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Halfway through autograph his sixteenth anthology Skeleton Tree, Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son died afterwards falling from a Brighton cliff. In an attack to accord with tragedy in the alone way he knew how, Cave absorbed himself in his music, authoritative it adamantine not to accept to those songs through the clarify of his grief.

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This sell-out show, however, was decidedly uplifting. Euphoric, even, at times. Far from acid the affecting amount of an abandoned man captivated by sadness, Cave took on the role of a quasi-religious leader, extensive out to authority easily with admirers and burn their affections into a life-affirming blaze of bent sound. During “Higgs Boson Blues”, he apprenticed them to feel his baby through his shirt – affiliation was the overarching affair of the night.

“From Her to Eternity” from the Bad Seeds’s 1984 admission anthology was an unhinged triumph, not atomic for the alluring afterimage of violinist Warren Ellis causing sonic annihilation with his instrument. The bouncy “Tupelo” followed afore Cave committed newer clue “Jubilee Street” to his archetypal and appearance artist wife Susie. The explosiveness of this mid-section again came to an brusque arrest in admiration to “The Ship Song” and “Into My Arms”, two archetypal adulation songs adventurous in its truest and best absolute sense.

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Songs from Skeleton Tree were broadcast devastatingly throughout the set, with Else Torp’s addictive vocals on “Distant Sky” abacus a adorable band that assorted alluringly with the disorderly uproar of “Red Appropriate Hand” (complete with a acicular dig at Donald Trump’s “angry little tweets”) moments afore it.

But it was during the acclamation that Cave anchored his role as the arena’s august gothic ringmaster, administering his 20,000-strong aggregation from a belvedere at the ancillary of the date for “The Weeping Song” afore bringing a accumulation of them up on date for a affronted arrangement of the proudly profanity-laden “Stagger Lee” from his iconic 1996 Murder Ballads album.

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The lyrics of the final song, the hymnic “Push the Sky Away”, summed up the night. “Some bodies say it’s aloof bedrock and roll, oh but it gets you appropriate bottomward to your soul,” drawled a adrift Cave, afore barrier aloft Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie in the seats and handing him the mic.

In short: perfection.

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