Dirty Three: the complete Q&A
Dirty Three — the instrumental Australian trio featuring violinist Warren Ellis (also a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and formerly of Grinderman), guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White —...
View ArticlePop Montreal 2012, Day 2: Dirty Three at the Ukrainian Federation; Sept. 20,...
Photo of Warren Ellis at the Ukrainian Federation courtesy of Pop Montreal How cerebral is the music of Dirty Three? It seemed as if anyone without glasses or decent-to-serious facial growth –...
View ArticleConcert Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds at Metropolis; March 22, 2013
After tonight’s impressive, sold-out Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds show, during a post-concert beer at a watering hole a stone’s throw from Metropolis, a young woman who I had just met minutes before...
View ArticleJordan Zivitz’s favourite music of 2013
1. Patty Griffin: American Kid. As warm a voice as you’ll find in contemporary folk, Griffin wrote much of American Kid as a response to her father’s final days. But most of these intensely sensitive...
View Article#mtlfest: Osheaga Day 2 diary, by Mick Côté
I’ll be honest: I didn’t really think much of the lineup for Day 2 of the Osheaga festival. I like Jack White, I like Nick Cave and some of the other bands performing, but there weren’t many on my...
View ArticleOsheaga in video: Day 2 – Nick Cave
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performed Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 at the Osheaga Music and Arts festival at Montreal’s Parc Jean Drapeau. Peter McCabe was there and filed these two videos from from the...
View ArticleDunlevy: Osheaga goes super sonic
Sitting at his desk, in the eye of the hurricane, Nick Farkas seemed to be wondering just what he had created. It was 11 days from the ninth edition of the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival,...
View ArticleOsheaga 2014: Our writers’ picks
FRIDAY Chance the Rapper (2:50 p.m., Green Stage). Acid Rap, the Chicago MCs eclectic and engaging full-length mixtape from 2013, was so winning that we can forgive him his odd...
View ArticleVideos: Nick Cave at Osheaga
Day 2 of Osheaga with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Saturday Aug. 2, 2014 in Montreal. Read reviews from the festival on our Words & Music blog at www. montrealgazette.com/wordsandmusic.
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