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New Nick Cave

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OK, so there’s only a lyric video out for Long Dark Night so far, but wow.
This was goosebump-inducing when I heard it on 6 Music this week. And so powerful was the reaction to that first play, that Mary Anne Hobbs (for it was she), played it again immediately afterwards. I’m not sure I remember that happening with any other record before.

Apparently inspired by the poem “Dark Night of the Soul” by the 16th-century Spanish poet St. John of the Cross, which Cave describes as:

…one of the greatest and most powerful poems of conversion ever written

Judge for yourself here.

Either way, it’s a compelling, dramatic, haunting track, which continues to bode well for the new album out at the end of next month.

Who’s playing at Montreux?

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Lots of people: it’s a big festival. But three that I specifically want to see: a-ha (which is how I ended up on the Montreux website), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Gabriels who have been doing some really amazing stuff lately.

And, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, all their sets will be available for livestreaming… live… as they perform.

a-ha are on at 11pm tomorrow (Friday) evening, Nick Cave 11pm on Saturday and Gabriels at 8:30pm on Wednesday the 6th July. All for free. Gratis. Mahala.

Click here for more details and for more free streams of other artists at the festival.

No More Shall We Part

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One of the most hauntingly beautiful, yet hauntingly sobering wedding songs ever. And yes, sadly this is the best version I could find with a video.

Here’s the “real” (album) version, if you don’t need moving pictures. (Which I feel you actually do for blogging purposes.)

I heard this on an electronic dance radio show (I know, you do the maths) I was listening to in the lab, and I found that it was a welcome break from the beepy noises, which was actually something of a surprise, because I thought that I was quite enjoying the beepy noises.