One of the founding members of foundation post-punk group The Birthday Party, a longtime collaborator with PJ Harvey (no relation) and member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey is not a man who washes up for solo shows in Berlin at all often, way too busy being amazing to hang out with the unwashed likes of us.
But here to hang out with us he is, one night only at Festsaal Kreuzberg, introducing to us his brand new solo album Sketches From The Book Of The Dead, released at the beginning of last month.
Every bit the dead-city rock sound you might be expecting, the new stuff is the music of pub brawlers and long nights in smokey bars, here’s a number…