NIck says he could not refuse an offer to attend “not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest...historical event in the UK of our age."
Nick Cave says that “everything changed“ seeing The Pop Group perform in 1979. “[The Birthday Party], as a fledgling band, knew then what we needed to do.“
”It is often the case with us songwriter types because we have found that a more inquiring, more expansive, less-entrenched position serves us better in the pursuit of the illusive but beautiful idea,” Nick says.