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96-492: Dirty Three are an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis (violin, keyboards), Mick Turner (electric guitar, organ and bass) and Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992. Their 1996 album Horse Stories was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the top three albums of the year. Two of their albums have peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart , Ocean Songs (1998) and Toward

192-555: A typewriter for songwriting after his experience with their twelfth studio album Nocturama (2003), as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day". In 2006, Cave formed Grinderman with himself on vocals, guitar, organ and piano, Warren Ellis ( tenor guitar , electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals). The alternative rock outfit

288-640: A "direct attack" on the "stock gothic associations that less informed critics were wont to make". Ironically, it became highly influential on the genre, giving rise to a new generation of bands in England. The Birthday Party relocated to West Berlin in 1982. After establishing a cult following in Europe, Australia and the United States, they disbanded in the following year. The band with Cave as their lead vocalist has released eighteen studio albums. Pitchfork calls

384-517: A 2019 interview with Vice , Cillian Murphy who plays the role of the protagonist Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders mentioned that Cave personally approved the use of the song for the series after watching a pre-screening of the show. During the 1982 recording sessions for the Birthday Party's third studio album Junkyard , Cave, together with band-mates Harvey and Howard, joined members of

480-512: A Man , and his 2008 film Palermo Shooting features two original songs from Cave's side project Grinderman. Cave's songs have also appeared in a number of Hollywood blockbusters – "There is a Light" appears on the 1995 soundtrack for Batman Forever , and " Red Right Hand " appeared in a number of films including Dumb and Dumber (1994), The X-Files (1998); Scream (1996), its sequels Scream 2 (1997) and 3 (2000), and Hellboy (2004; performed by Pete Yorn ). In Scream 3 ,

576-497: A bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk." Reviewing the band's fourteenth studio album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008), NME used the phrase " gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track. Their most recent work, Wild God , was released in August 2024. In a September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using

672-516: A champion in prominent radio DJ and taste-maker John Peel , and went on to record four Peel Sessions . Cave's droll sense of humour and penchant for parody is evident in many of the band's songs, including "Nick the Stripper" and " King Ink ". " Release the Bats ", one of the band's most famous songs and John Peel's single of the year in 1981, was intended as an over-the-top " piss-take " on gothic rock , and

768-452: A children's music group. In 2010, Cave began a series of duets with Debbie Harry of Blondie for The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project . In 2011, Cave recorded a cover version of the Zombies ' " She's Not There " with Neko Case , which was used at the end of the first episode of the fourth season of True Blood . In 2014, Cave wrote the libretto for the opera Shell Shock by

864-539: A darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock , and they acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after relocating to West Berlin in 1982. The following year, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands. Much of their early material

960-701: A few instrumental bands that successfully transitioned into vocal music, having the biggest hit of 1963 in the US (" Sugar Shack "). B Bumble & the Stingers gained hit " Nut Rocker ". The Shadows , from the UK , had several hit singles from 1960 onwards, including "Kon-Tiki" and " Apache ". The Shadows (alone and accompanying Cliff Richard ) featured heavily in the UK charts until 1963 when Beatlemania arrived, combined with DJ indifference to non-vocal singles. The Ventures ' precise guitar work

1056-413: A massive cult following in the late 1960s and 1970s with their explosive instrumental output that merged rock, jazz, classical and heavy metal styles, though their albums also included songs with vocals, Genesis also had multiple instrumental parts in their long songs, and when Peter Gabriel left the band the drummer Phil Collins suggested continuing as an instrumental act, but the other members didn't like

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1152-467: A new style of instrumental performer. For example, John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) , released a series of solo instrumental albums. The 2000s also saw the rise of instrumental music by bands that have been labeled post-rock . Instrumental rock was most popular during rock and roll 's first decade (mid-1950s to mid-1960s), before the British Invasion . One notable early instrumental was "Honky Tonk" by

1248-589: A point in my life when I was most confused" and that "the loss of my father created in my life a vacuum, a space in which my words began to float and collect and find their purpose". In 1973, Cave founded a band with fellow students at Caulfield Grammar. With Cave as lead vocalist, the band included Mick Harvey (guitar), Phill Calvert (drums), John Cochivera (guitar), Brett Purcell (bass guitar), and Chris Coyne (saxophone). Their repertoire consisted of cover versions of songs by Lou Reed , David Bowie , Alice Cooper , Roxy Music and Alex Harvey , among others. Later,

