Björn recenserade Sick Bag Song av Nick Cave
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The tour diary is a special kind of rock'n'roll memoir; the account of work-a-day rock'n'roll filtered through equal parts honesty and exhaustion along with the general surreality of a rock star being herded from city to city.
The Sick Bag Song is set during Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 2014 tour of the US and Canada, as Nick travels from city to city, performs, tries to call home, considers his influences, his past and his future ... It makes for a good companion piece to his film 20,000 Days on Earth, equal parts self-mythologizing and self-reclaiming. I can't, as a decades-long Cave fan, say how well it stands up on its own. There is no "on its own" for me.
That it's a North American tour is not coincidental. Aussie Cave, fan of the blues and gospel and punk and Nabokov, has always been caught up in the …
The tour diary is a special kind of rock'n'roll memoir; the account of work-a-day rock'n'roll filtered through equal parts honesty and exhaustion along with the general surreality of a rock star being herded from city to city.
The Sick Bag Song is set during Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 2014 tour of the US and Canada, as Nick travels from city to city, performs, tries to call home, considers his influences, his past and his future ... It makes for a good companion piece to his film 20,000 Days on Earth, equal parts self-mythologizing and self-reclaiming. I can't, as a decades-long Cave fan, say how well it stands up on its own. There is no "on its own" for me.
That it's a North American tour is not coincidental. Aussie Cave, fan of the blues and gospel and punk and Nabokov, has always been caught up in the fictional America, the myth of it. He sees all the layers.
He keeps coming back to the image of a young boy jumping off a bridge. Metaphor? No, he insists, that happened in his hometown as a kid, he saw the corpse, about the same time he heard Leonard Cohen for the first time and knew what the world had to offer. Years later he met Dylan and couldn't write a decent song for years afterwards. Now he writes, constantly, on the back of the sick bags the airlines hand him as he travels the country he's been hunting for 30 years. Writing is his job. Some of it will suck. His working through that does not.
After the tour, after the book, his teenage son was killed in a rock climbing accident. The text, the writer Cave, doesn't know why I wince every time he talks about railroad bridges.