For the many Israeli fans of legendary singer Nick Cave and his band The Bad Seeds, the ordeal is finally coming to an end…
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The group was to perform at the Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv in June 2020, but COVID got the better of the concert – which was already almost sold out.
The show's Israeli producer, Shuki Weiss, finally managed to postpone the show to Aug. 23 of this year and move its setting to Rishon Lezion's Live Park. With a larger capacity, Weiss is confident that audiences will come to the venue in large numbers to enjoy Cave's music.
Last May, Cave lost a second son, Jethro, at the age of 31, after the accidental death of his first child, Arthur, seven years ago.
But despite the tragedy, the singer kept his commitment and is slated to take the stage next week.
Cave and his band thus sign their return to Israel, after two memorable concerts in Tel Aviv in 2017. Many spectators had no hesitation in deeming the show as "one of the best ever organized by a foreign artist in Israel."
Expectations are high.
Cave refused to cancel his concert in Israel, despite pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2017, Cave expressed his affection for Israel and stressed that artists' boycotts did not solve anything. He then affirmed loud and clear his choice to "oppose those who try to scare artists away and reduce them to silence."
"Whatever the pros and cons of official Israeli action in the disputed territories, Israel is a real, vibrant, functioning democracy. I am here because I love Israel and because it is important for me to say that a musician cannot be silenced. In a way, I am here because of the BDS movement," he said.
While the emblematic Australian singer has never supported Israeli policy in the West Bank and has supported Palestinians by participating in several events aimed at raising funds for their schools, he never yielded to the calls for boycott, seeing it as a "destructive and reducing" approach.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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