Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey wrote: With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk. 2.

Caves music is generally characterised by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.

They relocated to London in 1980, but, disillusioned by life there, evolved towards a darker, more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock, and acquired a reputation as the most violent live band in the world.

Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look.

The band broke up soon after moving to Berlin in 1982, and Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the year after, later described as one of rocks most redoubtable, enduring bands.

Much of their early material is set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Caves preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, The Mercy Seat (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989).

Based in Brighton, England by the early 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western The Proposition (2005), composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis.

The pairs film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012), and their garage rock side project Grinderman has released two LPs since 2006.

In 2009, he released his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the semi-fictional day in the life film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014).

His more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthurs 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds 17th and latest LP, Ghosteen (2019).

His work is the subject of academic study, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash (The Mercy Seat), Metallica ( Loverman ) and Snoop Dogg ( Red Right Hand ).

He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, 5 and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.

The comprehensive exhibition shows Caves life and work and was co-curated by the artist himself.

His father taught English and mathematics at the local technical school; his mother was a librarian at the high school that Nick attended.

Caves father introduced him to literary classics from an early age, such as Crime and Punishment and Lolita, 10 and also organised the first symposium on the Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly, 11 with whom Nick was enamoured as a child.

He would later recall that his father died at a point in my life when I was most confused and that the loss of my father created in my life a vacuum, a space in which my words began to float and collect and find their purpose.

Cave recalled: I remember sitting there and feeling physically the sound going through me.

In early 1977, he saw Australian punk rock groups Radio Birdman and the Saints live for the first time.

Cave was particularly inspired by the latter bands show, saying that he left the venue a different person.

Their repertoire consisted of rudimentary cover versions of songs by Lou Reed, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music and Alex Harvey, among others.

Later, the line-up slimmed down to four members including Caves friend Tracy Pew on bass.

In 1977, after leaving school, they adopted the name The Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original material.

Caves Australian girlfriend and muse Anita Lane accompanied them to London.

The band were notorious for their provocative live performances which featured Cave shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar feedback.

Caves droll sense of humour and penchant for parody is evident in many of the bands songs, including Nick the Stripper and King Ink.

Release the Bats, one of the bands most famous songs, was intended as an over-the-top piss-take on gothic rock, and a direct attack on the stock gothic associations that less informed critics were wont to make.

Ironically, it became highly influential on the genre, giving rise to a new generation of bands.

Later that year, Cave performed several shows in the United States as part of The Immaculate Consumptive, a short-lived super-group with Marc Almond, Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin.

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