Rockstar Nick Cave has revealed that he has started working on a new album with his band the Bad Seeds.
The singer, one of Brighton’s most famous residents, said he plans to make a new record this year, but admits he needs to “write the bloody thing”.
His band, known for songs such as Into My Arms and Red Right Hand, released their last album Ghosteen in 2019.
Nick revealed he had started writing new songs on January 1 - but says he is not sure about his ideas so far.
In his latest newsletter, the 65-year-old said: "I’ve written a few things but they aren’t very good, or maybe they are, it’s difficult to tell.
“A kind of doldrums has set in, perennial and predictable. It’s the same with every record, I feel that familiar feeling of lack, like I’m a big, dumb blank thing in a suit.
“Anything that resembles a creative impulse is burrowed way down in some mossy, froggy hole, asleep, I hope, not dead. I have to call it forth, provoke it from its slumber.”
Nick’s son Arthur Cave, 15, died in 2015 after falling from the cliffs at Ovingdean.
He has spoken about the tragedy and the impact on his life in a documentary about the aftermath of his son’s death and during the recording process of album Skeleton Tree.
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