Nick Cave

Aliases: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Cavemen
Personal name: Nicholas Edward Cave
Born: September 22, 1957
Country: Australia
IPI: 00067877617 148 works
00165379150 33 works
Affiliation: APRA
Comments: Cave was the singer in The Boys Next Door, a students band which later became The Birthday Party. After the latter's disbanding, Cave started The Bad Seeds with three Birthday Party members, soon joined by Blixa Bargeld, and Mick Harvey as a band 'anchor man'. The act enjoyed an increasing cult status and had their international break-through with "Where the Wild Roses Grow", a vocal duet by Cave and Kylie Minogue.
Besides his band work, Cave has been an avid soundtrack composer, partly with Harvey and Bargeld and partly with Warren Ellis. He contributes to many musical projects in various artist constellations and is also known as an author of books and a movie scripts co-writer.
Member of: The Birthday Party Lead singer
The Bootleggers
Grinderman
Related: Anita Lane The Bad Seeds: Background vocals (1983-1984); Girlfriend (1977-1987)
Barry Adamson The Bad Seeds: Bass (1984-1986; occasionally since 2011)
Bertrand Burgalat Occasional collaborator and pre-producer
Blixa Bargeld The Bad Seeds: Guitar, backing vocals (1984-2002)
Conway Savage The Bad Seeds: Piano (1990-2018)
Hugo Race The Bad Seeds: Guitar (1983-1984)
Jim Sclavunos The Bad Seeds: Percussions, drums (1994 - ...)
Kid Congo Powers The Bad Seeds: Guitar (1988-1990)
Marianne Faithfull Collaborating songwriter for (2004-...)
Martyn P. Casey Bassist in The Bad Seeds (1990-...)
Mick Harvey The Bad Seeds: Guitar, bass, drums and central band man; Soundtracks co-composer with Cave and Bargeld (1983 - 2009)
Roland Wolf The Bad Seeds: Piano, organ (1989-1990)
Rowland S. Howard Occasional Bad Seeds guitarist
Thomas Wydler The Bad Seeds: Drums (1986-...)
Warren Ellis The Bad Seeds: Violin, Mandolin (1997-...); Soundtrack co-composer
Related labels: Bad Seed owner of
Goliath Records Co-founder of
Ranking: 822nd most covered composer/author
712th most covered performer