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Michael John Harvey (born 29 September 1958 in Rochester, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his life-long collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave. A multi-instrumentalist, Harvey plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and drums. He also sings. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Rochester is a small town in country Victoria, Australia. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
A musician is a person who plays or composes music Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music: A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ...
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments. ...
Biography
Born in rural Victoria, Harvey moved to the suburbs of Melbourne in his childhood. His father was a Church of England Vicar and the family lived adjacent to the church, first in Ormond then later Ashburton. Harvey sang in the church choir from an early age. Harvey, his elder brother Philip and younger brother Sebastian all attended the private boys school Caulfield Grammar School. It was at school in the early 1970s that Harvey met fellow students Nick Cave, Phill Calvert and Tracy Pew. A rock group was formed with Cave (vocals), Harvey (guitar), Calvert (drums) and other students on guitar, bass and saxophone. The band played at parties and school functions with a mixed pre-punk repertoire of Lou Reed, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, among others. Harvey was also a member of the school choir (conducted by actor Norman Kaye), and took extra-curricular lessons from jazz guitarist Bruce Clarke. Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
Ormond is a surname, and may refer to: Sir David Ormand KCB Francis Ormond, a founder of The University of Melbourne Sir James Ormond, Lord Treasurer of Ireland Joan Chaworth Ormond, wife of John Ormond esq. ...
Ashburton is Ashburton, a town in Canterbury, New Zealand Ashburton, a town in Devon, England Ashburton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
A church choir is a choir that usually performs at a church. ...
Caulfield Grammar School is a coeducational Anglican independent school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ...
Phill Calvert (b. ...
Tracey Pew, musician, bass guitar player was a member of The Birthday Party (band) and performed on Lydia Lunchs Honeymoon In Red. ...
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David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...
Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ...
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ...
Alex Harvey (February 5, 1935 - February 4, 1982) was a Scottish rock and roll performer. ...
Norman Kaye (born 17 January, 1927) is an Australian actor and musician best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. ...
Jazz guitar refers to the use of guitar in jazz music. ...
Bruce Clarke is an Australian jazz guitarist, composer and educator. ...
The Birthday Party After their final school year in 1975 the band decided to continue with friend Tracy Pew picking up the bass. Greatly affected by the punk explosion of 1976 which saw Australian bands The Saints and Radio Birdman making their first recordings and tours, The Boys Next Door, as Harvey’s band were now called, began performing fast original New Wave material, with Harvey’s guitar style influenced by James Williamson of The Stooges and Paul Weller of The Jam and regularly playing pubs from 1977-1980. Rowland S. Howard joined in 1978, bringing a chaotic feedback guitar style to the band. Tracey Pew, musician, bass guitar player was a member of The Birthday Party (band) and performed on Lydia Lunchs Honeymoon In Red. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
The Saints are an influential Australian rock and roll band, formed in Brisbane in 1972 (see 1972 in music). ...
Radio Birdman was one of the first punk bands in Australia. ...
The Boys Next Door is a movie: The Boys Next Door (movie) or a post-punk band, which became The Birthday Party, featuring Nick Cave. ...
New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...
James Williamson is a musician most famous for his contribution to the band The Stooges (at the time he was in the band they were known as Iggy and The Stooges), his only contribution to the band was playing lead guitar for the album Raw Power. ...
The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ...
Paul Weller (born 25 May 1958, Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ...
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Rowland Stuart Howard is an Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the seminal post-punk groups These Immortal Souls, Crime and the City Solution and The Birthday Party, which also included vocalist Nick Cave. ...
Audio feedback (also known as the Larsen effect) is a special kind of feedback which occurs when a loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker). ...
After recordings and moderate success in Australia (including hundreds of live performances) they headed for London in 1980, changing their name to The Birthday Party and launching into a period of innovative and aggressive music-making, underpinned by Harvey’s concise guitar playing. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
The Birthday Party is the name of an acclaimed play (and later movie) written by Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party (play); and an influential post-punk band led by Nick Cave: The Birthday Party (band). ...
Crime & The Bad Seeds Harvey’s girlfriend Katy Beale followed to London, then the band moved to West Berlin, minus Calvert. Harvey moved from guitar to drums. After the break up of The Birthday Party, Harvey stayed in Berlin and contacted his friend Simon Bonney. Together they reformed Bonney’s old Australian band Crime and the City Solution. Howard formed These Immortal Souls, and Harvey played guitar and piano in an early version of that group. Subsequently Harvey and Cave formed Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, who survive to this day. Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ...
Simon Bonney is an Australian rock musician, best known as the lead singer in Crime and the City Solution. ...
Crime and The City Solution were a post-punk rock band formed by singer Simon Bonney. ...
These Immortal Souls was an Australian Indie band active through the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ...
