Nick Cave : Classic or Dud ?

How did he even get invited in the first place? Is Camilla a fan or something? I didn't see JG Thirwell on the guest list.

Black dye job on a 64-year-old man is not a good look btw, maybe he'll pivot to the McCartney/Cliff light brown infused with grey, also a bad look though.

he's probably been hobnobbing with all the right people for years

Gotta match the black hair plugs

Stagger Stylee

invite as plus one of current wife susie, who founded and runs the fashion label the vampire's wife (which is popular with various mid-age royals)

idk who else is on the guest list for this but cave is surely much more firmly establishment/adopted national treasure than someone like thirlwell, respectable mojo/observer aoty presence, fawning documentaries, wrote the theme tune to pesky blinders

pesky blinders that’s right

henry's dream, more like sniper's dream amirite

I think it was something to do with the Australian PM, he nominated people who could attend ... something like that anyway,

invite as plus one of current wife susie, who founded and runs the fashion label the vampire's wife (which is popular with various mid-age royals)

He was invited as one of 14 "outstanding Australians". Susie was not there, or if she was then she wasn't with her husband.

What, they managed to find 14 outstanding Australians?

(joke)

Guess Angus Young doesn't count as an Aussie then. Did they have 14 oustanding Scots too?

https://fezpage.tripod.com/billy.jpg

lol picture fail, it was a hilarious cartoon of Billy Connolly wearing a monocle from Viz.

https://fezpage.tripod.com/billy.jpg

LOL, it refuses to post!

that was one of the funniest strips Viz ever did

i thought that was supposed to be a comment on outstanding Australians

Guess Angus Young doesn't count as an Aussie then. Did they have 14 oustanding Scots too?

aiui Angus Young lives primarily in the Netherlands, not the UK

now i'm wondering whether Ant or Dec was the plus one

sorta skimming back up this thread and just had to google to see if Jim Thirlwell wrote the theme to Pesky Blinkers

scraping flat caps off the wheel

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Never forget:

Rowan Williams- Thai Sweet Chilli Sensations.

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good to see Sir Nick's hair transplant is holding up so well.

The cat with no hat would be bald in the pate

the vain cunt even dyes his eyebrows.

the vain cunt even dyes his eybrows.

He should have gone the Vicente Fernandez route - let the hair go white but dye the eybrows (and mustache) black.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/08/10/PPHXS/a69a36b3-0658-4c81-8fb1-3c2133e820b5-Viente_fernandez.jpg

lol. Recently I was watching a showdown on a kind of Mexican Idol between a Chente imitator and an Amy Winehouse imitator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_UiDcXOxQ

If Cave had shown up to the coronation dressed in full Chente-swag that would have been an improvement.

and i thought the ska puns were bad, but this petty "omg his hair" turn is gross ... like, this is the kind of superficial bullshit that enabled all the fat shaming / body policing garbage visited on women on ilx for over a decade

absolute nonsense sarah

unless you are joking!

nonsense says the cis-male who didn't have to endure it in the same way?

I mean, seriously, hate the guy's music, fine. Hate the guy's politics, fine.

hating every aspect of the guy is fine as well

it's not like he's some vulnerable person, if anything the opposite according to rumours

I'm not joking. It makes me uncomfortable to see people I otherwise like behaving like mean girls idk

it's not like he's some vulnerable person, if anything the opposite according to rumours

― calzino, Saturday, May 6, 2023 1:07 PM (thirteen seconds ago)

i guess where i'm coming from is that as mortal people, we are all vulnerable in that sense ... aging, mortality ... attack the aspects of the person where they aren't, or, something

if you want to go down that road then even vile politicians and monarchs are vulnerable and life on public messageboards might become very dull

i agree - body shaming or looks shaming or whatever is never good. even if it's aimed at somebody who is worthy of contempt it touches on anybody who's ever had to endure it and it plays to the culture of worth being measured by looks

i understand the point you're making calz but i think that's the underlying issue with mocking aspects of people that aren't their character

vile politicians and monarchs are vulnerable and life on public messageboards might become very dull

we can still hate them for all the horrible things they do and say as a result of their vileness ... there's plenty of material there.

I don't feel like taking the piss out of the vanities of a daft old man goes into that category myself

I don't see body shaming, more like shaming the excessive vanity of the man here

there's a thin line between vanity and the insecurities most of us have tho

i think it also becomes a distraction ... which, yeah, i guess we need our distractions ... but, i just remember all the comedians' jokes about Trump having small hands or being fat, and it's like, ... ok, Comedian, you have all this attention on you where you can criticize this horrible evil man in power, maybe you can say more about the horrible evil things he does and the systems that are complicit and the people that are complicit, because there are certainly jokes to be made there ... idk

lol even my last post sounds bad tbh, but I find it hard to care in this case. I would never be like this with an ordinary citizen.

as a bald man who considered a hair transplant i think it's ok to comment on his hair. i'm a little jealous if truth be told. as a teenager i aped his hair for a fair while and all those industrial quantities of xxxx strength hairspray + crimping + intense backcoming are very likely a contributory factor in my lack of hair now.