The fans outside decided to burn down the Knopf Music Hall in revenge. The venue was oversold by about 1,000 tickets. Epic.Ībout the Kings of Independence tour and the Knopf venue:ġ5 August 1987 The ‘Kings of Independence’ tour only went for two gigs, in Hamburg and Bonn. The vessel they create is a perfect container for Nick Cave’s hollow-voiced and equally haunting delivery.

From this perspective, ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ becomes their personal soundtrack, beautifully realized in Anita Lane’s despairing poetics and Blixa Bargeld’s haunting score. In this case it is Lane, Bargeld, and Cave whose intermingled star-cursed destinies take on the elements of a real-life gothic romance. The public have always been enthralled by the spectacle of decadence and doomed celebrity: drug abuse, sexual transgression, and the damaged, terrible beauty of the players. Blixa, his hair a golden halo, sits strumming intently on his open-tuned guitar as Nick, marble-pale and restless in the throes of his heroin addiction, keeps turning around to look at him. The above performance of ‘Stranger than Kindness’ was filmed at Knopf’s Music Hall, Hamburg, GE, 15 August 1987. Featuring full-colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts, it presents Cave’s life, work and inspiration and explores his many real and imagined universes.Knopf’s Music Hall, Hamburg, Germany August 15th, 1987 Tx to thesoulbreath This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne. “ Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

(Read: 10 Goth-Rock Albums Every Music Fan Should Own)Ĭanongate elaborated further in a statement,

Titled Stranger Than Kindness, the book coincides with a new exhibition dedicated to the musician.ĭue out March 23rd through publisher Canongate, the release will be highlighted by images paired with “commentary and meditations from Cave”, as well as previously unseen material that “explores his many real and imagined universes.” Overall, the autobiography seeks to ask “what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit.” Nick Cave is set to release a new illustrated autobiography.

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