1344-508: A series of phone conversations conducted between Cave and Irish writer Sean O'Hagan during the COVID-19 pandemic . Aside from their soundtracks, Cave also wrote the screenplays for John Hillcoat 's The Proposition (2005) and Lawless (2012). Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel According to Mark , published in the UK in 1998. The American edition of

1440-475: A shared musical history via numerous common bands during the 1980s and early 1990s. Outside Dirty Three's activities, both have since contributed to other artists and groups. White's previous group Feral Dinosaurs also featured Conway Savage , also a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Blackeyed Susans. White also played on records by Hunters and Collectors and Tex, Don and Charlie . On ANZAC Day (25 April) 1992, Dirty Three played their first gig—at

1536-545: A similar reception. Grinderman's first public performance was at All Tomorrow's Parties in April 2007, where Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream accompanied Grinderman on backing vocals and percussion. In December 2011, after performing at the Meredith Music Festival , Cave announced that Grinderman was over. Two years later, Grinderman performed both weekends at the 2013 Coachella Festival , as did Nick Cave and

1632-652: A version of "Lucy", released on B-Sides & Rarities (2005). Cave provided guest vocals on the title track of Current 93 's studio album All the Pretty Little Horses (1996), as well as the closer "Patripassian". For his studio album Murder Ballads (1996), Cave recorded " Where the Wild Roses Grow " with Kylie Minogue , and " Henry Lee " with PJ Harvey . Cave also took part in The X-Files compilation CD with some other artists, where he reads parts from

1728-789: A wide range of artists, including Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica (" Loverman "), Pearl Jam (" The Ship Song "), and Snoop Dogg (" Red Right Hand "). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017. Nicholas Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Warracknabeal , a country town in the Australian state of Victoria , to Dawn Cave (née Treadwell) and Colin Frank Cave. He has two older brothers, Tim (born 1952) and Peter (born 1954), and

1824-501: A year after. In 1995, Michael Angelo Batio of Nitro released his CD No Boundaries , which began his solo career. His albums predominantly feature instrumental rock, but have occasionally featured vocals by himself and other vocalists. During the 1990s, instrumental music flourished among indie-rock groups and with the popularity of post rock groups like Tortoise , Mogwai and Cul de Sac . Don Caballero gained notice for their instrumental math rock, as did neo-surf-rockers

1920-459: A younger sister, Julie (born 1959). As a child, he lived in Warracknabeal and then Wangaratta in rural Victoria. His father taught English and mathematics at the local technical school; his mother was a librarian at the high school that Cave attended. From an early age, Cave's father read him literary classics, such as Crime and Punishment (1866) and Lolita (1955), and also organised

2016-630: Is also an internationally exhibited painter with his own work gracing the covers of their major albums except Sad & Dangerous . He also runs the band's own record label, Anchor & Hope Records. In 1999, Dirty Three with Low , recorded an In the Fishtank session for Konkurrent Records. Dirty Three have released albums on Touch & Go Records and have toured with Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Low, Pavement, Throwing Muses , Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Devendra Banhart , Josh T. Pearson , Shannon Wright and The Pogues . During their career

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2112-505: Is also featured on "The Crane Wife 3" (originally by the Decemberists ), on Faithfull's seventeenth studio album, Easy Come, Easy Go (2008). He collaborated on the 2003 single "Bring It On", with Chris Bailey , formerly of the Australian punk group, the Saints . Cave contributed vocals to the song "Sweet Rosyanne", on the studio album Catch That Train! (2006) by Dan Zanes & Friends,

2208-486: Is an annual award of $ 50,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. They commenced in 2005. The EG Awards are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006. Instrumental rock During the 1980s and 1990s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists, including Joe Satriani , Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai . The 2000s gave way to

2304-487: Is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds' seventeenth and eighteenth studio albums - Ghosteen (2019) and Wild God (2024). Since 2018, Cave has maintained The Red Hand Files , a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. He has collaborated with the likes of Johnny Cash , Shane MacGowan of the Pogues and ex-partner PJ Harvey , and his songs have been covered by

