HOT WAX Wednesday: Nick Cave
Get ready for love
Naming an ultraviolent proto-goth rock band “The Birthday Party”1 is my kind of move. Promise the people cake and balloons and then give them a nice little slice of carnage.
The Birthday Party, Cave’s first group, formed in 1973 at a private boys’ school in Melbourne, Australia. That most of the original members were also in the choir might…
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