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BORN: September 22, 1957, Warracknabeal, AustraliaBirth, parents and siblingsNicholas Edward Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia on 22. of September 1957. His mother's name is Dawn, a librarian; his father Colin was an English Teacher. He has two older brothers,Tim (1952) and Peter (1954) and a sister, Julie (1959). He was raised an Anglican, which explains the apparent influence of The Bible in his work.Wife and sonNick Cave was living together with Viviane, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has a son with her, Luke, born in 1991. Recent rumours have it, that Nick and Viviane split up and Nick has some kind of an affair with PJ Harvey. Education and The Boys Next DoorNick Cave attended the Caulfield Boys Grammar in Melbourne, and later on an Art School, which he attended only two years. An example of Nick's art is on the back of the Birthday Party's "Prayers on fire" album, signed "Nicholas Cave". At Caulfield's Nick met Mick Harvey, with whom he founded a highschool band that would become The Boys Next Door. The first recording released by Nick Cave was "These boots are made for walking", in 1978, a single that was soon followed by the album "Door door" the next year. The band consisted of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew, Phillip Calvert and Rowland S. Howard (from 1979 on).The Birthday PartyThe Boys Next Door slowly dissolved into "The Birthday Party" in 1980 when the album of the same name came out: some copies stated "The Birthday Party by The Boys Next Door", others only "The Birthday Party". When they changed their name, the band moved from Australia to London. The Birthday Party had a huge impact on the British rock scene of that time, especially because of the expression of raw emotion, wit and essential dumbness in their music, though it took some time for them to really break through. The LP "Prayers on Fire" was released in 1981, "Junkyard" in 1982. The band moved to West-Berlin and fell apart in 1983 after releasing 3 studio albums and 2 EP's. Their last EP, "Mutiny", was the ultimate manifestation of everything punk pretended to be. Here, Blixa Bargeld, from Einstuerzende Neubauten, appeared for the first time with Nick Cave. The Bad Seeds, From Her To Eternity & The Firstborn Is DeadPart of the Birthday Party members continued to form The Bad Seeds, recording the first NC&BS album in 1984: "From her to eternity". The line-up at this time was: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld (guitar), Mick Harvey (drums), Barry Adamson (guitar and piano), Hugo Race (guitar), Tracy Pew (bass, only during the Australian tour), with cooperation of Anita Lane. 1985 saw the release of the second NC&BS album, "The firstborn is dead". The Bad Seeds were now reduced to Cave, Harvey, Bargeld and Adamson. And The Ass Saw The AngelThe song "Tupelo" contains some ideas of the novel Cave would publish a few years later: "And the ass saw the angel" (1989). In fact, the greater part of the songs written during the conception of "The Ass" can be seen as parallels of the book (e.g. The Carny and Sad Waters from Your Funeral ... My Trial). It is the story of a criminal idiot hounded by a lynch mob. The novel got very good reviews and was translated into ten languages.
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