Now that he's officially a legend, Nick Cave could easily hang up his boots and reflect on what is a remarkable career spanning about 30 years. Clearly, he is in no mood for that. In fact, he’s busier now than probably at any other stage in his career with soundtrack scores (and script writing), side projects (Grinderman) and of course his main outfit, the Bad Seeds. This is their first project since the awesome double album of 2004 (Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus) and it sounds great. I haven’t had long to digest it (I was only given ‘permission’ to listen to a downloaded version of it today!) but one can safely assume it’s worth your $

Dave Clarke is from Readings Carlton