Recently several bands and artists have accepted visas to the
Island of Freedom. Arriving straight to the Main Stage with their
latest release are the legendary Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds, as
well as the most popular alternative rock band of the 2000’s,
Franz Ferdinand.
Poet, writer, provocateur, rockstar. Nick Cave is all of these though not necessarily in
this order. Whatever he does is simply important. He makes era-defining records, he
creates and dismisses bands, whatever he touches turns not just into gold, but into a
timeless monolith. He is still harmonic even if he is off-key: with the Bad Seeds he
approaches the irregular consciously, just to make sure that all other notes wind up
exactly where they are supposed to be. When Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds hit the
stage the outside...
