Grinderman will feature songs from its bold new disc at the Best Buy Theater on November 14 (photo by Deirdre O'Callaghan)
Best Buy Theater
1515 Broadway at 44th St.
Sunday, November 14, $37.50, 8:00
212-930-1950
www.myspace.com/grinderman
www.bestbuytheater.com
“Come on, baby, blow my mind!” Nick Cave proclaims on “Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man,” the opening track on GRINDERMAN 2 (Anti-, September 2010). The fifty-three-year old Gothic renaissance man may be asking his baby to blow his mind, but he is sure to blow listeners’ minds on the second album from his side project, Grinderman. Again featuring Bad Seeds Warren Ellis on various stringed instruments, Martyn P. Casey on bass, and Jim Sclavunos on drums, Grinderman does it bigger and louder — and better — than on their debut disc, which was released in April 2007. GRINDERMAN 2 features nine mind-blowing tunes, from “Worm Tamer” and “Palaces of Montezuma” to “Bellringer Blues” and the deceptively titled “Kitchenette.” Cave’s morbidly wicked sense of humor shines on such tracks as “Heathen Child,” as when he sings of the title character, “Got a little gun / Sitting in the bathtub / Having some fun,” and on the aforementioned “Mickey Mouse,” on which he declares, “Try not to wake the executioner / He’s sleeping with a fireman’s axe / He leaves his glass eye on the pillow / And his dentures floating there in a glass.” Cave has been enjoying one hell of a decade; he wrote the screenplay for the 2005 Western THE PROPOSITION, released the 2009 novel THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO, composed the soundtrack for numerous films with Ellis (THE PROPOSITION, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, THE ENGLISH SURGEON, THE ROAD), and wrote the score, again with Ellis, for Gísli Örn Gardarsson’s theatrical productions WOYZECK and THE METAMORPHOSIS, the latter of which arrives at the Brooklyn Academy of Music November 30 – December 4. Grinderman will be playing the Best Buy (formerly Nokia) Theater on November 14, with Armen Ra opening.