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{{Short description|Australian musician (born 1957)}}{{Not to be confused with|Nick Cave (artist)|Nicolas Cage}}
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{{Infobox person
| name              = Nick Cave
| honorific_suffix  = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AO}} {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSL}}
| image             = Nick Cave (2021).jpg
| caption           = Cave in 2021
| alt               = Nick Cave performing to the side of the camera
| alias             = 
| birth_name        = Nicholas Edward Cave
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|9|22}}
| birth_place       = [[Warracknabeal]], Victoria, Australia
| death_date        = 
| death_place       = 
| occupation        = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|musician|writer|actor|composer}}
| years_active      = 1973–present
| spouse            = {{ubl|{{marriage|Viviane Carneiro|1990|1996|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Susie Cave|Susie Bick]]<br />|1999}}}}
| partner           = [[Anita Lane]] (1977–1983)
| children          = 4 (including [[Earl Cave|Earl]])
| module            = {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See WP:WikiProject Musicians -->
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| background        = solo_singer
| instrument        = {{hlist|Vocals|piano|keyboards|guitar|harmonica|saxophone}}
| discography       = [[Nick Cave discography]]
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Post-punk]]|[[alternative rock]]|[[gothic rock]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Nick Cave's Top 10 Albums |url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/10682/nick-cave-top-10-albums |first=Roy |last=Wilkinson |publisher=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |date=31 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326002603/https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/10682/nick-cave-top-10-albums |access-date=23 March 2017 |archive-date=26 March 2018 }}<br />{{cite web |title=Uncut summary 2003 |url=http://uncut.co.uk:80/ |publisher=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |date=February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211112412/http://uncut.co.uk/ |access-date=23 March 2017 |archive-date=11 February 2003 |quote=The Godfather of Goth is back |url-status=live }}</ref>|[[art rock]]|[[experimental rock]]|[[garage rock]]}}
| label             = {{hlist|[[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds|Bad Seed]]|[[Mute Records|Mute]]|[[4AD]]}}
| current_member_of = [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]
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| website           = {{URL|nickcave.com}}
}}
'''Nicholas Edward Cave''' (born 22 September 1957<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nick-Cave-Australian-musician-and-author |title=Nick Cave: Australian Musician and Author |website=britannica.com |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>) is an Australian musician, writer, and actor who fronts the [[rock music|rock]] band [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.<ref name="erlewine">Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey, [[AllMusic]], [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3854|pure_url=yes}} (((Nick Cave > Biography)))]. Retrieved 30 September 2009.</ref>

Born and raised in rural [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]], Cave studied art in [[Melbourne]] before fronting [[The Birthday Party (band)|the Birthday Party]], one of the city's leading [[post-punk]] bands, in the late 1970s. In 1980, the band moved to London, England. Disillusioned by their stay there, they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire [[gothic rock]], and they acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world".<ref>Grice, Sarah (1 October 2014). [https://www.varsity.co.uk/reviews/7469 "Film: 20,000 Days on Earth"], ''[[Varsity (Cambridge)|Varsity]]''. Retrieved 1 September 2017.</ref> Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after relocating to [[West Berlin]] in 1982. The following year, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands.<ref>Berman, Stuart (6 May 2009). [https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12949-from-her-to-eternity-the-first-born-is-dead-kicking-against-the-pricks-your-funeral-my-trial/ "From Her to Eternity"], ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''. Retrieved 13 September 2020.</ref> Much of their early material is set in a mythic American [[Deep South]], drawing on [[spirituals]] and [[Delta blues]], while Cave's preoccupation with [[Old Testament]] notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his [[list of signature songs|signature song]], "[[The Mercy Seat (song)|The Mercy Seat]]" (1988), and in his debut novel, ''[[And the Ass Saw the Angel]]'' (1989). In 1988, he appeared in ''[[Ghosts… of the Civil Dead]]'', an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored.

The 1990s saw Cave move between [[São Paulo]] and England, and find inspiration in the [[New Testament]]. He went on to achieve mainstream success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the [[Kylie Minogue]] duet "[[Where the Wild Roses Grow]]" (1996), and "[[Into My Arms]]" (1997). Turning increasingly to film in the 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'' (2005), also composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]]. The pair's film score credits include ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]'' (2007), ''[[The Road (2009 film)|The Road]]'' (2009) and ''[[Hell or High Water (film)|Hell or High Water]]'' (2016). Their [[garage rock]] side project [[Grinderman]] has released two studio albums since 2006. In 2009, he released his second novel, ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'', and starred in the semi-fictional "[[day in the life]]" film ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]'' (2014). His more recent musical work features [[ambient music|ambient]] and [[electronic music|electronic]] elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur's 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary ''[[One More Time with Feeling]]'' (2016) and the Bad Seeds' 2019 album ''[[Ghosteen]]''. The band's 18th and latest album, ''[[Wild God]]'', was released in 2024.

Since 2018, Cave has maintained ''The Red Hand Files'', a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. He has collaborated with the likes of [[Johnny Cash]], [[Shane MacGowan]] and ex-partner [[PJ Harvey]]. His songs have also been covered by a wide range of artists, including Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), [[Metallica]] ("[[Loverman]]") and [[Snoop Dogg]] ("[[Red Right Hand]]"). He was inducted into the [[ARIA Hall of Fame]] in 2007,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22606485-1702,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005174755/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22606485-1702,00.html|url-status=dead|title=Nick Cave to enter ARIA Hall of Fame|archive-date=5 October 2009}}</ref> and he was named an [[Order of Australia|Officer of the Order of Australia]] in 2017.

== 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">
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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>

== Music career ==
=== Early years and the Birthday Party (1973–1983) ===
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In 1973, Cave founded a band with fellow students at Caulfield Grammar. With Cave as lead vocalist, the band included [[Mick Harvey]] (guitar), [[Phill Calvert]] (drums), John Cochivera (guitar), Brett Purcell (bass guitar), and Chris Coyne (saxophone). Their repertoire consisted of cover versions of songs by [[Lou Reed]], [[David Bowie]], [[Alice Cooper]], [[Roxy Music]] and [[Alex Harvey (musician)|Alex Harvey]], among others. Later, the line-up slimmed down to four members including Cave's friend [[Tracy Pew]] on bass guitar. In 1977, after leaving school, they adopted the name the Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original [[punk rock]] material. Guitarist, songwriter and ex-[[Young Charlatans]] member [[Rowland S. Howard]] joined the band in 1978.

[[File:George Hotel Crystal Ballroom St Kilda.jpg|thumb|The Melbourne post-punk venue the [[Crystal Ballroom (Melbourne)|Crystal Ballroom]], Cave's "first great stage"<ref name=walker/>]]
The Boys Next Door emerged as the linchpin of the Melbourne [[post-punk]] scene in the late 1970s, securing a residency at [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]]'s [[Crystal Ballroom (Melbourne)|Crystal Ballroom]] venue, where they attracted a [[cult following]].<ref name=walker>Walker, Clinton (2009). "Planting Seeds". In Dalziell, Tanya; Welberry, Karen (ed.). ''Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave''. [[Taylor & Francis]]. pp. 31–46. ISBN 9780754663959.</ref> They played hundreds of live shows in Australia and toured interstate before changing their name to the Birthday Party in 1980 and moving to [[London]], England. Cave's girlfriend and muse [[Anita Lane]] accompanied the band. They struggled initially with financial instability and limited connections, and grew to detest London and much of its music scene, which Cave later described as "dead, ... we felt really ripped off, robbed". He did however greatly admire [[the Pop Group]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Nick Cave on The Pop Group (1999) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUC2GmzJpGY |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/BUC2GmzJpGY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |access-date=13 January 2021 |website=[[YouTube]]| date=20 July 2010 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and the Birthday Party shared a mutual affinity with [[The Fall (band)|the Fall]].

By the end of their first year in London, the Birthday Party had gained notoriety for their aggressive, confrontational live shows and Cave's unhinged stage presence, with him shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar feedback. Drawing on [[Old Testament]] imagery, Cave's lyrics frequently revolved around sin, debauchery and damnation.<ref name=rey>{{cite book |author=Reynolds, Simon |title=Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ripitupstartagai00reyn/page/429 429–431] |publisher=London: [[Faber & Faber]], 2005 |isbn=0-571-21569-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/ripitupstartagai00reyn/page/429 }}</ref> The band found a champion in prominent radio DJ and taste-maker [[John Peel]], and went on to record four [[John Peel#Peel Sessions|Peel Sessions]].

Cave's droll sense of humour and penchant for parody is evident in many of the band's songs, including "Nick the Stripper" and "[[King Ink]]". "[[Release the Bats]]", one of the band's most famous songs and John Peel's single of the year in 1981, was intended as an over-the-top "[[taking the piss|piss-take]]" on [[gothic rock]], and a "direct attack" on the "stock gothic associations that less informed critics were wont to make". Ironically, it became highly influential on the genre, giving rise to a new generation of bands in England.<ref>Welberry, Karren (ed.) (2016). ''Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave''. [[Routledge]]. p. 87–88</ref>

The Birthday Party relocated to [[West Berlin]] in 1982. After establishing a [[cult following]] in Europe, Australia and the United States, they disbanded in the following year.

=== Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–present) ===
[[File:Nick Cave 1986.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave performing in Belgium, 1986]]
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The band with Cave as their lead vocalist has released eighteen studio albums. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography.<ref>Stuart Berman, [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]], [https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12949-from-her-to-eternity-the-first-born-is-dead-kicking-against-the-pricks-your-funeral-my-trial/ "Album reviews: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity / The First Born is Dead / Kicking Against the Pricks / Your Funeral&nbsp;... My Trial"], 6 May 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2009.</ref> Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequent histrionics. Critics [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] and Steve Huey wrote: "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk."<ref name="erlewine" />
[[File:Nick Cave- Hamburg 2001.jpg|thumb|Hamburg, Germany July 2001]]
Reviewing the band's fourteenth studio album ''[[Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!]]'' (2008), ''[[NME]]'' used the phrase "[[Gothic rock|gothic]] psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds/9484 |title= Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (album review) |work=[[NME]] |date=21 February 2008 |access-date=2 January 2012}}</ref> Their most recent work, ''[[Wild God]]'', was released in August 2024.

