The Ryno Pen

So Nick Cave finally gets some of the recognition due to him. Okay, it’s not up there with naming him as a National Living Treasure or similar, the way the Czechs did with non-Czech Frank Zappa, but it’ll do for now.

Nick’s music and other work speaks for itself, often in ways more tender, brutal or poetic than your humble blogonaut could do justice in describing. There is, however, another reason that Nick is Rock. He made bloody well sure his mates were on the door list!

That’s not just rock, that thing of looking out for your mates, it’s the thing about unions that Prime Misery John Howard doesn’t seem to grasp. Oh, unless those mates are his, and the union is retitled “Coalition of Willies”, or “Confederation Of Industry”, or whatever.

Ferfuxake, where else are we going to get a leader with the blood-and-guts to write something like “Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry” and the tenderness of “Straight To You“?

The current offerings are fairly fucking colourless by comparison, it’s got to be said.

Let me get in early:

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