Capable Cave’s masterclass in showmanship
Nick Cave is a quality act on his own terms, magnetic without the need for theatrics
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Reviewed by Nadine O’Regan
Rating:*****
‘Can I borrow that white thing?” Nick Cave reaches into the crowd and pulls from a woman’s hands the t-shirt she has bought from a merch stand with Cave’s haunted-looking face on it. Everyone’s favourite Australian gloom-merchant pauses dramatically, the better for the big screens to capture the close-up, then he wipes his sweaty face all ...