2400-542: Is often not considered an instrumental rock band , but they play many instrumentals and include long instrumental passages in longer versions of their songs. A good example is the 22-minute version of Whipping Post in At Fillmore East LP. Their instrumentals, " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and "Jessica" are popular, with "Jessica" being featured as theme for both the 1977 and 2002 formats of Top Gear . Jeff Beck also recorded two entirely instrumental albums in

2496-705: Is set in a mythic American Deep South , drawing on spirituals and Delta blues , while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song , " The Mercy Seat " (1988), and in his debut novel , And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). In 1988, he appeared in Ghosts… of the Civil Dead , an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored. The 1990s saw Cave move between São Paulo and England, and find inspiration in

2592-511: The Apple iTunes music download service. The 2000s gave way for a new style of performer. John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) released a solo instrumental album after leaving Marilyn Manson in 2003. Vertigo is composed of a fusion of metal , rockabilly , rock and roll , and bluegrass musical styles. The album was a success, and the album after that, Songs for Sanity , which features guest appearances by Steve Vai and Albert Lee , became one of

2688-621: The Big Day Out series of concerts in January 1996 – for the Melbourne show they were joined on stage by Cave. Later in 1996 they toured the US again; one of the shows was at Maxwell's , New Jersey . In September that year they issued their next album, Horse Stories , which was voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top three albums of the year. In March 1998 the band issued Ocean Songs , which Billboard ' s Chris Morris felt

2784-502: The Bill Doggett Combo , with its slinky beat and sinuous saxophone-organ lead. Jazz musicians who scored pop hits include Earl Bostic and Arnett Cobb . Several rhythm and blues sax players had hit instrumental songs, including Big Jay McNeeley, Red Prysock , and Lee Allen , whose "Walking with Mr. Lee" was quite popular. There were several notable blues instrumental songs during the 1950s; Little Walter 's rollicking "Juke"

2880-539: The Dirty Three cassette were given away at their early gigs. During 1994 they were the support act for international groups Pavement , Beastie Boys and John Spencer Blues Explosion . In July that year, Torn & Frayed Records issued the band's eponymous album . According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane , it was "[b]rimming with Ellis's alternately subtle and dramatic violin flourishes, Turner's tensile guitar lines and White's sympathetic drumming, [and]

2976-638: The New Testament . He went on to achieve mainstream success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet " Where the Wild Roses Grow " (1996), and " Into My Arms " (1997). Turning increasingly to film in the 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western The Proposition (2005), also composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis . The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by

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3072-749: The music of the Middle East , and frequently using exotic scales . Around the time of the British Invasion, rock changed appreciably, and instrumental hits came mostly from the R&;B world. Notable artists include Booker T. & the MG's and saxophonist Junior Walker . Just before the British Invasion , Lonnie Mack 's version of Chuck Berry 's "Memphis" reached #5 on the Billboard Pop chart in June 1963. Employing both

3168-521: The rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence. Born and raised in rural Victoria , Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting the Birthday Party , one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. In 1980, the band moved to London , England. Disillusioned by their stay there, they evolved towards

3264-570: The '70s , The Others , Nip/Tuck , and Californication . Most recently his work has appeared in the Netflix series After Life , BBC series Peaky Blinders and the Australian series Jack Irish . " Red Right Hand " is the theme song for Peaky Blinders and renditions of the track can be heard throughout the series, including cover versions by artists such as his ex-partner PJ Harvey , Arctic Monkeys , Laura Marling , Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp , Patti Smith and Anna Calvi . In

3360-496: The 1970s: Blow by Blow and Wired . Successful among mainstream audiences, both have strong jazz influences, the latter featuring a cover of Charles Mingus 's jazz standard " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ". Several progressive rock and art rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s featured virtuosic instrumental performances (and occasional instrumental songs), but many of their compositions also featured vocals. Early 70s, EL&P gained cover hit "Nut Rocker". King Crimson gained

3456-599: The 1987 film Wings of Desire performing " The Carny " and " From Her to Eternity ". Two original songs were included in Wenders' 1993 sequel Faraway, So Close! , including the title track. The soundtrack for Wenders' 1991 film Until the End of the World features, another Cave original, "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World". Cave and the Bad Seeds later recorded a live in-studio cover track for Wenders' 2003 documentary The Soul of

