Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been photographed watching and enjoying The Cure play their headline set at Way Out West.
Both bands were on the bill at the festival in Gothenburg on Friday (August 14), with Cave and co. delivering a two-hour set on the Azalea stage not long before The Cure topped the bill on the Flamingo stage to round out the night with a huge, career-spanning show.
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He recalled meeting an elderly couple wearing matching Cure T-shirts in Odense, Denmark, who asked him for a selfie but struggled to operate their phone.
“The worst thing about being an old rockstar is that the old rockstar’s old fans don’t know how to work their fucking phones,” he wrote. “The couple stand there, jabbing uselessly at their screens, trying to get them to flip into selfie mode or whatever, saying, ‘I’m not good with phones’ and ‘How does this thing work?’ and ‘Oh, my God’ and ‘I can’t believe it’s Nick Cave’ and I try to help them, but I don’t know how to work their phones either.”
Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis later shared a carousel of photos and videos from the night, including one of the Bad Seeds watching The Cure together with their crew.
“Watching The Cure last night,” Ellis wrote. “Band and crew. What a band. What songs. Smithy you’re the best. I saw them in 1984 the first time. And I will see them again and again and again and again and again.”
Cave wrote about his own affection for The Cure in June, when responding to a fan question about “the worst thing about having become a really old rockstar” on his blog The Red Hand Files.
He recalled meeting an elderly couple wearing matching Cure T-shirts in Odense, Denmark, who asked him for a selfie but struggled to operate their phone.
“The worst thing about being an old rockstar is that the old rockstar’s old fans don’t know how to work their fucking phones,” he wrote. “The couple stand there, jabbing uselessly at their screens, trying to get them to flip into selfie mode or whatever, saying, ‘I’m not good with phones’ and ‘How does this thing work?’ and ‘Oh, my God’ and ‘I can’t believe it’s Nick Cave’ and I try to help them, but I don’t know how to work their phones either.”
