Nick Caves bandmate and scoring partner quotes 'deeper intensity' in front of Minneapolis gig

After Warren Ellis spoke a lot about how his close employee and band leader has developed and grown in the past decade, it was quickly clear that Nick Cave did not change.

“He hasn't become soft,” said Bad Seeds Geiger and guitarist and Caves Film goal. “You'll see.”

It was valid to think about Cave, the concert of which will be his first Twin Cities show with the bad seeds for more than a decade on Sunday in the weapons chamber in Minneapolis. In the meantime, a lot has happened.

Only the mere fact that the wild-eyed Australian goth-punk legend now indicates that he has lost part of his famous intensity and physicality as a live performer. However, the cave has also sounded much more effective than aging, which Ellis called “an incredibly real, intense and very sad moment that they would not want to anyone”.

The singer's youth son, Arthur, died in a tragic fall in 2015. As a result, he died on a few albums, “Skeleton Tree” and “Ghosteen”, a way from emotionally guttural but moving music paint. Then in 2022 he also unexpectedly lost an older son, Jethro, Jethro.

In the middle of all of this, the puzzling and mysterious cave became surprisingly open and accessible. He started an online blog called Red Hand files in which he answered the questions of fans about loss and fight. He also did solo tours and spoke openly about his faith and family.

“I saw how he became a really remarkable person,” said Ellis, an Aussie family who came to the bad seeds in 1997 after five years of leading his own band, the Graucry Anarchic Instrumental Rock Trio The Dirty Three.

“In the past, Nick's private life was always his private life,” continued Ellis. “But then when Arthur died, it was something that was thrown at the front door, so to speak.