3552-497: The 2000s. The majority of the popular performers from the 1980s have made rejuvenated and generally well-received comebacks, with a revitalized sound apparent on their recent releases. Artists such as Steve Morse, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Ron Jarzombek and Joe Satriani have continued releasing instrumental rock music and touring with success. Les Fradkin has popularized the Beatles ' music catalog as guitar -based instrumental rock on

3648-518: The Bad Seeds. Cave's musical work was featured in a scene of the 1986 film, Dogs in Space by Richard Lowenstein. Cave performed parts of the Boys Next Door song " Shivers " twice during the film, once on video and once live. Another early fan of Cave's was German director Wim Wenders , who lists Cave, along with Lou Reed and Portishead , as among his favourites. Cave and the Bad Seeds appear in

3744-622: The Baker's Arms Hotel, Richmond . At the trio's first live show, Ellis attached a guitar pick-up to his violin with a rubber band, providing the instrument with a distorted, feedback-drenched tone unlike the violin's more traditional sound. In 1992, they recorded a self-titled cassette of 12-tracks in Turner's bedroom (aka Scuzz Studio). Dirty Three played all over Melbourne's inner city in Abbotsford , then Fitzroy , Richmond and St. Kilda . In 1993 copies of

3840-485: The Bats" in his film Chopper . Numerous other movies use Cave's songs including The Freshman (1990), Gas Food Lodging (1992), Box of Moonlight (1996), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Mr In-Between (2001), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) and About Time (2013). His works also appear in a number of major televisions show among them Trauma , The L Word , Traveler , The Unit , I Love

3936-606: The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens . The opera premiered at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie in Brussels on 24 October 2014 and was also set up at the international Weekend of War and Peace, Paris on 10 and 11 November 2018 performed by L' Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France at Cité de la Musique ( Philharmonie de Paris ) with live television broadcasting on Arte and France Musique . In 2020, Cave wrote

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4032-540: The Bible combined with own texts, like "Time Jesum ...", he outed himself as a fan of the series some years ago, but since he does not watch much TV, it was one of the only things he watched. In 2004, Cave gave a hand to Marianne Faithfull on her sixteenth studio album, Before the Poison . He co-wrote and produced three songs ("Crazy Love", "There Is a Ghost" and "Desperanto"), and the Bad Seeds are featured on all of them. He

4128-560: The Birthday Party's Berlin period, Cave collaborated with local post-punk and post-rock band Die Haut on their studio album Burnin' the Ice , released in 1983. In the immediate aftermath of the Birthday Party's break-up, Cave performed several shows in the United States as part of the Immaculate Consumptive , a short-lived " super-group " with Lunch, Marc Almond and Clint Ruin . Cave sang on an Annie Hogan song called "Vixo" which

4224-521: The Brazilian rhythms and tunes from well known popular songs, or simply composes by himself using Samba , Choro , Maracatu etc. In 1990, Steve Vai released Passion and Warfare . A fusion of rock, jazz, classical and Eastern tonalities, Passion and Warfare was a technical break-through in regards to what could be achieved in the field of guitar composition. This was followed up by the 1995 trio album Alien Love Secrets and Fire Garden , released

4320-580: The Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Hell or High Water (2016). Their garage rock side project Grinderman has released two studio albums since 2006. In 2009, he released his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro , and starred in the semi-fictional " day in the life " film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014). His more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur's 2015 death, which

4416-512: The Coward Robert Ford . By the time Dominik's film was released, Hillcoat was preparing his next project, The Road , an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy 's novel about a father and son struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Cave and Ellis wrote and recorded the score for the film, which was released in 2009. In 2011, Cave and Ellis reunited with Hillcoat to score his latest picture, Lawless . Cave also authored this screenplay based on Matt Bondurant 's novel The Wettest County in

4512-620: The Go-Betweens to form Tuff Monks . The short-lived band released one single, "After the Fireworks", and played live only once. Later that year, Cave contributed to the concept album Honeymoon in Red . Intended as a collaboration between the Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch , the album was not released until 1988, by which time Lunch had fallen out with Cave, who she credits on the release as "Anonymous", "Her Dead Twin" and "A Drunk Cowboy Junkie". During

4608-637: The Icelandic theatre group Vesturport productions Woyzeck , The Metamorphosis and Faust . Cave released his first book, King Ink , in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with Lydia Lunch . This was followed up with King Ink II in 1997, containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he wrote for the BBC in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word", discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity. While he