In a September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using a [[typewriter]] for songwriting after his experience with their twelfth studio album ''[[Nocturama (album)|Nocturama]]'' (2003), as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day".<ref name="Big" />

=== Grinderman (2006–2010) ===
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[[File:Grinderman 2008.jpg|thumb|Cave and Ellis performing as Grinderman in 2008]]
In 2006, Cave formed Grinderman with himself on vocals, guitar, organ and piano, [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]] ([[tenor guitar]], electric mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, backing vocals), [[Martyn P. Casey]] (bass, guitar, backing vocals) and [[Jim Sclavunos]] (drums, percussion, backing vocals). The alternative rock outfit was formed as "a way to escape the weight of the Bad Seeds".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cave|first1=Nick|year=2010|title=And Now It's Cave's ''Other'' Deranged Blues Band!|journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|issue=September 2010|page=55}}</ref> The band's name was inspired by a [[Memphis Slim]] song, "Grinder Man Blues", which Cave is noted to have started singing during one of the band's early rehearsal sessions. The band's debut studio album, ''[[Grinderman (album)|Grinderman]]'', was released in 2007 to positive reviews and the band's second and final studio album, ''[[Grinderman 2]]'', was released in 2010 to a similar reception.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Empire |first=Kitty |date=2010-09-25 |title=Grinderman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/26/grinderman-nick-cave-live-review |access-date=2024-05-30 |work=[[The Observer]] |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

Grinderman's first public performance was at [[All Tomorrow's Parties (festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties]] in April 2007, where [[Bobby Gillespie]] from [[Primal Scream]] accompanied Grinderman on backing vocals and percussion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quietus |first=The |date=2009-01-11 |title=Grinderman Play Surprise All Tomorrow's Parties Gig Down Under |url=https://thequietus.com/news/nick-cave-s-grinderman-play-surprise-all-tomorrow-s-parties-gig/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=[[The Quietus]] |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=All Tomorrow's Parties - ATP 2007 |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/all-tomorrow-s-parties-atp-2007-f6034618-a9b5-4532-ad8e-25820c469591 |website=Concert Archives}}</ref>

In December 2011, after performing at the [[Meredith Music Festival]], Cave announced that Grinderman was over.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nick Cave announces that Grinderman are 'over' – News &#124; thevine.com.au |url=http://www.thevine.com.au/music/news/nick-cave-announces-that-grinderman-was-%27over%2720111211.aspx |work=[[The Vine]] |author=Marcus |date=11 December 2011 |access-date=11 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831203148/http://www.thevine.com.au/music/news/nick-cave-announces-that-grinderman-was-%27over%2720111211.aspx |archive-date=31 August 2013 }}</ref> Two years later, Grinderman performed both weekends at the 2013 [[Coachella|Coachella Festival]], as did Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-nick-cave-on-his-coachella-sets-and-denying-himself-sacred-moments-100399/ |author=Fricke, David |title=Q&A: Nick Cave on His Coachella Sets and Denying Himself 'Sacred Moments' |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=11 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611153248/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-nick-cave-on-his-coachella-sets-and-denying-himself-sacred-moments-100399/ |archive-date=11 June 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref>

=== Music in film and television ===
Cave's music was featured in a scene of the 1986 film, ''[[Dogs in Space]]'' by Richard Lowenstein.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/1997/pascho.htm|title=''Dogs in Space''|website=Murdoch.edu.au|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321234247/http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/1997/pascho.htm|archive-date=21 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cave performed parts of the Boys Next Door song "[[Shivers (The Boys Next Door song)|Shivers]]" twice during the film, once on video and once live.

Another early fan of Cave's was German director [[Wim Wenders]], who lists Cave, along with [[Lou Reed]] and [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]], as among his favourites.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/25/2254785.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527213138/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/25/2254785.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 May 2008|title=Wenders unveils ode to rock'n'roll at Cannes|work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|date=24 May 2008|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> Cave and the Bad Seeds appear in the 1987 film ''[[Wings of Desire]]'' performing "[[The Carny]]" and "[[From Her to Eternity (song)|From Her to Eternity]]".<ref>Dave Tacon, "[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/wenders/ Wim Wenders]", [[Senses of Cinema]]. Retrieved on 25 November 2008.</ref> Two original songs were included in Wenders' 1993 sequel ''[[Faraway, So Close!]]'', including the title track. The soundtrack for Wenders' 1991 film ''[[Until the End of the World]]'' features, another Cave original, "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World". Cave and the Bad Seeds later recorded a live in-studio cover track for Wenders' 2003 documentary ''[[The Soul of a Man]]'', and his 2008 film ''[[Palermo Shooting]]'' features two original songs from Cave's side project Grinderman.<ref>"[https://www.pbs.org/theblues/aboutfilms/wenders.html The Blues: The Soul of a Man]", [[PBS]]. Retrieved on 25 November 2008.</ref>

Cave's songs have also appeared in a number of [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbusters]] – "There is a Light" appears on the 1995 soundtrack for ''[[Batman Forever]]'', and "[[Red Right Hand]]" appeared in a number of films including ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'' (1994), ''[[The X-Files (film)|The X-Files]]'' (1998); ''[[Scream (1996 film)|Scream]]'' (1996), its sequels ''[[Scream 2]]'' (1997) and ''[[Scream 3|3]]'' (2000), and ''[[Hellboy (2004 film)|Hellboy]]'' (2004; performed by [[Pete Yorn]]). In ''[[Scream 3]]'', the song was given a reworking with Cave writing new lyrics and adding an orchestra to the arrangement of the track. "People Ain't No Good" was featured in ''[[Shrek 2]]'' (2004). ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1]]'' (2010) music supervisor Matt Biffa chose to use Cave's "[[Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus|O Children]]" in the film because it was "really uplifting".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-09 |title=The story of how a Nick Cave song was used in 'Harry Potter' |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-how-a-nick-cave-song-used-in-harry-potter/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2000, [[Andrew Dominik]] used "Release the Bats" in his film ''[[Chopper (film)|Chopper]]''. Other films that use Cave's songs include ''[[The Freshman (1990 film)|The Freshman]]'' (1990), ''[[Gas Food Lodging]]'' (1992), ''[[Box of Moonlight]]'' (1996), ''[[Kevin & Perry Go Large]]'' (2000), ''[[Mr In-Between]]'' (2001), ''[[Romance & Cigarettes]]'' (2005), ''[[Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant]]'' (2009) and ''[[About Time (2013 film)|About Time]]'' (2013).

His music also appear in a number of major television shows, including ''[[Trauma (American TV series)|Trauma]]'', ''[[The L Word]]'', ''[[Traveler (American TV series)|Traveler]]'', ''[[The Unit]]'', ''[[I Love the '70s (British TV series)|I Love the '70s]]'', ''[[The Others (TV series)|The Others]]'', ''[[Nip/Tuck]]'', ''[[Californication (TV series)|Californication]]'', ''[[After Life (TV series)|After Life]]'' and ''[[Jack Irish]]''. "Red Right Hand" is the theme song for ''[[Peaky Blinders (TV series)|Peaky Blinders]]'', which also features cover versions by artists such as his ex-partner [[PJ Harvey]], [[Arctic Monkeys]], [[Laura Marling]], [[Iggy Pop]] and [[Jarvis Cocker]] of [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]], [[Patti Smith]] and [[Anna Calvi]]. In a 2019 interview with ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'', [[Cillian Murphy]], who plays [[Tommy Shelby]] in ''Peaky Blinders'', mentioned that Cave personally approved the use of the song for the series after watching a pre-screening of the show.<ref>"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRHgm6LLLo&t=657 Cillian Murphy: VICE Autobiographies]", [[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]. Retrieved on 21 August 2019.</ref>

=== Collaborations ===

==== 1980–2000 ====
During the 1982 recording sessions for the Birthday Party's third studio album ''[[Junkyard (album)|Junkyard]]'', Cave, together with band-mates Harvey and Howard, joined members of [[the Go-Betweens]] to form [[Tuff Monks]]. The short-lived band released one single, "After the Fireworks", and played live only once. Later that year, Cave contributed to the concept album ''[[Honeymoon in Red]]''. Intended as a collaboration between the Birthday Party and [[Lydia Lunch]], the album was not released until 1988, by which time Lunch had fallen out with Cave, who she credits on the release as "Anonymous", "Her Dead Twin" and "A Drunk Cowboy Junkie".<ref name="Walker, Clinton 1984">Walker, Clinton (1984). ''The Next Thing''. Kangaroo Press. {{ISBN|9780949924810}}. p. 14.</ref>

During the Birthday Party's Berlin period, Cave collaborated with local post-punk and [[post-rock]] band [[Die Haut]] on their studio album ''[[Burnin' the Ice]]'', released in 1983. In the immediate aftermath of the Birthday Party's break-up, Cave performed several shows in the United States as part of [[the Immaculate Consumptive]], a short-lived "[[supergroup (music)|super-group]]" with Lunch, [[Marc Almond]] and [[JG Thirlwell|Clint Ruin]].<ref name="Walker, Clinton 1984"/> Cave sang on an [[Annie Hogan]] song called "Vixo" which was recorded in October 1983: the track was released in 1985 on the 12" inch vinyl "Annie Hogan – Plays Kickabye".<ref>"Annie Hogan Plays "Kickabye" – liner notes for "Vixo" on the label Doublevision – DVR9 on 12" in 1985.</ref>

[[File:JohnnyCash1969.jpg|thumb|upright|left|After covering one another's songs, Cave and [[Johnny Cash]] (pictured) recorded duets for what would be Cash's final studio album.]]
A lifelong fan of [[Johnny Cash]], Cave covered his song "The Singer", originally "[[The Folk Singer]]", for the studio album ''[[Kicking Against the Pricks]]'' (1986), which Cash seemingly repaid by covering "The Mercy Seat" on ''[[American III: Solitary Man]]'' (2000). Cave was then invited to contribute to the liner notes of the double-compact disc compilation album ''[[The Essential Johnny Cash (2002 album)|The Essential Johnny Cash]]'', released to coincide with Cash's 70th birthday. Subsequently, Cave recorded a duet with Cash, a cover version of [[Hank Williams]]' "[[I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry]]", for what would be Cash's final studio album, ''[[American IV: The Man Comes Around]]'' (2002). Another duet between the two artists, the American folk song "[[Cindy (folk song)|Cindy]]", was released posthumously on ''[[Unearthed (Johnny Cash album)|Unearthed]]'', a boxset of outtakes. Cave's song "Let the Bells Ring", released on the  studio album ''[[Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus]]'' (2004), is a posthumous tribute to Cash.

[[File:PJ Harvey at the O2 Apollo4.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave's ex-partner, [[PJ Harvey]], appears on his studio album ''[[Murder Ballads]]'', notably the single "[[Young Hunting#Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version|Henry Lee]]".]]
Cave played with [[Shane MacGowan]] on cover versions of [[Bob Dylan]]'s "Death is Not the End" and [[Louis Armstrong]]'s "[[What a Wonderful World]]". Cave recorded a cover version of [[the Pogues]]' song "[[Rainy Night in Soho]]", written by MacGowan. MacGowan also sings a version of "Lucy", released on ''[[B-Sides & Rarities (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album)|B-Sides & Rarities]]'' (2005). Cave provided guest vocals on the title track of [[Current 93]]'s studio album ''[[All the Pretty Little Horses (album)|All the Pretty Little Horses]]'' (1996), as well as the closer "Patripassian". For his studio album ''[[Murder Ballads]]'' (1996), Cave recorded "[[Where the Wild Roses Grow]]" with [[Kylie Minogue]], and "[[Young Hunting#Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version|Henry Lee]]" with [[PJ Harvey]].

Cave also took part in ''The X-Files'' compilation CD with some other artists, where he reads parts from the Bible combined with own texts, like "Time Jesum&nbsp;...", he outed himself as a fan of the series some years ago, but since he does not watch much TV, it was one of the only things he watched.

