Nick Cave has been performing music for more than fifty
years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick
Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album, Wild God, was nominated
for two Grammy Awards and ranked as the best album of 2024 by
Uncut. Cave's body of work also covers a wider range of media and
modes of expression including film score composition and writing of
novels. His recent Conversations events and Red Hand Files website
have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with
his fans.
Sean O'Hagan grew up in Northern Ireland. In the 1980s he
worked as a music journalist for NME and in the 1990s he began
writing on culture for The Times. He has interviewed many major
artists, writers and musicians, including Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Neil
Young, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch,
Robert Frank, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin and Joan Didion. In
2003, he was named Interviewer of the Year in the British Press
Awards. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and
is photography critic for the Guardian.
An extraordinary, uplifting book . . . This is a book you could dip
into if you had no knowledge of Cave at all, just to find someone
unafraid to ask all the big questions: what is grief? What is
forgiveness? . . . Everyday carnage has brought forth a book of
hope and freedom and life
* * Daily Telegraph * *
This beautiful book is a lament, a celebration, a howl, a secular
prayer, a call to arms, a meditation & an exquisite articulation of
the human condition. It will take your breath away
* * Observer * *
Illuminating . . . a great deal of beauty in Cave's descriptions of
the "strange reckless power" that comes when the worst has happened
. . . if it meets a need for Cave, it also feels like a gift to the
reader
* * Sunday Times * *
An absolutely wonderful book. I don't think I've ever read so
integrated and searching an engagement with how faith works, how
creativity works, and how grief is bound up with both
*ROWAN WILLIAMS*
A masterpiece
* * The Age * *
Faith, Hope and Carnage redefines the potential potency of a
memoir, creating a bold, brave and brilliant book that deserves to
be read, reread and cherished as an illuminating reflection of how
we haven't developed the vocabulary to adequately explore death and
its aftermath
* * Irish Times * *
Ultimately enriching . . . suffused with love, teeming with
ideas
* * Guardian * *
The most compelling book of the year - raw pain and struggle
thought through and explored with rare courage
* * New Statesman, Books of the Year * *
Immensely eloquent and wise . . . a tender guide to the
transformative potential of grief
* * Telegraph, Best Music Books of 2022 * *
Cave is one hell of a writer . . . An extraordinary, one-of-a-kind
book . . . Cave is a miraculously fluent talker, incapable of a
dull line. Many of the sentences have an aphoristic punch . . . It
is impossible to overstate how unusual it is to find this depth of
self-analysis and wisdom from a rock musician. Faith, Hope and
Carnage makes most rock memoirs look like skips full of rusty
anecdotes and grudges
* * UnHerd * *
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