Australian rocker Nick Cave's raw lyrics left members of the LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR so stunned during recording, they're heard laughing on the track.

On HIDING ALL AWAY, which appears on Cave's new double album ABATTOIR BLUES/THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS, the half-dozen members of the choir can be heard uncomfortably reacting to a trio of lines, which involve a butcher, a cleaver and a "fist up your dress".

The RED RIGHT HAND star says, "We left (the laughter) in because the song was heading toward its fairly grisly revelation, and I thought it benefitted enormously

"A lot of the stuff they were really hearing for the first time, and they were trying to sing it, so the lyrics were revealing themselves to them. And they're from a Christian choir.

"At certain points, they were thinking, 'What are we actually singing on?'"

29/10/2004 02:29