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With Nick Cave. (Patreon)

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2023-10-16 16:57:35
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Hello loves.

Gonna cross-post this one.


(What is it with this month? First Robert Smith, then I get to hug this dude. Next up…? Leonard Cohen? Obama? God herself?)

This is me, with Nick Cave, last Saturday night at the Beacon Theater in New York. Photo by Brendon.

The eyes.

I’ve met Nick before, and seen him play many many times (I’ve been a huge card-carrying fan since I was 14).


But I haven’t talked to him directly for years. Since I last met him, he has lost two of his children.


On my 2019 solo tour (and I know many of you were there), I talked on stage about what was like to see him performing in the wake of his loss, what it was like to see him sing after losing a child.

How the audience held him. How he held the audience.

How we are able to hold one another. What music does.

Nick Cave is one of my biggest heroes. Not just because he’s a magnificent lyricist and musician and looks great in a suit, but because he’s the kind of artist I have always aspired to be: one who is not afraid to take people into the depths of darkness and then lead those same people out the other side - into the light - using the golden thread of song.

He is the master.

I love you, Nick Cave. Thank you for everything you have given this world.

Please share Nick love, everybody.

Favorite moments, favorite stories, favorite songs….

When people don’t know his work, I usually send them to Let Love In.

https://spotify.link/t9rQLjCRWDb

His letter/advice column “The Red Hand Files” is also extraordinary.

Man. Such a hero and mentor to me in so many ways.

Subscribe here:

https://www.theredhandfiles.com

Ok, off to dolls rehearsal.


Also: watch inboxes - I’m about to announce a HUGE three-part event at the Rubin Museum in NYC in November.

I’m on fire.

Xx

A

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Comments

SField

Never has a hug looked more needed...

Julian Normand

So happy you got to meet your hero! 💙 great photo. Hope you have an awesome day 🙃

Jo

Two of my favourite humans ❤️ beautiful pic!

Alexis Mai

For a second I panicked. 🥲😅 VERY RELIEVED, and very happy for you. And for him; you give great hugs. 🤗

Drag Queen Jesus

"He’s the kind of artist I have always aspired to be: one who is not afraid to take people into the depths of darkness and then lead those same people out the other side - into the light - using the golden thread of song." This feels super important Amanda. Remember this as any of use hold you lovingly accountable as you do the same for us. And we will get to other side. It's inevitable. This is what I love about your both your Artist and you.

Amie Gillingham

When I think Nick Cave, my mind automatically goes to Wings of Desire and I get chills remembering the ambience he and his music created, the way the audience was lifted higher and almost floated away, while rooting into the earth at the same time? I don’t have the words to describe it. Words don’t come close.

Erin Q.

The Red Hand Files have been a mainstay in my recipe for sanity. Nick Cave is such an articulate, compassionate, deeply loving, and insightful soul. Happy for you to reconnect with him!!!

carrie sisto

I gasped, immediately thinking the worst, and I am glad the worst isn’t true in this case. Happy to see he’s still doing what he loves and sharing it with us.

Daniel Allen

I first remember coming across the good Mr. Cave with the 'Batman Forever' soundtrack. The song 'There is a Light'. I've never been able to tell whether he wrote it for the film or if the themes matched so well by coincidence, but it remains a favorite. My next encounter was the 'Scream Soundtrack'. The song, of course, was 'Red Right Hand'. Another one that became a favorite. Then there was 'Shrek 2' (are you sensing a theme?) and the song 'People Ain't No Good'. Another favorite. I am not one to find a song I like and then dive in to find everything they've done. I've only done that twice in fact. First with Metallica and then with you, Amanda. But the more songs I like from an artist, the more inclined I am to start looking them up and seeking them out. Because if an artist can catch me with a banger more than a couple of times, I'm far more likely to let them in.

Amanda Forde

My parents listened to a lot of Nick Cave when I was growing up. I enjoyed it too but I found some of the songs a bit shouty so my dad made me a tape of the less shouty ones, complete with track listing and a music journalist style introduction. I can't remember exactly what was on the tape now but most likely included The Weeping Song, Red Right Hand, Christina the Astonishing and The Ship Song, all songs I associate with happy family memories of enjoying music together. I also remember we listened to the Murder Ballads a lot. My much younger brother was just a baby in those days but he recently learned to play the piano and one of his performance tunes is Into My Arms.

Rebecca Starodub

Red right hand is such a mood. Love that one

Stephanie Quinlan

I adore Nick Cave and this past weekend in Toronto, I saw him live for the 13th time. I have seen him with the Bad Seeds, with his side project Grinderman, just him and Warren Ellis, and on now on his own. The one that still stands out to me was seeing Conversations with Nick Cave in Montreal and Toronto. Both nights, Nick fielded questions from the audience and a lot of them had to do with grief and loss. His honesty, compassion and generosity in answering those questions was beautiful to witness. And what stands out to me is how, after all he's been through, he's still able to be witty and playful on stage. That delightfully dry sense of humour still shining through.

