Nick Cave has admitted he was "extremely bored" when he attended King Charles' Coronation earlier this month.
The singer was chosen as part of a group of 14 “outstanding Australians” to attend the historic event and has since been brutally honest about his experience.
The Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds star was among the delegation inside Westminster Abbey that included Channel 4 ’s The Last Leg host Adam Hills.
“I went along to the coronation entirely out of curiosity and found the whole thing to be acutely interesting, to say the least, I would say… because I thought I would feel things when I went to the coronation," he admitted.
“But I didn’t know that I would feel them in such an extreme way and they were conflicted feelings, and sometimes I felt extremely bored, other times completely awestruck by the event, extremely moved by the music."
Speaking on Channel 4 News' Ways To Change The World With Krishnan Guru-Murthy he added: “(George Frideric Handel’s) Zadok The Priest was something from outer space, kind of amused by what was going on, angered by what was going on so… it brought up a lot of different sort of things.”
The rocker was forced to deny claims that he is a royalist or a monarchist following his coronation appearance.
He had to justify his appearance by saying he holds "an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals".
In his self-published Red Hand Files newsletter, where he answers questions from fans, Nick was bombarded with many negative comments which questioned his support of the monarchy by joining the Coronation celebrations.
“Why the f*** are you going to the King’s coronation?” one unimpressed fan asked.
In response, he said: “I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of your age."
"Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.
“I guess what I am trying to say is that, beyond the interminable but necessary debates about the abolition of the monarchy, I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals – the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself.”
The singer concluded: "I’m just drawn to that kind of thing – the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring.”
