Nick Cave

Nick’s history is well catalogued, his ever-burgeoning success and notoriety fueled by various achievements since the early, wild Birthday Party days.

After his family moved to Melbourne from the country town of Wangaratta in 1973, he met some of his future band mates (Mick, Phill, and Tracy) at Caulfield Grammar School. He began performing singing duties with them at weekend rehearsals and occasional school dances. By 1977, the band, now called The Boys Next Door, was slipping untidily into the new "movement" of Punk/New Wave, and Nick met Anita Lane, who would become his (un)steady girlfriend for the next 10 years.

His writing at this time was still maturing, but after the move to London in 1980, it went from strength to strength and found its unique mode of expression within The Birthday Party.

Nick’s untamed stage demeanor and fierce vocal delivery were the conduit through which the band’s crazed performances flowed.

Since the group’s demise Nick has developed unhindered as his work with The Bad Seeds, his novels 'And the Ass Saw the Angel' and ‘Bunny Munroe’ and his various involvements in film work (writing, acting and composing) amply demonstrate. Biographies of Nick-‘Bad Seed'  by Ian Johnston and ‘Boy on Fire’ by Mark Mordue - and the in-part biographical documentaries -’20,000 Days on Earth’, ‘One More Time with Feeling’ and ‘This Much I Know to Be True’ - serve as deep insights into Nick’s career and personal life.