«Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace», grace as a horizon

Le Regard Libre N° 69 - Fanny Agostino

Long reluctant to answer journalists' questions, Nick Cave draws on conversations with his audience to rethink forty years of his career in piano-vocal form. The Australian delivers a solitary recital with complete transparency. A magnificent confidence, with no escape and no cheating.

A global pandemic won't be enough to stop Nick Cave's prolific output. While the tour devoted to his latest album, Ghosteen, released in 2019, is suspended, the interpreter of Red Right Hand offers a solo performance at London's Alexandra Palace, emptied of all spectators. Filmed and recorded last July without his «Bad Seeds», in a bare-bones staging, the master takes his place in front of a Fazioli and revisits twenty-two tracks spanning forty years of music.