Nick Cave tells Desert Island Discs work repelled him after son’s death
Singer and writer Nick Cave said that the death of his two sons made him realize that art is not everything, and now he drives him up his wife and family.
Australian musician told BBC Radio 4’s desert island CD His wife and family are now the source of his creativity and where he finds joy.
He told the show: “It’s hard to exaggerate that I have a little grandson, about seven months old.”
CAVE’s 15 -year -old son Arthur died of a cliff event in 2015. His eldest son Jethro was 31 years old in Melbourne in 2022.
The host of Nick Cave and 67 -year -old bad seeds told the host Lauren Laverne that his attitude continued to change: “This is with Arthur and Geterro ( Jethro) has a lot to do … I always thought that art was at the end of the day, everything.
“I mean, this is a terrible thing, but this is always there. This is always reliable.”
He said that he would go to an office every day, locked the door, “work … for my own creativity.”
He said: “I think Arthur’s death, I just closed the office, but I haven’t left yet, I just lock it.” “I just was repelled by it in some way. This is indulgent “
CAVE previously talked about his sadness of losing his son, saying that after Arthur’s death, he always felt his existence.
He wrote: “Sadness and love are always intertwined.” In a public letterEssence “Sadness is a terrible reminder for the depth of our love, just like love, sadness is irreversible.”
He told Laverne that although he was still “very very hard”, he was no longer “all and everything”.
The cave is famous for red right hand and my arms. Animation behind our creativity. “
He said that his greatest joy was “from my family and my wife. It is difficult to exaggerate one aspect of my family. I have a seven -month -old grandson, how beautiful this is.”
CAVE and his family, including Arthur’s twins (Twin Earl) and fashion designer wife Susie, have moved from Brighton to Los Angeles because they found life life It’s too difficult to die from Arthur.
In 2018, he established a red hand file of the online website, and some of the purpose was to help others suffering from sadness or loss-it enabled fans to ask the cave question, and he answered hundreds of hundreds of each week.
He said: “What I really want to try is to let people know that this does not have to be in some way, and there is a sad world outside the world.”
CAVE will perform in North America this spring and told Laverne that he will retire when he will perform his knees on the stage.
But he admits: “I can do (they), I can get out of the car. It gets up. This is a bit difficult.”
On Sunday, January 26, the Standard time of Greenwood listened to the deserted island CD on BBC Radio 4 The Voice of the Broadcasting CorporationEssence
