![]() ![]() “I knew that when he first met her he felt that the lyrics he was writing were outrageously stupid and he almost started to be articulate to show he could be.” “Anita was responsible for Nick doing certain things creatively,” Howard said in Ian Johnston’s essential Cave bio Bad Seed. She’s the one who got him thinking like a poet. As she said in 1988, “I guess everyone came to life out of punk rock.” Anita and Nick became teen sweethearts and kindred creative spirits. Howard, who became the guitarist in the Birthday Party. ![]() She grew up in Melbourne, where she met Cave in art school in 1977 they were introduced by her friend Rowland S. That’s the power of Anita Lane - the Nick Cave collaborator that even Nick Cave was afraid of. He then did a darkly funny version of this nightmare ballad, which has appeared in his live set for nearly 40 years, singing, “You caress yourself and grind my soft cold bones below/Your map of desire burned in your flesh/Even a fool can come.” He sounded downright disturbed. ![]()
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