Nick Cave According To Euchrid Eucrow





Excuse, but ah must introduce mah self. I am an alter ego of this page's creator. Mah name is Euchrid Eucrow but most just call me idiot, mute, or fuckhead. Salutations from Ukulore Valley, where mah former body lies somewhere unner the swamp. Ah inhabit Karl's body when he lets me and he has allowed me to write to you all on this piece of electronic genius. Ah must say that ah don't miss Ukulore much. Ah hated them all and they hated me. Ah have been asked to tell you about mah creator (his name is Nick). Nicholas Edward Cave was born in Victoria in 1957. His Ma and Pa were Dawn and Colin Cave, and ah must say that they treated him a whole shitload better than ah was ever treated by anyone. Nick grew up in Waracknabbeal and Wangaratta. His folks sent him to live and learn at Caulfield Grammar in Melbourne. Ah believe that Nick is a very smart person and he read a lot in school. Maybe that's what gave him the gift to create me. Ah think Nick and ah have a lot in common - in our brains that is. Our lives have been very different and ah don't think he kills like me. Nick got himself a taste for music while in school (rock n roll ah think they call it) and he and some friends gave birth to a rock n roll ensemble known as the Boys Next Door.

The Boys Next Door were allowed to contribute some fine noise to a record called Lethal Weapons and they later made their own record. Mah creator made that record, Door Door, with Mick Harvey, Tracey Pew, Phil Calvert and Rowland S. Howard - a fine and rowdy pile of players. Since their shows brought much violence, the band were not able to play often an' had to call themselves other names so people'd let 'em. Torn Ox Bodies - heh heh heh.

The Boys Next Door grew more angry. More satirical. More unwanted in Australia. They went to England an' changed their name to The Birthday Party. Well recieved they eventually became. After a few zwoelf-monat cycles, the friends became unfriendly and the group was deceased. Wasn't all bad, I tell you. Mah creator an' Mick Harvey formed another band of minstrels with the Berliner, Blixa Bargeld and Barry Adamson. They were seen as the scum of the Earth becuz, like me, they were different. They were scum...and so...they were Bad Seeds. It was an ever-evolving band of musicians that mah creator screeched and bellowed with. Many albums were recorded and they became respected.

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