Nick Cave first recorded with John Peel in his seminal post-punk band The Birthday Party. Their Peel Sessions allowed the band to capture the wild, raw spontaneity of their live performances on tape, and the resulting recordings were released by Strange Fruit in 1987. By this time the band had split and Nick Cave had formed another band, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, with ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, drummer Mick Harvey, and Einsturzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. This band stayed together for over a decade and produced many great albums such as 'Tender Prey' (1988), 'Let Love In' (1994), 'Murder Ballads' (1996) and more recent offerings such as 'No More Shall We Part' (2001) and ''Nocturama' (2003). Nick Cave recorded four Peel Sessions between 1980 and 1982 (released on Strange Fruit in 2001).
