Nick Cave has missed out in the Best Original Song category at today’s Academy Awards to K-pop Demon Hunters.
The Australian music legend was up for “Train Dreams” from the Netflix film starring fellow Aussie Joel Edgerton. However, “Golden,” which was the hot favourite, was announced as the winner.
Last month, Cave wrapped up a headline Australian tour with The Bad Seeds, which was given a five-star review by Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
“He’s a serious man but Cave is also self-effacing. ‘This is an old song. Ancient. It’s coming to you in a Zimmer frame. It’s mid-period Nick Cave,’ he said at one point. What followed was the beatific cautionary tale, ‘O Children’. Emerging from out of his seat, Warren Ellis launched into a lilting, loving violin solo that entwined with the harmonies of the backing vocalists,” the review reads.
“They are all worlds within a world, Cave’s world, and so it was fitting that he signed off alone at the piano for the ever-evocative “Into My Arms” before wandering off away into the night.”
Meanwhile, just last week, it was revealed that Cave is helping tell the story of his wife Susie in a new book set for release later this year, tracing her life through decades of photographs and personal reflections.
Australian publisher Thames & Hudson has acquired SUSIE, a visual and lyrical portrait of Susie created with contributions from Nick, renowned French photographer Dominique Issermann, and celebrated Dutch book designer Irma Boom.
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The project traces the many dimensions of Susie Cave through images and words gathered across decades. Issermann, a close friend of the Cave family, has photographed Susie for more than 30 years, first working with her during her modelling career in the ’80s and ’90s before continuing to document her life and relationship with Nick Cave.
