Earlier this week, Bob Dylan shared on Twitter/X who had recently attended Nick Cave's concert in Paris. “I was really impressed with that song 'Joy' where he sings 'We've all had too much pain, now it's time for joy.' I was thinking, yeah, that's right,” Dylan wrote.
Now through their website The Red Hand FilesCave has responded to Dylan's post. As Cave explained: “I didn't know Bob was at the concert and his tweet was a beautiful pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombie state.”
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“I was glad to see Bob on X, just as many on the left had undergone a Twitterectomy and turned to blue sky”Cave continued. “It felt admirably wicked, in a Bob Dylan way. In fact, I felt it was a moment of joy rather than sadness. There had been such an excess of desperation and desperation surrounding the election that one couldn't help but wonder when politics became everything.
“The world had become completely disenchanted, and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had erected so many barricades that they had prevented us from experiencing the presence of anything remotely resembling spirit, the sacred or the transcendent: that sacred place where joy resides. . I felt proud to have toured with The Bad Seeds and to have offered, in the form of a rock 'n' roll show, an antidote to this despair, one that transported people to a place beyond the terrible drama of the political moment. ”.
“I was very happy to think that Bob Dylan had been in the audience and, since I doubt I will have the opportunity to thank him personally, I will thank him here. Thanks Bob!”
Next April, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will embark on a North American tour. Tickets are available here.
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