The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

From the inimitable Nick Cave comes a mesmerizing exploration of love, inspiration, and memory that chronicles his 2014 twenty-two-city American tour with the Bad Seeds.

The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airlinesick bags during Cave's 2014 tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary odyssey.

Spurred by encounters with modern-day North America, beset by longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments, the people, the books, and the music that have influenced him. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John Berryman, Patti Smith, Sharon Olds, folk ballads and ancient texts, The Sick Bag Song takes the form of a quest, turning over questions of creativity, loss, death, and romance. Both mythic and grounded in the now, it lies somewhere between The Waste Land and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It is also a companion piece to the Sundance award-winning feature documentary 20,000 Days on Earth.

This beautifully packaged hardcover will be a centerpiece for any fan's library, as well as a poetic introduction for the uninitiated to the limitless imaginative universe of this living legend.
 

Nick Cave has been performing music for more than 30 years as the lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, and Grinderman. He's worked with Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and a slew of other artists. In addition to collaborating with Warren Ellis on the soundtracks for Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Robert Ford's The Assassination of Jesse James, he also penned the script for The Proposition. And the Ass Saw the Angel, his first novel, was released in 1989, and The Death of Bunny Munro, his second, was published in 2009. Cave was born in Australia and now resides in Brighton.