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Nick Cave is showing us a new, gentler way to use the internet | Russell Cunningham

The songwriter’s one-to-one online correspondence with his fans is contemplative, compassionate and touching. Tim Berners-Lee would be proud
‘It is a peculiarly global one-to-one correspondence between Nick Cave and his disciples, a shelter from the online storm free of discord and conspiracies.’ Photograph: Xavi Torrent/WireImage

Something curious is happening on the world wide web. Intimacy. And not of the more sordid kind with which you might commonly associate it.

In September the Australian songwriter Nick Cave told email subscribers of his plan to communicate outside “some of the more conventional ways of getting information across”. It followed the “Conversations with Nick Cave” events this year in the US and Ireland where, inspired by his 2017 world tour with the Bad Seeds, he explored a more.

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