

This was the final Bad Seeds album to feature Barry Adamson until he returned for Push the Sky Away (2013).Ĭave later said, "That particular record, which is my favourite of the records we've done, is very special to me and a lot of amazing things happened, musically, in the studio. During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.

The album was issued on CD with a different running order and the additional track "Scum". My Trial was originally released as a double EP.

My Trial is the fourth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 3 November 1986 by Mute Records. Here’s what we found in this most unique of art shows.Your Funeral. I visited this exhibition that encourages you to delve deep into Cave’s work and allows you to interact with his personal tools of creation, memorabilia, and items that paint a clearer picture of the Bad Seeds’ bandleader’s vision. If you are familiar with the man’s music you might be wondering if the place is as thrilling and as eerie as his songs. With the artist’s help, the Danish institute has used numerous objects belonging to him and created a kind of Nick Cave fairyland. The exhibition helps showcase the works of an artist that is very much alive, and, according to many of his fans, still producing some of his best work. It was the idea of the Copenhagen Royal Library, and one that has met with great positive feedback. It’s not even an initiative that he advocated. The young man instructed that the little money he had should be used to finance a tiny museum that could house his work.ĭecades later, his wish has become reality. Cave would be undone by a serious chemical addiction while living in Berlin, Germany, he wrote out his will. Once, during the 1980s, when it looked like Mr. Still, if one thing is for certain, is that through it all, from leading an aggressive post-punk band, to writing novels, movie scripts, and essays, to leading a less aggressive rock band at present, he has dedicated his life to art. Nick Cave’s art has undergone numerous transformations throughout his lifetime.
