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Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
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entertainment · Australian musician (born 1957) · actor · singer · composer · novelist · writer · librettist · screenwriter · pianist · singer-songwriter · songwriter · also Nick Cave, Cave
Born 22 September 1957 · Q192668
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2026· 6 entries
Far Out Magazine: The “perfect” 1971 song Nick Cave has spent his career trying to match
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The Guardian: ‘He lived here a long time, so it feels poignant’: Nick Cave thrills Brighton passersby with secret rooftop gig
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Public attention spiked: 12,675 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 3,406, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: v2.05 - Repaired 1 link to disambiguation page - (You can help) - Lawless (film)
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Released album “Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole: Original Series Soundtrack”.
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The Guardian: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review – an electrifying crescendo of faith, fury and fragile joy
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2025· 12 entries
The Guardian: Nick Cave, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rami Malek, CMAT and more! The best Guardian portraits of 2025 – in pictures
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Released album “The Death Of Bunny Munro”.
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The Guardian: Nick Cave’s Veiled World: the starry tale of how sometimes the devil doesn’t have the best tunes
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The Guardian: The Death of Bunny Munro review – Matt Smith is pitch-perfect in Nick Cave’s crushing study in masculinity
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The Guardian: ‘Matt Smith is so hot it’s problematic’: inside the TV version of Nick Cave’s disturbing, sex-filled novel
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The Guardian: Nick Cave fans swarm charity bookshop in UK after musician donates thousands of books
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The Guardian: Nick Cave says he declined Morrissey’s request to sing ‘silly anti-woke screed’ on new song
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The Guardian: Nicolas Cage: ‘I don’t think a day goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave’
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Released album “1999‐07‐09: Songwriters’ Circle, Subterania Club, London, England, UK”.
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“an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark”
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Said he regularly worships at a 900-year-old Anglican church in London where he enjoys the traditional solemn liturgy "with no guitars
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Cave wrote an apology on his website, saying it was "an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark" with "no malice intended", and announced that he will appear on Flea's 2026 solo debut album Honora
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Australian Music prize: 80-year-old Kankawa Nagarra wins over Nick Cave and Amyl and the Sniffers
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The Guardian: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review – up close and existential with rock’s great everyman
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The Guardian: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review – an incredible mass spiritual outpouring
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Released album “Back to Black: Original Motion Picture Score”.
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When asked by a musician on Cave's The Red Hand Files whether they should boycott The Great Escape Festival over its ties to Barclays, which increased investments in arms companies trading with Israel, he responded with
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2023· 7 entries
Released album “Australian Carnage: Live at the Sydney Opera House”.
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“s conversion from Islam to atheism after reading her book Infidel: My Life (2006), and had also considered himself an atheist. However, he described his growing interest in religion as a”
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By 2023, Cave characterised himself as not being a Christian but 'act[ing] like one' and detailed in his 2022 book Faith, Hope, and Carnage that he regularly attends church.
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Cave was a guest at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla in May 2023.
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Cave wrote on his blog that he had sympathised with feminist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion from Islam to atheism after reading her book Infidel: My Life (2006), and had also considered himself an atheist
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Saying that audiences should not "eradicate the best of these people in order to punish the worst of them
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Cave disputed a characterisation of him as right-wing or conservative by the New Statesman magazine but added "I have these days what I would call a conservative temperament" and described himself as "conservative with a
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “Blonde: Soundtrack From the Netflix Film”.
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Released album “Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series”.
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Released album “Seven Psalms”.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2022).
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2021· 5 entries
Released album “La Panthère des neiges: Original Soundtrack”.
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Released album “CARNAGE”.
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On the same blog, Cave confirmed he believed in God in June 2021.
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In 2021, Cave said he and his wife were living in London.
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Cave said he and his wife were living in London
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2020· 4 entries
Released album “L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S”.
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Released album “Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace”.
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Cave also expressed opposition to ostracism, particularly cancel culture, and misguided political correctness, describing both as "bad religion run amuck" and their "refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has an asph
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Cave wrote the libretto for L
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2019· 2 entries
Cave expressed his personal disagreement with both organised religion and atheism (in particular New Atheism) when questioned about his beliefs by a fan during a question and answer session on his Red Hand Files blog
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Cave wrote in defence of singer Morrissey of the Smiths after the latter expressed a series of controversial political statements, leading to some record stores refusing to stock his upcoming album California Son
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Kings”.
