Anita Lane
| Anita Lane | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anita Louise Lane |
| Also known as | Dirty |
| Born | ca. 1959 (age 57–58) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Post-punk, alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Mute |
| Associated acts | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |
Anita Louise Lane (born ca. 1959) is an Australian singer-songwriter who was briefly a member of the Bad Seeds with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, and has collaborated with both former band mates. Lane has released two solo albums, Dirty Pearl (1993) and Sex O'Clock (2001).
Anita Louise Lane was born in Melbourne in about 1959. She began singing and writing songs at the age of 16. She was a classmate of Rowland S. Howard, while both were students at the Prahran College of Advanced Education, undertaking the Tertiary Orientation Programme.
Anita Lane met Nick Cave in 1977 and the pair began an intermittent personal relationship. Cave on lead vocals, was a member of a new wave group, The Boys Next Door, with Mick Harvey on guitar, Phill Calvert on drums and Tracy Pew on bass guitar. By December 1978 Rowland S. Howard had joined the line up on lead guitar. In February 1980 The Boys Next Door were renamed as The Birthday Party and, with the group, Lane and Cave, relocated to London.
Lane and Cave co-wrote the lyrics for "A Dead Song", which appeared on their debut album, Prayers on Fire (April 1981).AllMusic's Greg Maurer praised the album, and noted Lane's song writing contribution. George Sarostin of Only Solitaire felt that on this track, Cave "sounds, with all of his whiny 'okay okay', just like one of those poor innocent or half-innocent victims with a bloody nose and a gun at their temple in a gangster movie".
For their second album, Junkyard (May 1982), Lane and Cave co-wrote two tracks, "Dead Joe", and "Kiss Me Black". Session and touring musician, Barry Adamson, provided bass guitar on "Kiss Me Black". The group relocated to West Berlin in August 1982 prior to their cessation in June of the following year.
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