I hadn’t heard of Nick Cave but Wayne suggested that we should start with an album of his cover versions, and then look at recording some of my own songs later. It was a really steep learning curve but Wayne was so encouraging when I was struggling with a few of the songs that I kept going. It was a great way to connect with her and help harness her cool attitude to making music.”įor her part, Nell has chimed in with, “I still can’t really believe it. With Nell we could see she is on a journey and thought it would be fun to join her for a while and see if we could get things going.
Then COVID hit, in-person plans were put on hold, and Coyne suggested that she try taking a stab at the songs of Cave, sending her vocal takes to Oklahoma via email for the Flaming Lips to provide the music.Ĭommenting on the collabo, Coyne-who’s famous as one of the nicest artists this side of Dave Grohl-says, “It’s always great to meet excited, young creative people. Buying into punk’s anyone-can-do-it ethos, Nell started writing songs with an eye to recording them with the Lips as her backing band. Picking her out of the crowd-in part because she was kind of unmissable in a parrot suit-singer Wayne Coyne invited her onstage and then eventually into the band's inner sanctum. ended up collaborating with one of the most enduring bands from the early ’90s alt-rock boom is every bit as cool as one might hope.īorn in the U.K., Nell first met the Flaming Lips at Sled Island at age 12.
The backstory of how a teenager from rural B.C. Some people never seem entirely comfortable holding a microphone. home-she’s already smart enough to understand that no one’s going to out-goth Cave on the microphone.īeginning with lighting that might be described as ‘70s-mortuary-blue, the video finds the Flaming Lips looking like they just escaped the Manson Family compound, with Nell a picture of studied cool. As for Nell Smith-a 13-year-old who calls Fernie, B.C. There’s no death-dub bassline, grindhouse-organ stabs, or doom-thump drum fills. Video of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Official Video)Įntirely by design, Nell and the Flaming Lips don’t try to out-gloom Cave on their “Red Right Hand”.
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