Books That Burn: Grinderman
In the first of a new feature, we're asking bands which books turned their world around as teenagers.
Nick Cave: I read a lot of books at that time. Huysman's Against Nature - that had a huge effect. It's a kind of treaty put forwards that the artificial world is more interesting than the actual world - it's just one of those wonderful books.
I was also reading alot of those French surrealist, Dada kind of literature at the time - which I'm not sure if I'd recommend now - and a lot of Beckett.
Jim Sclavunos: There were way too many books that meant a lot to me, but particularly as a teenger Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man [was the one]. Because I figured out that while Stephen Dedalus* was cruel and ambitious, he was also quite full of himself and pompous and pretensious. It made me think well... oh. I hope I'm not like that!
Artrocker.TV: And did you realise that you weren't?
Jim Sclavunos: No, I think I am! Just superficially more self effacing! (laughs)
* Stephen Dedalus is the alter-ego of James Joyce in the novel
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