Nick Cave has posted on his blog to answer fan questions about the songwriting process for the new Bad Seeds record, which he says is due out later this year. “Seven Psalms”, the group’s current LP, was only released last year. So a user named Sharon from Greece asked the 65-year-old, “Do you ever go on vacation?” and Peter from Belgium wanted to know, “How’s the songwriting going?”
To which Nick Cave replied via “The Red Hand Files”: “I’m even going to take a few weeks break from the ‘Red Hand Files’ as I’m back in the studio starting today and working on songs for the new Bad Seeds record. Is this some kind of vacation? Perhaps.”
About the new work he revealed: “So far the tracks sound great. I say that with some caution because I won’t really know until I get the Bad Seeds in the studio and we actually record the album. But it feels very good, very positive.”
Although he wants to take a break from his blogging activities, you can still write to him there, he emphasized: “I will continue to read your questions every day, so don’t stop writing! I’ll see you all in a few weeks. Love, Nick.”
And why was Nick Cave at King Charles III’s coronation ceremony?
His blog previously raised questions about his “questionable” attendance at King Charles III’s coronation ceremony. popped up. When asked “why the hell” he went to the king’s coronation ceremony, he replied: “I’m not a monarchist, I’m not a royalist and I’m not a bright republican either, but I’m also not that spectacularly uninterested in the world and how it works, like that ideologically trapped and so damn grumpy that I would decline an invitation to what is probably the most important historical event in the UK of our time. Not only the most important, but also the strangest, the weirdest.”
In response to a UK letter-writer who asked: “What would young Nick Cave have thought of this?” the musician wrote: “Young Nick Cave, with all due respect to young Nick Cave, was young. And like a lot of young people, mostly demented, so I’m a little wary of using him as a yardstick for what I should and shouldn’t do. But he was cute, I have to give him that.”
More about Nick Cave
Cave was born and raised in Australia but has lived in the UK for years. In 2017 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia – a distinction introduced by Elizabeth II in 1975. The current record from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, directed by Warren Ellis, is called “Seven Psalms” and will be released in 2022.