Writing within the newest instalment of his Pink Hand Recordsdata e-newsletter, Nick Cave has revealed that he turned down an invite from Morrissey to carry out “barely foolish anti-woke screed” on new observe.
“We had a number of nice e mail exchanges final yr wherein Morrissey requested if I’d sing on a brand new music he had written.
“I’d have been completely satisfied to take action, nonetheless, whereas the music he despatched was fairly pretty, it started with a prolonged and completely irrelevant Greek bouzouki intro.
“It additionally appeared that he didn’t need me to really sing on the music, however ship, excessive of the bouzouki, an unnecessarily provocative and barely foolish anti-woke screed he had written.
“Though I suppose I agreed with the sentiment on some degree, it simply wasn’t my factor. I attempt to hold politics, cultural or in any other case, out of the music I’m concerned with. I discover that it has a diminishing impact and is antithetical to no matter it’s I’m attempting to attain.
“So… I politely declined. I stated no.”
Extra positively, Cave additionally wrote that “Morrissey might be the perfect lyricist of his technology – definitely the strangest, funniest, most subtle, and most refined.”