4704-566: The Low Sun (2012). During their career they have spent much of their time overseas when not performing together. Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described them as providing a "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In October 2010, Ocean Songs

4800-555: The Mercury Program , 65daysofstatic , God Is An Astronaut , Russian Circles and Explosions in the Sky . Within the indie rock label, bands such as Ratatat and Delicate Steve are popular instrumental rock acts. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez 's solo albums typically are instrumental ( Old Money ) or mostly instrumental ( Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo ). In the late 2000s a new style of heavy metal called djent emerged. Some of

4896-580: The Mermen and Man or Astro-man? . Quentin Tarantino 's film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale 's career. With the rise of grunge , guitar-orientated instrumental rock of the type popular in the 1980s became less popular, and there were few artists who continued to thrive in that style. There have been many new releases of instrumental rock albums in

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4992-657: The Pop Group , and the Birthday Party shared a mutual affinity with the Fall . By the end of their first year in London, the Birthday Party had gained notoriety for their aggressive, confrontational live shows and Cave's unhinged stage presence, with him shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar feedback. Drawing on Old Testament imagery, Cave's lyrics frequently revolved around sin, debauchery and damnation. The band found

5088-414: The Saints live for the first time. Cave was particularly inspired by the show of the latter band, saying that he left the venue "a different person." Cave was 19 when his father was killed in a car collision; his mother told him of his father's death while she was bailing him out of a St Kilda police station where he was being held on a charge of burglary. He would later recall that his father "died at

5184-674: The US four times, then toured Europe with gigs in Greece , Germany and the United Kingdom . They toured Israel with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, then back in London in August they performed with Cave – who was also a participant on the Palace project – providing a live soundtrack for the Carl Dreyer silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc , at the National Film Theatre . They performed at

5280-629: The Ventures ' "Walk, Don't Run" in 1960. In August 1964, Checker Records released the album Two Great Guitars , recorded by rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley , which is one of rock music's first recorded guitar jam sessions. During the 70s, some musicians released instrumental records such as Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio"(1971), Booker T & the MGs' "Melting Pot", Incredible Bong Band's "Apache", Hot Butter's "Popcorn"(1972) and Rhythm Heritage "Theme from S.W.A.T."(1976). The Allman Brothers Band

5376-656: The World (2008). Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia , the film was released in 2012. In 2016, Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film Hell or High Water , directed by David Mackenzie . The following year, they scored Taylor Sheridan 's neo-Western Wind River , as well as Australian director David Michôd 's War Machine . Cave and Ellis have also scored a number of documentary films, including The English Surgeon (2007), West of Memphis (2012), Prophet's Prey (2015) and The Velvet Queen (2021). Cave and Ellis created music for

5472-525: The band curated a weekend of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, booking bands they admired in addition to performing twice themselves. In November they issued a two-disk DVD set, The Dirty Three ; the first disc shows a live concert from Tokyo, Japan , shot in HD by Taiyo Films, and the second disc contains various live performances from 1994 to 2006, a documentary and interviews. Film director Darcy Maine completed

5568-555: The band's connection to the music and approach of jazz great John Coltrane". In 2002, Dirty Three toured Taiwan together with US indie rocker Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power ) and both artists returned in 2004. Also in 2004, they gigged at the Meredith Music Festival where a rain storm threatened their set, Ellis later remembered "we just went out and played like our lives depended on it ... and you all went for it; otherwise it just fell to pieces". In late 2005, Dirty Three released their seventh major album, Cinder . Although following in

5664-591: The blues scale and distortion, it ushered in the era of blues rock guitar of Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan . The early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac with bandleader Peter Green achieved number one chart positions with the guitar-based instrumental " Albatross " in February 1969. Previously, only three other rock guitar instrumentals had cracked Billboard's top five: the Virtues' "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" in 1959, and Duane Eddy 's " Because They're Young " and

5760-664: The documentary on the band's history. In February 2012 the group released Toward the Low Sun , and in March, they performed at the Sydney Opera House . The album peaked in the top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart and appeared in the top 50 on Billboard ' s Top Heatseekers Chart. Since 1996 Dirty Three's violinist Warren Ellis has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Ellis and Mick Turner have each released solo albums. In addition, Turner and Jim White have released several extended plays as The Tren Brothers , and appear as backing musicians on albums by Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and PJ Harvey (White drums). Turner

