Cave, who recently turned 50, is promoting his latest album Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!.
Cave's band The Birthday Party, with guitarist Mick Harvey, bassist Tracey Pew and drummer Phil Calvert, developed a cult following in Australia and Europe in the early 80s, but disbanded in 1984, in part because of problems with drugs and alcohol.
Cave and Harvey formed a new band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which made its mark on West Berlin's underground club scene. The band received wide international exposure when Wim Wenders incorporated several of their songs in his critically acclaimed film Wings of Desire (1987). Cave's cameo performance of From Her to Eternity, a dark and brooding love song with screams and guitar feedback, brought him many new fans.
From Her to Eternity was off the band's first album, released in 1984, and it has followed with regular releases ever since. Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! Is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 14th studio album.
Cave has also pursued a successful solo career, both as a musician, a writer and in film. His novel And The Ass Saw the Angel, published in 1989, is a brilliant and dark experiment in language and Biblical themes. He has written many soundtracks, most recently collaborating with Warenn Ellis on music for The Proposition (2005), for which Cave also wrote the screenplay, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007).
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
