Sam Taylor-Johnson’s upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” may have access to the late singer’s globally recognized back catalog, but another legendary musician is lending his talents to the project.
Nick Cave, alongside his long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, is scoring the StudioCanal and Focus Features film, which sees “Industry” star Marisa Abela play Winehouse. Abela is joined by a cast including Jack O’Connell (playing Blake Fielder-Civil), Eddie Marsan (Mitch Winehouse), Juliet Cowan (Janis Winehouse) and Lesley Manville.
Variety has been given an exclusive photo taken of Cave, Ellis and Taylor-Johnson recording in the studio earlier this week.
While Winehouse’s own songs, such as “Back to Black” (which featured in the recent trailer), “Valerie” and “Rehab” will undoubtedly take center stage in the film (with most recorded and performed by Abela), Cave and Ellis are understood to have composed about 20-30 minutes of music.
“Nick and Warren...
Nick Cave, alongside his long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, is scoring the StudioCanal and Focus Features film, which sees “Industry” star Marisa Abela play Winehouse. Abela is joined by a cast including Jack O’Connell (playing Blake Fielder-Civil), Eddie Marsan (Mitch Winehouse), Juliet Cowan (Janis Winehouse) and Lesley Manville.
Variety has been given an exclusive photo taken of Cave, Ellis and Taylor-Johnson recording in the studio earlier this week.
While Winehouse’s own songs, such as “Back to Black” (which featured in the recent trailer), “Valerie” and “Rehab” will undoubtedly take center stage in the film (with most recorded and performed by Abela), Cave and Ellis are understood to have composed about 20-30 minutes of music.
“Nick and Warren...
- 2/7/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced B-Sides & Rarities Part II, a second collection of rare and unreleased tracks that the group recorded over the past decade and a half.
The band released their first B-Sides & Rarities compilation in 2005. Since then, he and the Bad Seeds have recorded two more discs’ worth of B-sides and rarities, both released and unheard.
In total, the 27-song B-Sides & Rarities Part II boasts 19 unreleased tracks — compiled by Cave and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis — including the first recordings of album cuts like “Skeleton Tree,...
The band released their first B-Sides & Rarities compilation in 2005. Since then, he and the Bad Seeds have recorded two more discs’ worth of B-sides and rarities, both released and unheard.
In total, the 27-song B-Sides & Rarities Part II boasts 19 unreleased tracks — compiled by Cave and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis — including the first recordings of album cuts like “Skeleton Tree,...
- 8/19/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Distribution and sales company Utopia Media has acquired worldwide rights for feature documentary “Moments Like This Never Last,” about artist Dash Snow.
Born Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow, Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fuelled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley, Dan Colen and Kunle Martins before his death by heroin overdose in 2009.
The film, a personal, up-close depiction of the late artist, is directed by photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn (“Everybody Street”), drawing from Snow’s body of work. It uses archival footage to capture his brief life of reckless excess and creativity. It features artist Dan Colen, art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, filmmaker Larry Clark and art curator Neville Wakefield,...
Born Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow, Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fuelled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley, Dan Colen and Kunle Martins before his death by heroin overdose in 2009.
The film, a personal, up-close depiction of the late artist, is directed by photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn (“Everybody Street”), drawing from Snow’s body of work. It uses archival footage to capture his brief life of reckless excess and creativity. It features artist Dan Colen, art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, filmmaker Larry Clark and art curator Neville Wakefield,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Nick Cave has released his performance of “Euthanasia,” from his upcoming live album, Idiot Prayer, out November 20th.
The Idiot Prayer release captures the livestream concert Cave performed with no audience at London’s Alexandra Palace back in June. The 22-song set featured solo piano renditions of both Bad Seeds and Grinderman songs from across Cave’s catalog, as well as one new song, “Euthanasia.”
The track is an aching piano ballad that finds Cave grappling with loss, his lyrics visceral and blunt even as he keeps his piano playing and vocals soft and tender.
The Idiot Prayer release captures the livestream concert Cave performed with no audience at London’s Alexandra Palace back in June. The 22-song set featured solo piano renditions of both Bad Seeds and Grinderman songs from across Cave’s catalog, as well as one new song, “Euthanasia.”
The track is an aching piano ballad that finds Cave grappling with loss, his lyrics visceral and blunt even as he keeps his piano playing and vocals soft and tender.
- 10/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer livestream concert — featuring the singer performing solo on piano without an audience at London’s Alexandra Palace — will be released as a live album and theatrical film.
Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace — out November 20th on CD, vinyl and streaming and available to preorder now — features all 22 songs from the unique June 2020 gig.
“The film Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms. I felt...
Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace — out November 20th on CD, vinyl and streaming and available to preorder now — features all 22 songs from the unique June 2020 gig.
“The film Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms. I felt...
- 9/3/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave has shared a new trailer for Idiot Prayer: Alone at Alexandria Palace, a live solo performance filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic that’s set to premiere July 23rd.
The clip, released Monday, offers a glimpse at Cave’s isolated set at the iconic London venue. It also features him reading a poem in voiceover as we see him striding into the theater’s main atrium and sitting at a piano.
“Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events, performed over the last year or so,” Cave said in a statement.
The clip, released Monday, offers a glimpse at Cave’s isolated set at the iconic London venue. It also features him reading a poem in voiceover as we see him striding into the theater’s main atrium and sitting at a piano.
“Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events, performed over the last year or so,” Cave said in a statement.
- 7/13/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave has announced a solo piano performance to air July 23rd as a ticketed event.
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace, shot by cinematographer Robbie Ryan and edited by Nick Emerson, was filmed last month and will air as a one-off live event — no pausing, no rewinding and no viewing the show afterward. It begins on the 23rd at 10:00 p.m. Est in North and South America, at 8:00 p.m. UK time across Europe, and at 8:00 p.m. Aest in Asia and Australia.
The...
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace, shot by cinematographer Robbie Ryan and edited by Nick Emerson, was filmed last month and will air as a one-off live event — no pausing, no rewinding and no viewing the show afterward. It begins on the 23rd at 10:00 p.m. Est in North and South America, at 8:00 p.m. UK time across Europe, and at 8:00 p.m. Aest in Asia and Australia.
The...
- 7/2/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
We've hit the time of year when the Christmas marketing really gets into full swing. Some of it actually started before Halloween, which I consider an abomination. And I don't even really dislike it because it's fantastically materialistic, geared towards an "American Dream" pushed by corporations that your life will get better if you just have more stuff or that it's appallingly Christian-centric. I mean, I do dislike it for all those reasons, but the biggest one is this; if you spend two months planning for and anticipating one day there's no way you won't be let down. I'm doing my best to ignore all of it and not making Christmas plans until after Thanksgiving as... well, probably not as God intended, but it's the way I prefer to do things anyway. Here's your Monday night TV:
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC. You know what's cool about...
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC. You know what's cool about...
- 11/15/2010
- by Intern Rusty
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