Who can relate? The Warren Ellis bit made me laugh!

Nick Cave has discussed his experience with tinnitus, calling it “the musician’s curse” and “a pain in the arse”.

The musician was replying to a question on his Red Hand Files website, from a fan who asked whether Cave suffered from tinnitus himself.

“Do you have tinnitus?” the fan – Denise from New York City – asked: “What do you do when the ringing gets loud? I have had it for 15 years and have adjusted but as I get older and seek more solitude the crickets choir is always with me, blaring at top volume. I try to appreciate their alarm as the message “we are alive” but in a still and quiet house they are very noisy guests who never leave.”

Cave then replied: “Warren Ellis claims his tinnitus is so bad that other people can hear it. I think this is nonsense and have told him so, but he says the reason I can’t hear his tinnitus is because my own tinnitus drowns it out.

“Still, it’s funny I should read your question now because I am sitting here alone in my hotel room in Melbourne, having just come back from rehearsals with Warren and the band, and my very own ‘choir of crickets’ is screaming its idiotic head off. I’m debating whether I should go down to the hotel restaurant, which for some reason thinks it’s cool to play unbelievably hideous music extremely loudly while you are eating, to drown the little f***ers out.”

“So, I feel for you, Denise, sitting there in your solitude, with your tinnitus for company, and I don’t really have any advice for you, other than to say, if it is any consolation, that not only my cricket choir is singing, loud and very clear, but Warren’s is too, and Larry’s and Colin’s (Greenwood), and Wendy’s and Janet’s and T Jae’s — all our dreary crickets singing their moronic and endless serenade back to you, you wonderful, tortured person, in your quiet but noisy house in New York City.”

Ending the reply with a joke, Cave said: “Don’t try calling a tinnitus helpline, it just keeps on ringing.”

i hope i never get that s***

I really hope they find a way to cure this, I feel horrible for people who have this and it’s made me change my listening habits so it doesn’t happen to me

I think i'm starting to develop it myself

doesnt ring all the time but every few days i'll have an episode where my ears are ringing for like 5-6 minutes

anyone else literally only have tinnitus at night?

i had this s*** for a few months it ruined a lot of s*** i had going like a relationsship but then somehow 1-2 month after that break up it just went away like it was nothing. In a lot of cases it can be stress or some weird sleep or concentration on it . I now have it only when i concentrate on it

me, 24 hours a day for several years now

I bet so many musicians have it and just don't talk about it, it sucks ass, I think it should be more well-known as an occupational hazard of being a musician, especially a touring one

Being a music lover and getting this or becoming deaf has to be torture

You bet, can't even use headphones anymore

I’ve had a lil ringing in my ear since I was a kid. I just got used to it tbh

think i have this slightly now but not really sure. i can hear a faint fuzz/ringing when i’m in complete silence but idk if that’s just the sound of silence or what

WHO

there will be - nanobots in your ears to fix the white noise 😎

my previous post itt lol. idk if it’s actually this or just the sound of silence. my gf says she can hear it too in super quiet rooms at night

Would you rather go blind or deaf?

deaf

Don’t do that to Nick

His name rings bells

i saw on youtube if you take the love of your ear and pull up and out quickly 5 times i can help some people relive it

Is this like sometimes when you’re chilling and then one ear will just start buzzing and then calm back down? It happens to me but only in like 15 sec increments

yeah there’s an old saying, something like “if your left ear rings, that means you’re getting money soon, if your right ear rings, someone’s talking about you”

Got close a couple years ago I believe.

Was a free concert for 070 shake in Brooklyn, and my friends decided to post up next to the F***ING HUGE SPEAKERS. And after 20 min when shake ended up coming out, I remember thinking to myself “man the audio sounds so bad and distorted, how can anyone enjoy this rn?”

To my horror, my ears were just constantly ringing the rest of the night. When I tried going to sleep, the feeling of horror that crept in my mind that this ringing may never go away, will forever haunt me. Thankfully it went away by mid day the next day.

Could’ve been ugly

Damn