Deniz Bevan

As part of my ongoing Our Flag Means Death brainrot, I've been listening to The Ship Song on an endless loop 🥰

Tony Ivanova

My favourite album is Skeleton Tree. It really held me in its arms when my mom died.

Isa

I asked him once on a Conversations tour date how someone bears unbearable pain. How to live through it. I think I used the words: „what do I do when the pain is just too much?“ „There is no too much“, he said. „There is only growth. You do what you have to do, every day, every hour, every second. Live.“ These words hold me through operations and radiation and all the other -ations that happen to you during cancer treatments. I hold them to my heart when my psyche collapsed after my soul cat died a few weeks ago. I hold them right now when reading the news is scary and depression and nearly unbearable. Live.

Maria

So much love. Saw him in Cleveland and it was so beautiful and emotional.

Stephanie Quinlan

Also, my friends and I often speculate on exactly how many black suits Nick Cave owns. We envision him with a huge walk-in closet full of identical and immaculate suits, and shoes polished to a perfect shine.

Sonya Walton

I *just* saw him at Massey Hall in Toronto on Saturday! It was a near-religious, waiting-since-my-teens experience! <3 Seeing you together is such a thrill -- imagine if you played pianos together, on the same stage?! I would faint!

Kris Smerick

Bittersweet: at my first wedding, we danced to “Into My Arms.” That song captured us so well—or at least how we wished to be. We never made it to that level of acceptance and intimacy, but it remains one of my favorite songs.

Kris Smerick
>>119940707

We are watching that too! What a magical show (with a silly start—glad we stuck it out).

Janet in Georgia

I love nick cave too. He is a special human much like yourself. Thank you for sharing this beautiful photo. ❤️

Coila

Hero of my hero. I have yet to even look up his music. Will have to remedy this soon... When I first heard of him, it was during the Judy Bloom song and I thought he was a Judy Bloom character! XD

Stephanie Pollnac

I saw him in Brooklyn at Kings Theater last Friday. I hate to say that it’s the first time in over 20 years. Absolutely amazing.

Holly Alexander

Gosh, that tour. Sydney, January 2017. Amanda I saw you in a Nick Cave/PJ Harvey sandwich that weekend. You were incredible at the opera house, the night (?) after Trump’s inauguration. PJ was fire the night after. But my god, Nick. Like you I’d seen him perform a few times, and have since, but that show was something else entirely. The electricity of being in that room, knowing what had happened and feeling that grief, catharsis, healing just pouring off him. I’ll never forget it. I saw you again on that tour at the Gasometer in Melbourne. I was wearing the tshirt I’d bought at the Nick Cave show and we spoke briefly about him and that album and tour. And then we hugged.

Sam Allen

"From now on I'll mention Nick Cave, and I'll talk about you." <3 Me too, Amanda. Although my "you" happens to be Allen Ginsberg, and Leonard Cohen, and..... :D

amandapalmer
>>119940885

Yes. I listened to that fucker every morning while recording “There Will Be No Intermission”.

Shelly Nuessle

Into my Arms is my go to. It expresses all the intimacy I desire with someone. That I never can quite reach. I missed Nick in DC. I hope for another chance

Eric Prentice

Where do I start? The first time I saw Nick, he was in the Boys Next Door, then Birthday Party, which I went to every opportunity I had and seeing I lived in Melbourne, it was a lot. I was always at the front and have the photos to prove it. There was the one-off Cavemen gig (doing covers) and the pre-Bad Seeds gig as Man or Myth. After that, there were the biennial Bad Seeds tours, where I saw every Melbourne show. If they played three nights, I went three nights. Of course I was at the Big Day Out where Kylie wandered on stage to sing, 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'. Ginderman, Nick and Warren Ellis, Nick, Warren and the MSO, solo shows..... Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, I even have the set of the Plasticgod figures. I guess you could say I'm a fan.

Allison B

Such beautiful, inspiring and loving beings - what an absorbing photograph. For me Nick Cave holds more wonder. charisma, wisdom and holiness than anyone I can think of , even the Dalai Lama.

Jen

The red hand flies is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Light and love ❤️❤️❤️

Liz

Let Love In is the perfect record. I love this picture even more every-time I see it. You are both filled with so much compassion and make such incredible music. I feel so lucky to be on the planet, making art, at the same time as you two. 🖤🖤

Chad Boykin

I basically memorized his catalogue for years, read all the books, there’s a great lecture with songs that he did “the secret life of the love song”, it’s awesome and has the best version of Sad Waters ever, finally, I saw him in Durham a few weeks ago, just incredible!

Scott Meekins

I love the photo! And I especially love Nick Cave! Great job Amanda! It would be wonderful if you two could collaborate on something!

Griddi

Love you both so much❣

Rhiannon Crutchley

man, I never heard that album before, now my life will never be the same again. just wow.