Grinderman
 

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Cool.

I got the 'Get it on' 7" in the post on Saturday.
Everything about it is cool.:)

The CD comes out in March, doesn't it? I'm looking forward to that. And to the live dates that will hopefully accompany it.

I got a promo copy of the single. Can't wait for the album.

Nick's been a little bit off form the last few years, music-wise - hopefully Grinderman will drag him out of his comfort zone.

I thought Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus was a return to form, although the two previous albums weren't up to much.

Having said that, they're still pretty great by anybody else's standards.

I agree with Pookie on this one, I though Abbatoir blues was great.
I'm seeing Grinderman at ATP, but I'm guessing they'll probably play some dates around that time to support the album release. It'd be silly of them not to! I've downloaded their album (dunno if its the final mix) and its brill, i'm definitely gonna get it come march.

There's a 2 DVD Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live set out at the end of January, one set from the AB/LOO tour and one from the Nocturama tour. And there's a limited box set with an additional double live CD.

haven't heard them yet, how does it compare to the birthday party?

didn't expect to hear that from you sonicl, the only poor form as far as i am concerned is the sham that was nocturna

His latest release with the Bad Seeds was fantastic. Definitely one of his, and their best.

I didn't mind Nocturama. Sure, it didn't/doesn't necessarly have the lasting power of other NC&BS albums, but it achieved what it set out to do. It was a nice album with a few great songs which would be classed as top NC&BS songs. I'm glad it's among the catalogue.

Grinderman are very interesting. I'm looking forward to the release of the album.

I thought that Nocturama was brilliant when it came out, but its appeal has faded with time. I think there are probably three really good tracks on there, but the rest seems like filler.

Abbatoir Blues is brilliant, but it is supposed, I beleive, to be viewed as a whole with Lyre of Orpheus, which is to disappointment as Abbatoir Blues is to brilliance, so as a whole I think it's a bit average.

The last Bad Seeds album that I keep returning to again and again is The Boatmans Call. Since then he's settled down in Brighton, re-married, had more kids, and seems to be in a state of domestic bliss, and I think his songwriting has suffered. I still think the guy is the bees knees, don't get me wrong, but I think he's not what he was, say, ten years ago.

I've heard a few tracks from the Grinderman album and some of it isn't radically different to the Bad Seeds' more upbeat songs. It's not as big a difference in sound to the last album as, say, The Boatman's Call was to Murder Ballads. I guess because Mick Harvey wasn't involved they were reluctant to call it a Nick cave and the Bad Seeds album

the grinderman album is brilliant, sounds nothing like the bad seeds, the only similarity is nicks voice, electric alice is my current favourite followed by i don't need you

I agree. It bares very little, if any, similarity to the Bad Seeds.

Top album.

One-off show in London announced, tickets on sale from 9.00 am on 11 May 2007.

10.00 am on Friday 11 May, show sold out :( . I haven't looked on ebay, but I bet there are about 40 tickets for sale on there. Bastards :mad: :mad: :mad: .

grinderman schminderman

Here the ticket companies do some shit so that people can't sell them on ebay and the likes. They actually search ebay and suchI think and get the folk in shit for being pricks and trying to make a buck at others expense.

For some reason two of the ticket companies put the tickets back on sale later in the day. Very odd. But it means that I was able to get a ticket after all. Huzzah!