Nick has been a junkie, a poet, a movie star, but above all, a man who can shape pain into beautiful music. They play songs from eight of their twelve albums.
While most “indie” bands are paying homage to the lo-fi rock of the ’70s and early ’80s, Pink Grease is doing them all one better and delving back to the 1950s.
What they did 20 years ago doesn’t translate on new machines. They need new approaches & techniques to achieve the violent emotional explosions they used to.
While Bad Seed spin-offs wither in their self-created pits of despair, they might wonder where the soul went. Barry Adamson has it, and he’s not giving it back.
The videos themselves aren’t really that much to shout about. The really interesting part is in the studio, and the interviews with him and Mick Harvey.
Compiles the German experimentalist’s music from 1991 to 2001, essentially from Tabula Rasa to Silence is Sexy, including B-sides, live takes, and remixes.
She’s one of the original Bad Seeds, co-wrote some of their more troubling songs, and has offered her vocals to Einstürzende Neubauten and Mick Harvey.