==== 2000–present (as of 2025) ====
In 2004, Cave gave a hand to [[Marianne Faithfull]] on her sixteenth studio album, ''[[Before the Poison]]''. He co-wrote and produced three songs ("Crazy Love", "There Is a Ghost" and "Desperanto"), and the Bad Seeds are featured on all of them. He is also featured on "The Crane Wife 3" (originally by [[the Decemberists]]), on Faithfull's seventeenth studio album, ''[[Easy Come, Easy Go (Marianne Faithfull album)|Easy Come, Easy Go]]'' (2008).

He collaborated on the 2003 single "Bring It On", with [[Chris Bailey (musician, born 1956)|Chris Bailey]], formerly of the Australian punk group, [[The Saints (Australian band)|the Saints]]. Cave contributed vocals to the song "Sweet Rosyanne", on the studio album ''Catch That Train!'' (2006) by Dan Zanes & Friends, a children's music group.

In 2010, Cave began a series of duets with [[Debbie Harry]] of [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] for ''[[Jeffrey Lee Pierce|The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – We Are Only Riders|url=http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=13|website=[[Glitterhouse Records]]|access-date=11 January 2010|archive-date=16 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516103156/http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=13|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – The Journey is Long|url=http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=152|website=Glitterhouse Records|access-date=30 March 2012|archive-date=15 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415120334/http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=152|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – Axels & Sockets|url=http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=190|website=Glitterhouse Records|access-date=2 May 2014|archive-date=6 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706161023/http://label.glitterhouse.com/releases.php?show=190|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011, Cave recorded a cover version of [[the Zombies]]' "[[She's Not There]]" with [[Neko Case]], which was used at the end of the first episode of the fourth season of ''[[True Blood]]''.

In 2014, Cave wrote the libretto for the opera ''[[Shell Shock (opera)|Shell Shock]]'' by the Belgian composer [[Nicholas Lens]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Robert-Jan Bartunek |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/ww1-century-opera-idINKCN0ID2GX20141024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306172730/http://in.reuters.com/article/ww1-century-opera-idINKCN0ID2GX20141024 |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 March 2016 |title=Shell Shock opera brings trauma of World War One to stage |website=[[Reuters]] |date=25 October 2014 |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/scenes/article/2014/10/29/shell-shock-fait-eprouver-le-traumatisme-des-tranchees_4514105_1654999.html |title='Shell Shock' fait éprouver le traumatisme des tranchées |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |date=29 October 2014 |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mutesong.com/writers/nicholas-lens/ |title=Nicholas Lens – Mute Song |website=Mutesong.com |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> The opera premiered at the Royal Opera House [[La Monnaie]] in [[Brussels]] on 24 October 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/opera/421/Shell-Shock |title=Program (Opera) &#124; La Monnaie / De Munt |website=[[La Monnaie]] |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>
and was also set up at the international Weekend of War and Peace, [[Paris]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Laspière|first=Victor Tribot|date=9 November 2018|title=Shell Shock, un opéra de Nicholas Lens en hommage aux victimes de la Grande Guerre|url=https://www.francemusique.fr/opera/shell-shock-un-opera-de-nicholas-lens-en-hommage-aux-victimes-de-la-grande-guerre-66905|access-date=14 March 2021|website=[[France Musique]]|language=fr}}</ref> on 10 and 11 November 2018 performed by L' [[Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France]] at [[Cité de la Musique]] ([[Philharmonie de Paris]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shell Shock, A Requiem of War|url=https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/spectacle/19070-shell-shock-requiem-war|access-date=14 March 2021|website=[[Philharmonie de Paris]]|language=fr|archive-date=20 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220174154/https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/spectacle/19070-shell-shock-requiem-war|url-status=dead}}</ref> with live television broadcasting on [[Arte]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Opera in the Media: Week 46 of 2018 |date= 9 November 2018|publisher= [[Place de l'Opéra]]|url=https://www-operamagazine-nl.translate.goog/binnenkort/46093/opera-in-de-media-week-46-van-2018/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc|access-date= 22 May 2024}}</ref> and [[France Musique]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nicholas Lens – "Shell Shock" (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Silesia Opera Choir)|url=https://www.francemusique.fr/en/concerts/music-performances/shell-shock-requiem-war-22350|access-date=14 March 2021|website=France Musique|language=en}}</ref>

In 2020, Cave wrote the libretto for ''[[L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S]]'', a trance-minimal chamber opera by [[Nicholas Lens]]. A recording produced by both writers was released by [[Deutsche Grammophon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave – Insights|url=https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/l-i-t-a-n-i-e-s-nicholas-lens-nick-cave-12128/insights|access-date=14 March 2021|website=[[Deutsche Grammophon]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=8 October 2020|title=Nick Cave teams up with composer Nicholas Lens for "lockdown opera" 'L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S'|url=https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/nick-cave-teams-up-with-composer-nicholas-lens-for-lockdown-opera-l-i-t-a-n-i-e-s-2777504|access-date=14 March 2021|website=NME|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens Collaborate on New Opera L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S|url=https://news.yahoo.com/nick-cave-nicholas-lens-collaborate-160534870.html|access-date=14 March 2021|website=[[Yahoo News]]|date=9 October 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=9 October 2020|title=Il 4 dicembre uscirà la "lockdown opera" di Nick Cave|url=https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/news-musica/il-4-dicembre-uscira-la-lockdown-opera-di-nick-cave/534553/|access-date=14 March 2021|website=Rolling Stone Italia|language=it-IT}}</ref>

In 2004, Cave said: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]." The line is widely quoted in discourse around the band; their bassist, [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], a fan of Cave, wrote that it had hurt him. In 2025, Cave wrote an apology on his website, saying it was "an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark" with "no malice intended", and announced that he had recently contributed to a record by Flea.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |date=2025-03-12 |title=Nick Cave clarifies stance on Red Hot Chili Peppers, discusses forthcoming Flea collaboration |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2300054/nick-cave-clarifies-stance-on-red-hot-chili-peppers-discusses-forthcoming-flea-collaboration/news/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=[[Stereogum]] |language=en}}</ref>

==== Film scores and theatre music ====
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Cave creates original film scores with fellow Bad Seeds band member [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]]—they first teamed up in 2005 to work on Hillcoat's [[bushranger]] film ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'', for which Cave also wrote the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.infilm.com.au/?p=87&_r=true |access-date=15 October 2012 |title=Archived copy |archive-date=13 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113010207/http://www.infilm.com.au/?p=87&_r=true |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, Cave and Ellis composed the music for [[Andrew Dominik]]'s adaptation of [[Ron Hansen (novelist)|Ron Hansen]]'s ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11121-the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/|title=Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford|website=Pitchfork.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> By the time Dominik's film was released, Hillcoat was preparing his next project, ''[[The Road (2009 film)|The Road]]'', an adaptation of [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s [[The Road|novel]] about a father and son struggling to survive in a [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] world. Cave and Ellis wrote and recorded the score for the film, which was released in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/r25c|title=Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Road Review|website=[[BBC]]|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> In 2011, Cave and Ellis reunited with Hillcoat to score his latest picture, ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]''. Cave also authored this screenplay based on [[Matt Bondurant]]'s novel ''[[The Wettest County in the World]]'' (2008). Set in Depression-era [[Franklin County, Virginia]], the film was released in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-nick-cave-interview|title=Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'|author=Sean O'Hagan|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref>

In 2016, Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film ''[[Hell or High Water (film)|Hell or High Water]]'', directed by [[David Mackenzie (director)|David Mackenzie]]. The following year, they scored [[Taylor Sheridan]]'s neo-Western ''[[Wind River (film)|Wind River]]'', as well as Australian director [[David Michôd]]'s ''[[War Machine (2017 film)|War Machine]]''.

Cave and Ellis have also scored a number of documentary films, including ''[[The English Surgeon]]'' (2007), ''[[West of Memphis]]'' (2012), ''[[Prophet's Prey]]'' (2015) and ''[[The Velvet Queen]]'' (2021). Cave and Ellis created music for the Icelandic theatre group [[Vesturport]] productions ''[[Woyzeck]]'', ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'' and ''[[Faust]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faust inspired by Goeth|url=http://vesturport.com/theater/faust/|website=[[Vesturport]]|date=13 November 2009|access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref>

== Writing ==
Cave released his first book, ''King Ink'', in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with [[Lydia Lunch]]. This was followed up with ''King Ink II'' in 1997, containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he wrote for the [[BBC]] in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word", discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity.
[[File:Nick Cave in New York City 2009 portrait 2.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave reading from ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'' in New York City, 2009.]]
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 [[Theme (narrative)|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).

In 1993, Cave and [[Lydia Lunch]] published an adult comic book they wrote together, with illustrations by Mike Matthews, titled ''AS-FIX-E-8''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AS-FIX-E-8 |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/1762077-as-fix-e-8 |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=[[Goodreads]] |language=en}}</ref>

On 21 January 2008, a special edition of Cave's novel ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=28460_0_2_1_C |title=Nick Cave sees debut novel 'And The Ass Saw the Angel' re-released as collectors edition |website=Side-line.com |date=15 January 2008 |access-date=2 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520133047/http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=28460_0_2_1_C |archive-date=20 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cave's second novel ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'' was published on 8 September 2009 by [[HarperCollins]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/nme/46636|title=Nick Cave announces release date for new novel – News|date=11 August 2009|website=Nmr.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9781554685400/The_Death_of_Bunny_Munro/index.aspx|title=The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel By Nick Cave|website=[[HarperCollins|Harpercollins.ca]]|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120150632/http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9781554685400/The_Death_of_Bunny_Munro/index.aspx|archive-date=20 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Telling the story of a sex-addicted salesman, it was also released as a [[Binaural recording|binaural]] audio-book produced by British Artists [[Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard]] and an [[iPhone]] app.<ref>Breihan, Tom [https://pitchfork.com/news/36434-nick-caves-new-novel-ibunny-munroi-gets-its-own-iphone-app-tour/ "Nick Cave's New Novel Bunny Munro Gets its Own iPhone App, Tour"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909144334/http://pitchfork.com/news/36434-nick-caves-new-novel-ibunny-munroi-gets-its-own-iphone-app-tour/ |date=9 September 2011 }} September 2009.</ref> The book originally started as a screenplay Cave was going to write for [[John Hillcoat]].<ref>Khanna, Vish [http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=137&csid2=946&fid1=41546 "Conversations: Nick Cave"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209151414/http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=137&csid2=946&fid1=41546 |date=9 December 2009 }} at ''[[Exclaim!]]'' October 2009.</ref>

In 2015 he released the book ''The Sick Bag Song'', followed in 2022 by ''[[Faith, Hope, and Carnage]]'', collected from a series of phone conversations conducted between Cave and Irish writer [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoskyns |first=Barney |date=28 March 2015 |title=Nick Cave: pass the sick bag |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/28/nick-cave-the-sick-bag-song-poetry |via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

=== Contributions ===
Aside from their soundtracks, Cave also wrote the screenplays for [[John Hillcoat]]'s ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'' (2005) and ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]'' (2012).

