Having a Bad Seeds day, prompted by some brief line in a paper where Nick suggested the Bad Seeds may tour here next year.
Creatively I think, much as I love the Blixa and Barry era, Dig Lazarus Dig is the high point, touring that along with Grinderman. Powerful and driving and still literary enough to include prolix in a lyric. Just before the clutch of Warren Ellis and those soundtrack jobs had him disappear into ethereal pretension.
We call upon the composer to revert- get the band back together Nick.
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Substitute the word ‘tickets’ for ‘PPE’ or ‘water’.
We have traitors in this country, and they ain’t Polish shopkeepers, young black males in South London, or people embarking from any small boat… unless, of course, it’s a small boat moored at an exclusive Yacht Club.
Er … okaayyyy …
*backs slowly away, avoiding eye contact*
Er… really …
You don’t understand? They’re the same people.
Get it now?
Enjoy the next concert you go to where you’re paying £100 to the venue/artist and £100 to them.
Er …
Possibly the wrong thread?
Yes… someone posted about the tout industry employing others to clamp down on Labour’s proposed long overdue cut-down on the scam of re-selling concert tickets… and by the time I posted, it had gone!
It’s like a little clash hit. Where is it? Anyone got a magnifying glass!
Psst! It’s the one below…
With odd exceptions, Junes, I can plot my peak Bad Seeds interest roughly from Firstborn to Murder Ballads. It would never happen – but I’d love to see a kinda weird Bad Seeds “Saturday at Cropredy”, where the all the line ups (including Barry and Blixa) turn out to play a set of the material that they recorded, and they all get on stage for the closing tune – I wonder what the Bad Seeds equivalent of Meet on the Ledge would be?
Wonderful thought.
I nominate Deanna.
Same here, funnily enough!
I love the new ambient stuff.
Could do without the God Bothering mind you.
Ethereal Pretension. TMFTL.
I think Warren Ellis has been very good for him but definitely feel the last couple have been…’worthy’.
I think the boundary between Cave/Ellis and Cave/Bad Seeds has become far more fluid. Trailer clips of the new album only feature Ellis, Wydler and Vjestica (alongside Colin Greenwood as guest) as Bad Seeds. Perhaps more appear on the record than those who were fillumed. But the vibe of a particular record (rather than the actual personnel) seems to be the main arbiter these days.
Quite probably – and that comes at a cost.
I like that bit in the “20,000 Days on Earth” film when Cave goes round to Ellis’s house, and Warren is cooking up a huge frying pan full of eels!
“Get the band back together, Nick”.
Definitely. I’d love to see a return to ‘vintage’ Bad Seeds, instead of more ballads. However, NC can still come up with a corker. I first heard ‘White Elephant’ on the Carnage tour and it raised the roof.
Yep, that’s indeed a corker. Reminds us what he is still capable of.
Let Love In was my introduction to them. I’ve worked back and forwards but still think it’s their best album overall.
I’d agree with that.
Heard this, from a forthcoming album, on 6Music today.
Absolute belter I think.
About a minute too long, IMO.
Wild God , another track also from the forthcoming album is terrific as well