The aesthetics of Carnage, a record led by Cave and Ellis as a duo, dominated a repertoire that consisted mostly of this 2021 recording and also of Bad Seeds songs written over the past decade under the musical direction of the same Warren Ellis, without whom Nick Cave would not be what he musically is today. Since Montrealer Victor Shiffman, who produced the famous Leonard Cohen exhibition, is the producer of this exhibition, Montreal is honored to host the event, which was preceded by a pair of memorable concerts in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts last weekend, orchestrated by Warren Ellis and Nick Cave, joined by three backup singers and a multi-instrumentalist. Never before has Montreal experienced such an immersion in the world of the Australian writer and avant-garde rocker, one of the most brilliant of the current era. Beyond the evocations of the famous artist, we look at what shapes an existence and what builds a human being. This is a unique foray into the creative world of Nick Cave, this atypical exhibition.
The exhibition features hundreds of objects accumulated or created over six decades. Originally for the Black Diamond, the modern extension of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, this exhibition was imagined by curator Christina Back with Nick Cave as co-curator and co-designer. “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 second floor of Studio TD, the new name given to L’Astral for obvious sponsorship reasons, has been transformed into an atypical museum: under the title “Stranger Than Kindness,” an exhibition devoted to Nick Cave will be presented there as of Friday, April 8. monarchy matter so much to Cave, who is Australian, is just as strange and weird as he expects the coronation to be. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.” “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. “I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter,” Cave wrote. In a newsletter to his fans, addressed specifically to four who inquired about why he’ll be attending, the singer put it pretty simply: There was no way he was going to willingly miss the trainwreck of a century.
Musician after musician turned down invitations to perform at King Charles’ Coronation concert and it’s likely that even more declined invitations to just show up as attendees.
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