Legendary Australian rocker Nick Cave confessed he felt “extremely bored” when he attended the coronation of King Charles III in London earlier this month.
The 65-year-old was one of the few Australians represented at the royal event and claimed he had not unnoticed of political motivation but out of pure curiosity.
During an in depth interview with UK’s Channel 4 News podcast “Ways to Change the World” with Krishan Guru-Murthy, the singer of “Where The Wild Roses Grow”, said he had a “contradictory” emotional experience during the coronation.
“I went to the coronation entirely out of curiosity and located the whole thing very interesting, to place it mildly … because I assumed I might feel something once I went to the coronation,” Cave said.
“But I didn’t know I used to be going to feel them in such an extreme way they usually were conflicting feelings, and sometimes I felt very bored, other times completely shocked by the event, extremely moved by the music.”
Specifically, he described George Frideric Handel’s “Father Sadok” as “something from outer space, kind of amused by what is going on on, offended about what is going on on, so … he brought up lots of various things.”
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Cave, who is legendary for being the frontman of his group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has sharply criticized musicians and other celebrities who shrugged off the royal invitation to the coronation.
The singer said he decided to go to experience the massive pageantry of “Britain’s most historic event of our time”, costing between $63 million and $125 million.
“I’m not a monarchist, I’m not a royalist or a staunch republican for that matter,” he wrote on his personal blog The Red Hand.
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“What I Am Not is so spectacularly indifferent to the world and the way it really works, so ideologically captured, so rattling grumpy that I’d turn down an invite to what’s more likely to be Britain’s most significant historic event in our time.”
“Not only the most significant, but the strangest, the strangest,” he added.
When a fan asked him online why he was even going, he told a story about how he had the opportunity to fulfill the late Queen Elizabeth II. When he watched her funeral, he said she was crying.
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“I’m just drawn to that sort of stuff – bizarre, amazing, mind-blowingly spectacular, awe-inspiring,” he added.
Cave, who announced upcoming recent music, was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia six years ago for “outstanding service to the performing arts”.