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Books

Say Something! The Grand Guignol Spectacle Of The Birthday Party

In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Darker With The Dawn — Nick Cave’s Songs Of Love And Death*, Adam Steiner tracks the early days of the bad seed of Australian rock
Books

The Sorrows Of Young Nick Cave: A Review Of Boy On Fire By Mark Mordue

Matilda Munro reviews Mark Mordue's new book on the early life of a Bad Seed
A Quietus Interview

If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party

Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race
A Quietus Interview

Limitless Joy: Kylie Minogue Interviewed

On the eve of her new album, The Abbey Road Sessions, pop goddess Kylie Minogue talks to Simon Price about Nick Cave, the Manics, Lady Gaga, age prejudice and lesbian love scenes
Anniversary

40 Years On: We Return To The Birthday Party’s Junkyard

Julian Marszalek talks to Mick Harvey about Australian post punk's high watermark statement
Books

‘The Death of Bunny Munro’: An Extract from Nick Cave’s Latest Novel

The first chapter of Nick Cave's second blast of fiction

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Baker's Dozen

“Music? Horrible.”: David Yow’s Favourite Records

Although he says he doesn't listen to music, and that he's not a musician, The Jesus Lizard's David Yow nevertheless supplies a heartfelt Baker's Dozen that ranges from Motörhead to Snoopy's Christmas
Baker's Dozen

Primary Colours: Faris Badwan Of The Horrors’ Favourite Albums

With their new album Luminous released yesterday, The Horrors' frontman picks out some of his favourite (and, in fact, least favourite) illustrated covers in an artistic Baker's

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