Editing Nick Cave (section)

== Early life and education ==
[[File:Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta, 2018 (01).jpg|thumb|Cave was a choirboy at the [[Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta|Holy Trinity Cathedral]] in his hometown of [[Wangaratta]].]]
Nicholas Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in [[Warracknabeal]], a country town in the Australian state of [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]], to Dawn Cave (née Treadwell) and Colin Frank Cave.<ref name="museum">{{cite web | url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/whats-on/nick-cave/curators-notes | title=Curator's Notes | publisher=[[Western Australian Museum]] | year=2009 | access-date=16 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22800062 |title=22 December 1949 – LIFE OF MELBOURNE Drama Prize |website=[[Trove]] |date=22 December 1949 |access-date=5 May 2012}}</ref> He has two older brothers, Tim (born 1952) and Peter (born 1954), and a younger sister, Julie (born 1959).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nick Cave Trivia |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147022/trivia/ |access-date=28 April 2024 |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> 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.<ref name="oldnick">{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.features | title=Old Nick | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=23 February 2008 | access-date=30 March 2012 | author=Hattenstone, Simon}}</ref> From an early age, Cave's father read him literary classics, such as ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' (1866) and ''[[Lolita]]'' (1955),<ref name="devil"/> and also organised the first [[Academic conference|symposium]] on the Australian [[bushranger]] and outlaw [[Ned Kelly]],<ref>Cave, Colin (ed). ''Ned Kelly: Man and Myth''. Wangaratta Adult Education Centre, 1962. {{ISBN|0-7269-1410-X}}, p. 10</ref> with whom Cave was enamoured as a child.<ref name="dorian">Lynskey, Dorian (24 February 2006). [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/feb/24/popandrock "Outback outlaws"], ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 2 March 2013.</ref> Through his older brother, Cave became a fan of British [[progressive rock]] bands such as [[King Crimson]], [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=8 July 2020|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-favourite-guitarists-list/|title=From Pink Floyd to King Crimson: Nick Cave names his favourite guitarists of all time|date=6 July 2020|website=[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]]}}</ref> while a childhood girlfriend introduced him to the Canadian [[Contemporary folk music|folk]] artist [[Leonard Cohen]], who he later described as "the greatest songwriter of them all".<ref>Padgett, Ray (2020). ''Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen''. [[Bloomsbury Publishing]]. {{ISBN|9781501355073}}.</ref>

When Cave was nine he joined the choir of Wangaratta's [[Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta|Holy Trinity Cathedral]].<ref name="museum"/> At 13 he was expelled from [[Wangaratta High School]],<ref name="devil" /> and sent by his parents to [[Melbourne]] to become a boarder and later day student at [[Caulfield Grammar School]].<ref name="oldnick"/> His family moved to Melbourne the following year, settling in the suburb of [[Murrumbeena, Victoria|Murrumbeena]]. After his secondary schooling, Cave studied painting at the [[Monash University, Caulfield campus|Caulfield Institute of Technology]] in 1976, but dropped out the following year to pursue music.<ref name="Big" /> He also began using [[heroin]] around the time that he left art school.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.enjoy-your-style.com/nick-cave.html | title=Nick Cave, Style Icon | website=Enjoy-your-style.com | access-date=27 September 2012}}</ref>

Cave attended his first music concert at Melbourne's [[Festival Hall (Melbourne)|Festival Hall]]. The bill consisted of the English rock bands [[Manfred Mann]], [[Deep Purple]] and [[Free (band)|Free]]. Cave recalled: "I remember sitting there and feeling physically the sound going through me."<ref name="Big">{{cite web|title=10 things Nick Cave said at BIGSOUND 2013|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36893/10-things-Nick-Cave-said-at-BIGSOUND-2013|work=[[Junkee Media|FasterLouder]]|publisher=Faster Louder Pty Ltd|access-date=13 September 2013|first=Sarah|last=Smith|date=11 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913163308/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/36893/10-things-Nick-Cave-said-at-BIGSOUND-2013|archive-date=13 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In early 1977, he saw the Australian [[punk rock]] bands [[Radio Birdman]] and [[The Saints (Australian band)|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."<ref>Dalziell, Tanya; Welberry, Karen (ed.). ''Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave''. pp. 36–37.</ref><ref>Richards, Will (12 April 2022). [https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/nick-cave-pays-tribute-to-the-saints-chris-bailey-his-favourite-singer-14694/ "Nick Cave pays tribute to The Saints' Chris Bailey, his 'favourite singer'"], ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. Retrieved 12 April 2022.</ref>

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, Victoria|St Kilda]] police station where he was being held on a charge of burglary.<ref name="Bish">
{{cite episode
| title = The Archbishop Interviews
| series = The Archbishop Interviews
| episode-link = Nick Cave
| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n8dv
| network = [[BBC]]
| station = [[BBC Radio 4]]
| air-date = 25 June 2023
}}</ref>
He would later recall that his father "died at 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".<ref name="devil">Maume, Chris. "[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nick-cave-devils-advocate-350562.html Nick Cave: Devil's advocate]", ''[[The Independent]]''. Retrieved on 10 November 2008.</ref>