![]() ![]() People say, How can you go on tour? But for me it’s the other way around. It’s difficult to talk about, but the concerts themselves and this act of mutual support saves me. What I’m doing artistically is entirely repaying a debt. I was helped hugely by my audience, and when I play now, I feel like that’s giving something back. This was extremely affecting for me.'”Ĭave went on: “The concerts that I did following that, too - the care from the audience saved me. “ Susie and I somehow managed to pull ourselves out of that, and - I know this sounds corny - that did have something to do with the response I started to get from people who kept writing to me and saying, mostly, ‘This happened to me, and this is what’s happening to you, and this is what can happen. The terrifying thing about when Arthur died was that it felt like, How could this feeling ever be any different? I don’t want everything I talk about and everything I am to revolve around these losses, but I feel compelled to let people in the same situation of grief know…that there is a way out.”īut - thanks in part to his ongoing column The Red Hand Files - Cave has found solace in knowing that his music has helped a number of fans who have endured similar tragedies. LOST CAVES TN HOW TOIn response to how he’s processing Jethro’s recent passing, Cave added: “I don’t know how to say this, really, but I do know there’s a way out. “But in respect to Arthur and Jethro, I can’t wipe my hands and say, ‘OK, now I’m moving on.’” Sadly, Jethro died shortly after the interviews were completed, but Cave discusses his feelings towards Arthur’s death at length: “I think grieving people are conscious of the sell-by date of their own misery,” Cave told the Times. The interview arrives just ahead of the September 20th release of Faith, Hope and Carnage, a book comprising interviews between Cave and journalist Seán O’Hagan. Naturally, music has long been an outlet of grief for the musician, and he chatted about his experience grieving loved ones and how his fans lured him out of the trenches in a new profile with the New York Times. The post Nick Cave Discusses Grieving Two Sons in In-Depth Interview: “The Audience Saved Me” appeared first on Consequence.īack in May, Nick Cave’s oldest son, Jethro Lazenby, died at the age of 31 - a tragedy made all the more agonizing by the fact that another of Cave’s sons, Arthur, died only seven years earlier at 15. ![]()
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