“There’s a bad-boy pose that’s been dropped,” says another friend, Cave documentarian Andrew Dominik. It’s all for an audience who loves him, and who he loves very much.”
Some of it deals with very sad things, but there it is, constantly uplifting. “It’s an experience of just wonderful stuff. “There’s something like communion taking place here, a spirituality between the audience and the music and us,” says Ellis of this current tour with Cave. With musical partner Ellis, Cave brought to life the sonic catalog of transformations that have occurred in his life and art since 2015.
There, Cave opened up to his affectionate audience in a manner rarely revealed in a live musical setting. One of the best examples of Cave’s new sense of communion occurred last Friday at Brooklyn’s opulent Kings Theatre. Once known for his distanced, adversarial, bleak and bloody narratives and existentialist murder balladeer persona, a kinder, more optimistic Cave has emerged after 2015’s tragedy. A new Cave emerged, looking to fully engage more openly with the world. “Nick saw this incredible outpouring of love and concern for him and his family from his fans, and he was deeply and profoundly moved, transformed even,” says Cave’s closest collaborator, Warren Ellis, since 1997 a Bad Seed with whom the singer-lyricist recorded 2021’s “Carnage.”įrom there, states Ellis, Cave’s art and life changed, as the singer and writer opened up in a fashion he never had in the past.
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