The sixty-five-year-old Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave is famous for his deep baritone voice and for being the lead singer of the beloved rock band named Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Born in the small state of Victoria, Australia, the singer shocked the world with his dark music style that some believed was outright scary.
His rock band had a reputation for putting raw and violent performances in front of the audience, and it did not help that Nick himself had pitch-black hair and pale white skin that made him look extremely intimidating and unapproachable. Nick is the one who actively takes part in producing, composing, and writing the band’s songs which are most often than not really emotional songs about love, religion, and death with a lot of philosophical thought put into them.
His discography has a bunch of songs that have taken heavy inspiration from the Christian-centred holy books, the Old Testament, and the New Testament, including songs like “The Mercy Seat” and “Where the Wild Roses Grow.” The singer has also released novels that give a lot of insight into his mind and thought process. His first-ever novel, “And The Ass Saw The Angel,” and his second novel, “The Death of Bunny Munro,” both have heavy undertones of his learnings from the catholic scriptures.
The singer has also been a part of films in different forms, as a writer for The Proposition, as an actor in 20,000 Days on Earth, and while also receiving credits for films like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road, and Lawless. While his songs have always been emotional, though expressed in different ways, his recent style has become softer and more gentle when compared to his music at the time of his debut in 1973.
His band’s most recent album, titled, Ghosteen, released in 2019, is said to have been very vague and without a defined direction. This has been so because songwriter Cave had been going through a rough grieving process while mourning over his son’s passing in 2015. The singer-songwriter recently was seen making a public appearance at a very controversial event that many celebrities chose not to attend and boycott. Continue reading to find out what the singer had to say about the event.
Nick Cave at the Coronation
Support it or not, the coronation ceremony of King Charles III and his Queen Consort, Camilla, has been shoved in our faces by all media platforms. While the ceremony itself felt and looked like an expensive ugly-ball-themed Halloween party with all the weird capes and crowns, it was witnessed by many celebrities and locals. Internationally, the people did feel like Britain had time-traveled back to ancient times, all the while calling out the supporters for standing in support of the Royal Family, invaders, and thieves if you will.
The invitation for the ceremony was sent out to many celebrities, with many outright boycotting it and rejecting the invitation, but many others did not mind being a part of the event. Singer Nick Cave was also among the many who received the invite and who agreed to attend. This acceptance, obviously, did not sit well with many who took to social media to vent their anger toward him.
In an interview, the singer revealed that he agreed to go not because he supports the “royalist” ideology or because he does not care for their past deeds, or because of some deeply evil reason. He just confirmed that he has a weird sort of emotional attachment to that family in the sense that, to him, the fact that they are still doing the coronation in the era is just so strange and hilarious.
He agreed to go only because he wanted to witness the strangeness and peculiarity of it all personally and not because there was some thoughtful, deeply manipulative plan behind it. He was taking the entire ceremony as a weird joke that aligned perfectly with his own sense of humor, and he knew that something like this would probably never happen again in the future for him to witness again.
It struck him as eccentric, the fact that Britain was still continuing with years-old tradition that most countries abandoned long ago, and that is the only reason why he agreed to go and stand as a witness.
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