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Nick Cave is a weird cat no matter which way you look at it, but you have to love his musings on why he accepted an invitation to King Charles III’s coronation. It’s just so Nick Cave.

Cave took to his newsletter, The Red Hand Files, to address a muted uproar at his acceptance of an invite to the new monarch’s coronation.

As we said, the cat’s always been a bit weird by ‘ordinary’ standards, but anyone who is familiar with his newsletter will have come to love his ‘train of thought’ way of explaining himself.

In his typical deliciously dark tone, Cave admitted to an ‘inexplicable emotional attachment to the royals’, but denied being a ‘monarchist, royalist, or ardent republican for that matter”.

The Australian-born singer, songwriter, and author, will be attending King Charles’ coronation alongside Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, footballer Sam Kerr, comedian Adam Hills, the governor-general, and a number of other representatives from his country of birth.

“What I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”

On his fascination with the royal family, Cave revealed that, “to my bafflement”, he cried at the news of Queen Elizabeth’s death. He recalled meeting the Queen and described her as ‘almost extraterrestrial and the most charismatic woman I have ever met’.

“Maybe it was the lighting, but she actually glowed.”

Cave found himself explaining his decision to attend this weekend’s events after several comments questioned his loyalty to ‘real-ness’, or at least being Nick Cave. Those who wanted a clear answer were treated to another peak into the mind that wrote The Death Of Bunny Monroe.

“I guess what I am trying to say is that, beyond the interminable but necessary debates about the abolition of the monarchy, I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals – the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself. I’m just drawn to that kind of thing – the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring.”

One commenter from the UK went as far as to ask the singer “What would the young Nick Cave have thought of that?!”, but Nick patiently responded:

“The young Nick Cave was, in all due respect to the young Nick Cave, young, and like many young people, mostly demented, so I’m a little cautious around using him as a benchmark for what I should or should not do. He was cute though, I’ll give him that.”

Ahh, Nick Cave on Nick Cave.

Regardless of what you think of the royals, there is probably only one person who could really be trusted to see through the pomp and ceremony of the British shitshow called the royal family.

If anyone should be sent into the fray to make an honest appraisal of the future of the monarchy, it’s Nick Cave.

We look forward to his amusing yet confusing feedback afterwards, but if you can’t wait that long to scratch around in this man’s mind, take a look at the below conversation he had with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers recently about Christ, the Devil, and the duty to offend.

[source:theguardian]