This high mindedness has sometimes been criticised for inconsistency. Likewise his critiques of what he perceives to be censorious young activists almost never move past cancel culture generalities. We see the world as essentially mysterious, often mystical, and we are humbled by it.” Cave’s magical moderation – curiously unspecific in its borders and definitions, allies or policies – can read like the worst excesses of liberal self-congratulation, unhumbled by the global populism of the last decade. Writing about his self-defined centrist politics earlier this year, Cave argued that centrists “feel freer, less restricted, less dogmatised, less bigoted. Better that we “engage openly in free-ranging conversation – an expansion of collective discovery toward a common good.” He has conflated Antifa with the far-right, applying the horseshoe theory beloved of conservatives to an organisation that barely exists outside the US right’s imagination. He has called it “bad religion” and “mercy’s antithesis”. Science and Technical Research and DevelopmentĬave writes regularly on his dislike of political correctness and woke culture which he has attacked for its “self-righteous belief” and “lack of humility”.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Faith, Hope and Carnage, a bestselling book of conversations between Cave and the Observer writer Seán O’Hagan, was published last year. Cave answers fan questions – often on current affairs, creativity and spirituality – through his popular newsletter and website the Red Hand Files, which he started in 2018. In late middle-age, Nick Cave has embraced a new openness in the aftermath of the death of his teenage son Arthur in 2015. In the politics he espouses and the manner in which he embraces his Christian faith, Cave has for some time been a conservative and sometimes establishment figure. This week, some were surprised at the 65-year-old’s revelation that he will be attending the coronation of King Charles III, saying he “hold(s) an inexplicable emotional attachment to the royals”. They are three of the finest albums of Cave’s four-decade career.Ĭave the public figure has undergone another kind of evolution. On Push the Sky Away, Skeleton Tree and 2019’s expansive and pained Ghosteen, the Australian born songwriter dramatically abandoned his former fidelity to traditional song structures and pushed towards something more elliptical, closer to modernist writing in its fragmentation and eschewing of traditional narrative. Across the last decade Nick Cave – in his recorded output with the Bad Seeds – has achieved the rarest of things, a genuine late career creative renaissance.
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