3 h. ago Nick Cave’s Veiled World: the starry tale of how sometimes the devil doesn’t have the best tunes

This documentary on the musician interviews everyone from Flea to Rowan Williams. It’s a thoughtful take on his songs and ChristianityDevouring the new Nick Cave documentary on Sky, I am reminded how critics go wild for arty musicians who constantly change direction and dabble in everything. This is its own kind of myth. I know plenty of artists who keep moving – one week they’re sewing fish scales on to jackets, the next they’re painting mirrors or putting seahorses in samovars. The problem is, no one cares. If poet and ceramicist Nick Cave didn’t also write classic songs, he’d just be a local weirdo. I definitely wouldn’t buy a hardcover transcription of conversations he’d had with a mate about God. I’m glad I did, though.The documentary, Nick Cave’s Veiled World (Saturday 6 December, 9pm, Sky Arts), is timed to promote the TV adaptation of his filthy novel The Death of Bunny Munro. It’s a glorious opportunity to revisit his early, intense masterpieces: electric chair confess...

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4 h. ago Nick Cave’s Veiled World documentary is a captivating look at the musician’s songwriting genius

Sky’s film assembles some of the Australian musician’s closest friends and collaborators for an in-depth look at the dark, mysterious worlds he conjures, and the eclectic characters dwelling in them, writes Roisin O’Connor

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3 d. ago Cameron Winter proves he may be the next Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen

The 23-year-old songwriter’s existential poetry cuts to the core of the human condition

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2 w. ago From The Death of Bunny Munro to Wicked: For Good: the week in rave reviews

Matt Smith is the ultimate bad dad in a Nick Cave novel adaptation, and the Oz prequel musical reaches the end of the road. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Death of Bunny Munro review – Matt Smith is brilliantly vile in Nick Cave’s south coast parable

The ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ star brings toxic masculinity to hideous life in a drama that will test the limits of viewers’ tolerance

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2 w. ago The Death of Bunny Munro filming locations including iconic seaside resort

The Death of Bunny Munro is a new black comedy series inspired by Nick Cave's 2009 novel and stars Matt Smith in the title role

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4 w. ago ‘Matt Smith is so hot it’s problematic’: inside the TV version of Nick Cave’s disturbing, sex

After 16 years, Cave’s scandalous book The Death of Bunny Munro about a sex addict on the run with his son finally lands on our screens. He and star Smith talk Kylie regrets, bad dads and how to do a strip club scene with a nine-year-oldNick Cave claims that at least four different production companies have tried to turn his frequently hilarious, always disturbing, sex-filled novel The Death of Bunny Munro into a film or TV show in the 16 years since its release. The problem? “No one would play the character!” he says, sitting, impeccably suited as always, in a room at London’s Corinthia Hotel. As it turns out, the material was just waiting for the right actor. Step up Matt Smith to play the titular sex-addicted travelling makeup salesman.It’s not surprising that it ended up being Smith. Since his Doctor Who days, he has tended to pick roles that trend slightly twisted – and the role of Bunny, who in Cave’s book is depicted as a borderline animalistic misogynist who sweats pure...

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