Nick Cave‘s newest entry on the Crimson Hand Recordsdata has seen him give quickfire solutions on every little thing from the potential of a “huge” Dangerous Seeds present in Brighton subsequent 12 months, criticism over his use of AI and even his opinion on Amyl and the Sniffers.
The artist did one other instalment of a collection by which he asks 50 questions from followers with the solutions ‘sure’, ‘no’, ‘I don’t know’ or ‘Go fuck your self’.
When requested if he preferred Amyl and the Sniffers, he answered ‘sure’, and in response to an enquiry in regards to the hearsay that “there is a large Dangerous Seeds present” deliberate for Brighton, the place he lives, subsequent 12 months, he additionally answered ‘sure’.
Cave additionally tackled a query from Graham, based mostly in Sydney, Australia, over the usage of AI in a video launched to mark 40 years of The Dangerous Seeds’ ‘Tupelo’. He had beforehand known as it “unbelievably disturbing” and stated he thought it might have a “humiliating impact”on the inventive industries. In a contradiction of this stance, the video featured AI-animated archival images of Elvis Presley.
“So now you’re promoting your soul to AI as nicely. Is there something you gained’t push in your masters? Do you sleep nicely at evening understanding you’re going to hell?” Graham requested, to which Cave replied with the ‘Zzzz’ emoji.
Carol from Blackburn was extra constructive about it. “Not a query…nicely perhaps…why does seeing Elvis in your video make me cry? That lovely younger boy. That’s actually beautiful, don’t you assume?” she stated. Cave’s reply was ‘sure’.
Cave addressed the criticism in additional element on The Crimson Hand Recordsdata final month. Director Andrew Dominik, who made the movie as a present, used AI with out Cave’s data. He was sceptical, however the director inspired him to rethink his stance, telling him: “Droop your fucking prejudices and have a look!”
Upon watching the video, he “discovered it to be a very profound interpretation of the music – a soulful, shifting, and completely unique retelling of ‘Tupelo’, wealthy in mythos and a touching tribute to the nice Elvis Presley, in addition to to the music itself.”
He added that the AI-animated images of Presley “had an uncanny high quality, as if he had been raised from the useless, and the crucifixion-resurrection pictures on the finish had been each stunning and deeply affecting.”
“As I watched Andrew’s surreal little movie, I felt my view of AI as an inventive gadget soften. To some extent, my thoughts was modified,” he wrote.
Nick Cave and the Dangerous Seeds launched their acclaimed album ‘Wild God’ final 12 months and toured it throughout the UK and North America earlier this 12 months. These had been their first North American dates since 2018 after a deliberate tour in 2020 was cancelled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, Cave has additionally labored with Warren Ellis are set to attain the brand new tv adaptation of his 2009 novel The Loss of life Of Bunny Munro. He additionally collaborated with The Nationwide‘s Bryce Dessner to write down a brand new music for the forthcoming Netflix movie Prepare Goals.
When NME spoke to Collapse 2023, he was requested about how The Crimson Recordsdata has modified his notion of his viewers.
“It actually has. It’s been a sluggish, growing factor. The issues that I’m involved about are the identical – even in The Birthday Social gathering and early Dangerous Seeds once they had been far more aggressive concert events, they had been nonetheless involved with concepts of transcendence and of mainly making an attempt to get the viewers to a heightened state. In The Birthday Social gathering it was the identical factor, although it was violent.
“My strategies are simply totally different today – there’s far more of a sense of neighborhood, inclusiveness and hopefully transcendence; that we get collectively and hopefully arrive at a distinct place via the participation within the music. It’s positively a two-way factor. It’s an outpouring and in-taking of affection.”
