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Nick Cave gets a touch of evil from his Grinderman sessions

Cut off from the outside world in their studio, the Bad Seeds offshoot create an unholy racket.

In the 15th century, King James IV of Scotland wanted to know what the voice of angels sounded like. So he took a newborn child and placed it on Inchkeith island in the Firth of Forth with only a deaf-mute nursemaid to look after it.