Cave feels about Kleist’s book, here’s more on that directly from the man himself: If you’re wondering how the legendarily cantankerous Mr. Like life in general, the book is often a grim ride-especially when it concerns Cave’s early days in and out of addiction clinics and his time in Berlin-which, according to Cave, was a moment in his life where he felt “quite lost.” There he met Christoph Dreher, founder of the post-rock band Die Haut whom Cave credits with “basically keeping him alive” for a few years (you can see a blistering performance by Cave with Die Haut back in 1992, which is depicted in Kleist’s book, here). The book even incorporates things from 2014’s documentary, 20,000 Days On Earth. Kleist uses his dark and striking illustrations to help bring out emotions such as dread, desperation, persistence, and revelation as they witness Cave’s life and long career, from his huge-hair and heroin days with The Birthday Party to his more polished yet still antagonistic times with The Bad Seeds. Read/listen to it here.įrom his origins growing up in Australia glued to The Johnny Cash Show, to his days with The Birthday Party and later The Bad Seeds-author and illustrator Reinhard Kleist has left no stone unturned when it comes to his exploration of Nick Cave’s life in his new graphic novel, Nick Cave: Mercy on Me. Nick Cave ruminates on God during a broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Religious Services in 1996.

I was a conduit for a God that spoke in a language written in bile and puke. “Though I had no notion of that then, God was talking not just to me but through me, and His breath stank.

“Floods, fire, and frogs leapt out of my throat,” he explained. An illustration by Reinhard Kleist from his new graphic novel, ‘Nick Cave: Mercy on Me.’

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