Nick Cave shares his love for Kylie ahead of joyous homecoming tour
The unlikely musical duo has created an intimate virtual moment that Nick Cave says “shows our love for each other” ahead of his homecoming tour.
Australia’s most unlikely and enduring musical “couple”, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, have reunited in a stunning slow dance for his poignant virtual exhibition ahead of the rock god’s huge homecoming tour in January.
Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition debuted online last month and features the pair captured in a holographic embrace, dancing to a music box version of their murder ballad Where The Wild Roses Grow.
Cave and the Royal Danish Library released the intimate exhibition online for fans to enjoy for free because it was too expensive to tour.
He said the dance “shows our love for each other”, which developed into a deep friendship after the pop star and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds shocked the world with their murder ballad collaboration 30 years ago.
“Isn’t it amazing?” he said from his London home. “There’s such beautiful things in (the exhibition), and the hologram of me and Kylie is one of the pieces that I loved so much.
“We went and were filmed holographically with cameras from all directions, and Kylie, who’s forever just up for anything, was there and doing it in a beautiful Vampire’s Wife dress. It was just great.”
The Wild God tour, which finally arrives in Australia in January, has had ecstatic reviews from critics and fans as Cave and the Bad Seeds unleash the “wild and mighty joy” of their last record on the concert stage.
Even Bob Dylan, not renowned for his effusive praise of anything, posted his reaction after seeing the concert in Paris. That show was recorded for the new Live God album released this week.
“I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings ‘We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it (is) the time for joy.’ I was thinking to myself, yeah, that’s about right,” Dylan tweeted.
Cave said he is relieved he did not know Dylan was in the audience that night.
“We didn’t know. I tell you, if I had known Bob Dylan was in the audience, there would have been an entirely different concert. Bob Dylan or our mother, sometimes it’s good not to know,” he said.
Alongside his recordings and touring with the Bad Seeds and solo, and his soundtrack compositions, Cave has become the agony uncle for the world, answering fan questions with his deeply personal and emotional Red Hand Files blog.
The rocker answered the backlash from fans after attending the King’s Coronation in 2023 as part of the Australian delegation via his blog.
He stated he was neither a monarchist or an “ardent republican”, and also “not 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”.
Cave said he loves the strangeness of Royal pomp and ceremony, but was stumped when asked if he would ever accept a knighthood, having lived in the UK since 1980.
“I’d have a think about it. I don’t see that happening, to be perfectly honest, but I don’t know. It’s a good question but I don’t really have an answer to it,” he said.
Tickets for the Wild God outdoor concerts in January are now available via nickcave.com
Don’t miss the full Nick Cave interview on Saturday.
Originally published as Nick Cave shares his love for Kylie ahead of joyous homecoming tour
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