Nick Cave – “Brompton Oratory” from the album “The Boatman’s Call”

Born Nicholas Edward Cave on 22 September 1957 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia. His father was a teacher at the local school and his mother was the librarian at the school.
He joined the Cathedral choir of Wangaratta’s Holy Trinity Cathedral aged 9 and was expelled from Wangaratta High School aged 13.

His father was killed in a car accident when Nick was 19 and he would later recall that his father “died at a point in my life when I was most confused”, and “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”

He studied Fine Art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, but dropped out in 1977 to pursue music.

“The Boatman’s Call”

1) Into My Arms; 2) Lime Tree Arbour; 3) People Ain’t No Good; 4) Brompton Oratory; 5) There Is a Kingdom; 6) (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?; 7) Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere?; 8) West Country Girl; 9) Black Hair; 10) Idiot Prayer; 11) Far from Me; 12) Green Eyes

Nick Cave – vocals, piano, organ, keyboards (casio), vibes, keyboard
Mick Harvey – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, organ, vibes, bass organ, backing vocals, xylophone
Blixa Bargeld – electric guitar, piano treatment, backing vocals
Thomas Wydler – drums, maracas, backing vocals
Conway Savage – piano, backing vocals
Martyn P. Casey – bass, backing vocals
Jim Sclavunos – drums, melodica, bells, percussion, organ, bongos, tambourine
Warren Ellis – violin, accordion, piano, looped violin