Nick Cave on PJ Harvey break-up: 'I was so surprised I almost dropped my syringe'

Cave tells fan on on his website The Red Hand Files, ‘I suspected that drugs might have been a problem between us’

The Boatman’s Call has long been considered one of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ most confessional records, written around the time of Cave’s break-up with English musician PJ Harvey.

But while it’s long been known that the 1997 album was in part inspired by her, Cave revealed on Tuesday the reasons behind the break-up – and the toll it took on him.

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