Mick Harvey

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Michael John "Mick" Harvey (born August 29, 1958 in Rochester , Victoria , Australia ) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.

As a multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his longstanding collaboration with Nick Cave , with whom he founded The Boys Next Door, which later became The Birthday Party , and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds .

Early years of life

Harvey was born in rural Victoria , Australia and moved to the Melbourne suburbs as a child . His father was a pastor in the Church of England and the family lived where his father's Church installed him, first in Ormond, then later in Ashburton . Harvey sang early there in the church choir.

Harvey, his older brother Philip, and his younger brother Sebastian all attended the private Caulfield Grammar School for boys. Mick Harvey, Nick Cave and Phill Calvert , and Tracy Pew met there in the early 1970s .

They formed a rock band with Cave (vocals), Harvey (guitar), Calvert (drums) and other students on guitar, bass and saxophone. The band played at parties and school events, including repertoire from Lou Reed , David Bowie , Roxy Music , Alice Cooper and the sensational Alex Harvey Band . Harvey was also a member of the school choir (conducted by Norman Kaye ), and took extracurricular lessons with jazz guitarist Bruce Clarke.

Musical career

The Birthday Party

After graduating from high school in 1975, the band decided to continue playing bass with Pew. Under the great influence of the punk wave of 1976, in which Australian bands like The Saints and Radio Birdman made their first recordings and went on tour, The Birthday Party quickly played its own new wave music. Harvey's guitar style was heavily influenced by James Williamson of The Stooges and Paul Weller of The Jam . As The Boys Next Door they played regularly in bars in Melbourne between 1977 and 1980. Rowland S. Howard joined the band in 1978 and brought his chaotic feedback style to the band.

After many live performances and studio recordings, but only moderate success in Australia, the band moved to London in 1980 and finally changed the name to The Birthday Party. This creative period was determined by aggressive compositions, which were underlaid by Harvey's guitar playing. In the later days of her career, Harvey did most of the composition. Harvey's friend Katy Beale followed the band to London.

Crime & the City Solution and The Bad Seeds

The band moved to West Berlin in 1982 without Calvert ; Harvey switched from guitar to drums. After breaking up with The Birthday Party, Harvey stayed in Berlin and contacted his friend Simon Bonney , with whom he was reforming Bonney's old Australian band Crime & the City Solution . Rowland S. Howard, Harry Howard (bass) and Epic Soundtracks (drums), all of which formed the basis of These Immortal Souls a few years later , also took part.

Harvey and Cave formed Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds in 1983. Harvey stayed with Bad Seeds for 25 years until he left on January 22, 2009, citing both professional and personal factors as reasons for leaving. Regarding Cave, Harvey informed the media:

I am confident that Nick [Cave] will continue to be a creative force and that now is the time to pass my artistic and leadership role on to a huge group of people who can support him musically and organisationally.

In 2010, Harvey further stated that his frustration with the arrangements of the songs weighed on his relationship with Cave; the desire to spend time with family was also an important reason for his decision. The split marked the end of a 36-year relationship between Harvey and Cave.

The Wallbangers

In 2007 the Spanish label Bang! Records a 4-track EP from Harvey's retro rock band The Wallbangers entitled Kick the Drugs . It features songs that Harvey wrote alone and songs that he co-produced with Tex Perkins and Loene Carmen . Harvey sings and plays the guitar, while the drums are attributed to Rocky Features (a Harvey pseudonym) and named as the bassist for Rod Bottoms. A press release said the EP was Rocky Features' first recording since Honeymoon in Red in 1982, which was released under other pseudonyms for Harvey's posts (but not under the pseudonym Rocky Features).

solo

After Bonney left Crime & the City Solution for a solo career in the United States, Harvey recorded two solo albums of Serge Gainsbourg songs translated from French into English : Intoxicated Man (1995) and Pink Elephants (1997). He also worked with British rock musician PJ Harvey (unrelated) and produced for other Australian artists including Anita Lane , Robert Forster , Conway Savage and Rowland S. Howard . Harvey's third solo release, One Man's Treasure , was released in September 2005.

In 2006 he undertook his first solo tours through Europe and Australia, accompanied by Seeds, Thomas Wydler and James Johnston, as well as the Melbourne-based double bass player Rosie Westbrook. His next solo record, Two of Diamonds from 2007, was also recorded with this group, as was the live album Three Sisters - Live at the Bush Hall in 2008.

In February 2008 Harvey and Westbrook played as supporting act for PJ Harvey on their Australian tour, with both Harveys also on stage together. Before the tour, Harvey had worked intensively with PJ Harvey for over 12 years: he was a musician on her albums To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire? And co-produced the album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea in 2000.

Harvey, 2012

In 2008 and 2009, he joined the five remaining members of The Triffids for a series of performances at the Sydney Festival, Melbourne Arts Center and Perth International Arts Festival, celebrating the music and memory of David McComb. Harvey also contributed to the 2009 revised collection, Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids , edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.

