Nick Cave reveals his favourite podcast: “It shows us that history is extraordinarily complicated”
nme.comNick Cave has shared a podcast recommendation. Check it out belowResponding to a fan question, the Bad Seeds frontman revealed his podcast pick in a new edition of his blog The Red Hand Files.Cave shared that he loves to listen to The Rest is History, a historical podcast hosted by author Tom Holland and historian Dominic Sandbrook.“Anyone who thinks there is a right and a wrong side of history has never listened to Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s The Rest is History,” he wrote. “This splendid podcast shows us that history is extraordinarily complicated and rarely draws a clean line between right and wrong, good and evil.”He went on to say: “Much of history seems to be a violent collision of good intentions, and sometimes what appears ethically obvious today has its way of turning tomorrow.
History reflects our shambolic nature and is seldom settled, stable, or simple.”Cave often uses The Red Hand Files to respond directly to fans.
Earlier this year, he shared advice on making peace with artists that have “disappointed” him, after a fan posed a question about his “religious turn” and asked if he ever feels like he is “letting down [his] queer and female fans”.The artist explained that he is willing to look beyond an individual’s personal decisions if the art they make is “authentic”.“When I think of the artists that I truly admire, those that I have stuck with over the years, at some point in their lengthy careers they have all disappointed me,” he wrote.“In the course of this I have sometimes been discomforted by things they have done, disagreed with things they have said, or not liked a particular record they have made,” he continued. “Yet there is something about them that keeps me captivated, and forever alert to.
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