Timeline Sunday 22 September 1957

Events on Sunday 22 September 1957 2

• 1957 – present Nick Cave Australian singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter and composer Nick Cave is an Australian musician, writer and composer best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, one of the most influential and enduring bands in alternative rock. Emerging from the confrontational post-punk of The Birthday Party in the late 1970s, Cave built a decades-long career defined by literary, often gothic songwriting that draws on religion, violence, love and grief. Beyond music he has published novels, screenplays and a memoir, and become known for direct correspondence with fans through his website The Red Hand Files. His work took a profoundly personal turn following the deaths of his sons Arthur in 2015 and Jethro in 2022, reshaping the emotional register of his later albums.
• 1957 Nick Cave Is Born Born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia Nicholas Edward Cave is born on 22 September 1957 in the small town of Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, the third of four children of Colin Cave, an English teacher, and Dawn Cave, a school librarian. The family later moves to the regional city of Wangaratta, where Cave is raised amid a household steeped in literature and classical music. His early exposure to his father's love of novelists such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov leaves a lasting imprint on the literary sensibility of his later songwriting.