Issue #251

‘Nick, I think you are such a wise and sensitive man. Please give me your advice: I have a huge crush on a guy, a musician, he is depressed and ...’

Issue #250

‘… Can you recommend a chronological list of songs to help me get started?’

Issue #249

‘How do you feel about your transgender fans or trans people in general? As a young trans woman, I’ve had equally positive and negative gender-related experiences with other fans ...’

Issue #248

‘I work in the music industry and there is a lot of excitement around ChatGPT. I was talking to a songwriter in a band that was using ChatGPT to write ...’

Issue #247

‘I am currently witnessing the awe inspiring beauty of a fierce thunderstorm. Earlier today, I had a meeting with a very well connected artist. We discussed my work. He said ...’

Issue #246

‘I read and listen to what you have to say a lot as I value your intellect and empathy hugely. But, there are a lot of repeat questions, and I ...’

Issue #245

‘I have recently had some difficult news as my father has recently had a stroke. This is his worst nightmare, as a normally free man is restricted to a bed ...’

Issue #244

‘I wonder if [my] fans could help us out by writing in with a 15 song playlist of the Best of Nick Cave, and perhaps you could add your age, just ...’

Issue #243

‘I’m listening to you on Louis Theroux podcast right now and I have to confess, whilst I know the name Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I’ve not ...’

Issue #242

‘I just listened to your interview with the Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. I can’t work out whether you believe or not. Did you have a conversion?’

Issue #241

‘Your sartorial splendour is legend but are there secret trakkie daks and uggies? As a woman at the wrong end of 50 my greatest joy is arriving home taking off my ...’

Issue #240

‘I don’t know who I am. My childhood with a father who was a clever multi-instrumentalist but in his heart was sad and angry at what had happened to ...’

Issue #239

‘My oldest child just turned 19.

When they were born, she was called Maisie. They are now calling themself Claude and using male pronouns. I struggle with it out ...’

Issue #238

‘I must confess I got to know you just today. One of my classmates said this website inspired her, and I got interested. We are at an art school in ...’

Issue #237

‘I just heard that Andy Rourke, the bassist of the Smiths, has died. I’m not sure why I’m mentioning this to you… it just makes me sad. I ...’

Issue #236

‘Do you ever take holidays?’

Issue #235

‘Why the fuck are you going to the King’s coronation?’

Issue #234

‘Marilyn Manson said in an interview:
‘I was in a drug rehab program once, but they kicked me out. That bored me to death. I asked the therapist if ...’

Issue #233

‘Many years ago I remember watching a short Channel 4 film where you described the impact of We Are All Prostitutes by The Pop Group. I listened and then obviously fell ...’

Issue #232

‘What do you see as the purpose of The Red Hand Files? What’s their point?’

Issue #231

‘I’m a big fan of yours blah de blah… my daughter, Emily, got murdered in a park [ ] …she got her throat slit by a paranoid schizophrenic…I wouldn’t ...’

Issue #230

‘Happy Easter Sunday, Nick! [ ]’

Issue #229

‘Do you like raisins ?

I have always disliked them. As a character trait, I am not sure of much, and I have few strong opinions about stuff in ...’

Issue #228

‘I lost my dad a few years ago, in somewhat traumatic circumstances. I still feel him here with me, but sometimes it’s a bit too much and it makes ...’

Issue #227

‘Do you ever find that you don’t have time to do your Red Hand File because you’ve spent all week writing songs that are starting to sound really ...’

Issue #226

‘I’ve always believed in, and yearned for, a soul-mate kind of love: passionate, joyful, uplifting and inspiring. And I have found it, although quite late in life. However, he ...’

Issue #225

‘My son died almost a decade and a half ago. I don’t have nearly as many dreams about him now but when I do, as when I had many, ...’

Issue #224

‘I’ve recently been listening to your duet of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with Johnny Cash, on repeat. Whilst it’s melancholy, the harmonising that’s happening ...’

Issue #223

‘I’m 13. In a world ridden with so much hate, and disconnect; How do I live life to its absolute fullest, and not waste my potential? Especially as a creative. ...’

Issue #222

‘I was dismayed to hear that my namesake, Tom Jones has had his murder ballad, Delilah cancelled by the Welsh Rugby Union, and roundly condemned by Police Chiefs and Politicians, ...’