- Anita Lane
Anita Lane is an
Australian singer andsongwriter who directly influenced the early 1980sEurope anpost-punk landscape.Birthday Party
Lane was born in
Melbourne ,Australia in the late 1950s. Lane began singing and writing songs at age 16. She was a classmate withRowland S. Howard who would later form The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party withNick Cave . Lane became Cave's girlfriend and moved toLondon with the band in 1980. She co-wrote the lyrics of three songs for The Birthday Party ("Dead Joe", "Kiss Me Black" and "A Dead Song") before they imploded in 1983.Bad Seeds
Lane is sometimes credited as a founding member of
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , which was forged from the debris left behind by The Birthday Party's demise. She had an undeniably strong influence upon Nick Cave and his work, often cited as his "muse ", although her only recorded performance with the band is a 'cameo' verse on theBob Dylan cover "Death Is Not The End" from the album "Murder Ballads ". She co-wrote the lyrics of the title track to the band's 1984 LP, "From Her to Eternity ", as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from "Your Funeral, My Trial ". She also began to perform and record her own songs. She worked with the German bandDie Haut before recording "Dirty Sings" under her own name. She was joined on the record by Nick Cave, and Bad SeedsBarry Adamson ,Thomas Wydler , andMick Harvey , who produced.Anita Lane and Mick Harvey
With Harvey, Lane has recorded a series of albums that showcased the dichotomy between her baby doll voice and the
sexual longing of her lyrics. These include a pair of albums ofSerge Gainsbourg 's covers, 1995's "The Intoxicated Man" and 1997's "Pink Elephants". Harvey also produced Lane's 1993 collection,Dirty Pearl , which compiled tracks from Lane's work withEinstürzende Neubauten , Die Haut, as well as exclusive album tracks. Harvey co-wrote several songs, including the UK hit single, "The World's A Girl". Lane's most recent collaboration with Harvey is 2001's "Sex O' Clock".Lane and Cave split sometime in the 1980s. She currently (2005) lives in
Byron Bay , Australia with her children.Discography
External links
* [http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/anita/anita2.htm Mute biography]
* [http://www.anitalane.com/biography.html homepage]
* [http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/lyrics/anitalane.lyrics.html Lyrics]
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