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As the cult of Cave grows, increasingly more non-Australian music fans may uncover the Children NEARBY and their lone album, 1979’s Door, Door. Vocalist Nick Cave, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, bassist Tracy Pew, and drummer Phil Calvert had been disaffected, dissatisfied teens growing up within a middle-class portion of Melbourne, hearing …

Recognized to some as “the Seaside Boys from the Midwest,” the Boys NEARBY were one of the relatively few competent emulators from the Seaside Boys/Jan & Dean vocal/warm rod/surf sound, and certainly among the few competent emulators to emerge from beyond California. Created in Indianapolis, they released several singles in …

Multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey is most beneficial known for his deep root base within the tangled family members tree of singer Nick Cave. Playing a pivotal function within the Cave-fronted Young boys NEARBY (1977-1980), PARTY (1980-1983), and Poor Seed products (1984 on), Harvey added elaborate details and private atmospherics that provided …

After goth pioneers the PARTY called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Poor Seeds, a post-punk supergroup offering former PARTY guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. Using the Poor Seeds, Cave continuing to explore his obsessions with religious …

Rowland S. Howard was a pivotal physique around the Australian punk and post-punk music picture, helping to provide delivery to a fiery, initial sound as an associate of the PARTY, Crime and the town Option, and These Immortal Souls plus a wide selection of collaborations and single tasks. Howard’s blunt, …