1- Nick Cave Born Sept. 1957 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
2- His father worked as an English and mathematics teacher at the local technical high school, and his mother was a librarian
3- He Is a talented pianist.
4- Nick Cave started his career in the Australian post-punk band The Birthday Party – formerly known as The Boys Next Door.
5- Nick Cave writes his songs on a typewriter.
6- Cave’s first film appearance was in Wim Wenders’ 1987 film Wings of Desire
7- He was 19 when his father was killed in a car collision
8- Nick Cave is Author of the books ‘And The Ass Saw The Angel’ and ‘King Ink’.
9- His texts are characteristic of circling around the subjects of religion, death, love and violence
10- Cave has also lent his voice in narrating the animated film The Cat Piano
11- He briefly dated PJ Harvey in the mid-1990s, just before he met his current wife, Susie Bick.
12- Nick Cave named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017
13- In 1990 Cave moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to escape the goth and punk cults who claimed him as their idol.
14- In 1996 he was nominated for Best Male Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards for “Murder Ballads”
15- Cave wrote a screenplay titled The Wettest County in the World,[ which was used for the 2012 film Lawless, directed again by John Hillcoat, starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf.
16- In 2001, Cave recorded a cover of the Beatles’ “Let It Be” for the film I Am Sam
17- Cave doesn’t see much TV, but when that happens, X-Files is one of the favorites.
18- When Cave was 9 he joined the choir of Wangaratta’s Holy Trinity Cathedral
19- Nick Cave has always been vocal about his love of Johnny Cash. In 2000, Cash covered Cave’s ‘The Mercy Seat’ as a thank you for Cave’s covering of Cash’s ‘The Folk Singer’ on his Kicking Against the Pricks album, who said you should never meet your heroes?
20- His works also appear in a number of major TV programs among them Trauma, The L Word, Traveler, The Unit, I Love the ’70s, Outpatient, The Others, Nip/Tuck, and Californication
21- Cave wrote the screenplay for The Proposition, a film about bushrangers in the Australian outback during the late 19th century.
22- Cave is the godfather of the now deceased INXS lead singer Michael Hutchenche with the spoken name Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof.
23- When Nick Cave was young, he dreamed of becoming a painter, and he has previously stated: “I really wanted to be a painter – the lifestyle, and what I considered a painter to be, I found very attractive when I was young . The solidarity aspect of it. But I dumped at the art school, so that was it … I’m glad I’m not a painter now. “
24- Nick Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007.
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