For those that don’t know, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are a rock n’roll band. They rose from the ruins of The Birthday Party in 1983 and are fronted by (Man or Myth?) Nicholas Edward Cave.

We've been working on the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds website in one form or another since 2007. There have been a variety of iterations, sometimes awkward, sometimes direct, some with full screen video, some with séances and the ghosts and voices of the long forgotten.

Inside St.Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol is a small chapel, which dates back to the 12th Century. The stained glass windows were smashed during the reformation in the 1500’s but the fragments that survived were re-assembled to form ‘new’ windows. It’s this successive history where the old makes way for the new yet at the same time leaves fragments behind that formed the basis for the design.

This site is an archive for fans to browse through hundreds of assets and managing this content required some doing! The CMS is completely bespoke and deals with some complicated relationships to allow each asset to cross-link to others.

It's very common these days to see jQuery driven grid layouts but back in 2007 this site really was ahead of the curve. Since it launched we've upgraded it repeatedly with the most recent revision adding in the lovely Crimson webfont.

Anything that don’t frighten the children is in good taste, as far as I’m concerned.

- Elvis Presley

Whatever's next for the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds website is anyone's guess. We've channelled Harry Houdini and come out the other side still intact, phew!

Top Image: Photograph by Steve Gullick