The letter is read by Kylie Minogue for LETTERS LIVE: http://letterslive.com/ Letter taken from Letters Of Note, compiled by Shaun Usher (Canongate): http://www.canongate.tv/letters-of-note-hardback.html When released in 1996, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' ninth album, the beautifully haunting, sometimes terrifying Murder Ballads, attracted critical praise from far and wide and went on to reach a larger audience than any of their previous records.