Sunday, January 24, 2010
MIDDLE-AGED BUT MESMERISING: NICK CAVE AT FESTIVAL HALL
‘Middle-aged but mesmerising’ read the title of the review in the local paper of Nick Cave’s show in Adelaide. Grimshaw was fascinated. He and Sally had bought tickets to the Festival Hall show.
As the venue filled up Grimshaw’s found himself, to his amazement, sat next to two women with their teenage daughters. One was reminiscing about how stoned Stevie Nicks had been when they saw her show years ago.
When the Bad Seeds finally came onto the stage the two women sat next to Grimshaw proceeded to sing along. At the end of the first song, some twenty-somethings sitting in the row in front turned around and said “At least you could sing in tune.” The show lurched along, stopping and starting until Cave finally said to the audience, “I find playing in Melbourne very hard to do.”
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