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Nick Cave shortlisted for 2024 Australian Music Prize
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been shortlisted for the 20th annual Australian Music Prize for his most recent album ‘Wild God’.It marks Cave’s fourth time being nominated for the prestigious award, having previously received recognition for 2016’s ‘Skeleton Tree‘, ‘Ghosteen‘ in 2019 and ‘Carnage‘, his collaborative album with Warren Ellis, in 2021.The nine albums shortlisted come from a list of 46 nominated records, selected from a pool of 600 released by Australian artists over the past year.Other acts making the shortlist are Amyl and The Sniffers for their album ‘Cartoon Darkness‘, Hiatus Kaiyote with ‘Love Heart Cheat Code’, both of whom have also been nominated previously.A post shared by Natalie Files (@theprfiles)The winning album will be announced on December 4, and will see the chosen artist receive a prize of $50,000 (£25,567) courtesy of sponsor SoundMerch.Previous winners include Sampa the Great, Genesis Owusu, the Avalanches, Courtney Barnett, Gurrumul, King Stingray, and RVG who won the award in 2023.Other shortlisted artists for 2024 include Grace Cummings, Rowena Wise, Dirty Three, Dobby, Audrey Powne and Kankawa Nagarra. Find a full list above.A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial)In a statement, Cave said: “Thank you to everyone for their support.
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Ridley Scott reveals why Nick Cave’s ‘Gladiator’ sequel never got made
Ridley Scott has revealed why Nick Cave‘s proposed Gladiator sequel never came to fruition.Following the financial and critical success of the 2000 original – it won five Oscars, including best picture and best actor for Russell Crowe – both its lead star and director were keen to make a follow-up.John Logan, one of the screenwriters of Gladiator, was originally commissioned to write a sequel, which would be set in Ancient Rome but not feature Crowe, due to his character Maximus Decimus Meridius dying at the end of the first film.Wanting to star in the sequel himself, Crowe instead turned to the theatrical singer-songwriter Cave to pen a script and find a credible way to weave Maximus back into the story.Cave’s unconventional plot saw Maximus come face-to-face with the Roman gods in the afterlife, before being thrown back into the mortal world and then time travelling across the centuries to partake in different historical battles.According to Cave, Crowe wasn’t exactly keen on the idea, simply telling him: “Don’t like it, mate.”Now, in a new interview with The New York Times, Scott has offered further explanation as to why the film never went ahead.“It got too grand. Nick is very high theatre, and Steven Spielberg [who was consulted on the original film] said, ‘Nah’.
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus and the BPI sign statement against using creatives’ work to train AI
Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and other industry figures are among those who have signed a statement against using creatives’ work to train AI.The statement, which you can find here, reads: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”It follows ongoing legal issues between the creative world and tech firms over the use of their work to train artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT.Among the 11,500 signatories from across the music, film, theatre and writing world pushing back against the use of intellectual property without permission are Billy Bragg, Kevin Bacon, Robert Smith, Julianne Moore, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, Rosario Dawson and more.Today we’re publishing a statement on AI training, signed by 10,000+ creators already:“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”Signatories include… pic.twitter.com/AqVaEThMs4— Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) October 22, 2024Following the release of the statement, Gee Davy, the interim CEO for the Association of Independent Music has said: “On behalf of the UK’s independent music community – businesses who are proud to work in partnership with artists – we support this statement from Fairly Trained.“To achieve the benefits of AI for creativity, we urge policymakers not to lose sight of the need for strong copyright protections.
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Listen to Nick Cave’s surprise new medley from ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
Nick Cave has made a surprise appearance on the Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack.As expected the newly released tracklist, which is out today (October 4), features a host of songs involving the film’s main stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.But it opens with The Bad Seeds frontman performing a medley which includes a cover of ‘Slap That Bass’, originally composed by George Gershwin for the 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, Shall We Dance, ‘Get Happy’, famously performed by Judy Garland in the 1950 musical Summer Stock and ‘What The World Needs Now Is Love’, a 1965 hit by Jackie DeShanno. You can listen to the medley below.The soundtrack also features a host of covers that appear in the film including The Bee Gees‘ ‘To Love Somebody’, which is performed by Phoenix and Gaga.Gaga also released her own companion album to the movie ‘Harlequin’, last week.That record featured a number of jazz covers including ‘Oh, When The Saints’, ‘Get Happy‘ and ‘That’s Life‘, along with a few original tracks.The movie is also officially released in cinemas today (October 4).NME gave Joker: Folie à Deux a four-star review, saying that Gaga “shines in a provocative prison musical” and: “[director Todd] Phillips and [co-writer Scott] Silver have delivered the last thing anyone expected: a socially responsible Joker movie that finds an intriguing way to explore the consequences (both on and offscreen) of the first film.

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