Also, a longing goodbye to Cave's former bandmate Rowland S. Howard who passed from this earth yesterday, dead from liver cancer. (Obituary via Australia's The Age.) Rowland's song "Shivers" which he wrote for The Boys Next Door, the first band he shared with Cave, seems to have provided one of Cave's main songwriting templates. If you don't believe that peep the two versions of it I've embedded below.
Such are the winding paths of influence. Such is the complicated paths of accreditation and fame when a communal activity decays into "drug-related exhaustion."
Nick Cave "People Ain't No Good" (Live)
"Into My Arms" (Live)
Rowland S Howard "Shivers" (Live)
The Boys Next Door featuring Nick Cave & Rowland S. Howard "Shivers" (1979)
I fell in love with Nick Cave's music when I first saw _The Zero Effect_ -- a fun modernization of Sherlock Holmes in which Cave's song is featured. But what is even more impressive to me about this artist is his range: last night I saw one of the more disturbing (in that _Heart of Darkness_ kind of way) but excellent movies I've seen in awhile called _The Proposition_, and discovered Cave not only composed and performed the music for the film, but also did the screenwriting for it. Thank you for the notice of this impressive talent!