![]() ![]() ![]() This question-man or myth?-began early with the local St Kilda popularity of The Boys Next Door, but this mythology would only grow as the band shuffled out of Oz to bleak London, changing their name to The Birthday Party. The other banner under which he performed was Nick Cave, Man or Myth?, a name that feels wholly appropriate for a musician, writer, and recent devil ceramicist that has always precariously balanced between these two poles. ![]() There was Nick Cave and the Cavemen, which is funny but not very imaginative. In the nebulous period of 19 between the drug-fueled dissolution of the trash can-driving, six-inch-gold-blade-slicing, zoo-music-girl-lusting, junkyard royalty The Birthday Party and the official designation of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave played a smattering of clubs under a few different titles. ![]() Installation view of Nick Cave’s office, created in collaboration with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, from Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition (all photos by moi) ![]()
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