Nick Cave reacts to Bob Dylan attending his show: "his tweet was a lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state"

Last week, Bob Dylan took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and wrote: "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."

Since news has spread to Nick Cave about the unsuspecting special guest, he decided to share his thoughts on the matter, writing: "Sitting in bed with Susie in a post-tour stupor, watching Carry On Up the Khyber and eating Belgian chocolates (gift from a fan), my phone suddenly lit up as excited friends started sending me Bob Dylan's tweet.

"I hadn’t known Bob was at the concert and his tweet was a lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state. ‘You’ve perked up!” said Susie," Nick Cave continued. "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."

Reflecting on the current state of despair across the world, and mentioning that he was "elated" that Bob Dylan had been in the audience, he added: "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. I felt proud to have been touring with The Bad Seeds and offering, in the form of a rock ‘n ’roll show, an antidote to this despair, one that transported people to a place beyond the dreadful drama of the political moment."