1. Michael John Harvey was born on 29 August 1958 and is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.
23 Facts About Mick Harvey
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Mick Harvey has produced and contributed to multiple recordings by different artists and released several albums and soundtracks as a solo artist.
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Mick Harvey's father was a Church of England vicar, and the family lived adjacent to the father's church; first in Ormond and later in Ashburton.
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Mick Harvey was a member of the school choir, conducted by actor Norman Kaye, and took extracurricular lessons from jazz guitarist Bruce Clarke.
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The band moved to West Berlin, Germany in 1982, but without Calvert; Mick Harvey subsequently transitioned from guitar to drums.
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Mick Harvey was principally the drummer on the band's first two albums before Thomas Wydler became a full-time member.
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Mick Harvey was often perceived as a musical director for the band and managed much of the band's business affairs right up until his departure.
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Mick Harvey remained with the Bad Seeds for 25 years until his last show in Perth, Australia on 20 January 2009, when he cited both professional and personal factors as reasons for leaving.
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In 2010, Mick Harvey explained further how his frustration with song arrangements strained his relationship with Cave.
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Mick Harvey collaborated with UK rock musician PJ Harvey, and produced recordings for other Australian artists, including Anita Lane, Robert Forster, Conway Savage and Rowland S Howard.
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Mick Harvey undertook his first solo tours of Europe and Australia in 2006, accompanied by fellow Bad Seeds Thomas Wydler and James Johnston, as well as Melbourne-based double bassist Rosie Westbrook.
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Mick Harvey is a contributor to the 2009 edited collection, Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids, edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.
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Mick Harvey played most of the instruments, while Westbrook played double bass, Shilo played accordion, violin and occasional guitar, and Xanthe Waite contributed backing vocals.
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Mick Harvey explained in a promotional interview that he does not perceive himself as a "songwriter" in the traditional sense, whereby the practice is: "something they [actual songwriters, as perceived by Mick Harvey] have done historically and something they've worked on as central to what they are as an artist".
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Mick Harvey again co-produced and recorded for PJ Mick Harvey during the creation of her eighth studio album, Let England Shake.
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Mick Harvey again collaborated with PJ Mick Harvey in early 2015, playing and singing on her album The Hope Six Demolition Project.
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The album was recorded in Melbourne with Mick Harvey's Antipodean-based core live band.
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Mick Harvey continued his dedication to the works of Serge Gainsbourg with Intoxicated Women, released in 2017.
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In 2018, Mick Harvey released the album The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War in collaboration with author Christopher Richard Barker.
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Mick Harvey collaborated with Amanda Acevedo for the album Phantasmagoria in Blue, released in 2023.
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In May 2024, Mick Harvey released his eleventh studio album, Five Ways to Say Goodbye.
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Mick Harvey has one son with his partner, Katy Beale, who is a painter.