Nick Cave reveals relatable aging problem will result in his retirement-Lillie Rohan-Entertainment – Metro

Nick Cave is planning to stay in music for as long as he can (Picture: Matthew Baker/Getty Images)

Nick Cave is a man committed to the job.

The Australian musician has had a hugely successful career and revealed to fans that he plans to keep it that way for as long as he is physically capable.

In a recent interview, the Bad Seeds frontman, 67, was asked when he plans to slow down, with the star admitting it won’t be until his body quite literally makes him.

The band, which was formed in 1983 in Melbourne, has been going strong since its establishment, releasing their 18th studio album, Wild God in August last year, as well as embarking on a North American tour this April.

And Nick has confirmed that the foreseeable future looks to be filled with more performances and more music.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs programme, he said: ‘I always thought I’d stop doing it when I couldn’t do knee drops anymore. Actually, when I look back, I haven’t done something (in a while)… I could do (them), I can get down. It’s getting up. It’s a little bit harder.’

The rocker found fame in the 80s (Picture: Suzie Gibbons/Redferns)

It seems The Bad Seeds are sticking around for years to come (Picture: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)

Despite his comments, the star said his relationship to art and music has changed since he tragically lost his two sons.

Sharing that he once thought art was ‘everything’ as it was ‘always there’ and ‘always reliable’, he recalled his routine before the death of his boys as getting up in the morning and locking himself in his studio where he would create and be ‘in awe’ of his creative potential.

‘I think after Arthur died, I just shut the office, and I haven’t gone, I just locked it up. I was just repelled by it in some way. It seems so indulgent.

The singer opened up about how his relationship with music has changed over the years (Picture: Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

‘I still work very, very hard, but I don’t see that as the be-all and end-all of everything that I find my responsibility towards my children and my wife, and to be a citizen, a husband, these things are the actual animating force behind, or should be the animating force behind our creativeness.’

Nick and his wife, Susie Bick, relocated their family to Brighton, England, in the early 2000s, losing their 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015 after he fell while cliff-diving.

An inquest into Arthur’s death found the teen had taken LSD before his fall, with a coroner ruling his tragic death to be an accident.

The star is about to embark on a North American tour (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

The Cave family have been open in their grief for their son, partaking in the documentary film One More Time with Feeling in 2016, and Nick referred to his loss on bad Seed’s 2019 album Ghosteen.

They were also left devastated in 2022 after Nick’s son, Jethro, whom he shared with Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro after a brief fling, died at age 31.

Jethro had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had fallen into the grips of a drug addiction throughout his life.

While speaking to BBC, Nick added that he feels the loss of his sons everyday but has also been finding joy ‘from my family and from my wife, one aspect of my family that it’s difficult to exaggerate how beautiful this is that I have a little grandson who’s like, seven months old.’

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