Nick Cave is set to release a new album with The Bad Seeds on March 3 (‘Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!’). In an interview with the Scotsman he talks about his music, acting as a counterpoint to the lyrics, which are “heavy – not sad, but there’s a weight to them”. With odd words, such as “prolix”, “cabal”, “myxomatoid”.
Being a huge fan of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’, he says, disappointed: “I’m now told that Radiohead have a song called Myxomatosis.” But he draws a distinction between Thom Yorke’s apocalyptic worldview and his own. “Well, it’s better articulated than Thom’s,” he says playfully. “But I don’t think I’m the bearer of any wisdom. It’s my point of view, which I’ll willingly concede is peripheral. I wouldn’t encourage everyone to have that worldview. I’m not pretending to speak for a larger section of society. That’s Thom’s job: he’s speaking for ‘us’. I’m not. I never had that talent. There are people, great artists, who are equipped to do that, who have the capacity to be the voice of the people. Not me.” [...]
As soon as Nick Cave is on stage “something magical happens and you feel godlike,” he says. “I love it. Really, though, I’m like the friend it’s fun to go out with but don’t tell your problems to. You tell them to Thom Yorke.”
Radiohead news on this day..
- Atoms For Peace • London • Oval Space – 2013
- Tracklisting of Chris O’Riley’s 2nd – 2005
- Donwood/Yorke artwork up for auction – 2005
- Radiohead on MuchMoreMusic (Canada) – 2004
- Thom: “Not doing a new album, we’re out of contract” – 2004
- Release dates revealed? – 2003
