He says: “I wrote ‘are you by any chance attending the coronation? I need someone to hang out with.’ Rowan wrote back: Yes! See you in the north transept!” Cave tells us that the only other person he knows who is going is Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, who he texted. Sadly this link was not enough to secure Susie an invitation to the Coronation alongside her husband. The Peaky Blinders theme is Red Right Hand, a song by… Nick Cave. So did actress Charlotte Riley, who is married to the actor Tom Hardy, with whom she co-stars in Peaky Blinders, the blockbuster BBC drama. At Harry and Meghan’s wedding, the Princess of Wales wore one of her creations. Nick’s wife Susie is the celebrated fashion designer behind The Vampire’s Wife, the womenswear label known for its sweeping, dramatic, yet wearable dresses. Nor is this the first Cave connection with the Royal family.
As Cave writes in the letter on Red Hand Files, his mother was the same age as Queen Elizabeth and like her died in her 90s.
Similarly Barry Humphries, who died on April 22, frequently performed for the Royal family, and said that the late Queen was a fan. From the generation above Cave, the writer and broadcaster Clive James believed that Australia ought to remain a constitutional monarchy, which he described as a “very advantageous political system to Australia”. Cave may be the only person in the abbey to have played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, but he will not be the only sixty-something Australian in SW1 on Saturday. Harry Styles, Adele, Robbie Williams and Elton John all turned down invitations to perform at the coronation. It’s proof, also, that for a musician it is rebellious to engage with the establishment. It is a typically free-thinking response from Cave, who has always been one to zig when a zag is expected. “I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals,” he concludes, “the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself.” He even wept during the funeral last year. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”Ĭave met the late Queen and found her “the most charismatic woman ever met”. “I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter 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. “I’ll make this a quick one because I’ve got to work out what I am going to wear to the Coronation,” he writes, with his typical deadpan wit. On his website, The Red Hand Files, which he uses to reply to queries from fans, Cave read letters from people who were surprised, to put it mildly, at the news he would be attending the Coronation as part of an Australian delegation. But to Cave’s enviable CV we can add another, more surprising line: Coronation attendee. He is a punk and a poet of the macabre preoccupied with grand themes: life, love, death, sex and God.
At 65, the Australian cuts as distinctive a figure as ever, with raven-black hair, high-collared shirts and sharp suits. Musician, songwriter, novelist, screenwriter, actor, artist and a composer.
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