Overview
- Writing on The Red Hand Files, Cave described sitting among 20,000 fans at London’s O2 as his first time attending an arena show as an audience member.
- He said live music radiates a moral force with the capacity to repair the world, calling the Radiohead performance astonishing.
- Cave praised the band’s “ordinary courage” to offer up their souls on stage and said he left deeply moved and humbled.
- He noted recent months of gig-going after a touring break, citing Bob Dylan, Swans, Radiohead, Cameron Winter, and Dirty Three.
- Coverage alongside his post includes NME’s five-star review of the London show and reporting that Radiohead ended their first UK/European tour in seven years in Copenhagen, while bassist Colin Greenwood has recently played with Cave’s band and contributed to the new album Wild God.