A lot of things are hinted at that aren't disclosed in detail. NC There are certain parallels to different things, which are either evident or not. LS We shouldn't be searching for meanings beneath. Euchrod has the saddest face in the world-which Dave has. Do you know Dave Mason? He's slightly hunchbacked, a queer face, a lot of teeth, big smile, long greasy hair. NC He's based on the singer of The Reels. LS After reading the book, I still didn't have a good physical picture of Euchrod. NC It's basically Euchrod in woe with the world. LS During Book II there are several "Lamentations"-yet another form. The final book is Euchrod's monologue which runs to the climax. The voice then changes between the narrator's truth and Euchrod's delusionary truth.
Once this is done, the actual story begins. It includes documentary, poetry, maps and charts, in very short chapters. When you read a novel, you have to wade through the setting up of the scene before the story starts. When I first started the book there were certain elements I wasn't interested in writing about. NC There are a number of voices in the book: first person narrative by Euchrod, third person authorial voice, quotations usually from the Bible, either real or ersatz, constant changes in tone or approach to language, depending on who is talking. I wanted the book to have a voice that was recognizable in the same way as Nabokov has his. NC I was primarily concerned with the language. You think it must relent, particularly the language, but it just doesn't stop. Nick Cave It was a very solitary project. Lindzee Smith The Ass Saw the Angel-your first novel-was it as good for you to write it as it was for me to read? Its hero is a hunchback mute with the most woeful face in the world. His current band is Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and their new album, The Good Son, has just been released.Ĭave recently turned his talents to writing, not lyrics or poetry, but a full-length novel: The Ass Saw the Angel, a picaresque story set in a mythological valley, based on Cave's perception of an American South he has never visited. He left Australia to live in London and subsequently Berlin where he became a part of the burgeoning rock scene which then included Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, and Blixa Bargeld. His first band, The Birthday Party, built an international reputation. Hopefully fans will, too.Nick Cave was born near Yarrawonga in South-Eastern Australia in 1957.
It sounds like The Cranberries found some kind of closure in this last record. On it, O’Riordan, who recorded demos for the album’s 11 tracks before her death in January last year, sings: “Fighting’s not the answer/ Fighting’s not the cure/ It’s eating you like cancer/ It’s killing you for sure.” The band have spoken about how O’Riordan was singing about leaving many of the negative things in her life behind. “Wake Me When it’s Over”, the third track on In the End, could be “Zombie”’s twin. She was deeply affected by the deaths, and would no doubt have been devastated by recent events in Northern Ireland as well. “Zombie” was a protest song written by the band’s late frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan after two children were killed by IRA bombs – was released. There’s a cruel irony that the release of The Cranberries’ final album should come just a week after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead by the New IRA during a riot in Londonderry.
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