How did Grinderman originate?

We had this other venture that never had a name and we were playing a lot of concerts around Europe. Nick and Warren [Ellis, guitar] had been doing that for a while with Jim White [drummer from the Dirty Three] but when Marty [P Casey, bass] and I joined it rapidly turned into a rather tumultuous, raunchy and raucous affair! Prior to that it had just been an intimate evening with Nick Cave at the piano with light accompaniment.

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