Cave wrote the foreword to a [[Canongate Books|Canongate]] publication of the ''[[Gospel of Mark|Gospel According to Mark]]'', published in the UK in 1998. The American edition of the same book (published by [[Grove Press]]) contains a foreword by the noted American writer [[Barry Hannah]].

Cave was a contributor to a biography of the alternative rock and pop band [[the Triffids]], ''Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids'' (2009), edited by Australian academics [[Niall Lucy]] and Chris Coughran.<ref>Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran, eds. Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids (Fremantle: [[Fremantle Press]], 2009).</ref>

== Acting ==
Cave's first film appearance was in [[Wim Wenders]]' 1987 film ''[[Wings of Desire]]'', in which he and the Bad Seeds are shown performing at a concert in Berlin.

Cave has made occasional appearances as an actor. He appears alongside [[Blixa Bargeld]] in the 1988 Peter Sempel film ''Dandy'', playing dice, singing and speaking from his Berlin apartment. He is most prominently featured in the 1989 film ''[[Ghosts… of the Civil Dead]]'', written and directed by [[John Hillcoat]], and in the 1991 film ''[[Johnny Suede]]'' with [[Brad Pitt]].

Cave appeared in the 2005 homage to [[Leonard Cohen]], ''[[Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man]]'', in which he performed "[[I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen song)|I'm Your Man]]" solo, and "[[Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song)|Suzanne]]" with [[Julie Christensen]] and [[Perla Batalla]]. He also appeared in the 2007 film adaptation of Ron Hansen's novel ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]'', where he sings "[[Jesse James (folk song)|The Ballad of Jesse James]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.screendaily.com/the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/4034289.article |title=The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford |first=Lee |last=Marshall |date=3 September 2007 |access-date=14 August 2019 |magazine=[[Screen International#Screen Daily|Screen Daily]] |publisher=Media Business Insight Limited}}</ref> Cave and Warren Ellis are credited for the film's soundtrack.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rose |first=Kara |url=http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=12010 |title=Cave and Ellis For Jesse James Soundtrack |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070812014745/http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=12010 |archive-date=12 August 2007 |journal=[[Harp (magazine)|Harp]] |date=6 December 2007 |access-date=10 February 2019 |url-status=usurped |publisher=Guthrie, Inc.}}</ref> Nick Cave and his son Luke performed one of the songs on the soundtrack together. Luke played the triangle.<ref name="imdb.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2926712/|title=Luke Cave|website=IMDb.com|access-date=31 October 2019}}</ref>

His interest in the work of [[Edward Gorey]] led to his participation in the [[BBC Radio 3]] programme ''Guest + Host = Ghost'', featuring [[Peter Blegvad]] and the radiophonic sound of the [[Langham Research Centre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/betweentheears/pip/aao11/ |title=Between The Ears – Guest + Host = Ghost |publisher=BBC |date=31 December 2005 |access-date=14 February 2013}}</ref>

Cave lent his voice in narrating the animated film ''[[The Cat Piano]]'' (2009). It was directed by [[Eddie White (director)|Eddie White]] and Ari Gibson (of [[the People's Republic of Animation]]), produced by Jessica Brentnall and features music by [[Benjamin Speed]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catpianofilm.com/ |title=The Cat Piano |website=Catpianofilm.com |access-date=2 June 2011}}</ref>

He provided the voice of the character Bill Clarke in the  stop-motion film ''[[Memoir of a Snail]]'' (2024)  by [[Adam Elliot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23770030/|title=Memoir of a Snail|website=IMDb.com|access-date=25 Feb 2025}}</ref>

== Screenwriting ==
[[File:Nick Cave Cannes 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave at the 2012 [[Cannes Film Festival]]]]
Cave wrote the screenplay for ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'', a film about [[bushranger]]s in the Australian [[outback]] during the late 19th century. Directed by John Hillcoat and filmed in [[Queensland]] in 2004, it premiered in October 2005 and was later released worldwide to critical acclaim.<ref>Brett McCracken, [http://www.relevantmagazine.com/pc_article.php?id=7190 Film Review of ''The Proposition''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018124700/http://www.relevantmagazine.com/pc_article.php?id=7190 |date=18 October 2006 }}, ''[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]]''. Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> Cave explained his personal background in relation to writing the film's screenplay in a 2013 interview:

<blockquote>
I had written long-form before but it is pure story-telling in script writing and that goes back as far as I can remember for me, not just with my father but with myself. I slept in the same bedroom as my sister for many years, until it became indecent to do so and I would tell her stories every night—that is how she would get to sleep. She would say "tell me a story" so I would tell her a story. So that ability, I very much had that from the start and I used to enjoy that at school so actually to write a script—it suddenly felt like I was just making up a big story.<ref name="Big" /></blockquote>

The film critic for British newspaper ''[[The Independent]]'' called ''The Proposition'' "peerless", "a star-studded and uncompromisingly violent outlaw film".<ref>Will Self, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090520163055/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-proposition-bringing-the-revisionist-western-to-the-australian-outback-468212.html The Proposition: Bringing the revisionist Western to the Australian outback]," [[The Independent]]. Retrieved 25 November 2008.</ref> The generally [[ambient music|ambient]] soundtrack was recorded by Cave and Warren Ellis.

At the request of his friend [[Russell Crowe]], Cave wrote a script for a proposed sequel to ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'' which was rejected by the studio.<ref>Dawtrey, Adam, "[https://variety.com/2006/film/features/nick-cave-1200337276/ 10 Screenwriters to Watch: Nick Cave] ," ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 22 June 2006.</ref>

An announcement in February 2010 stated that [[Andy Serkis]] and Cave would collaborate on a motion-capture movie of the [[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill|Weill]] musical ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]''. As of November 2024, the project has not been realised.<ref>{{cite web|title=Serkis, Cave plan motion-capture Opera|url=http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/berlin/european-film-market/serkis-cave-plan-motion-capture-opera/5010840.article|work=Screen Daily|publisher=Media Business Insight Limited|access-date=24 September 2013|first=Mike|last=Goodridge|date=15 February 2010}}</ref>

Cave wrote a screenplay titled ''The Wettest County in the World'',<ref name=score>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/of_course_he_did_nick_cave_confirms_hell_score_john_hillcoats_the_wettest_c/ |title=Nick Cave Confirms He'll Score John Hillcoat's 'The Wettest County' |first=Simon |last=Dang |date=4 February 2011 |work=[[IndieWire]] |access-date=9 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207193518/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/of_course_he_did_nick_cave_confirms_hell_score_john_hillcoats_the_wettest_c/ |archive-date=7 February 2011 }}</ref> which was used for the 2012 film ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]'', directed again by John Hillcoat, starring [[Tom Hardy]] and [[Shia LaBeouf]].<ref>Pelly, Jenn, "[https://pitchfork.com/news/47281-nick-cave-warren-ellis-lawless-music-features-mark-lanegan-emmylou-harris-ralph-stanley-more/ Nick Cave & Warren Ellis' Lawless Music Features Mark Lanegan, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, More]," ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork.com]]'', 27 July 2012.</ref>

== Blogging ==
Cave currently maintains a personal blog and an online correspondence page with his fans called ''The Red Hand Files'' which is seen as a continuation of ''In Conversation,'' a series of live personal talks Cave had held in which the audience were free to ask questions. On the page, Cave discusses various issues ranging from art, religion, current affairs and music, as well as using it as a free platform in which fans are encouraged to ask personal questions on any topic of their choosing.<ref name="Clarke">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nick-cave-says-hes-repelled-woke-cultures-self-righteous-belief-lack-humility-2557386|title= Nick Cave says he's 'repelled' by 'woke' culture's 'self-righteous belief' and 'lack of humility' |work= NME |first=Patrick |last=Clarke |date= 15 October 2019| access-date=28 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="Cunningham">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/nick-cave-red-hand-files|title= Nick Cave is showing us a new, gentler way to use the internet|work= The Guardian |first=Russell |last=Cunningham |date= 27 November 2018| access-date=28 May 2020}}</ref> Cave's intimate approach to the Question & Answer format on ''The Red Hand Files'' was praised by ''[[The Guardian]]'' as "a shelter from the online storm free of discord and conspiracies, and in harmony with the internet vision of [[Tim Berners-Lee]]."<ref name="Cunningham"/>

In January 2023, after being sent a song written by [[ChatGPT]] "in the style of Nick Cave",<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-01-17 |title='This song sucks': Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song written in style of Nick Cave |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/17/this-song-sucks-nick-cave-responds-to-chatgpt-song-written-in-style-of-nick-cave |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> he responded on ''The Red Hand Files'' (and was later quoted in ''[[The Guardian]]'') saying that act of song writing "is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite, it is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past." He went on to say "It's a blood and guts business [that] requires my humanness", concluding that "this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don't much like it."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-20 |title=Are AI-generated songs a 'grotesque mockery' of humanity or simply an opportunity to make a new kind of music? {{!}} Jeff Sparrow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/20/are-ai-generated-songs-a-grotesque-mockery-of-humanity-or-simply-an-opportunity-to-make-a-new-kind-of-music |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

== Legacy and influence ==
In 2010, Cave was ranked the 19th greatest living lyricist in ''[[NME]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/list/the-greatest-lyricists-in-the-world-today-1392|title=The Greatest Lyricists In The World Today|last=nme|date=15 April 2010|website=NME|language=en-US|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> [[Flea (musician)|Flea]] of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] called him the greatest living songwriter in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/nick-cave-the-greatest-living-songwriter-766596|title=Nick Cave – The Greatest Living Songwriter? {{!}} NME|date=22 August 2011|website=NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs {{!}} NME.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=4 February 2020}}</ref> Rob O'Connor of [[Yahoo Music]] listed him as the 23rd best lyricist in rock history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-25-best-rock-lyricists-104712684916.html|title=The 25 Best Rock Lyricists|last=O'Connor|first=Rob|date=15 December 2014|website=[[Yahoo]]|language=en-US|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> ''The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays'' was edited by academic John H. Baker and published in 2013. In an essay on the studio album ''[[The Boatman's Call]]'' (1997), Peter Billingham praised Cave's love songs as characterised by a "deep, poetic, melancholic introspection".{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=13}} Carl Lavery, another academic featured in the collection, argued that there was a "burgeoning field of Cave studies".{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=29}} Dan Rose argued that Cave "is a master of the disturbing narrative and chronicler of the extreme, though he is also certainly capable of a subtle romantic vision. He does much to the listener who enters his world."{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=98}}

Songs written about Cave include "Just a King in Mirrors" (1983) by [[the Go-Betweens]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foruli.co.uk/blog/go-betweens|title=The Ten Rules of Rock 'n' Roll|website=[[The Quietus]]|last=Jelbert|first=Steve|access-date=4 August 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101437/https://foruli.co.uk/blog/go-betweens|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Sick Man" (1984) by [[Foetus (band)|Foetus]],<ref>Johnston, Ian (2020). ''Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave''. Little, Brown Book Group. {{ISBN|9780349144351}}.</ref> and "Bill Bailey" (1987) by [[the Gun Club]].<ref>Pierce, Jeffrey Lee (1998). ''Go Tell the Mountain: Jeffrey Lee Pierce'', 2.13.61 Publications. {{ISBN|9781880985601}}.</ref>

