Mick Harvey, born in Rochester, Australia, on August 29, 1958, met Nick Cave at
high school in 1973, with whom he formed The Boys Next Door. Renamed Birthday
Party, the punk band toured Europe between London and Berlin from 1980 to 1983,
before disbanding. Mick Harvey continued to play drums with his old high-school
friend in Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and also shared time in another band, Crime
& the City Solution, before venturing out on his own. On his first album,
Intoxicated Man (1995), he adapted Serge Gainsbourg's repertoire for an
English-speaking audience, and continued ...