Nick Cave recently received some kind of honor at something called the Plug Independent Music Awards. Here's what he had to say about it (Village Voice):"To be honest, I wondered what the fuck we were doing there," Cave, 50, says the next day at his midtown hotel. "I don't want to be ungrateful, but I've never been concerned with independent music being more 'worthy' than mainstream music, whatever kind of inverted snobbery that is." Dressed in his signature slim black suit, Cave explains, between spoonfuls of chicken soup, that he accepted the Impact Award for his career arc at the urging of Anti-Records. In the run-up to the release of the Bad Seeds' 14th album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, his label figured it couldn't hurt to remind a select group of American music appreciators that Cave is a veteran of alternative sounds.A lot of complexity here. He's showing his independence by rejecting the importance of independent music at an indendpendent music awards ceremony that his record company encouraged him to attend to remind people that he's been independent for a long time.
Whatever, I would love to see him in concert.
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I'd say the "chicken soup" sounds like a pretty advanced move.
Me too. I was on the fence about it (could have been an anti-rock and therefore Overt) but since he's 50, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt
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