A number of prominent [[noise rock]] vocalists have cited Cave's Birthday Party-era work as their primary influence, including [[the U-Men]]'s John Bigley,<ref>Tow, Stephan (16 October 2011). [https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2011/09/seattle-bands-invent-grunge-october-2011 "The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge"], ''[[Seattle Metropolitan]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> and [[David Yow]], frontman of [[Scratch Acid]] and [[the Jesus Lizard]]. Yow stated: "For a long time, particularly with Scratch Acid, I was so taken with the Birthday Party that I would deny it",<ref>Warmowski, Rob (10 November 2011). [https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/david-yow-of-scratch-acid-talks-to-rob-warmowski-of-sirs/Content?oid=4968066 "David Yow of Scratch Acid talks to Rob Warmowski of Sirs"], ''[[Chicago Reader]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> and that "it sounded like I was trying to be Birthday Party Nick Cave—which I was."<ref>Herzog, Kenny (27 June 2013). [https://www.spin.com/2013/06/david-yow-jesus-lizard-solo-album-interview/ "The Lizard King: David Yow on Three Decades of Music and Mayhem"], ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> Often compared to Cave in his vocal delivery, [[Alexis Marshall]] of [[Daughters (band)|Daughters]] said that he admires the personality and energy within Cave's voice, and that his early studio albums "exposed [him] to lyrical content as literature".<ref>Cartledge, Luke (13 December 2019). [https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/alexis-marshall-daughters-favourite-songs "Nine Songs: Daughters"], ''[[The Line of Best Fit]]''. 14 March 2021.</ref>

== Personal life ==
Cave left Australia in 1980. After stints living in London, Berlin, and São Paulo, he moved to [[Brighton]], England, in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Isobel |date=2022-06-02 |title=This Much I Know To Be True review – a must-see for Nick Cave zealots and non-fans alike |url=http://outtakemag.co.uk/reviews/2022/06/02/this-much-i-know-to-be-true-nick-cave/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=Outtake Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The film ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]'' (2014), about Cave's life, is set around Brighton.<ref name="theguardian-2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/27/day-in-the-life-nick-cave |title=Interview: A Day in the Life of Nick Cave |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 July 2013 |access-date=22 October 2013}}</ref> In 2017, Cave reportedly told ''[[GQ]]'' magazine that he and his family were considering moving from Brighton to [[Los Angeles]] as, after the death of his 15-year-old son, Arthur, they "just find it too difficult to live here."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/story/the-love-and-terror-of-nick-cave|title=The Love and Terror of Nick Cave|last=Heath|first=Chris|date=27 April 2017|work=[[GQ]]|access-date=1 October 2018|language=en}}</ref>

In November 2021, while answering a question on ''The Red Hand Files'' which was referencing the song "Heart That Kills You" (from the compilation album ''[[B-Sides & Rarities Part II]]'') Cave stated, "The words of the song go someway toward articulating why Susie and I moved from Brighton to L.A. Brighton had just become too sad. We did, however, return once we realised that, regardless of where we lived, we just took our sadness with us. These days, though, we spend much of our time in London, in a tiny, secret, pink house, where we are mostly happy."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 November 2021 |title=Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files – Issue #171 – When did you write "Heart That Kills You"? It is a beautiful thing. |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/heart-that-kills-you-it-is-a-beautiful-thing/ |access-date=10 March 2022 |website=The Red Hand Files |language=en-AU}}</ref>

Cave was a guest at the [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla]] in May 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/coronation|title=The Coronation of His Majesty the King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort|work=[[Australian Government]]|accessdate=28 April 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428044409/https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/coronation|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/05/06/emma-thompson-nick-cave-ant-dec-celebrity-westminster-abbey/|title=The host of famous faces to witness the Coronation|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=6 May 2023|access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref>

In June 2023, in ''The Archbishop Interview'' with [[Justin Welby]], the [[archbishop of Canterbury]], on [[BBC Radio 4]], Cave spoke about being a [[heroin]] addict for 20 years. Although his life during that time was admittedly "a terrible shambles", his second decade of addiction was much more stable and characterised by regularly taking heroin in the morning and in the evening and being able to work on writing during the day.<ref name="Bish" />

On his blog, Cave discussed practicing [[Transcendental Meditation]] (TM), saying "from the first time I meditated, I stopped fearing the end of the world."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/fearing-the-end-of-the-world | title=Nick Cave - the Red Hand Files - Issue #69 - How do I stop fearing the end of the world? | date=5 November 2019 }}</ref> In 2025 he disclosed that he regularly attends a 900-year old [[Anglican]] church in London where he enjoys the traditional solemn liturgy "with no guitars. Thank God."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://unherd.com/in-search-of-wild-gods/ | title=In Search of Wild Gods }}</ref>

=== Partners and children ===
[[File:Susie Cave (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Susie Cave|Susie Bick]], 2013]]
Cave dated singer/songwriter [[Anita Lane]] from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/anita-lane-mn0000572953/biography|title=Anita Lane {{!}} Biography & History|last=Hage|first=Erik|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> Cave and Lane recorded together on a few occasions. Their most notable collaborations include Lane's "cameo" verse on Cave's [[Bob Dylan]] cover version "[[Down in the Groove|Death Is Not the End]]" from the studio album ''[[Murder Ballads]]'' (1996), and a cover of the [[Serge Gainsbourg]] and [[Jane Birkin]] song "[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]/ I love you ... me neither".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-love-younor-do-i-mt0008949637|title=I Love You....Nor Do I – Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Anita Lane {{!}} Song Info|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> Lane co-wrote the lyrics to the title track for Cave's studio album, ''[[From Her to Eternity]]'' (1984), as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from ''[[Your Funeral... My Trial]]'' (1986).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/anita-lane-mn0000572953/credits|title=Anita Lane {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref>

Cave then moved to [[São Paulo]], Brazil, in 1990, where he met and married his first wife, Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro. She gave birth to their son Luke in 1991. Cave and Carneiro were married for six years and divorced in 1996.<ref name="Nick Cave Interviews">{{cite web|url=http://www.nick-cave.com/interviews/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1051742708&archive=&cnshow=headlines&start_from=|title=Nick Cave Interviews|website=Nick-cave.com|access-date=11 October 2013|archive-date=8 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108234357/http://www.nick-cave.com/interviews/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1051742708&archive=&cnshow=headlines&start_from=|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Cave's son Jethro was also born in 1991, just 10 days before Luke, and grew up with his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Melbourne, Australia. Cave and Jethro never met until Jethro was about seven or eight.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/models-and-rockers-jethro-cave-and-leah-weller-6729475.html|title=Models and rockers: Jethro Cave and Leah Weller – Life & Style – London Evening Standard|date=12 November 2009|website=Standard.co.uk|access-date=14 February 2013}}</ref> He died at age 31 in May 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aubrey|first=Elizabeth|date=9 May 2022|title=Nick Cave's son Jethro Lazenby has died, aged 31|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nick-caves-son-jethro-has-died-aged-31-3221399|access-date=12 May 2022|website=[[NME]]}}</ref>

Cave briefly dated English singer/songwriter [[PJ Harvey]] during the mid-1990s, with whom he recorded the duet "[[Young Hunting#Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version|Henry Lee]]". Their break-up influenced his studio album ''[[The Boatman's Call]]'' (1997).<ref>{{cite news|last=Harmon|first=Steph|date=28 August 2019|title=Nick Cave on PJ Harvey break-up: 'I was so surprised I almost dropped my syringe'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/28/nick-cave-on-pj-harvey-break-up-i-was-so-surprised-i-almost-dropped-my-syringe|work=The Guardian|access-date=2 November 2021}}</ref>

In 1997, Cave met English model [[Susie Cave|Susie Bick]]; they married in 1999. Their twin sons, Arthur and [[Earl Cave|Earl]], were born in [[London]] in 2000 and raised in [[Brighton]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,885692,00.html | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | title=Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury | first=Lindsay | last=Baker | date=1 February 2003 | access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Pero |last=Bilcic |url=http://www.nick-cave.com/_interviews.php?subaction=showfull&id=1051743552&archive=&cnshow=headlines&start_from= |title=Nick Cave Online |website=Nick-cave.com |access-date=2 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044503/http://www.nick-cave.com/_interviews.php?subaction=showfull&id=1051743552&archive=&cnshow=headlines&start_from= |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.nme.com/features/film-interviews/earl-cave-interview-days-of-the-bagnold-summer-2685390|title=Earl Cave: 'I'd love to play Neil Young in a film'|journal=NME|first=Beth|last=Webb|date=10 June 2020|access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/15/nick-cave-son-arthur-dies-brighton-chalk-cliff-fall|title=Nick Cave's son dies after Brighton chalk cliffs fall|journal=The Guardian|first1=Jessica|last1=Elgot|first2=Nadia|last2=Khomami|date=15 July 2015|access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref> Bick is the model on the cover of Cave's studio album ''[[Push the Sky Away]]'' (2013).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/on-stage-im-just-me-having-a-bad-day-nick-cave-on-40-years-of-music-and-mayhem-8607908.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220619/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/on-stage-im-just-me-having-a-bad-day-nick-cave-on-40-years-of-music-and-mayhem-8607908.html |archive-date=19 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title='On stage I'm just me having a bad day': Nick Cave on 40 years of music and mayhem – Profiles – People|last=McLean|first=Craig|date=12 May 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=11 October 2013}}</ref>

When he was 15 years old, Cave's son Arthur fell from a cliff at [[Ovingdean]], near Brighton, and died from his injuries on 14 July 2015.<ref name="Authur Died">{{cite journal|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nick-caves-son-arthur-dead_55a69478e4b0896514d000dc?|title=Nick Cave's Son Arthur Dead At 15 After Falling Off A Cliff|last=Marcus|first=Stephanie|date=15 July 2015|access-date=16 July 2015|journal=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/13420121.Rock_legend_Nick_Cave_s_son_killed_in_cliff_fall/?ref=rss|title=Rock legend Nick Cave's son killed in cliff fall|publisher=[[The Argus (Brighton)|The Argus]]|last1=Leo|first1=Ben|date=15 July 2015 |access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-34779370|title=Nick Cave's son Arthur took LSD before cliff fall, inquest told|year=2015|work=BBC Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110161648/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-34779370|url-status=live|archive-date=10 November 2015|access-date=10 November 2015}}</ref> An inquest found that Arthur had taken [[LSD]] before the fall and the coroner ruled his death was an accident.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 November 2015 |title=Nick Cave's son Arthur took LSD before cliff fall, inquest told |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-34779370 |access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref> The effect of Arthur's death on Cave and his family was explored in the documentary film ''[[One More Time with Feeling]]'' (2016), and the studio album ''[[Ghosteen]]'' (2019).