5856-426: The first symposium on the Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly , with whom Cave was enamoured as a child. Through his older brother, Cave became a fan of British progressive rock bands such as King Crimson , Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull , while a childhood girlfriend introduced him to the Canadian folk artist Leonard Cohen , who he later described as "the greatest songwriter of them all". When Cave

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5952-435: The following year to pursue music. He also began using heroin around the time that he left art school. Cave attended his first music concert at Melbourne's Festival Hall . The bill consisted of the English rock bands Manfred Mann , Deep Purple and Free . Cave recalled: "I remember sitting there and feeling physically the sound going through me." In early 1977, he saw the Australian punk rock bands Radio Birdman and

6048-436: The formation of Dirty Three, Ellis studied classical violin, worked briefly as a school teacher in regional Victoria, then travelled as a busker in Europe. Ellis wrote music for theatre groups and plays before performing with Melbourne bands. Ellis was also a member of The Blackeyed Susans , Busload of Faith, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists and has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994. Turner and White have

6144-421: The group have spent much of their time overseas, when not performing together Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane compared the band to 1970s jazz rockers MacKenzie Theory , writing that the group's "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In describing

6240-506: The group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography. Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequent histrionics. Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey wrote: "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with

6336-440: The group's sound, music journalists have mentioned ballads , folk , rock , classical , chamber music , free jazz and blues , Celtic music , other European folk styles and Indian raga . According to various sources: The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Dirty Three have won one award from four nominations. The Australian Music Prize (the AMP)

6432-423: The idea. Alan Parsons Project had instrumentals on every album, especially on early releases. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield , a progressive rock album released in 1973, was all instrumental (save for some brief spoken words) and is one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever, with 16 million copies sold. A portion of it was used in the soundtrack of the Academy Award-winning film The Exorcist . One of

6528-441: The late 1970s with the release of Edie & the Hot Rods' first single. During the 1980s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists. Swedish virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen made a name for himself in 1984 by playing in the popular band Alcatrazz , and then by releasing his debut solo album Rising Force later that year, reaching #60 on the Billboard Charts. Joe Satriani 's 1987 album Surfing With The Alien

6624-581: The late 1970s, securing a residency at St Kilda 's Crystal Ballroom venue, where they attracted a cult following . They played hundreds of live shows in Australia and toured interstate before changing their name to the Birthday Party in 1980 and moving to London , England. Cave's girlfriend and muse Anita Lane accompanied the band. They struggled initially with financial instability and limited connections, and grew to detest London and much of its music scene, which Cave later described as "dead, ... we felt really ripped off, robbed". He did however greatly admire

6720-489: The leading bands in the scene such as Animals as Leaders are instrumental acts, while many others started as instrumental acts before later acquiring vocalists. A number of Math Rock artists, such as Toe , mainly use instrumentals in their music without many vocals and are thus instrumental acts. Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957 ) is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting

6816-451: The libretto for L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S , a trance-minimal chamber opera by Nicholas Lens . A recording produced by both writers was released by Deutsche Grammophon . "When Cave makes a brief appearance in the film's waning minutes—playing a grungy troubadour, of course, strolling the length of a bar as he growls the oft-sung folk tribute to Jesse James —you almost get the feeling that in some ways it's been Cave, by way of his score, telling

6912-410: The line-up slimmed down to four members including Cave's friend Tracy Pew on bass guitar. In 1977, after leaving school, they adopted the name the Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original punk rock material. Guitarist, songwriter and ex- Young Charlatans member Rowland S. Howard joined the band in 1978. The Boys Next Door emerged as the linchpin of the Melbourne post-punk scene in

7008-468: The liner notes of the double-compact disc compilation album The Essential Johnny Cash , released to coincide with Cash's 70th birthday. Subsequently, Cave recorded a duet with Cash, a cover version of Hank Williams ' " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ", for what would be Cash's final studio album, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002). Another duet between the two artists, the American folk song " Cindy ",

