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‘How did I stay so young? Twenty years of drug addiction and a good face cream’ – The Irish Times

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I can’t see Nick Cave. The Australian singer is talking from his home in London, favouring the telephone because he is convalescing from the flu. “The whole of London is infected with this thing,” he says with a sigh. In the popular imagination, Cave has jet-black hair, a high forehead, an indomitable stare and, over … Read more

‘It was one of the greatest weeks of my life. I haven’t talked about it much’ – The Irish Times

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I am in a hotel room in London, watching Cillian Murphy and Antony Genn nerding out over music. Genn will recall some shared musical moment and Murphy’s eyes will widen and he’ll go, “Oh yeah!” At one point Murphy turns to face him and curls his legs up under him in the chair. They could … Read more

‘Funny as it sounds with all the success, the money is not something that you just have’ – The Irish Times

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“You have to enter Dublin like a Spitfire. Full armour.” In a hotel room in New York, Glen Hansard is pacing the thick carpet as he describes a typical day in his hometown, directing his thoughts over a WhatsApp video call. “Often Irish people will just come up and start a conversation in the middle: … Read more

Norway’s trial of the century begins next week – The Irish Times

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At the Quart musical festival in southern Norway in July 1996, the headliner was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. In the crowd was Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, a 22-year-old waitress from the southern coastal city of Kristiansand. She had yet to tell anyone she was three months pregnant with the child of a man named … Read more