The songwriter’s one-to-one online correspondence with his fans is contemplative, compassionate and touching. Tim Berners-Lee would be proud
Something curious is happening on the world wide web. Intimacy. And not of the more sordid kind with which you might commonly associate it.
In September the Australian songwriter Nick Cave told email subscribers of his plan to communicate outside “some of the more conventional ways of getting information across”. It followed the “Conversations with Nick Cave” events this year in the US and Ireland where, inspired by his 2017 world tour with the Bad Seeds, he explored a more direct relationship with his audience by just talking with them. The success of those gatherings has led to 10 more dates in Australia and New Zealand next year. Cave wanted to deepen further this engagement and so invited “questions or comments, observations or inspirations” from fans and he’d answer in a series of mail drops titled The Red Hand Files.
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