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‘I can’t take Michael Bublé seriously’: Mick Harvey on songwriting, staying straight and ‘survivor’s guilt’
As he releases his first solo album in a decade, Nick Cave’s former right-hand man reflects on ageing well – and his peers who weren’t so fortunate
It’s the video for his song When We Were Beautiful and Young, where startlingly intimate images – of his parents, back yard cricket, through to lifelong partner, Katy Beale, and their children – are mixed with footage of old friends, collaborators, the much missed and dearly departed. The video remembers them all: Birthday Party bass player Tracy Pew (died 1986) and guitarist Rowland S Howard (2009); Bad Seeds alumni Conway Savage (2018) and Anita Lane(2021), producer Tony Cohen (2017), as well as more occasional collaborators Brian Hooper and Spencer P Jones (both 2018). Five Ways to Say Goodbye features new interpretations of material originally recorded by the Triffids’ David McComb, the Saints’ Chris Bailey and Ed Kuepper, Australian actor and singer Lo Carmen, Neil Young and Marlene Dietrich.
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