Anita Lane

Anita Lane is an Australian singer and songwriter who directly influenced the early 1980s European post-punk landscape.

Birthday Party

Lane was born in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1950s. Lane began singing and writing songs at 16. She was a classmate with Rowland S. Howard who would later go on to form The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party with Nick Cave. Lane became Cave's girlfriend and moved to London with the band in 1980. She wrote several songs for The Birthday Party 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, but did not perform or record with the band. She wrote the title track to the band's 1984 LP, From Her To Eternity, as well as the song, "Stranger to Kindness" from Your Funeral, My Trial. She also began to perform and record her own songs. She worked with the German band Die Haut before recording Dirty Sings under her own name. She was joined on the record by Nick Cave, and Bad Seeds' Barry Adamson, Thomas Wydler, and Mick 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 of Serge 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 with Einsturzende 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 1980's. She currently lives in London with her children.

Discography

  
   
Year Title Under the name
1981 Prayers on Fire The Birthday Party
1982 Junkyard The Birthday Party
1984 From Her To Eternity Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1986 Your Funeral, My Trial Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1988 Headless Body in a Topless Bar Die Haut
1988 Dirty Sings Anita Lane
1989 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead Soundtrack
1989 Moss Side Story Barry Adamson
1991 These Boots Were Made for Walking {12"} Anita Lane and Barry Adamson
1991 Delusion (12") Anita Lane and Barry Adamson
1992 Head On Die Haut
1993 Tabula Rasa Einsturzende Neubauten
1993 Dirty Pearl Anita Lane
1995 The World's a Girl (7" clear vinyl) Anita Lane
1995 Intoxicated Man Mick Harvey
1995 Initials B.B. (7") Mick Harvey
1995 Yadi Yadi Gudrun Gut and Anita Lane
1996 Firething (CDs) Gudrun Gut and Anita Lane,
1996 Members of the Ocean Club Gudrun Gut
1996 Murder Ballads Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1996 Harley Davidson (7") Mick Harvey and Anita Lane
1997 Pink Elephants Mick Harvey
2000 Objectif Pub compilation
2000 OST - Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin Soundtrack by Pale 3
2001 Sex O'Clock Anita Lane

External links

Lane, Anita Lane, Anita Lane, Anita

 

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