Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Pianist Conway Savage Has Died

Long-term Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage has died, aged 58.

The Australian musician – who was a member of Nick Cave's group for almost 30 years – sadly passed away as a result of a brain tumour, which had been diagnosed in 2017.

While NC&TBS isn't strictly Kerrang!-related music, their influence on many bands in our world is absolutely undeniable, and this is extremely sad news.

A statement reads as follows:

"Our beloved Conway passed away on Sunday evening. A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine - he was all of these things and quite literally “had the gift of a golden voice,” high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang Streets of Laredo to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house. Love, Nick and the Bad Seeds."

RIP, Conway. Our thoughts are with everyone who knew him.