Harvey released Sketches from the Book of the Dead - the first solo album written entirely by himself - on the Mute label in early 2011. The 11-track album was recorded in Melbourne. Harvey played most of the instruments himself, Westbrook played the double bass, JP Shilo played the accordion, violin and occasionally guitar, and Xanthe Waite provided backing vocals. Harvey stated in a promotional interview that he does not see himself as a “songwriter” in the traditional sense. He also confirmed that the opening track October Boy is about Rowland S. Howard .

Once again, Harvey co-produced and recorded PJ Harvey's eighth studio album, Let England Shake . The release was supported by a world tour in 2011 that included Harvey as a touring musician.

His sixth solo studio album entitled FOUR (Acts of Love) , released on Mute in 2013, features original compositions by Mick Harvey alongside a song by PJ Harvey ( Glorious ) and renditions of The Saints' The Story of Love , Van Morrisons The Way Young Lovers Do , Exumas Summertime in New York and Roy Orbisons Wild Hearts (Run Out Of Time) . FOUR (Acts of Love) was recorded at Grace Lane, North Melbourne and Atlantis Sound, Melbourne and features regular contributions from Rosie Westbrook on double bass and JP Shilo on guitar and violin.

Delirium Tremens (2016) is the third part of Harvey's project to translate Serge Gainsbourg's songs after Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants into English. Delirium Tremens was recorded in Melbourne with Harvey's Antipodean core live band. 10 songs were recorded at Birdland Studios; The project then moved to Berlin, where another nine songs were recorded with Toby Dammit ( The Stooges , The Residents ) and Bertrand Burgalat (from the French label Tricatel), who was responsible for the first two volumes as the string player. The Cambodian singer Kak Channthy contributed the song Contact .

Harvey worked again with PJ Harvey in early 2015, playing and singing on their album The Hope Six Demolition Project . The following year he assisted PJ in promoting the album, which was released in April 2016.

Private life

Harvey lives in Europe and Melbourne. He has a son with his partner, the painter Katy Beale. Since 2014 the family lived mainly in the suburbs north of Melbourne.

As part of his interview with Brisbane author Andrew McMillen for the book Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs , Harvey concluded on his take on illicit drug use:

Because I am so surrounded by drug use, I have seen many of the problems that come with it. But I also saw a lot of people who worked in different ways and had no problems. So if you forbid it all along the line, you also remove these people's freedom of choice. I mean why does alcohol remain available when other things are not?

Discography

Solo albums

Soundtracks

Further CD releases

Albums produced for other artists

Honors

  • 1994 ARIA Awards : Best Album The Cruel Sea, The Honeymoon Is Over (Mick Harvey: co-producer)
  • 1996 ARIA Awards: Single of the Year & Best Pop Release (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue : Where the Wild Roses Grow )
  • 1997 ARIA Awards: Best Original Soundtrack ( To Have & to Hold )
  • 2001 Mercury Prize : Best Album : PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Mick Harvey: co-producer)
  • 2004 ARIA Awards: Best Original Soundtrack ( Australian Rules )
  • 2006 AACTA Award : Best Original Music Score ( Suburban Mayhem )
  • 2007 ARIA Awards: When Nick Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame , he took on including Mick Harvey and the other Australian members of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds.
  • 2011 Mercury Prize: Best Album : PJ Harvey Let England Shake (Mick Harvey: co-producer)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mick Harvey's Biography - Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm . Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Interview by Simon Hattenstone: Interview with Nick Cave . February 23, 2008. Accessed December 1, 2017.
  3. ^ Mick Harvey - Biography . Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mickharvey.com
  4. ↑ Discogs - The Boys Next Door - Aliases, Members, Discography
  5. ↑ a b Bad Seeds co-founder Harvey quits . In: ABC News , January 23, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2014. 
  6. ↑ Podcast 103 Live interview with Mick Harvey in Paris 2010: some reasons to have left the band Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds… Part 2 (25 ′) (Audio file) Meltingpod. March 2, 2010. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ Discogs - Kick the Drugs - vinyl 7 ", Bang! Records (BANG! -21) Spain
  8. ↑ Discogs - Kick the Drugs (images) - CD, Spooky Records (Spooky 030) Australia
  9. ^ PJ chooses Mick Harvey . Faster Louder Pty Ltd. January 10, 2008. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 28, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fasterlouder.com.au
  10. ↑ Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran, eds. Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids (Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2009).
  11. ↑ a b Mick Harvey - Exclusive LTW Review / Interview . Louder Than War. April 12, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ a b 'Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs' book launch at Avid Reader, August 21, 2014 (Video upload) Google Inc. August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  13. ↑ Planet Alex (2001) at IMDB . In: IMDb.com . Retrieved May 9, 2018. 
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Mick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, Michael John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian musician and producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria (Australia)