confess to being an unabashed, unadulterated slave to Nick Cave’s musical vision, lyrical genius, and performance artistry. If you, like me, have an unquenchable desire for videos and interviews about The Man and his Band(s) you’ve come to the right place.  The Tall Dark One with the hot espresso voice and blue-fire eyes awaits.

Beware of serious addiction risk. 

Quick Directory of my Nick Cave Fixes Pages:

Nick Cave Too | Photo Gallery | Grinderman | Blixa Bargeld |

Music Pages Index | Nick Cave Fixes BLOG (for depraved Cave addicts)

Nick Cave Musings - Index of Nick Cave-related posts.  May I suggest:

• By Way of Tupelo and Stagger Lee  (my convoluted musical roots and the Nick Cave connection)
• Nick Cave: ‘dark prince of crooners’  (discovering Nick Cave, musings on aging and rock and roll)
• Nick Cave and Blixa B-Day  (a Nixa fan favorite)
• The Birthday Party: Halloween Blast! (a special holiday post featuring our favorite Goth rockers)
• Dig, Nick Cave, Dig!!! includes a video link to Nick’s Australia Record Institute Awards Hall of Fame acceptance speech.

VIDEO FAVORITES – (link mending in progress)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song (live 1990)
Blixa Bargeld looks especially fabulous – sad that he’s left The Bad Seeds. Great chemistry between the two men, as usual.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Where the Wild Roses Grow
Live at Midtfyns, Denmark 1998

Nick Cave & Die Haut – Sad Dark Eyes, Pleasure is the Boss
Live at Berlin Tempodrome 1992

The Birthday Party – Jennifer’s Veil (1983) Documentary clip of the Mutiny sessions at Berlin’s Hansa Studios. Nick’s difficulty with the vocals is dicussed in the ‘Ah cannot run no more’ post at Nick Cave Fixes.

Nick Cave & Blixa Bargeld Interview – Stache’s Part 1
(RARE 1984 footage from first American Tour, Columbus OH)

Nick Cave & Blixa Bargeld Interview – Stache’s Part 2
(RARE 1984 footage from first American Tour, Columbus OH)

Nick Cave on Blixa Bargeld (From ARTE-TV documentary on Blixa Bargeld: Mein Leben, broadcast 21.12.08)

Stranger than Kindness – Live 1987 (Kings of Independence Tour)

Pink Pop Festival 1.6.1990 (Pt 1) Intro, Black Betty, Witness Song 

“The Carny/From Her to Eternity” - From Wim Wenders’ sublime Wings of Desire  (German, 1987), a masterpiece of film art that cannot be compared to Hollywood’s overwrought remake, City of Angels (1998).   ”I’m not going to tell you about a girl…” – Nick Cave’s inner thoughts as he proceeds to introduce “From Her…” to the carnival crowd.

Mercy – Bizarre Fest 1996

Nobody’s Baby Now – Bizarre Fest 1996

15 ft of Pure White Snow – Live on Jools Holland May 2001

“Fears Of Gun”- The Birthday Party (LIVE at Brixton Academy, 1982)

“John the Revelator” sung by Nick Cave.  This sublime, blow-your-face-out version of Blind Willie Johnson’s 1930 gospel classic, “John the Revelator” can be found on the CD (and bonus DVD), released 10-24-06, Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited.

“Where the Wild Roses Grow”- vocals by Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld, for a wildly appreciative crowd at Germany’s Rockpalast Bizarre Fest (circa 1996).

FYI: Blixa originally sang the female role of this duet, which is featured on the boxed set, B-Sides and Rarities. Cave reportedly sent that demo tape to Kylie Minogue’s management, in hopes of sparking a collaboration with her. It worked. The rest is music history. Nick has said he hopes to reunite with her for another duet. Apparently, he is a genuine fan of her vocal capabilities and is proud of the fact that their relationship remained a professional one. What a gent!

“Mack the Knife” - on ‘September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill ‘ – Nick delivers a fantastically evil-grinned rendition of a classic.

“I Feel so Good” – Nick’s rousing contribution to the celebration of blues, featured in Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (DVD).

More videos and commentary: (Link mending in progress)

The caption for this first pair of videos notes that it’s from the Songwriter’s Circle (1999). You can see John Cale and Chrissie Hynde sitting there. Just before Nick sits down at the piano, he appears to be wiping his nose, and says he had written it after visiting a country church in Surrey, where he was “skulking around in back, listening to the, what do you call him? The Vicar.” Emotionally wrenching, this video documents one of Cave’s best live renditions of the song:

“Into My Arms” – Nick on solo piano, Songwriter’s Circle, 1999

“The Ship Song” – Nick on solo piano, Songwriter’s Circle, 1999

“Bring it On”- terrific, electrically charged version, performed with Chris Bailey, live Hammersmith Apollo, London, 7th June 2003.

“There She Goes My Beautiful World” - live at Brixton Academy, 11th November 2004, this clip is from the Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus 4-disc LIVE DVD/CD. The vocal arrangements are flat-out amazing; Nick has never been in better form. Easily one of the best cuts on the DVD!

“Stagger Lee”- Live at the Brixton Academy, London, 11th November 2004 (this song follows ‘Beautiful World’ on the DVD; an utterly fabulous and theatrical rendition of a dirty old Bad Seeds favorite!)

“Abattoir Blues”- Live on Later, with Jools Holland, 2004

“Love Letter”- a Late Night With David Letterman performance, from 2002, after the ‘No More Shall We Part’ CD’s release.

“The Mercy Seat”-  stripped down, bare and raw, beautifully performed by Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, accompanied by the house band of a rare show that some of you will remember, called Nightmusic (that’s David Sanborn introducing).

“Hey, Joe”- another rare one, from Nightmusic, with Nick Cave on vocals, accompanied by David Sanborn,  Toots Thieleman, and Charlie Haden.  Unbelievable performances by all.

“Stagger Lee” - live on British TV, a must-see powerhouse of a performance (notice PJ Harvey, in the wings, watching her man whale on that vocal), circa 1996.

“Henry Lee” - very rare live performance, with PJ Harvey, same show, immediately after he did Stagger Lee (POOR QUALITY, SORRY)

“Brompton Oratory”- from The Boatman’s Call CD, a rare TV performance with Blixa Bargeld (not a favorite song, but going by the lyrics, he was hurting pretty bad after his breakup with PJ: ‘no god up in the sky or devil down below, could do the job that you did baby, in bringing me to my knees‘. Ouch.)

“God is in the House” – live performance, from Lyon, France concert DVD

“Jack the Ripper” – live at the Bizarre Fest, Germany, 1996 (fabulous!)

“I Had a Dream, Joe” – a fantastic live performance from Amsterdam (on “Live at The Paradiso” DVD).
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