Dig deeper and you’ll find leading light of Mid-West

BACK in the late 1990s Nick Cave took to the stage of Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre.

It was a strange gig. Cave wasn’t strictly singing, or performing. He was delivering a lecture on love songs, on the craft and sadness that goes into a good one, drawing from his own dark work.

“They sit grimly on their own and do not play with the other songs,” he said.