Nick Cave’s latest album, Ghosteen, is exceptional, but there’s barely any drums. Which begs the question, where on earth was The Bad Seeds’ drummer during the making of this beautiful record? Our Godfrey has the answers.
While the rest of the band were forming Nick Caves new masterpiece, the drummer decided to take a brief break to focus on some of his passions, the first of which being exploring art museums and ridiculing all of the art in them to the tour guides. One particular piece that he found distasteful was Monet’s Bridge.
The second, more surprising passion was his love for Plymouth Argyle. He has reportedly spent the grand total of £24.37 for a home season ticket and has attended all their away games so far this season. And yes, there’s a reason why Plymouth’s away support has seemed particularly intense this season. That drum isn’t going to bang itself. GREEN ARMY!
Between football games and slating the founding members of the art world as we know it today, he has also taken a fondness to competitive whistling, and can now create a family of owls from a singular tree trunk in less time than it takes most people to drink their morning cup of coffee – rather remarkable in our eyes.
The fourth and most surprising passion is his ongoing dissertation at the University of Leicester on the perfect size of a donut hole. This took him several months to perfect and therefore he had to miss a lot of the recording sessions. However, his agent claims that he figured out that the perfect diameter of the hole within a donut is in fact 4.832923733847mm. Just do not bring up the sore spot of jam filled or no-holed donuts – that’s when he gets nasty.
