A YEAR IN PROVENCE

Among the essays in the accompanying book, artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, directors of Nick Cave film 20,000 Days On Earth, record their visit to France to film part of the recording of Push The Sky Away. Among the revelations: Cave is usually first to the studio dinner table; there had been hopes Blixa Bargeld would play something but he had been unwell; there was meant to be a lost Iggy Pop/David Bowie master in the studio in France.