Writing within the newest instalment of his Purple Hand Information publication, 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 12 months by which Morrissey requested if I’d sing on a brand new music he had written.
“I might have been completely satisfied to take action, nevertheless, whereas the music he despatched was fairly pretty, it started with a prolonged and fully irrelevant Greek bouzouki intro.
“It additionally appeared that he didn’t need me to truly 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 stage, it simply wasn’t my factor. I attempt to preserve 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 realize.
“So… I politely declined. I stated no.”
Extra positively, Cave additionally wrote that “Morrissey might be the most effective lyricist of his technology – definitely the strangest, funniest, most refined, and most refined.”