Cave is the godfather to [[Michael Hutchence]]'s daughter [[Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof]]; <ref name=Everguide>{{cite web|title=Nick Cave: Fan Factoids|url=http://everguide.com.au/music/gigs-and-festivals/news/nick-cave-fan-factoids-.aspx|work=Everguide|publisher=Lifelounge Pty Ltd|access-date=19 October 2013|first=Lauren|last=Bertacchini|date=26 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019053643/http://everguide.com.au/music/gigs-and-festivals/news/nick-cave-fan-factoids-.aspx|archive-date=19 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> he performed "[[Into My Arms]]" at the televised funeral of Hutchence, but insisted that the cameras cease rolling during his performance.<ref name=Everguide/>

=== Religion ===
Cave is an avid reader of the [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Bible]]. In his recorded lectures on music and songwriting, Cave said that any true love song is a song for [[God]], and ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the [[Old Testament]] to the [[New Testament|New]]. When asked if he had interest in religions outside of Christianity, Cave quipped that he had a passing, sceptical interest but was a "hammer-and-nails kind of guy".<ref>{{cite news|last=Bartlett |first= Thomas |url= http://www.salon.com/2004/11/18/cave_4/ |title=The Resurrection of Nick Cave |website=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date=18 November 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831022512/http://www.salon.com/2004/11/18/cave_4/ |archive-date=31 August 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref> Despite this, Cave has also said he is critical of [[Organized religion|organised religion]]. When interviewed by [[Jarvis Cocker]] of [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]] on 12{{nbsp}}September 2010, for his BBC Radio{{nbsp}}6 show ''Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service'', Cave said that "I believe in God in spite of religion, not because of it."<ref>{{cite web|title=Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tqjr4|work=[[BBC Radio 6 Music]]|publisher=BBC|access-date=13 December 2013|first=Jarvis|last= Cocker|date=12 September 2010}}</ref>

Cave has always been open about his doubts. When asked in 2009 about whether he believed in a [[personal god]], Cave's reply was "No".<ref>{{cite news| quote=Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.| url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2009/sep/10/nick-cave-bunny-munro | newspaper=The Guardian | title= Nick Cave on The Death of Bunny Munro|date=11 September 2009|access-date=14 December 2013}}</ref> The following year, he stated that "I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs."<ref>{{Cite news|first=John|last= Payne |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|title= Nick Cave's master plan |url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-nick-cave-20101129,0,4557691.story |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101130142313/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-nick-cave-20101129,0,4557691.story |archive-date=30 November 2010 |url-status=dead |date=29 November 2010 |access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref>

Cave's religious doubts were once a source of discomfort to him, but he eventually concluded:
{{Blockquote | Although I've never been an [[Atheism|atheist]], there are periods when I struggled with the whole thing. As someone who uses words, you need to be able to justify your belief with language, I'd have arguments and the atheist always won because he'd go back to logic. Belief in God is illogical, it's absurd. There's no debate. I feel it intuitively, it comes from the heart, a magical place. But I still I fluctuate from day to day. Sometimes I feel very close to the notion of God, other times I don't. I used to see that as a failure. Now I see it as a strength, especially compared to the more fanatical notions of what God is. I think doubt is an essential part of belief.<ref>{{cite book |last= Snow |first= Mat |date=21 January 2011 |title= Nick Cave: Sinner Saint: The True Confessions, Thirty Years of Essential Interviews |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yh9iDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT241 |publisher=Plexus |isbn= 978-0-85965448-7}}</ref>}}

In 2019, Cave expressed his personal disagreement with both organised religion and atheism (in particular [[New Atheism]]) when questioned about his beliefs by a fan during a question and answer session on his ''Red Hand Files'' blog.<ref name="Clarke"/> On the same blog, Cave confirmed he believed in God in June 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/struggling-getting-old/|title=Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files – Issue #153|date=June 2021|website=www.theredhandfiles.com|access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref> By 2023, Cave characterised himself as not being a Christian but 'act[ing] like one'<ref name="boycott">{{Cite news |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |accessdate=2023-05-28 |date=2023-05-28 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/28/nick-cave-speaks-out-against-boycotting-songs-because-of-creators-actions |title=Nick Cave speaks out against boycotting songs because of creators' actions |last=Knight |first=Lucy}}</ref> and detailed in his 2022 book ''[[Faith, Hope, and Carnage]]'' that he regularly attends church.

In 2023, Cave wrote on his blog that he had sympathised with feminist author [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]]'s conversion from [[Islam]] to atheism after reading her book ''[[Infidel: My Life]]'' (2006), and had also considered himself an atheist. However, he described his growing interest in religion as a "slowly emergent state" and shaped by his upbringing in the [[Anglicanism|Anglican church]]. He also clarified his view on Christianity was "non-political and fully personal and emotional" and described his religious beliefs as "bound up in the liturgy and the ritual and the poetry that swirls around the restless, tortured figure of [[Jesus]], as presented within the sacred domain of the church itself. My religiousness is softly spoken, both sorrowful and joyful, broadening and deepening, imagined and true. It is worship and prayer. It is resilient yet doubting, and forever wrestles with the forces of rationality." He concluded by describing Hirsi Ali's 2023 article in ''[[UnHerd]]'' documenting her conversion to Christianity as a "laudable achievement" for its ability to "vex atheists and Christians alike."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-would-love-to-hear-your-thoughts/ |title=I would love to hear your thoughts on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's recent essay, 'Why I am now a Christian.' These two sentences in particular made me think of you (and the almost entirely diminished atheist in me): 'I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable—indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: What is the meaning and purpose of life?' |date=23 November 2023 |access-date=2023-12-20}}</ref>

=== Politics ===
In 2019, Cave wrote in defence of singer [[Morrissey]] of [[the Smiths]] after the latter expressed a series of controversial political statements, leading to some record stores refusing to stock his upcoming album ''[[California Son]].'' Cave argued that Morrissey should have the right to freedom of speech to state his opinions while everyone should be able to "challenge them when and wherever possible, but allow his music to live on, bearing in mind we are all conflicted individuals." He also added it would be "dangerous" to censor Morrissey from expressing his beliefs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Yoo |first=Noah |date=28 June 2019 |title=Nick Cave Questions Morrissey's Politics, Defends His Music and Free Speech in Open Letter |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-questions-morrisseys-politics-defends-his-music-and-free-speech-in-open-letter/ |access-date=27 May 2020 |work=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref name="Clarke" />

In response to a fan asking about his political beliefs, Cave expressed a disdain for "[[atheism]], [[Organized religion|organised religion]], radical [[Bipartisanship|bi-partisan]] politics and [[woke]] culture" on his ''Red Hand Files'' blog. He in particular singled out woke politics and culture for criticism, describing it as "finding energy in self-righteous belief and the suppression of contrary systems of thought" and "regardless of the virtuous intentions of many woke issues, it is its lack of humility and the paternalistic and doctrinal sureness of its claims that repel me."<ref name="Clarke" /> In 2020, Cave also expressed opposition to [[ostracism]], particularly [[cancel culture]], and misguided [[political correctness]], describing both as "bad religion run amuck" and their "refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society."<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 August 2020 |title=Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/nick-cave-political-correctness-bad-religion-run-amuck-cancel-culture |access-date=11 August 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files – Issue #109 |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/what-is-mercy-for-you/ |access-date=11 August 2021 |website=www.theredhandfiles.com}}</ref>

Cave has previously described himself as a supporter of [[freedom of speech]] in both his live ''In Conversation'' events and on his blog.<ref>{{cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Roisin |date=22 July 2019 |title=Nick Cave writes letter to homophobic 'fan' during Q&A: 'It's not too late for you' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/nick-cave-the-red-hand-files-fan-questions-homophobic-george-bad-seeds-tour-a9015986.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220619/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/nick-cave-the-red-hand-files-fan-questions-homophobic-george-bad-seeds-tour-a9015986.html |archive-date=19 June 2022 |access-date=28 May 2020 |work=The Independent}}</ref> He has also argued against boycotting musicians for controversial actions or political opinions while giving a lecture at the [[Hay Festival]] in 2023, saying that audiences should not "eradicate the best of these people in order to punish the worst of them."<ref name="boycott" /> 

In October 2022, Cave expressed support for the participants of the [[Mahsa Amini protests]] in Iran on his correspondence blog after being asked by a fan on the matter. He responded by stating "I am in awe of their courage and pray for their safety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2022 |title=ISSUE #206 |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/as-one-of-your/ |access-date=13 February 2023 |website=www.theredhandfiles.com}}</ref> 

Cave has also expressed support for [[Transgender|trans]] people, stating on his personal blog that he "[loves] my trans fans fully" and "[wishes] for them to receive every right inherent to them and for them to lead lives of dignity and freedom, devoid of violence and prejudice".<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2023 |title=ISSUE #249 |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/how-do-you-feel/ |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=www.theredhandfiles.com}}</ref>

In 2023, Cave disputed a characterisation of him as [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] or conservative by the ''[[New Statesman]]'' magazine but added "I have these days what I would call a conservative temperament" and described himself as "[[small-c conservative|conservative with a small c]]." He also clarified he was "not against progress" but "I just see things moving very rapidly and a whole lot of different things worry me a lot, like [[Artificial intelligence|AI]]" and expressed criticism of the idea "that everything is systemically fucked". He also stated that his small-c conservative views had formed following the deaths of two of his sons, explaining "I think that I have an understanding of loss and what it is to lose something and how difficult it is to get that back" and argued that the demise of religion and spirituality "which may or may not be a good thing" had led to a "vacuum that we created that we don't really know what to do with".<ref name="boycott" /> 

==== Israel and BDS ====
In November 2017, Cave was urged by British musicians [[Brian Eno]] and [[Roger Waters]] to cancel two concerts in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel, while "[[Israeli apartheid|apartheid]] remains" but he declined.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blais-Billie |first1=Braudie |last2=Kim |first2=Michelle Hyun |date=19 November 2017 |title=Nick Cave Calls Israel Show 'a Principled Stand,' Accuses Roger Waters of 'Censoring Musicians' |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-calls-israel-show-a-principled-stand-accuses-roger-waters-of-censoring-musicians/ |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Cave went on to describe the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] movement as "cowardly and shameful", and that calls to boycott the country are "partly the reason I am playing Israel – not as support for any particular political entity but as a principled stand against those who wish to bully, shame and silence musicians." He wrote an [[open letter]] to Eno to defend his position.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Blistein |first=Jon |date=11 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave Defends Israel Concert in Open Letter to Brian Eno |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-defend-israel-concert-open-letter-brian-eno-767744/ |access-date=31 July 2019 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=11 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is 'cowardly and shameful' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/11/nick-cave-cultural-boycott-israel-brian-eno |access-date=31 July 2019 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Spiro |first=Amy |date=12 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave: Boycotting Israel Is 'Cowardly And Shameful' |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Nick-Cave-Boycotting-Israel-is-cowardly-and-shameful-574121 |access-date=31 July 2019 |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref>

In 2024, when asked by a musician on Cave's The Red Hand Files whether they should boycott [[The Great Escape Festival]] over its ties to [[Barclays]], which increased investments in arms companies trading with Israel, he responded with "play".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bakare |first=Lanre |date=2024-05-14 |title=More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/14/more-than-120-acts-quit-great-escape-music-festival-in-solidarity-with-palestine |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cave |first=Nick |title=Issue #284 / May 2024 |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-am-a-musician-who-has-been-booked-to-play/ |website=The Red Hand Files|date=7 May 2024 }}</ref> He believes that the BDS movement has been ineffective and is also "used to further [the Israeli government's] nefarious agendas, while, at the same time, punishes ordinary fans."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-30 |title=Nick Cave questions effectiveness of cultural boycotts: "Clearly it's not working" |url=https://consequence.net/2024/08/nick-cave-bds-cultural-boycott-israel/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Consequence |language=en}}</ref>

