Anyone at this?

A magical evening....marginally marred by some pretty dull questions from the audience and far too many 'Nick will ye sign me buke will ye' requests. The music, however, was breathtaking....from opening with West Country Girl to ending with Into My Arms via Tupelo and Red Right Hand...the timbre of Warren Ellis' spindly fingers, the groove laden tremor of Martyn Casey's bass and Nick Cave's bespoke brand of cool that can in an instant warm a stone from the inside out.

I'll do well to make it to a better gig this side of xmas

Jan, did anyone ask anything interesting? What did you ask him? :)

I asked him to marry me*

 

 

*internally

In all honesty the question element of the evening was fairly cringe inducing - unfortunately someone asked him to sign their t-shirt early on in proceedings and then a string of people just used the opportunity to request autographs and/or songs which I suspect irked him as much as the rest of us by the end. However, he was very gracious and obliging for the most part. Aside from that there were questions about Kylie, Avril Lavigne, misogyny, God, writing The Death of Bunny Munroe, the possibility of making it into a film....and that's about the height of it. I was hoping someone would ask him about scoring the film adaptation of The Road....but nobody did and if I had tried nothing but indecipherable gibberish would have fallen out of my mouth.

Posted By jan on 13 Oct 2009 08:36 AM 
if I had tried nothing but indecipherable gibberish would have fallen out of my mouth.

The drama of it! You're breaking our hearts here!!! ;D

Posted By aidan on 13 Oct 2009 03:13 PM
The drama of it! You're breaking our hearts here!!! ;D

....and my own :/

Posted By jan on 13 Oct 2009 03:29 PM

Posted By aidan on 13 Oct 2009 03:13 PM
The drama of it! You're breaking our hearts here!!! ;D

....and my own :/

Let him go into the darkness:

Perfect

:D

He seems to like this 'reading at a gig' lark, does our Nick. First time I saw him was back in 1999 and he gave a 45 minute lecture at the 'gig'. I wrote a review of it, and published it here on CLUAS making it the first ever gig published to the site!. Check it out here: Nick Cave live in the Gaiety 1999.

Posted By eoghan on 14 Oct 2009 03:01 AM
He seems to like this 'reading at a gig' lark, does our Nick. First time I saw him was back in 1999 and he gave a 45 minute lecture at the 'gig'. I wrote a review of it, and published it here on CLUAS making it the first ever gig published to the site!. Check it out here: Nick Cave live in the Gaiety 1999.

A pedant writes: 'Larla O Lionaird' :D
(In fairness to the gaffer, that's what it says on the ticket.)