Music Matters is a collective of people across the music industry, including artists, retailers, songwriters, labels and managers, getting together to remind everyone of the significance and value of music in our lives. Life just isn’t worth living without it and we need to keep the flame burning!

They have commissioned some incredible film-makers across the world to work with their favourite musicians to create some short films about the importance of music in our lives. Here is an amazing piece on our national treasure Nick Cave by Sarah Cox and Emma Lazenby. Sarah has worked with Aardman Animation (of Wallace & Gromit fame) on a number of projects including Don’t Let It All Unravel for the Live Earth concerts. Emma lives in Bristol where she designs, animates and directs for Aardman Animations and ArthurCox. She has recently finished a short film Mother of Many, which won the Bafta for Best Short Animation at this year’s awards.

They said “We have both been long time Nick Cave fans, Sarah even went to see The Birthday Party in 1983 at the Hacienda. Once we got started however we felt the enormity of the responsibility in depicting someone’s life, particularly someone we admire so much. We sort of wish we had selected someone whose opinion we didn’t value quite so much.”

So without any further ado…

There are lots of other beautiful films which we’ll be posting in coming weeks!