NEWS: Grinderman Accused Of Plagiarism

​Nick Cave of Grinderman has been called out by a 29 year old, who claims Cave ripped off his song to make "Palaces of Montezuma."

Frankie Duffy (of defunct Dundee, Scotland act Rising Signs) claims that “Palaces of Montezuma,” a surprisingly tender moment on Grinderman’s sophomore effort, Grinderman 2, sounds suspiciously like his old act’s tune “Grey Man".

"I can't help thinking that Nick Cave was sitting in his house one night and decided to surf some unsigned bands and saw our site, saw we were split up and thought, 'I'll have that track, nobody will ever know". 

Cave addressed the issue at a show in London at the Hammersmith Appolo on Friday (October 1), stating that someone is trying to sue him for supposedly basing the Grinderman song on his own. However Cave called bullshit on these claims at the Friday night gig. "You may have read that some 17 year old kid in Dundee is trying to sue me and is claiming to have written this song,” Cave said before launching into “Palaces of Montezuma.” “That's funny, because I wrote it for my wife."

While clips of both songs reveal a similar melody, this kind of thing happens all the time. There are only so many notes in a scale, you know. Duffy, however, believes the legendary Cave to have been up to some sinister shenanigans.