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Nick Cave is still raising hell

The rocker whipped up a hurricane of his own at the Hammersmith Apollo

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the stage of the Hammersmith Apollo with the help of his six compadres.

Sharp-suited and spivvy, Nick Cave howled and crooned his way through songs of death, sex, savagery and deviancy interspersed with love ballads of exquisite tenderness.

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