Nick Cave calls Bob Dylan’s complimentary tweet after Bad Seeds show “a lovely pulse of joy”

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Nick Cave has described receiving a complimentary tweet from Bob Dyan about a recent Bad Seeds show as “a lovely pulse of joy”.The Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter attended the band’s concert at the Accor Arena in Paris on November 17, writing on X after the show that he had been “really struck by that song ‘Joy’ where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy”.Dylan added, “I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.”Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) November 19, 2024Cave has written a reply to the comment on his website The Red Hand Files, noting: “I hadn’t known Bob was at the concert and his tweet was a lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state.”“I was happy to see Bob on X, just as many on the Left had performed a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky,” he continued. “It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan kind of way.

I did indeed feel it was a time for joy rather than sorrow. There had been such an excess of despair and desperation around the election, and one couldn’t help but ask when it was that politics became everything.“The world had grown thoroughly disenchanted, and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of anything remotely like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent – that holy place where joy resides.