Conway Savage

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Conway Savage, b. 27 July 1960, is a pianist/organist/backing vocalist known for his membership of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, which he was invited to join in 1990 for their Good Son tour of that year.

Savage has now been a key member of the Bad Seeds for over 15 years featuring on such celebrated albums as Henry's Dream, Let Love In, Murder Ballads', The Boatman's Call, No More Shall We Part and Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus.

He began playing piano in his early teens in the dining room of one of the pubs his parents owned in country Victoria.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he also guested on numerous albums and singles for various leading Australian musicians, including Kim Salmon (The Scientists/The Surrealists), Dave Graney (The Moodists/Dave Graney's Coral Snakes), Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens), Spencer P. Jones (The Beasts Of Bourbon) and David McComb (The Triffids).

During the last decade, Savage has also produced his own critically acclaimed solo material. In 1993 he released a mini-album titled Eponymous. In 1998 he linked up with singer/songwriter Suzie Higgie for the collaborative album, Soon Will Be Tomorrow.

In 2000 Conway Savage released his debut full-length album Nothing Broken on his own label Beheaded Communications, featuring fellow Bad Seeds Mick Harvey, Martyn P Casey, together with Charlie Owen. In 2004, Conway Savage's third solo release Wrong Man's Hands (on Beheaded Communications), was recorded in Australia on an 8-track over summer 2003/2004 in a room above the Union Club Hotel, Fitzroy, with members of Melbourne band The Stream, Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner. Conway Savage's most recent latest release was 2005's Rare Songs & Performances 1989-2004, which traced his various studio and live material recorded in Australia and Europe. Guest musicians include Mick Harvey, Martyn P Casey, Jim White, Spencer P Jones, Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner.