![]() ![]() ![]() 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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