Mick Harvey

The Profile

Mick Harvey is an Australian musician, composer and producer, co-founder of The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Renowned for English-language interpretations of Serge Gainsbourg and for film scores, he has released acclaimed solo albums and collaborated widely, including with PJ Harvey. He left the Bad Seeds in 2009 and continues to record and score films.

Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer; co-founded The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; also member of Crime and the City Solution; producer/collaborator with PJ Harvey (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea); released Serge Gainsbourg tribute/translation albums (Intoxicated Man, Pink Elephants; later Delirium Tremens, Intoxicated Women); composed film music including Ghosts... of the Civil Dead and Chopper; left the Bad Seeds in 2009.

Reviewers hail Harvey’s Gainsbourg tributes for their atmosphere and craft, and praise the intimacy of One Man’s Treasure. Motion Picture Music ’94–’05 is viewed as heterogeneous yet consistently classy. His long shadow alongside Nick Cave and work with PJ Harvey are noted. Overall sentiment: warmly positive.