He also told the programme that he has become less work-obsessed following the death of his sons – 15-year-old Arthur died in a cliff-jumping accident in 2015 in Brighton and his eldest son Jethro died aged 31 in Melbourne in 2022.Cave said: “It has a lot to do with Arthur and Jethro… I always just thought art was, kind of at the end of the day, everything.
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“I still work very, very hard, but I don’t see that as the be-all and end-all of everything that I find my responsibility towards my children and my wife, and to be a citizen, a husband, these things are the actual animating force behind, or should be the animating force behind our creativeness”.
The Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds frontman, 67, has tour dates upcoming in North America from April to May this year, and released an album, Wild God, in August 2024.
And I’d get up in the morning, I’d go into an office and I’d lock the door and I’d work away and sort of, you know, in awe of my own creative potential, let’s say.
