Nick Cave discusses his love for fanbase: “The sentiment is entirely true”
Nick Cave has discussed his genuine deep love and appreciation for his fans in a new blog post, claiming that “the sentiment is entirely true.”
Cave eloquently shared his thoughts in response to a fan question on his website The Red Hand Files on April 29th, which asked: “When you say, ‘I love you, too,’ back to fans at concerts, what do you mean by that? How can you love a total stranger?”
The Bad Seeds frontman answered the question by saying: “When I tell the audience that I love them, the sentiment is entirely true. I feel an emotional transaction with the crowd that is powerful and profoundly intimate,” before noting, “It is not symbolic, metaphorical, or platitudinous.”
He continued: “I see before me a group of human beings, precarious and vulnerable, granted a brief time on this earth, each filled with a shocking potential for beauty and terror, good and evil, and with the extraordinary capacity to give and receive love. At that moment, love is the appropriate response.”
Going on to consider this with respect to his song ‘Into My Arms’, Cave mused: “When the crowd joins me in singing ‘Into My Arms’, it feels like a mutual embrace, an act of conciliation, of comfort, and fellowship – an acknowledgement of our common fate, that we are, in that moment, both living and dying in concert.”
“And it’s hard to keep my fucking shit together, to be honest,” he concluded in his post.
Cave is currently on tour across North America, and will continue with his next performance in Chicago, Illinois, on April 29th, before moving on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the following night.
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