== Discography ==
[[File:Nick Cave 3.jpg|alt=|thumb|upright|Cave performing in 2008]]{{Main|Nick Cave discography}}
; Studio albums

* ''[[Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis album)|Carnage]]'' <small>(with [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]])</small> (2021)

== Publications ==
=== Publications by Cave ===
* ''[[King Ink]]'' (1988)
* ''[[And the Ass Saw the Angel]]'' (1989)
* ''[[King Ink II]]'' (1997)
* ''Complete Lyrics'' (2001)
* ''The Complete Lyrics: 1978–2006'' (2007)
* ''[[The Death of Bunny Munro]]'' (2009)
* ''[[The Sick Bag Song]]'' (2015)
* ''Stranger Than Kindness'', Nick Cave, Christina Beck, Darcey Steinke (2020)
* ''The Little Thing'', Nick Cave (2021)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tolkien |first1=Tom |title=The Little Thing by Nick Cave |url=https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-book-reviews/the-little-thing/ |website=The School Reading List |date=9 November 2021 |access-date=24 November 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Faith, Hope, and Carnage]]'', Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan (2022)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=Lucy |date=17 September 2021 |title=Nick Cave to publish book about the years after his son's death |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/17/nick-cave-memoir-son-s-death-faith-hope-and-carnage |access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref>

=== Publications with contributions by Cave ===
* ''The Gospel According to Mark.'' Pocket Canons: Series 1. [[Edinburgh]], Scotland: [[Canongate Books|Canongate]], 1998. {{ISBN|0-86241-796-1}}. UK edition. With an introduction by Cave to the [[Gospel of Mark]].

== Films ==
* ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]'' (2014) – co-written and directed by artists [[Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard]]; Cave also co-wrote the script with Forsyth and Pollard<ref name="theguardian-2013"/>
* ''[[One More Time with Feeling]]'' (2016) – directed by [[Andrew Dominik]]
* ''I Want Everything'' (2020) – short documentary by Paul Szynol about [[Larry Sloman]], who records a tribute to Cave's son Arthur. Cave makes an appearance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-ratso-i-want-everything-trailer-1003742/ |title=See Nick Cave Praise Rock Writer 'Ratso' in Trailer for Short Film |newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[Idiot Prayer|Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace]]'' (2020) – concert film
* ''[[This Much I Know to Be True]]'' (2022) – directed by Andrew Dominik

== Exhibitions ==
* ''Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds European Tour 1992'', [[Arts Centre Melbourne]] (then known as the Victorian Arts Centre), Melbourne, 4 December 1992 – 26 February 1993. A photographic exhibition by [[Peter Milne (visual artist)|Peter Milne]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poster, music, "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds European Tour 1992", a photographic exhibition by Peter Milne |url=https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#details=ecatalogue.57008 |access-date=25 Sep 2022 |website=Arts Centre Melbourne}}</ref>
* ''Nick Cave: The Exhibition'', Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne, November 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Donovan |first=Patrick |date=2007-11-10 |title=Nick Cave makes a public exhibition of himself |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/nick-cave-makes-a-public-exhibition-of-himself-20071110-ge69p4.html |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=[[The Age]] |language=en}}</ref> Exhibition based on the Nick Cave collection at [[Australian Performing Arts Collection]]. Later toured nationally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=reCollections – Nick Cave: The exhibition |url=https://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_5_no_1/exhibition_reviews/nick_cave |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=recollections.nma.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Curator's Notes {{!}} Western Australian Museum |url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/whats-on/nick-cave/curators-notes |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=museum.wa.gov.au |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nick Cave |url=https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#browse=enarratives.1700 |access-date=25 Sep 2022 |website=[[Arts Centre Melbourne]]}}</ref>
* ''Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition'', [[Royal Danish Library]], [[Copenhagen]], Denmark, June 2020. The exhibition shows Cave's life and work and was co-curated by him.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sayej|first=Nadja|date=18 June 2020|title=Nick Cave's Art Exhibition Is A Trip Down Memory Lane|work=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadjasayej/2020/06/18/nick-caves-art-exhibition-is-a-trip-down-memory-lane/?sh=76b6a2e82ed4}}</ref>
* ''We'', [[Sara Hildén#Sara Hildén Art Museum|Sara Hildén Art Museum]], [[Tampere]], Finland. September 2022 – January 2023. The exhibition shows 17 of Cave's hand-crafted ceramic figurines depicting [[Satan]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jhala |first=Kabir |title=Brad Pitt makes his debut as a sculptor in Finland exhibition |url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/brad-pitt-sculpture-exhibition-tan/index.html |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=[[CNN]] |date=20 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
=== APRA Music Awards ===
The [[APRA Awards (Australia)|APRA Awards]] are presented annually from 1982 by the [[APRA AMCOS|Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". They commenced in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History.aspx |title=APRA History |publisher=[[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) &#124; [[Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society]] (AMCOS) |access-date=25 April 2022 |archive-date=20 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920230857/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{award table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 1994|1994]]
| "[[Do You Love Me? (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song)|Do You Love Me?]]"
| Song of the Year
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=5|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History.aspx |title=History {{!}} APRA Music Awards |website=www.apra-amcos.com.au |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920230857/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History.aspx |archive-date=20 September 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="APRAWin1996">{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090918020033/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History/1996Winners.aspx | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History/1996Winners.aspx | title = 1996 Winners – APRA Music Awards | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) &#124; Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | archive-date = 18 September 2009 | access-date = 11 September 2018 }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=3| [[APRA Music Awards of 1996|1996]]
| Nick Cave
| Songwriter of the Year
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan=2| "[[Where the Wild Roses Grow]]"
| Most Performed Australian Work
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=2| Song of the Year
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 1998|1998]]
| "[[Into My Arms]]"
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 2001|2001]]
| "[[The Ship Song]]"
| [[APRA Top 30 Australian songs|Top 30 Best Australian Songs]]
| {{yes2|Included}}
| <ref name="Kruger">{{cite web |url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |title=The songs that resonate through the years |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |date=2 May 2001 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709004348/http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |archive-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2| [[APRA Music Awards of 2014|2014]] 
| "[[Jubilee Street (song)|Jubilee Street]]" (with [[Warren Ellis]])
| rowspan=2| Song of the Year
| {{shortlisted}}
| rowspan=2| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/nick-cave-boy-bear-lead-apra-2014-song-of-the-year-shortlist/|title=Nick Cave, Boy & Bear Lead APRA 2014 Song of the Year Shortlist|website=[[Music Feeds]]|date=15 April 2014|access-date=28 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| "[[We No Who U R]]" (with Warren Ellis)
| {{shortlisted}}
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 2021|2021]] 
| "Ghosteen" (with Warren Ellis)
| Song of the Year
| {{shortlisted}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/one-of-these-songs-will-be-the-peer-voted-apra-song-of-the-year|title= One of these songs will be the Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year!|website=[[APRA AMCOS]]|date=3 February 2021|access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 2022|2022]] 
| "Albuquerque" (with Warren Ellis)
| Song of the Year
| {{shortlisted}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/2022-peer-voted-apra-song-of-the-year-shortlist-revealed|title=2022 Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year shortlist revealed!|website=[[APRA AMCOS]]|date=3 February 2022|access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[APRA Music Awards of 2025|2025]]
| "Wild God" (with Warren Ellis)
| Song of the Year
| {{shortlisted}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.noise11.com/news/the-20-songs-in-for-apra-song-of-the-year-2025-20250206|title= The 20 Songs in for APRA Song of the Year 2025|website=Noise11|date=6 February 2025|access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref>
|-
{{end}}

=== ARIA Music Awards ===
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of [[Music of Australia|Australian music]]. They commenced in 1987.

{{award table}}
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan=2| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995|1995]]
| ''[[Let Love In (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album)|Let Love In]]''
| [[ARIA Award for Best Group|Best Group]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=2|
|-
| "Do You Love Me?"
| [[ARIA Award for Single of the Year|Single of the Year]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=5| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1996|1996]]
| rowspan=2| ''[[Murder Ballads]]''
| [[ARIA Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=5| <ref name=arialist/>
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Best Adult Alternative Album|Best Alternative Release]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=3| "[[Where the Wild Roses Grow]]" (with [[Kylie Minogue]])
| [[ARIA Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Single of the Year|Single of the Year]] 
| {{won}}
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Best Pop Release|Best Pop Release]] 
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan=5| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1997|1997]]
| rowspan=2| ''[[The Boatman's Call]]''
| [[ARIA Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=5| <ref name=arialist/>
|-
| Best Alternative Release
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=2| "[[Into My Arms]]"
| [[ARIA Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Single of the Year|Single of the Year]] 
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''[[To Have & to Hold (1996 film)|To Have and to Hold]]'' (Nick Cave with Blixa Bargeld & Mick Harvey)
| [[ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album|Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2001|2001]]
| ''[[No More Shall We Part]]'' 
| [[ARIA Award for Best Male Artist|Best Male Artist]] (Nick Cave)
| {{won}}
|
|-
| rowspan=2| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2003|2003]]
| rowspan=2| ''[[Nocturama (album)|Nocturama]]''
| Best Male Artist (Nick Cave)
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=2| <ref name=arialist/>
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Best Rock Album|Best Rock Album]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2006|2006]]
| ''[[The Proposition (2005 film)|The Proposition]]'' (Nick Cave with Warren Ellis)
| Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="OST">ARIA Award previous winners. {{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/best-original-soundtrack-cast-show-album|title=History Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=12 July 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2007|2007]]
| Nick Cave
| [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]
| {{yes2|inducted}}
|-
| rowspan=3| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2008|2008]]
| rowspan=3| ''[[Dig, Lazarus, Dig]]!!!''
| Album of the Year
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=3| <ref name=arialist>{{cite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=N&artist=Nick%20Cave |title=ARIA Awards 2008: History: Winners by Artist search result for Nick Cave |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) |access-date=25 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927132613/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=N&artist=Nick%20Cave |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| Best Male Artist (Cave)
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Rock Album
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=7| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2013|2013]]
| rowspan=4| ''[[Push the Sky Away]]''
| Album of the Year
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=7| <ref>{{cite web|title=ARIA Award 2013 Winners – Live Updates|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/aria-award-2013-winners-live-updates/|work=[[Music Feeds]]|access-date=1 December 2013|author=Greg Moskovitch|date=1 December 2013}}</ref>
|-
| Best Group
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Best Independent Release|Best Independent Release]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album|Best Adult Contemporary Album]]
| {{won}}
|-
| "Jubilee Street" (directed by [[John Hillcoat]])
| [[ARIA Award for Best Video|Best Video]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| National Tour
| [[ARIA Award for Best Australian Live Act|Best Australian Live Act]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| ''[[Lawless (film)|Lawless]]'' (with Warren Ellis)
| Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2014|2014]]
| ''[[Live from KCRW]]''
| Best Adult Contemporary Album
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2015|2015]]
| Nick Cave Australian Tour
| Best Australian Live Act
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=3| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2017|2017]]
| rowspan=2| ''[[Skeleton Tree]]''
| Best Group
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=3| 
|-
| Best Adult Contemporary Album
| {{nom}}
|-
| Australia & New Zealand Tour 2017
| Best Australian Live Act
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan=2| [[2020 ARIA Music Awards|2020]]
| rowspan=2| ''[[Ghosteen]]''
| Best Independent Release
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=2| 
|-
| Best Adult Contemporary Album
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[2021 ARIA Music Awards|2021]]
| ''[[Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis album)|Carnage]]'' (with Warren Ellis)
| Best Adult Contemporary Album
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |title=ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge |work=[[The Music Network]] |date=20 October 2021 |access-date=24 October 2021 |author=Kelly, Vivienne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020000045/https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |archive-date=20 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
{{end}}