7104-603: The most acclaimed albums of the band Camel , 1975's The Snow Goose , was entirely instrumental. Many of Pink Floyd 's early compositions were largely instrumental pieces containing structured jams fusing psychedelic , progressive and space rock . Frank Zappa was known for intermixing instrumental rock tracks with his novelty songs on his albums. The jazz rock of the 1970s often had considerable stylistic cross-over with rock with groups such as Colosseum, Soft Machine , Nucleus, Brand X , Chicago , Chase, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Affinity. Surf rock's "2nd Wave" began in

7200-429: The release of Cacophony's second album Go Off! in 1988, Becker released two solo albums before being diagnosed with ALS . He now uses a wheelchair and is completely unable to play. Pepeu Gomes , a Brazilian electric guitar player, was considered in 1988 by American magazine Guitar World one of the ten best guitar players in the world. Although he has pure instrumental rock songs with no Brazilian flavour, he mixes

7296-433: The same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). In 1993, Cave and Lydia Lunch published an adult comic book they wrote together, with illustrations by Mike Matthews, titled AS-FIX-E-8 . On 21 January 2008, a special edition of Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel was released. Cave's second novel The Death of Bunny Munro

7392-565: The song was given a reworking with Cave writing new lyrics and adding an orchestra to the arrangement of the track. "People Ain't No Good" was featured in the animated movie Shrek 2 (2004) and the song " O Children " was featured in the 2010 movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 . For the Harry Potter film, music supervisor Matt Biffa chose the song because it was "really uplifting". In 2000, Andrew Dominik used "Release

7488-432: The spirit of Ocean Songs , it diverges from their previous works: it was their first album to feature vocals (from Marshall and from Sally Timms of The Mekons ), albeit on two of nineteen tracks. Its tracks are generally shorter and more concise; and instead of their usual live-in-the-studio technique they recorded each member's work individually. In 2006 they toured Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. In May 2007

7584-498: The story all along." — Pitchfork reviewing the soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Cave creates original film scores with fellow Bad Seeds band member Warren Ellis —they first teamed up in 2005 to work on Hillcoat's bushranger film The Proposition , for which Cave also wrote the screenplay. In 2007, Cave and Ellis composed the music for Andrew Dominik 's adaptation of Ron Hansen 's The Assassination of Jesse James by

7680-592: The top selling records on the record label Shrapnel. He followed this in 2007 with The Devil Knows My Name , which features Joe Satriani , Jim Root , and Eric Johnson . The 2000s saw a rise in the popularity of bands that have been labeled post-rock ; many of these bands have created instrumental rock songs. Constellation Records has released some of the best-known examples of instrumental post-rock, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Do Make Say Think . Other examples include Austin TV , Mogwai , The Cancer Conspiracy ,

7776-490: The tradition (and following a brief stint in David Lee Roth 's band from 1986 to 1988), Vai went on to release a number of solo albums; one of the best-known of these was his 1990 release, Passion and Warfare . Jason Becker released two albums with Cacophony . Cacophony were a primarily instrumental group featuring Becker and Marty Friedman (the latter of whom went on to play with the thrash metal band Megadeth ). After

7872-404: Was "an unexpected new direction" where "the sound is still brazenly live, the atmosphere is generally rapturous and lyrical, instead of explosive and febrile". The album peaked in the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart . In October 2010 Ocean Songs was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums . It was described as displaying "an Australian sound that had never been heard before, one that

7968-662: Was a #1 R&B hit. Instrumental hit songs could emphasize electronic organ ( the Tornados ' " Telstar ", Dave "Baby" Cortez 's "The Happy Organ", Johnny & the Hurricanes ' "Red River Rock"), or the saxophone ( the Champs ' "Tequila", Bill Black's Combo 's "Don't Be Cruel", the Piltdown Men 's "McDonald's Cave"), but the guitar was most prominent. Duane Eddy scored several hits (his best known probably being " Rebel-'Rouser "). Eddy

8064-473: Was a major influence on many later rock guitarists; they also helped shape surf music. The band reached chart success with songs such as " Walk-Don't Run " and "Hawaii Five-O". In the U.S. they greatly escalated the guitar instrumentals and use of the vibrato bar on the lead guitar. Surf music was quite popular in the early 1960s, and was generally rather simple and melodic—one exception being Dick Dale , who gained fame for his quick playing, often influenced by

