{"id":640716,"date":"2025-12-18T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640716\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:16:18","slug":"i-was-deeply-moved-and-humbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640716\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Deeply Moved and Humbled\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radiohead\u2019s Fall 2025 tour came to a close in Berlin on Dec. 12. This included a run of shows at the O2 Arena in London<\/a>. One famous fan who was in attendance, Nick Cave, recalled the \u201cintense\u201d performance, leaving him \u201cdeeply moved and humbled.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bad Seeds frontman wrote about the experience on his Red Hand Files<\/a> blog. He was asked by a fan if he ever goes to see other artists live. \u201cWhen I\u2019m on tour, the last thing I want to do is go to someone else\u2019s concert,\u201d Cave replied. \u201cI feel sonically and emotionally overloaded, and the live experience is simply too intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I\u2019ve had a couple of months\u2019 break from touring, life has settled down, and, to my surprise, Jordan, I\u2019ve had the urge to go and see live music,\u201d Cave continued. He then shared some of the acts he\u2019s caught this year. \u201cOver the past couple of months, I\u2019ve attended many gigs \u2013 incredible evenings, all of them \u2013 including Bob Dylan<\/a>, Swans, Radiohead, Cameron Winter, and Dirty Three,\u201d Cave recalled.<\/p>\n

The legendary singer also noted that he believes concerts have \u201cthe capacity to repair the world with its goodness.\u201d Next, Cave went on to praise Radiohead specifically.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Radiohead concert at the O2, I was sitting among twenty thousand people,\u201d he reflected. \u201cBizarrely, it was the first time I had ever been in the audience at such a large show, and I was stunned by the depth of love in the room \u2013 people dancing, screaming, crying, hugging each other, throwing themselves around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radiohead\u2019s 2025 Fall Tour included four nights of shows in five cities each<\/p>\n

\u201cI was struck by the realisation of just how powerful live music is \u2013 that a group of individuals can come together and concoct a sound unique to them, and that people can connect with that distinctive vision as if it were their own experience,\u201d Cave continued. \u201cI could feel its moral quality \u2013 how this singular force has the capacity to repair the world with its goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Cave offered a comparison of the live concert experience<\/a> to \u201cvarious spiritual activities\u201d he also regularly participates in. \u201cI swim in a lake, go to church, walk in nature, meditate,\u201d he said. However, \u201cnone offer the transcendent opportunity of a live concert. It is a form of human activity that radiates goodness, working its way through the crowd and into the world as a reparative, cosmic force, improving matters, keeping the devil at bay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe Radiohead\u2019s audience was responding not only to the music, which was astonishing, but also to the courage of the performers \u2013 the sheer nerve to stand before a crowd and offer up their souls,\u201d Cave concluded. \u201cLike everyone else there, I was deeply moved and humbled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radiohead\u2019s Fall 2025 tour came to a close in Berlin on Dec. 12. This included a run of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[45450,748,393,4884,257,269,44974,104000,4161,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-alt-rock","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-nick-cave","15":"tag-noisey","16":"tag-radiohead","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115741942361235589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}