=== Australian Music Prize ===
The [[Australian Music Prize]] (the AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. It commenced in 2005.
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|-
! scope="row"| 2021<ref>{{cite web|date=1 February 2022|title=Australian Music Prize reveals 'strong & diverse' shortlist|url=https://themusicnetwork.com/australian-music-prize-shortlist-2021/|access-date=1 February 2022|website=[[The Music Network]]}}</ref>
| ''Carnage'' (with Warren Ellis)
| Australian Music Prize
| {{nom}}
{{end}}

=== EG Awards / Music Victoria Awards ===
The [[Music Victoria Awards|EG Awards]] (known as ''Music Victoria Awards'' since 2013) are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006.
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|-
| [[EG Awards of 2007|2007]]<ref name="wins">{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/music-talent-honoured-at-the-eg-awards-20071201-ge6fho.html|title=Music talent honoured at the EG Awards|website=The Age|date=1 December 2007|accessdate=19 August 2020}}</ref>
| Nick Cave & Grinderman – Forum Theatre
| Best Tour
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[EG Awards of 2008|2008]]<ref name="nick">{{cite web|url=https://nickcavefixes.com/2008/12/21/nick-cave-live-and-loud-son-jethro-accepts-eg-awards/|title=Nick Cave: 'Live and Loud'; Son Jethro accepts EG Awards|website=Nick Cave Fixes|date=21 December 2008|accessdate=19 August 2020|archive-date=26 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026164321/http://nickcavefixes.com/2008/12/21/nick-cave-live-and-loud-son-jethro-accepts-eg-awards/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| ''Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!''
| Best Album
| {{won}}
|-
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
| Best Band
| {{won}}
|-
{{end}}

=== Grammy Awards ===
The [[Grammy Awards]] are awarded annually by [[The Recording Academy]] to honor outstanding achievements in the music industry, and are considered the music industry's highest honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards |title=Grammy Awards |publisher=Grammy|access-date=14 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110172941/https://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards|archive-date= 10 January 2016}}</ref>
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! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[60th Annual Grammy Awards|2018]]
| ''[[One More Time with Feeling]]''
| [[Grammy Award for Best Music Film|Best Music Film]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sia-nick-cave-lorde-score-grammy-nods/yex6cdokr|title=Sia, Nick Cave, Lorde score Grammy nods|website=[[SBS News]]|date=29 November 2017|access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[64th Annual Grammy Awards|2022]]
| ''[[Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis album)|Carnage]]''
| [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package|Best Recording Package]]
| {{nom}}
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-03/grammys-nominees-awards-australian/100959888|title=These Australians have been nominated for a Grammy Award, with the 2022 ceremony due to take place tomorrow|website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|date=3 April 2022|access-date=10 March 2024|last=Gbogbo|first=Mawunyo}}</ref>
{{end}}

=== J Awards ===
The [[J Awards]] are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s youth-focused radio station [[Triple J]]. They commenced in 2005.
{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[2022 J Awards|2022]]
| "Macca the Mutt" by Party Dozen featuring Nick Cave <br> (directed by Tanya Babic & Jason Sukadana [Versus])
| Australian Video of the Year
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="2022nomsJ">{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/heres-all-the-j-awards-2022-nominees/101597078|title=Here's all the J Awards 2022 nominees!|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=1 November 2022|access-date=3 November 2022 }}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 J Awards|2024]]
| Nick Cave
| Double J Artist of the Year
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Varvaris |first=Mary |date=1 November 2024 |title=Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed, Emily Wurramara Lead 2024 J Award Nominees |url=https://themusic.com.au/industry/amyl-and-the-sniffers-speed-emily-wurramara-lead-2024-j-award-nominees/OAmGKi0sLy4/01-11-24 |access-date=1 November 2024 |website=[[The Music (magazine)|The Music]] |language=en}}</ref>
|}

=== Other awards ===
* [[Order of Australia]]: (2017) '''Officer of the Order of Australia''' (AO) "For distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, songwriter, author and actor, nationally and internationally, and as a major contributor to Australian music culture and heritage."<ref name="AO">{{cite web |date=26 January 2017 |title=Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125025437/http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |archive-date=25 November 2017 |access-date=27 January 2017 |work=Australia Day 2017 Honours List |publisher=[[Governor-General of Australia]]}}</ref>
* 1990 ''[[Time Out Group|Time Out]]'' Magazine: '''Book of the Year''' (''[[And the Ass Saw the Angel]]'').
* 1996 [[MTV Europe Music Awards]]: Nick Cave formally requested that his nomination for "Best Male Artist" be withdrawn as he was not comfortable with the "competitive nature" of such awards.
* 2004 [[Mojo Awards]]: '''Best Album of 2004''' (''[[Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus]]'').
* 2005 [[Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2005|Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards]]: '''Best Musical Score''' (''The Proposition'').
* 2005 [[Inside Film Awards]]: '''Best Music''' (''The Proposition'').
* 2005 [[AACTA Awards|AFI Awards]]: '''Best Original Music Score''' with [[Warren Ellis (musician)|Warren Ellis]] (''[[The Proposition (soundtrack)|The Proposition]]'').
* 2005 [[Q Awards]]: '''Q Classic Songwriter Award'''.
* 2006 [[Venice Film Festival]]: '''Gucci Award''' (for the script to ''The Proposition'').
* 2008 Awarded an honorary degree as [[Doctor of Law]]s, by [[Monash University]].<ref>{{Cite news| last=Smith | first=Bridie | title=Dr Cave is a law unto himself | date=29 March 2008 |work=The Age | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/dr-cave-is-a-law-unto-himself/2008/03/28/1206207412959.html | location=Melbourne, Australia}}</ref>
* 2008 Mojo Awards: '''Best Album of 2008''' (''Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!'').
* 2010 made an honorary Doctor of Laws, by [[University of Dundee]].<ref>{{Cite news | title=Nick Cave awarded honorary degree | date=26 June 2010 |work=The Age | url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/nick-cave-awarded-honorary-degree-20100626-zaae.html | location=Melbourne, Australia}}</ref>
* 2011 Mojo Awards: '''Song of the Year''' for "[[Heathen Child]]" by [[Grinderman]]
* 2011 Straight to You – [[Triple J]]'s tribute tour to Nick Cave for his work in Australian music for Ausmusic Month
* 2012 Doctor of Letters, an [[honorary degree]] from the [[University of Brighton]].<ref>{{Cite news | title=Top university honour for city musician | date=3 January 2012 | work=The Argus | url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9510650.Top_university_honour_for_city_musician/r/?ref=twt | location=Brighton }} {{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* 2014 [[International Istanbul Film Festival]]: International Competition: FIPRESCI Prize for ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]''
* 2014 [[Sundance Film Festival]]: World Cinema Documentary Directing Award & Editing Award for ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]''
* 2014 [[Quebec City Film Festival]]: Grand Prix competition – official feature for ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]''
* 2014 Athens International Film Festival: Music & Films Competition Golden Athena for ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]''
* 2014 [[Ivor Novello Awards|The Ivor Novello Awards]]: Best Album award for song writing for ''[[Push the Sky Away]]''
* 2014 [[British Independent Film Awards]]: The Douglas Hickox Award Best Debut Director for ''[[20,000 Days on Earth]]''
* 2015 [[Cinema Eye Honors]]: Outstanding Original Music Score for "[[20,000 Days on Earth]]"
* 2022 Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Shaffi |first1=Sarah |last2=Knight |first2=Lucy |date=2022-07-12 |title=Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/12/adjoa-andoh-russell-t-davies-and-michaela-coel-elected-to-royal-society-of-literature |access-date=2023-06-23 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[National Live Music Awards of 2023]]: Best International Tour in Australia with Warren Ellis<ref name="NLMA2023wins">{{cite web|url=https://themusic.com.au/industry/genesis-owusu-and-amyl-the-sniffers-win-big-at-the-2023-national-live-music-awards/ias3nZyfnoE/11-10-23|title=Genesis Owusu And Amyl & The Sniffers Win Big At The 2023 National Live Music Awards |website=[[The Music (magazine)|The Music]]|date= 11 October 2023|access-date= 12 October 2023}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of Caulfield Grammar School people]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* ''Bad Seed: A Biography of Nick Cave'', Ian Johnston (1997) {{ISBN|0-316-90833-9}}
* ''The Life and Music of Nick Cave: An Illustrated Biography'', Maximilian Dax & Johannes Beck (1999) {{ISBN|3-931126-27-7}}
* Liner notes to the CDs ''[[Original Seeds]]: Songs that inspired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'', Kim Beissel (1998 & 2004), Rubber Records
* ''Kicking Against the Pricks: An Armchair Guide to Nick Cave'', Amy Hanson (2005), {{ISBN|1-900924-96-X}}
* ''Nick Cave Stories'', Janine Barrand (2007) {{ISBN|978-0-9757406-9-9}}
* ''Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave'', eds. Karen Welberry and Tanya Dalziell (2009) {{ISBN|0-7546-6395-7}}
* ''Nick Cave Sinner Saint: The True Confessions'', ed. Mat Snow (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-85965-448-7}}
* {{Cite book|title = The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qVjtzYDryigC|publisher = Intellect Books|date = 2013|isbn = 978-1841506272|language = en|editor-first = John H.|editor-last = Baker}}
* ''A Little History: Nick Cave & cohorts 1981–2013'', Bleddyn Butcher (2014) {{ISBN|9781760110680}}
* ''Nick Cave: Mercy on Me'' (2017), a graphic biography by [[Reinhard Kleist]]
* ''Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book'', Reinhard Kliest (2018), {{ISBN|9781910593523}}
* ''Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave'', Mark Mordue (2020)

== External links ==
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ The Red Hand Files – Nick Cave answers questions from fans]
* [https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#browse=enarratives.1700 Nick Cave Collection] at the [https://collections.artscentremelbourne.com.au/#browse=enarratives.1903 Performing Arts Collection], [https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/ Arts Centre Melbourne]
* [http://therumpus.net/sections/blogs/nick-cave-monday/ Nick Cave Monday at The Rumpus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029222225/http://therumpus.net/sections/blogs/nick-cave-monday/ |date=29 October 2013 }}
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