Solo After Bonney left Crime and the City Solution for a solo career in the USA, Harvey recorded two solo CDs of Serge Gainsbourg songs, translated from French into English: Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants. He has also collaborated with UK rock musician PJ Harvey (no relation), and produced other Australian artists including Anita Lane, Robert Forster, Conway Savage and Rowland S. Howard. Harvey's third solo release One Man's Treasure was issued in September 2005, followed by Two Of Diamonds in 2007. Crime and The City Solution were a post-punk rock band formed by singer Simon Bonney. ...
Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ...
PJ Harvey in concert. ...
Anita Lane is an Australian singer and songwriter who directly influenced the early 1980s European post-punk landscape. ...
Robert Forster (born July 13, 1941) is an American actor. ...
Conway Savage (born 27 July 1960) is an Australian rock musician best known as pianist/organist/backing vocalist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. ...
Rowland Stuart Howard is an Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the seminal post-punk groups These Immortal Souls, Crime and the City Solution and The Birthday Party, which also included vocalist Nick Cave. ...
In 2006 Harvey undertook his first 'solo' tours of Europe and Australia accompanied by fellow Bad Seeds Thomas Wydler and James Johnston, plus Melbourne double bassist Rosie Westbrook. Thomas Wydler (born 9 October 1959, Zurich, Switzerland), is a Swiss musician best known for being a core member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, of which he has been the drummer since 1985. ...
James Johnston may refer to: James Johnston (-1849), Bytown businessman and politician James William Johnston (1792-1873), Canadian politican and judge James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855), chemist James Robinson Johnston (1876-1915), lawyer James Johnston, (ca 1724-1800), merchant James Johnston (1643-1737), former Secretary of State, Scotland James...
A Double-bassist is a musician whose instrument is the member of the viol family known variously as the Double Bass, Acoustic Bass, Upright Bass, Contrabass (among other names in many languages). ...
Harvey now splits his time between Europe and Melbourne. He has one son with his partner, the painter Katrina (Katy) Beale. Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
The Wallbangers In 2007 the Spanish label Bang! Records released a four-track EP by Harvey's retro rock band The Wallbangers, featuring Tex Perkins on vocals. Retro is a term used to describe the culture of the past. ...
Tex Perkins (born Greg Perkins in 1966) is an Australian singer-songwriter, who is widely known for fronting the popular Australian rock-band The Cruel Sea, but has also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie. ...
Film soundtracks Chopper is an Australian 2000 drama-crime thriller-black comedy film written and directed by Andrew Dominik based on the autobiographical books by Mark Brandon Chopper Read, an infamous Australian criminal, convicted for wounding a man, admitting to murder many. ...
Australian Rules, released in 2002 is a film directed by Paul Goldman starring Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Tom Budge and Lisa Flanagan. ...
Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian film, directed by Paul Goldman and starring an ensemble cast including Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes and Robert Morgan. ...
Other CD releases Intoxicated Man is the first of two albums by Mick Harvey, presenting the songs of Serge Gainsbourg, sung in English. ...
Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for drunken hallucination. ...
And the Ass Saw the Angel is the first novel (and only one to date) by the rock musician Nick Cave, originally published in 1989 by Black Spring Press in the UK and Harper Collins in the US. It was recently re-published by 2. ...
One Mans Treasure is Mick Harveys third solo album and the first not to feature the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. ...
Awards The Australian Film Institute Awards (often abbreviated to AFI Awards) is an annual awards ceremony administered by the Australian Film Institute, held in late November or early December. ...
Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian film, directed by Paul Goldman and starring an ensemble cast including Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes and Robert Morgan. ...
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ...
Australian Rules, released in 2002 is a film directed by Paul Goldman starring Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Tom Budge and Lisa Flanagan. ...
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ...
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. ...
Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Grammy, ARIA Award and Brit Awards winning Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ...
Where the Wild Roses Grow is a alternative–rock song written by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave for Nick Cave and the Bad Seedss ninth album Murder Ballads (1996), and features guest vocals by Australian pop-singer Kylie Minogue. ...
Trivia - Harvey's album One Man's Treasure includes several songs written by musicians he has produced and/or performed with: "Come Into My Sleep" - Nick Cave; "Come On Spring" - Kim Salmon of Antenna; "Demon Alcohol" - Bambi Lee Savage; "Planetarium" - Bruno Adams of Once Upon A Time.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ...
Kim Salmon is a renowned and influential Australian indie rock musician and songwriter. ...
Further reading - Inner City Sound - Clinton Walker
- Bad Seed: A biography of Nick Cave - Ian Johnston
- The life and music of Nick Cave: An illustrated biography - Maximilian Dax & Johannes Beck
Clinton Walker is a leading historian of Australian popular music. ...
External links - Mick Harvey Official Site
- Mute Records - Mick Harvey page
- Initials M.H. - unofficial Mick Harvey website
- Unofficial Mick Harvey discography
- Katrina Beale: painter
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