Nick Cave, here in London in 2018, thanked his fans for their support.
Photo: Redferns, Gus Stewart. All rights reserved.
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On his newsletter page, The Red Hand Files, Nick Cave was dubbed a “greeting card hippie” by a fan because his music has lacked its hatred and anger in recent years. They were replaced by joy, love and peace to the author’s envy.
In response, the musician, writer and artist spoke about the death of his then 15-year-old son Arthur. He fell off a cliff in 2015. This tragic event changed him forever. The dismissive attitude that he and his music once had had suddenly become unimportant and felt stupid. The whole answer is there here.
Nick Cave celebrated great success with his band The Bad Seeds, especially in the 90s and early 2000s, for example with the album “The Boatman’s Call” and its opener “Into My Arms”. He also worked as a writer, wrote screenplays and had guest appearances in films such as Wim Wenders’ “Der Himmel über Berlin” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”, for which he also taxed the film music.
Arthur’s death was not Nick Cave’s only loss. In May 2022, his son Jethro Lazenby passed away at the age of 31.
In 2022 Nick Cave released the spoken word album 7 PSALMS, a year earlier released with “carnage‘ his first album, which he recorded with Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis.
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