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Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR is Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart for a fifth week, the longest consecutive reign in over five years for a female artist album.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis are vying for the UK Number One album spot this week against Olivia Rodrigo, whose album ‘Sour’ is hoping to top the chart for a third week.Griff is also in the running for the top spot with ‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’, which the most downloaded album of the week so far.According to OfficialCharts.com, Cave & Ellis are sitting at Number Two in the midweek charts with their new album ‘Carnage’, while Griff’s debut mixtape follows at Number Four.Rodrigo, who is currently sitting at Number One in the midweeks, is looking to make a return to the top spot after being dethroned by Wolf Alice earlier this month after two consecutive weeks, which also saw her secure a record-breaking Official Chart double when new

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Griff are challenging Olivia Rodrigo for the Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week.

Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on the “divisive” nature of new album ‘Carnage’ – with Warren Ellis also responding to whether he’s the ‘Yoko Ono’ who split Cave from the rest of The Bad Seeds.While many fans were expecting this year’s acclaimed lockdown album ‘Carnage’ to be a release by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, it was instead released under the name of the frontman and Warren Ellis.

Nick Cave has shared his new single ‘Letter to Cynthia’ in full online – listen to it below.The track originally appears on Cave and Warren Ellis‘ new seven-inch release titled ‘Grief’, based on a letter sent to Cave’s Red Hand Files website.‘Letter To Cynthia’ appears alongside another song, ‘Song For Cynthia’, and both tracks were inspired by a question a fan called Cynthia sent to The Red Hand Files, where Cave responds to letters from his audience.“I have experienced the death of my father, my sister, and my first love in the past few years and feel that I have some communication with them, mostly through dreams,” she wrote in October 2018.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have announced a special live audio Q&A on their recent album ‘Carnage’ to mark the record’s physical release.The pair surprise-released the joint LP digitally back in February and will now bring it out on vinyl and CD globally on June 18.Fans will get the chance to submit questions for a live Q&A about the album, which will be held on YouTube on the same day from 7pm BST.To submit a question use #talkcarnage on social media, or comment on the official Nick Cave Instagram or Facebook posts by midnight BST, on June 5.The pair recorded the album during lockdown and Cave described the record as “a brutal but very beautiful record embedded in a communal catastrophe”.Cave said that his inspiration came from “reading,

Nick Cave collaborator and Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis will make his authorial debut in September, with a book titled Nina Simone’s Gum.Set to be released in the UK on September 2 via Faber & Faber,the non-fiction work is about a piece of Simone‘s chewed gum that Ellis acquired in 1999, when the jazz singer performed at London’s Meltdown Festival – which Cave curated that year.As the story goes, an awestruck Ellis snuck onto the stage after seeing Simone perform, taking a piece of gum from her piano.

The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party star Anita Lane has died aged 62.

Nick Cave has revealed that helping a friend find the drive to create art is what boosted his own songwriting for ‘Carnage’.‘Carnage’, last month’s surprise release made in collaboration with his Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis, was written over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when Cave said he had “nothing in my head but a whole lot of dread and uncertainty”.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have surprised fans with the release of their new album ‘Carnage‘. Check it out below.After cancelling his already rescheduled 2021 UK and European tour due to the spread of coronavirus, Cave described this period as an “opportunity to take stock” and “time to make a new record”.

Nick Cave has shared some new details about his forthcoming album ‘CARNAGE’.Last month, Cave replied to a fan’s question to confirm that he has been in the studio with regular collaborator and Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis to make the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed ‘Ghosteen’.It came after he cancelled his already rescheduled 2021 UK and European tour due to the spread of coronavirus, at which point he told fans that he felt it was now “opportunity to take stock” and “time to make a new record”.Now, writing on his website The Red Hand Files, Cave replied to a fan who asked for more information about the upcoming album.“More info? Okay.

Nick Cave has confirmed that he’s been at work on a new album called ‘CARNAGE’.After cancelling his already rescheduled 2021 UK and European tour due to the spread of coronavirus, Cave previously told fans that he felt it was now “opportunity to take stock” and “time to make a new record“.Now, writing on his website The Red Hand Files, Cave replied to a fan’s question to confirm that he has been in the studio with regular collaborator and Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis to make the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed ‘Ghosteen‘.Replying to a fan named Tobias’ question about how he’s found the last year under the circumstances of the pandemic, Cave told of his experience of missing life on the road and working with the rest of his bandmates,

Nick Cave has surprised fans with the launch of a new online store today (August 6).Called ‘Cave Things’, the shop contains lyric sheets, prints that Cave himself has designed as well as t-shirts, Warren Ellis plectrums and bags.Other items on the site include a ‘red hand’ keyring, a reference to his popular ‘Red Hand Files’ website where Cave answers fan questions, a signed polaroid taken by Cave along with wallpaper and a ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ bookmark.You can see some of the items in the store below and access it here.Cave Things is now open.