By The dissonance between Nick Cave's fire-and-brimstone Night of the Hunter aesthetic and sensitive, kind and intellectual soul is one of music's most pleasing tensions, and on top of that he actually looked quite good with a moustache during the Grinderman years. He's a top guy, we can all agree.
Now, he's opened up about the impact of Peaky Blinders on his career at a Q&A in Birmingham, the home of the series - you'll recall that the first episode of the first series began with Tommy Shelby wandering around to the strains of Cave's 'Red Right Hand'.
"This question, Nick, is about Birmingham," said the unnamed questioner according to BirminghamLive. "A few years ago, a new show aired on BBC and the opening scene had a man walking down a bleak street in early-1900s Birmingham, to your song 'Red Right Hand'. Tell me, have you seen a spike in interest in your music and your person as a result of Peaky Blinders?"
This might be the first time that anyone's used the phrase "your person" outside of a police witness statement, but still: a good question.
"F***ing Birmingham," Cave chuckled. "It's a great show. But so many people come up to me and say 'I'm a huge fan' and have discovered my music through Peaky Blinders. But was Birmingham really like that?"
"It still is," was the reply.
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