To get you in the mood for Nick Cave in Vicar St soon

Steph has already posted about Nick Cave’s evening of readings and live music, with Cave joined by Warren Ellis and Martyn Casey to coincide with the publication of The Death of Bunny Munro. The tickets arrived yesterday:

Coincidentally I was sent through The Cat Piano, a wonderful video by The People’s Republic of Animation and narrated by Cave.

In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.

The film is adapted from a poem written by co-director Eddie White who envisioned Cave as his first choice for narrating the poem which blends Jack Kerouac inspired beat poetry with the romantic and haunting poems of Edgar Allen Poe.

I quite like it. A lot. Whets my appetite for October 12, oh yes it does. The gig itself is sold out apparently. Hardly surprising at all at all!