Tag: Nick Cave

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis live @ Brisbane Convention Centre

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis live @ Brisbane Convention Centre, Great Hall

(Australian Carnage Tour, 9 December 2022)

While Nick Cave still evokes the deep-voiced messianic evangelist, his set list tended more towards convalescent poetry. Warren Ellis sat back throughout like some mad railway hobo sounding the ‘train’s coming’ signal. Highlights included ‘White Elephant’, ‘I Need You’, and ‘Henry Lee’.

Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’ à la Dr Seuss

Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’ à la Dr Seuss

by DrFaustusAU (posted on DeviantArt, 2015)

DrFaustusAU_Red Right Hand

Given the Geisel Estate’s unremitting alacrity in issuing Grinchishly killjoy cease-and-desist letters, we fear for this ten-page proof of concept, which shrewdly unites Nick Cave’s bleak, poetic lyrics with illustrations recapturing the sublime, murky backdrops that underscored much of Dr Seuss’s oeuvre

Derelict Space Sheep