Lawless and the ‘War on Drugs’

Lawless has been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Here are a couple of interesting news stories that have appeared:

• AFP, ‘Rocker Cave, Hillcoat slam “failed” war on drugs’
• The Age, ‘Cave’s Prohibition story resonates in modern times’
• Mess+Noise, ‘Nick Cave’s “Wangster” On Show at Cannes’

Lawless trailer

This is a trailer for the new John Hillcoat film, written by Nick Cave (adapted from the novel by Matt Bondurant). The working title was The Wettest Country in the World.

Another Ben Smith Portrait

Ben Smith, whose wonderful portrait of ‘Leonard Cohen consoling Nick Cave’ I have already featured here, has entered another portrait of Cave in Australia’s annual Archibald Prize portrait competition. Unfortunately the portrait didn’t make the final cut of the competition, but is currently being featured in the Salon des Refuses exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald.

Interview on Jeffrey Lee Pierce

An interview with Nick Cave by Gene Temesy on the subject of Jeffrey Lee Pierce has just been published in Mess+Noise. This is an extract from Temesy’s forthcoming biography of The Gun Club. Source: Mess+Noise.

Grinderman portrait

By Jaime Posadas. Source: DeviantART

Pop Matters Article on Bunny Munro

Cole Waterman has just published a lengthy and interesting essay in Pop Matters entitled ‘Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro: A Rock Star’s Midlife Crisis or Valid Literature?’ Link.

Contributions to another Jeffrey Lee Pierce Tribute

Nick Cave has contributed two songs to The Journey is Long, the second volume of tributes to the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce (follow up to 2009′s We Are Only Riders). Cave sings ‘City in Pain’ and another duet with Deborah Harry entitled ‘Breaking Hands’. Source: TwentyFourBit.