"I was mighty, mighty tired - I had come a long, long way..."

30 September

(From Motorpsycho Nightmare, Bob Dylan)

"Too young to hold on & too old to just break free & run."

19 July

20 July

(From Lover, You Should've Come Over, Jeff Buckley)

"We used to walk around in the very central point of this world."

 31 May

1 June

(From Hysteria Unknown, Strangelove)

"Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven..."

21 May

(From Mojo Pin, Jeff Buckley)

"Change is on the way if you wanna live it out."

3 March

(From Saturday, Go Betty Go)

"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour..."

27 January

(From Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, The Smiths)

"You stagger to your feet & out the door, 'cause there's no second chance."

19 January

(From Tick Tick Boom, The Hives)

"You hear laughter cracking through the walls, it sends you spinning..."

27 November

(From Spellbound)

"Why the ceiling still shakes? Shakes! Shakes! Shakes! Why the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?"

As well as a warning (promise?) of what's to come, the bandname Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds should be reason enough for everyone to love them.

They have something for everyone too, should you care (dare?) to look.

Beyond nightmares, the presence of their songs can be by turns terrifying, hysterical & thrilling. Lyrically, marinated in religion, violent death & love-turned-ghastly; musically, experimental, expert & tense.

Whatever your preconceptions, this is a band for all seasons, throwing their cautionary tales to the wind of our everyday existence.

Having said that, I was going to save St Nick for December......................but the Bad Seeds are infinitely more Hallowe’en than Christmas.

1 October

(From From Her To Eternity)

"Well your fingers weave quick minarets, speak in secret alphabets..."

30 July

(From Soul Kitchen)

"Tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent - wanton world without lament..."

22 July

(From We Could Be So Good Together)

"The sun that lights inside, we're the world that spins a line."

30 June

(From Jubilee)

"I've got a fetish for black, a fetish for green..."

"...a fetish for those arty magazines..."

22 May

(From Christian D'or)

"All good, clean fun (whatever that means)..."

21 May

This was Ant Night.

(From Don't Be Square (Be There))

"...A split little hand scratching at the glass..."

13 May

(From The Idea)

"What do I see? I'm looking straight through."

7 May

(From Antmusic)

"Screaming down, over citizen towns."

22 March

(From Drive, She Said)

"I look back but I don’t see."

20 March

(From Sunspots)

"They give themselves up to rhyme and reasons of the heavens."

3 March

(From Upwards at 45º)

"He's a movie waiting, a connoisseur of strange extremes..."

18 February

(From Last Great Rock 'n' Roll Queen)