Bob Dylan has shared his thoughts on Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds after watching their recent concert in Paris – see what Dylan had to say below.
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On Sunday (November 17), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performed at the Accor Arena in Paris, France as part of the UK and European leg of their ongoing ‘Wild God’ tour. Last night (November 20), Dylan took to social media to share his thoughts on the performance.
Dylan wrote: “Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song ‘Joy’ where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorry, now is the time for joy“. I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.”
Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.
— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) November 19, 2024
‘Joy’ is taken off Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ latest album ‘Wild God’, which arrived in late August and scored a four-star review from NME‘s Andrew Trendell.
Watch footage of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing ‘Joy’ in Paris below.
Bob Dylan’s attendance at Cave’s Paris gig comes after the latter in April penned a new blogpost in which he recalled making peace with the artists that have “disappointed” him, explaining that he is willing to look beyond their personal decisions if the art they make is “authentic”.
Cave wrote of the artists – Dylan included – that had let him down in some form: “They have often not travelled in the direction I would have hoped or wished for, instead following their own confounding paths (damn them!) to their own truths.
“In the course of this I have sometimes been discomforted by things they have done, disagreed with things they have said, or not liked a particular record they have made. Yet there is something about them that keeps me captivated, and forever alert to what they might do next.”
In September, Cave chose ‘I Threw It All Away’ as his favourite Dylan song for a Mojo compilation. Cave said of the track: “The production is so clean, fluid and uncluttered, and there is an ease and innocence to Dylan’s voice in its phrasing, in its tone that is in no Dylan recording before or after. There is a perfectly measured emotional pull to the singing… I can put this song on first thing in the morning or the middle of a dark night and it will make me feel better, make me want to carry on. The song serves the listener as it should and that’s its genius.”
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In April 2020, Cave praised Dylan’s ‘Murder Most Foul’, taken off that year’s ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ record: “‘Murder Most Foul’ reminds us that all is not lost, as the song itself becomes a lifeline thrown into our current predicament.”
“It is as though it has travelled a great distance, through stretches of time, full of an earned integrity and stature that soothes in the way of a lullaby, a chant, or a prayer,” he added, while also describing the song as “perplexing” and “beautiful”.
In September this year, Bob Dylan performed his classic track ‘All Along The Watchtower’ live for the first time in six years. In August, Dylan played ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ for the first time in almost a decade at an Outlaw Music Festival touring stop in Boise, Idaho.
Meanwhile, the upcoming Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown – starring Timothée Chalamet – has been given a release date. The first official trailer for the film arrived in July. Since then, a second trailer was shared in October, which shows Dylan’s infamous 1965 Newport gig, where he angered fans by making a switch to electronic guitar and a more rock-influenced sound.
