We heal by acknowledging our emotions and test our heart's resilience by lingering within the unbearable.

-Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue #306 December 2024

A live concert can feel overwhelming, even frightening, because its emotional power can suddenly bring our most buried experiences to the surface. But feelings are meant to be felt - that's what they are for. We heal by acknowledging our emotions and test our heart's resilience by lingering within the unbearable. It is something music can help us do. We find our hearts are much stronger than we presumed, and what we thought was unbearable was nothing of the sort. Music draws forth these subterranean feelings and simultaneously rescues us from them.

-Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue #306 December 2024