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At a point in his career when most of his remaining peers are treadingthe nostalgia circuit, Nick Cave is attracting sizable crowds for notjust new material but a new band that doesn't include his name. Cavehas always oozed charisma and put on a great show, but he also has thesongwriting chops to engender a continued following. Scaling back fromthe sprawling Bad Seeds to the stripped down four piece Grinderman hascreated a boost of energy for someone whose energy wasn't flagging, asseen on Saturday at Boston's House of Blues.
For all of Cave's intensity and command of the stage, this wasn't aone-man show. Guitarist/violinist Warren Ellis, with his stringy hairand beard and demonic flailing looked liked he'd gone nuts after yearsof solitary confinement in a third world prison. The rhythm sectionfunctioned as the band's anchor to sanity.
The band came out and set the stage on fire with the impolite "MickeyMouse and the Goodbye Man." "Worm Tamer" had the texture of a wirebrush. The blues got electric shock treatment with "Get It On." Cavestarted out playing guitar, but put it aside for a tambourine, which hesoon pitched during "Heathen Child." His posture demanded attention,but Ellis was cranking out unearthly sounds. Ellis was down on thefloor for "Evil!" but the impassioned delivery still couldn't fullysave the song from its weak lyrics.
The band scaled back the intensity for "When My Baby Comes," but Ellisstarted brandishing his frayed violin bow like a whip and soon wasleaving acres of scorched earth in his wake.They came up for a breather with "What I Know" but leaped back into thefire with "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)." But they stumbled with"Kitchenette;" Cave overstepped the line into self-parody withheavy-handed double entendres and wacky falsetto utterances of "tippytoe, tippy toe." Cave regained his footing as gospel preacher who's nowplaying for the other team with "No Pussy Blues." During the encore,"When My Love Comes Down to Meet You" was brimming with psychedelicdistortion. They wrapped the set with "Grinderman" as the band's nameglowed in red on the back curtain.
Cave has shaved off his mustache, no doubt to stay a step ahead ofironic hipsters. The guy knows how to remain relevant.
Set list:
Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man
Worm Tamer
Get It On
Heathen Child
Evil!
When My Baby Comes
What I Know
Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)
Kitchenette
No Pussy Blues
Bellringer Blues
Encore:
Palaces of Montezuma
When My Love Comes Down to Meet You
Man in the Moon
Love Bomb
Grinderman
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