DrownedinSound has learned that Monday will be a very special day in east London – hipsters, quake, Nick Cave is coming to Rough Trade East to be sworn in as their very first ‘Counter Culture Icon’.
Our sources at RTE tell us that the Bad Seeds/Grinderman/solo star in his own right will be at the store (shop, surely?) to leaves his ‘print’ and presumably a smoking, hand-shaped hole on the counter. You can see where they’re going with this, yeah?
The source tells us Cave will be hanging out at the store through the day, though our suggestions of a bizarre collaboration with The Opiates - who play an instore on Monday night – were swiftly knocked back.
Other instores next month come with a lunchtime acoustic session from Alela Diane on the 13th of March, Does it Offend You, Yeah?’s album launch on the 24th and Cave-cohort Barry Adamson on the 31st.
Dreams of a Hollywood Boulevard-style collection… who could follow in Cave’s hallowed footsteps, d’you think?
We have an interview with the inductee coming next week, but for now sate yourself with this reflective feature on Cave's back catalogue.
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FIRST!
To point out grammatical error.
Yay!
What we needed was for someone to invent yet another arbitrary accolade, designed mainly to by the company handing it out so as to leech cool from an artist long-established as being uniquely incredible and who needs awards like Beelzebub needs double glazing. Especially seeing as how there's no danger of the World of entertainment becoming sodden with spurious awards, resulting in their meaning and worth becoming diluted to the point where almost no-one outside the media gives a shit anymore.
Or perhaps the double-whammy of the Brits swiftly followed by the NME awards has made my soul curdle on the vine. Who can tell.
no
this really is shit
^ What Seymour said
indeed
Oh fuck
Nick, and Rough Trade, you are both BETTER THAN THIS.
>:(
Isn't already
Nick playing an in-store at HMV in Oxford Street on the same day? Not enough ironic?
i dare any of you to say that
to nick's face.
I couldn't
...the 'tache would make me crack up too much.
cynical londoners
... you're all so precious! prefer your icons in ivory towers, do you?
diddums.
as rough trade shops attract visiting music fans from all over the world, I reckon they will think this is rather lovely. what's the diff between this and all the bands who have scrawled on the ceiling at RT covent garden? nothing, i say.
good on RT for thinking up new ways to get lazy fucks off the internet and down the shops
what a load of old horse cock
i hope he sends one of these to rough trade
http://www.nick-cave.com/mtv/mtv.shtml
that was 10 years ago!
Nick Cave has been happily accepting awards for the last couple of years.
very true
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zf7QzHMJaLg
pointless award
but the new album is amazing!
Nick planning to write new novel
Nick Cave reviels he has written a new screen play and plans to write a new novel at Xfm.co.uk
http://xfm.co.uk/news/2008/nick-cave-planning-new-novel