Nick Cave calls Bob Dylan’s complimentary tweet after Dangerous Seeds present “a beautiful pulse of pleasure”

Nick Cave has described receiving a complimentary tweet from Bob Dyan a couple of latest Dangerous Seeds present as “a beautiful pulse of pleasure”.

The Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter attended the band’s live performance on the Accor Area in Paris on November 17, writing on X after the present that he had been “actually struck by that tune ‘Pleasure’ the place he sings “We’ve all had an excessive amount of sorrow, now it the time for pleasure”.

Dylan added, “I used to be considering to myself, yeah that’s about proper.”

Noticed Nick Collapse Paris not too long ago on the Accor Area and I used to be actually struck by that tune Pleasure the place he sings “We’ve all had an excessive amount of sorrow, now it the time for pleasure.” I used to be considering to myself, yeah that’s about proper.

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) November 19, 2024

Cave has written a reply to the touch upon his web site The Red Hand Files, noting: “I hadn’t recognized Bob was on the live performance and his tweet was a beautiful pulse of pleasure that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state.”

“I used to be completely happy to see Bob on X, simply as many on the Left had carried out a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky,” he continued. “It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan type of method. I did certainly really feel it was a time for pleasure moderately than sorrow. There had been such an extra of despair and desperation across the election, and one couldn’t assist however ask when it was that politics turned every little thing.

“The world had grown completely disenchanted, and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of something remotely just like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent – that holy place the place pleasure resides. I felt proud to have been touring with The Dangerous Seeds and providing, within the type of a rock ‘n ’roll present, an antidote to this despair, one which transported folks to a spot past the dreadful drama of the political second.”

“I used to be elated to assume Bob Dylan had been within the viewers, and since I doubt I’ll get a chance to thank him personally, I’ll thank him right here. Thanks, Bob!”

‘Pleasure’ is a monitor from Nick Cave & The Dangerous Seeds’ newest album ‘Wild God’, which arrived in late August and scored a four-star evaluate from NME. The evaluate learn: “Dangerous Seeds data are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. In fact, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and nonetheless colored with the numerous shades of a life so difficult and weathered.”

“However by no means has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “Leaping for love and the opening sky above” as “Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years“. With a lust for all times, the once-dark prince is letting the sunshine in.”

In April, Cave wrote a weblog put up concerning the artists – Dylan included – which have “dissatisfied” him in some type: “They’ve typically not travelled within the route I might have hoped or wished for, as an alternative following their very own confounding paths (rattling them!) to their very own truths.

“In the midst of this I’ve typically been discomforted by issues they’ve executed, disagreed with issues they’ve stated, or not favored a specific file they’ve made. But there’s something about them that retains me captivated, and perpetually alert to what they could do subsequent.”

In September, Cave selected 1969’s ‘I Threw It All Away’ as his favourite Dylan song for a Mojo compilation. Cave stated of the monitor: “The manufacturing is so clear, fluid and uncluttered, and there may be an ease and innocence to Dylan’s voice in its phrasing, in its tone that’s in no Dylan recording earlier than or after. There’s a completely measured emotional pull to the singing… I can put this tune on very first thing within the morning or the center of a darkish night time and it’ll make me really feel higher, make me wish to keep on. The tune serves the listener because it ought to and that’s its genius.”