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Grinderman: 'It's Over'

Grinderman 02-Homebake 2011
Dec 12, 2011 Updated Dec 23, 2011

Nick Cave announced that the band have decided to call it quits at the end of their Meredith Music Festival set on Saturday night.

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When ABC Dig Music caught up with Grinderman/Bad Seeds members Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis in January at the Big Day Out, there was no hint of things to come. Hear it again above.

"That's it for Grinderman," Cave told the Meredith audience. "It's over. See you in 10 years."

The Saturday night performance capped off a short tour through early December in Adelaide, Fremantle and Sydney.

The unexpected end to the Bad Seeds side project comes a year after their second album Grinderman 2 was released and six years since Bad Seeds Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos had launched the band for a more 'collaborative' effort.

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Grinderman was an alternative rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, electric guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (electric tenor guitar, Mandocaster, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals) in London, United Kingdom in 2006. All members are also active musicians in Nick Cave and...

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On Dec 12, 2011. 10:59am
Sassacass said

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???! Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

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