The lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds and
Grinderman, Cave has been performing music for more than 30 years.
He has collaborated with Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey and many others.
As well as working with Warren Ellis on the soundtrack for the film
of The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford, he also wrote the screenplay for the
film The Proposition. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel,
was published in 1989 and was followed by the internationally
bestselling The Death of Bunny Munro in 2009.
Born in Australia, Cave now lives in Brighton.
An epic narrative poem about his travels across North America . . .
Cave is experimenting with a new literary form - a mash-up of
prose, poetry, song lyrics and autobiography
* * New York Times * *
Lyrical, hallucinatory and laced with sly wit, The Sick Bag Song is
a revelation and a pleasure
*Hari Kunzru*
Mad and amazing
*Ian Rankin*
Nick Cave goes the distance with The Sick Bag Song
* * LA Times * *
Far from your typical diary; snapshots of mundane reality (traffic
jams, reading in a park) melt into disturbing visions peppered with
flashbacks from his childhood. There are heated exchanges between
Cave and his muses, and unsettling encounters with a few of his
musical heroes (Bryan Ferry, Bob Dylan) that cause Cave to ponder
the "vampiric" nature of creativity
* * Rolling Stone * *
The narrator's obsessive thoughts about his young self facing death
juxtaposed with the illusions of fame . . . offer an interesting
perspective on mortality
* * Sunday Herald * *
The stories twist and turn like mad dash through the dark forest
that is Nick Caves imagination. It's very revealing, but I guess
it's too dreamlike to be called a diary or journal, and yet I came
away understanding more about Nick Cave than ever
*Tom Odell*
Biblical, slightly manic and distinctly berserk; it's also
touching, poignant and utterly absorbing
* * The Age * *
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