Nick Cave Reveals He Made A Song With Flatbush Zombies And Owns A Shitload Of Band Merch

Nick Cave is a fan of Brooklyn’s hip hop trio, Flatbush Zombies, so much so that he’s made a song with them. In his recent edition of Red Hand Files — Nick Cave’s personal AMA platform — Cave answered a fan’s question about how he feels about artist merch.
He began by letting the fan know that as he answered he was, “wearing an ancient Sonic Youth Goo T-shirt from 1990”.
He then said he owned a beautiful Flatbush Zombies T-shirt that he “bought around the release of their first album”. Then Nick Cave launched into how he’s tried to work with the group.

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“A few years ago the Zombies and I attempted a collaboration and I sent them my version of the T. Rex classic, ‘Cosmic Dancer’.
“They said they “could not relate to it” but they radically pitch-shifted my voice, sampled it and used it anyway, as the percussive heartbeat to an extraordinarily wild and fucked-up piece of hip-hop that neither of us released.”
Going back to the initial question, Cave continues discussing some of his favourite artist merch. Making the cut for the Nick Cave collection is: a T-shirt that says “Beyoncé Wasn’t Built in a Day” [we love], an AC/DC shirt, and a shirt from one of Elvis Presley’s final performances.
Nick Cave ties off this mesmerising glance into his life with this:
“So, Piers, to answer your question would I wear a pair of merch socks myself? The answer is well, yeah, I do – when I do Jane Fonda’s Workout with my wife, I wear a pair of Radiohead compression socks, RiRi sweatpants, a Leather Nun T-shirt and a Dire Straits headband.
“I am a star jumping, butt clenching dervish of banality and exploitation. Look at me now!”
Well, then. Good for Nick.
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