Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away

by Nick Cave, Iain Forysth (Illustrator), Jane Pollard (Illustrator)

Hardback book bound in linen with 32 stitched-in pages, containing beautifully reproduced hand typed lyrics & band imagery.
Includes album CD plus DVD featuring two bonus tracks with specially created visuals by artists Iain Forysth & Jane Pollard.

CD
1 We No Who U R
2 Wide Lovely Eyes
3 Water's Edge
4 Jubilee Street
5 Mermaids
6 We Real Cool
7 Finishing Jubilee Street
8 Higgs Boson Blues
9 Push The Sky Away

DVD
1 Needle Boy
2 Lightning Bolts

Genres: Music

32 pages, Hardcover

First published February 18, 2013

About the author

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots. He has a reputation, which he disowns, for singing dark, brooding songs which some listeners regard as depressing. His music is characterised by intensity, high energy and a wide variety of influences. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England.

Cave released his first book King Ink, in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with American enfant terrible Lydia Lunch.

While he 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 the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). A collectors' limited edition of the book appeared in 2007.

Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel according to Mark, published in the UK in 1998. The American publication of the same book contains a foreword by a different author.

Reviews

[Arthur Graham · Rating 5 out of 5]

"We all have this feeling of the world folding in on us. Whether it's environmental, the economy, nuclear or whatever, I don't think there's anyone on the planet who's walking around thinking things are okay. So to me, there's this idea that we need to carry on and do what we do. The song is optimistic in that respect. Of course it's impossible to push the sky away but we need to try."

—Nick Cave

KEEP ON PUSHING

[Jorik Breban · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm transforming
I'm vibrating
I'm glowing
I'm flying, look at me now
I'm flying, look at me now

[Piper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Would have liked to see more pics of Nick but that aside, stunning as always.

[Tom Schulte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Box set includes:
• CD Album.
• Album on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.
• DVD with specially created visuals by artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.
• 2 exclusive 7”s in printed sleeves.
• Certificate of authenticity. First 300 orders numbered & signed by Nick Cave.
• Exclusive liner notes.

And a hand-finished book by bookbinder and fellow Australian Jillian Burt. It is an exclusive 120-page replica of Nick Cave’s handwritten, hand-stamped, and hand-glued notebooks. The convincing facsimile of pen and pencil writings, drawings and pasted in notes has an authentic and personal feel that is a real joy to leaf through as the music plays. Paste-ins give it a satisfying, tactile feel.