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Cave diving into the culture wars

A rock icon refuses to play the woke tune

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

If Nick Cave is the answer, what is the question? Almost any you might fancy putting to him, as it happens, at least if you have been one of the thousands lucky enough to nab a ticket to one or other of the lean Melburnian’s conversational performances that have been proving as much a bracing cultural tonic for the political times as just another bunch of tunes by one of our region’s preeminent musicians.

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