Warren Ellis will discuss his forthcoming book, Nina Simone’s Gum, at Guardian Australia’s Zoom book club on Thursday. Below is an extract about the masticated relic he held on to for decades
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Nick Cave: It was 1 July 1999 and I was hanging around backstage at the Meltdown festival in London. I was the director of the festival that year. It was the Nina Simone evening. Germaine Greer had just come off stage after reading Sappho in the original Greek to a genuinely perplexed audience. Nina Simone was locked in her room and was not seeing anyone. People were running around screaming stuff at me. It was a typical Meltdown evening of genius and barely contained chaos.
Nina Simone was a god to me and to my friends. The great Nina Simone. The legendary Nina Simone. The troublemaker and risk taker who taught us everything we needed to know about the nature of artistic disobedience. She was the real deal, the baddest of them all, and someone was tapping me on the shoulder and telling me that Nina Simone wanted to see me in her dressing room.
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