8160-585: Was a strong introduction to the band's atmospheric musical palate". Dirty Three are my favourite live band. No contest ... I think it's because they don't have a singer ... There are three musicians working together, one no less important than the other and well, you can get lost in all that. Their music washes over you and you're away ... When I watch them, they ignite something, I start having grand plans and hundreds of lyrics leap into my head. – Nick Cave quoted in 100 Best Australian Albums (2010). In November 1994 their next album, Sad & Dangerous ,

8256-486: Was a surprise hit, containing the popular instrumental ballad "Always With Me, Always With You", and the blues boogie inflected "Satch Boogie" — both staples for guitarists learning their craft. Satriani released a follow-up album, Flying in a Blue Dream , two years later. After Malmsteen left Alcatrazz , he was replaced by the extravagant Steve Vai , who had previously been playing with the Frank Zappa band. Continuing

8352-444: Was aware of our vast landscape but was reared in the urban landscapes of our various inner-city underground scenes". In May 1998 they started a two-month US tour. The group provided five new tracks for the soundtrack of John Curran 's debut feature film Praise (1998). In March 2000 Dirty Three released another studio album, Whatever You Love, You Are which McFarlane found showed "deep, rich, emotional musical vistas, and furthered

8448-471: Was based in West Berlin , Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from Mutiny , in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of

8544-408: Was formed as "a way to escape the weight of the Bad Seeds". The band's name was inspired by a Memphis Slim song, "Grinder Man Blues", which Cave is noted to have started singing during one of the band's early rehearsal sessions. The band's debut studio album, Grinderman , was released in 2007 to positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2 , was released in 2010 to

8640-669: Was issued on the Poon Village label and included tracks from the trio's earlier cassette. The album, along with subsequent tours with Sonic Youth , John Cale , and Pavement, led to a record deal with Chicago's Touch and Go Records . In March 1995 the group started a United States tour with a gig in San Francisco. In May they performed at the Music West Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. Subsequently, that year they toured

8736-415: Was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums . Dirty Three formed as an instrumental rock trio in Melbourne in 1992 with Warren Ellis on violin and bass guitar (ex-These Future Kings in 1986), Mick Turner on lead and bass guitars (Sick Things, The Moodists , Venom P. Stinger , Fungus Brains), and Jim White on drums (People with Chairs Up Their Noses, Feral Dinosaurs, Venom P. Stinger). Prior to

8832-511: Was nine he joined the choir of Wangaratta's Holy Trinity Cathedral . At 13 he was expelled from Wangaratta High School , and sent by his parents to Melbourne to become a boarder and later day student at Caulfield Grammar School . His family moved to Melbourne the following year, settling in the suburb of Murrumbeena . After his secondary schooling, Cave studied painting at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1976, but dropped out

8928-488: Was published on 8 September 2009 by HarperCollins . Telling the story of a sex-addicted salesman, it was also released as a binaural audio-book produced by British Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and an iPhone app. The book originally started as a screenplay Cave was going to write for John Hillcoat . In 2015 he released the book The Sick Bag Song , followed in 2022 by Faith, Hope, and Carnage , collected from

9024-515: Was recorded in October 1983: the track was released in 1985 on the 12" inch vinyl "Annie Hogan – Plays Kickabye". A lifelong fan of Johnny Cash , Cave covered his song "The Singer", originally " The Folk Singer ", for the studio album Kicking Against the Pricks (1986), which Cash seemingly repaid by covering "The Mercy Seat" on American III: Solitary Man (2000). Cave was then invited to contribute to

9120-575: Was released posthumously on Unearthed , a boxset of outtakes. Cave's song "Let the Bells Ring", released on the studio album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004), is a posthumous tribute to Cash. Cave played with Shane MacGowan on cover versions of Bob Dylan 's "Death is Not the End" and Louis Armstrong 's " What a Wonderful World ". Cave recorded a cover version of the Pogues ' song " Rainy Night in Soho ", written by MacGowan. MacGowan also sings

9216-452: Was the first rock & roll artist to release an album in stereo. The Fireballs , featuring the distinctive guitar work of George Tomsco, began their career in the late 1950s with instrumental hits such as "Torquay" and "Bulldog." The band pioneered the guitar/guitar/bass/drums configuration, paving the way for the Ventures , the Shadows , and the surf music scene. The Fireballs were one of

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