Something of a Dave Grohl figure in the modern rock news landscape these days, Nick Cave has published another edition of The Red Hand Files — so naturally, we're writing about it. In his latest dispatch, the singer-songwriter has addressed having accepted an invitation to the coronation of King Charles III and the queen consort, Camilla, despite the fact that he is "not a monarchist."
Responding to four separate fan submissions questioning the news of his plans to attend the coronation, Cave quipped, "I'll make this quick because I've got to work out what I am going to wear to the Coronation."
"I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age," the musician explained. "Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest."
Cave went on to tell the story of the time he met the late Queen Elizabeth II — who, he notes, was the same age as his mother — and admitted that, to his "bafflement," he found himself weeping when he watched her televised funeral.
He continued, "I guess what I am trying to say is that, beyond the interminable but necessary debates about the abolition of the monarchy, I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals — the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself. I'm just drawn to that kind of thing — the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring."
Although he has spent many years of his life living in England, Cave was born and raised in Australia — which, like Canada, is a Commonwealth nation whose ceremonial head of state is likewise King Charles III.
In other recent responses to fan queries, the Bad Seeds bandleader has written in-depth about why ChatGPT should just fuck off and leave songwriting alone, being cancelled for murder ballads and when hatred stopped being interesting to him.
Responding to four separate fan submissions questioning the news of his plans to attend the coronation, Cave quipped, "I'll make this quick because I've got to work out what I am going to wear to the Coronation."
"I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age," the musician explained. "Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest."
Cave went on to tell the story of the time he met the late Queen Elizabeth II — who, he notes, was the same age as his mother — and admitted that, to his "bafflement," he found himself weeping when he watched her televised funeral.
He continued, "I guess what I am trying to say is that, beyond the interminable but necessary debates about the abolition of the monarchy, I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals — the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself. I'm just drawn to that kind of thing — the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring."
Although he has spent many years of his life living in England, Cave was born and raised in Australia — which, like Canada, is a Commonwealth nation whose ceremonial head of state is likewise King Charles III.
In other recent responses to fan queries, the Bad Seeds bandleader has written in-depth about why ChatGPT should just fuck off and leave songwriting alone, being cancelled for murder ballads and when hatred stopped being interesting to him.
