The 66-year-old Australian has a 40-plus year career behind him filling concert halls but has never become mainstream. Sober since the late 90s, he muses on tragedies on life and how to break loose from grief in his new album.
Nick Cave who is the headliner of this year's Talks programme looks on as he walks at the stage at Heartland Festival in Kvaerndrup, Denmark, June 8, 2023. / Photo: Reuters Archive
The 66-year-old Australian, has a 40-plus year career behind him filling concert halls but has never become mainstream. The teenager died in 2015 in a cliff fall in Brighton on England's south coast after taking LSD for the first time. Since the death of his sons, however,"this just collapsed completely and I just saw the folly of that, the kind of disgraceful self-indulgence of the whole thing", he told Australia's national broadcaster ABC.People write to him from all over the world to confide in him and ask for advice on coping with the loss of a loved one.
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