Nick Cave has revealed whether there will be a Grinderman reunion.
The Bad Seeds frontman has launched a website called ‘The Red Hand Files’ where fans can submit questions for the singer to answer. One popular question that has come up is the question of whether he is ever planning to “rock out again” with Grinderman.
Grinderman is a side-project formed by Cave and his bandmates Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis. They recorded two albums together and performed at Coachella in 2013 but we haven’t really heard anything from them since.
Now, Cave has finally answered the question of whether a reformation will happen. He said:
“Many of you have asked about the reformation of Grinderman, although most not with the
same lurid flair as you, so I sat with Warren [Ellis, bandmate] and we discussed whether it was a good idea. We both thought the world needed Grinderman, considering its current emotional climate.
He continued: “We both thought that Grinderman appeared to be a lot more popular now than when it existed, and we wondered whether that was simply the band passing into folklore, or whether the world had become, in the last years, more puritanical, less playful, and more hypersensitive, and that there were a lot of people out there, like you Marvin, who just wanted to listen to a band that f****d things up a bit.”
“We both thought releasing a Best of Grinderman record was a good idea. We thought it should be a double album.”
In conclusion, keep an eye out because Grinderman is lurking in the shadows ready to make a comeback.
