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Nick Cave @ Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, April 17, 2025. Photo by the great Ellen Qbertplaya

Nick Cave’s mid-tour in the U.S., and if you’re thinking, well, you’ve seen him, or aren’t the biggest fan — go anyway. My dude Harlan had a ticket for me to Thursday’s show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, a sports arena that seats around 19,000 for concerts. Cave filled maybe 3/4 of the place, an impressive critical mass of a certain sort of folk, most of whom I imagine have been rubbed raw of late. I certainly have been.