Grinderman’s Warren Ellis speaks!

Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos) plays the Variety Playhouse tonight (Nov. 18).

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  • Deirdre O Callaghan
  • Warren Ellis (standing)



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Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos) plays the Variety Playhouse tonight (Nov. 18). $40. 8:30 p.m. Variety Playhouse, Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354.

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Chad Radford: How have the shows been going so far on this tour?

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Warren Ellis: Really great, actually. The show seems to be developing as opposed to disintegrating, which is good. We haven’t done that much touring with Grinderman so it’s a bit of an adventure for us. It’s still finding its feet which makes it exciting, and the potential for it to keep growing and evolving is there. It’s different from the Bad Seeds because some of that material has been played for 25 years now. But Grinderman has a pretty lean selection which makes it quite a different show for us, which is fantastic.

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When I first heard Grinderman’s “No Pussy Blues” a few years back, I thought, ‘damn, this is not the Bad Seeds!’

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No, that would never happen with the Bad Seeds. Last night Nick was on stage and said that the song has been horribly misinterpreted and it’s actually about not having a pussy. You can work with that…