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Wind River”.
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (2017).
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Released album “War Machine: A Netflix Original Film”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “Mars”.
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Released album “Hell or High Water”.
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Released album “Shell Shock (Opera) (World Premiere Recording – Royal Opera House, La Monnaie)”.
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Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film Hell or High Water, directed by David Mackenzie
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “Loin des hommes”.
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Released album “Live at the Royal Albert Hall”.
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Released album “Live at Hammersmith Apollo”.
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Released the book The Sick Bag Song, followed in 2022 by Faith, Hope, and Carnage, collected from a series of phone conversations conducted between Cave and Irish writer Sean O'Hagan during the COVID-19 pandemic
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Ivor Novello Awards for Push the Sky Away (2014).
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Released album “West of Memphis”.
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Cave wrote the libretto for the opera Shell Shock by the Belgian composer Nicholas Lens
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The film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014), about Cave's life, is set around Brighton.
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded ARIA Award for Best Independent Release (2013).
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Awarded ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Lawless: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2011· 2 entries
Cave recorded a cover version of the Zombies' "She's Not There" with Neko Case, which was used at the end of the first episode of the fourth season of True Blood
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Cave and Ellis reunited with Hillcoat to score his latest picture, Lawless
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “The Road: Original Film Score”.
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Cave was ranked the 19th greatest living lyricist in NME
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“I believe in God in spite of religion, not because of it.”
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Cave began a series of duets with Debbie Harry of Blondie for The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “White Lunar”.
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Released his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the semi-fictional "day in the life" film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
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When asked in 2009 about whether he believed in a personal god, Cave's reply was "No".
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Released album “2000‐01‐18: Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth, Australia”.
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About whether he believed in a personal god, Cave's reply was "No"
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded ARIA Award for Best Male Artist (2008).
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Music From the Motion Picture”.
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To positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2, was released in 2010 to a similar reception
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Cave and Ellis composed the music for Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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And he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Hoping for Palestine”.
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Cave formed Grinderman with himself on vocals, guitar, organ and piano, Warren Ellis (tenor guitar, electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P
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2005· 2 entries
To work on Hillcoat's bushranger film The Proposition, for which Cave also wrote the screenplay
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Released album “The Proposition: Original Soundtrack”.
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2004· 3 entries
It premiered in October 2005 and was later released worldwide to critical acclaim
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Cave said: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage
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Cave gave a hand to Marianne Faithfull on her sixteenth studio album, Before the Poison
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Nick Cave i przyjaciele: W moich ramionach”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “What a Wonderful World”.
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded ARIA Award for Best Male Artist for No More Shall We Part (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Star Profile”.
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Andrew Dominik used "Release the Bats" in his film Chopper
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “And the Ass Saw the Angel”.
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Released album “The Secret Life of the Love Song”.
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Released album “Duende”.
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album for To Have & to Hold (1997).
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“Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”
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Containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he wrote for the BBC in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word", discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity
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Cave met the English model Susie Bick; they married in 1999
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “To Have and to Hold”.
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Awarded ARIA Award for Best Pop Release (1996).
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Awarded APRA Music Awards (1996).
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Awarded ARIA Award for Single of the Year (1996).
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With whom he recorded the duet "Henry Lee"
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1995· 1 entry
Released ep “Mah Sanctun”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released ep “Why Can’t I Be Good / Faraway, So Close! / Chaos”.
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Cave and Lydia Lunch published an adult comic book they wrote together, with illustrations by Mike Matthews, titled AS-FIX-E-8
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1991· 1 entry
Just 10 days before Luke, and grew up with his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Melbourne, Australia
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1990· 1 entry
Where he met and married his first wife, Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Ghosts… of the Civil Dead”.
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1988· 1 entry
Appeared in Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored
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1985· 1 entry
On the 12" inch vinyl "Annie Hogan – Plays Kickabye"
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1981· 1 entry
Was intended as an over-the-top "piss-take" on gothic rock, and a "direct attack" on the "stock gothic associations that less informed critics were wont to make"
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1977· 1 entry
After leaving school, they adopted the name the Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original punk rock material
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1976· 1 entry
But dropped out the following year to pursue music
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1973· 1 entry
Cave founded a band with fellow students at Caulfield Grammar
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-09-22.
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