Nick Caveโ€™s new sideproject band Grindernman are to release their third single โ€œ(I Donโ€™t Need You To) Set Me Freeโ€ on May 7.

The single taken from their self-titled debut album will be available as a limitd edition one-sided 7โ€ณ vinyl and as a digital download.

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The band who also consists of Bad Seeds members Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos are making their live debut at All Tomorrowโ€™s Parties next weekend, April 27-28 โ€“ where Nick Cave will also perform a headline solo show.

Grinderman will also now play a lunchtime instore show at HMV Oxford Circus on May 9.

Discussing the new single, Cave explains he was inspired by John Lee Hooker. He says: โ€œI was trying to find a way into what I wanted the lyrics to be concerned with. I was listening to John Lee Hooker and I heard these lines buried deep in one of his songs: โ€˜I went down to my babyโ€™s house/And I sat down on the step.โ€™ And in that instant, I knew Iโ€™d found a way in, you know, to the album. Thatโ€™s all you need, a way in. Lyrically, the whole album rests on those two lines.โ€

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He continues rather puzzlingly: โ€œThe protagonist in โ€œSet Me Freeโ€ is disconnected from things whilst his โ€˜otherโ€™ has left him in order to engage in the world. The protagonist no longer has a โ€œwitnessโ€, he is alone, and left to metaphorically โ€œsit down on the step.โ€