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Nick Cave eh? Like, he’s really loved. Not everyone loves him of course – who is entirely loved? Certain pockets of the internet have turned on David Attenborough, so y’know, who stands a chance?

Anyway, we’re not that bothered about Nick Cave’s music so we’re not going to try and cancel him here (over his use of homophobic slurs in songs and whatnot – we’re assuming countless other people have wrung their hands about this already) – we are however, going to have a look at some of the things that surprise us about him.

For starters, he’s going to the coronation of Charlie 3. That’s weird isn’t it? Goths love a draughty cathedral and a bit of gloomy organ music, so many we shouldn’t be surprised. However, he is Australian and that lot are very forthright. And forthright about the bloobloods as well. He’s got something to say about the whole thing though, just in case you were thinking of trying to troll your republican Nick Cave devotee mates this week.

He said that he’s not a royalist, but “holds an inexplicable emotional attachment to the royals”. He added he’s “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. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”

Seems fair enough, honestly, even though it looks like a spectacularly weird invite to send. “Hey! Camilla! We should invite that lad who did that song which goes Orpheus if you play that fucking thing down here I’ll stick it up your orifice! shouldn’t we?”

He’s also said he cried while watching the Queen’s funeral and added that when he met her in the past, she “seemed almost extraterrestrial and was the most charismatic woman I have ever met. Maybe it was the lighting, but she actually glowed.”

“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.”

And should we be that surprised? Nick Cave is fully on record as being a full-ass Christian.

Writing in Introduction to the Gospel According to Mark in 1998, he said “the Christ that emerges from Mark, tramping through the haphazard events of his life, had a ringing intensity about him that I could not resist.”

In the past, he’s said that he loves a bit of Christ, comparing the embracing of him with persecution, especially when it comes to Cancel Culture: “It is worth remembering that – I think we must be careful around our assumptions of what ideas we think are right and what ideas we think are wrong, and what we do with those ideas, because it is the terrifying idea – the shocking, offending, unique idea – that may just save the world.”

Of course, Cave has suffered greatly in his personal life and lost loved ones, which no doubt brought him closer to his faith. He’s clearly not a Bad Dick, but it’s interesting to see another rockstar weave between the sacred and the profane, but in this case, find himself invited to a mental coronation of a King.

He’s right. It’s weird. Life is weird though.