Crime & The City Solution

Crime & the City Solution have always been Simon Bonney's band: a singer with a preacher's gravity and a storyteller's eye, surrounded by whichever musicians were in his orbit. He started it in Sydney in 1977, but it took shape in the mid-80s when former Birthday Party members Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard joined him for the gothic, blues-soaked Room of Lights.

Settling in Berlin, with violinist Bronwyn Adams now in the line-up, the band added Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke, and Shine, The Bride Ship and Paradise Discotheque grew more sweeping and cinematic. Wim Wenders, a fan, put them on screen in Wings of Desire.

Bonney revived the band in Detroit for American Twilight in 2013, and later in Berlin for The Killer.