Nick Cave is smiling again as he enjoys a romantic outing with his wife in London after years marred by tragedy.
The Australian rocker, 66, and his wife of 25 years, Susie Bick, shared a passionate kiss while shopping in Notting Hill this week.
The Bad Seeds musician, known for hits including Into My Arms and One More Time With Feeling, hugged Susie before pulling her close.
The couple then kissed while holding several shopping bags before continuing down the path.
Nick dressed to impress for the outing in a gray patterned suit, a light blue button-down shirt, and black dress shoes.
Nick Cave was smiling again as he and wife Susie Bick enjoyed a romantic outing in London on Thursday after years marred by tragedy.
The Australian rocker, 66, and his 25-year-old wife packed on the PDA as they shared a kiss while shopping in Notting Hill.
Susie, 55, looked stylish in white pants, a shirt of the same color and a beige coat.
She finished her ensemble with a pair of black boots, a black designer bag and sunglasses.
Susie recently stopped marketing her fashion brand The Vampire’s Wife after a decade amid the brand’s struggles to recover from the pandemic and pay off an outstanding tax debt.
He posted an emotional statement on the British fashion brand’s website earlier this month saying they were closing their doors due to “factors beyond our control.”
The legendary ’80s London ‘It’ girl founded the brand in 2014 with her friend and business partner Alex Adamson.
Her “strange, sexy and unforgettable” name was taken from the title of her husband’s unfinished book which Susie described as a “gift” from the Bad Seeds frontman.
Susie’s fashion brand has been worn by the likes of Kate Middleton, Cate Blanchett, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue.
Nick and Susie currently live with their son Earl, 23, in a whimsical house in Brighton, 75 kilometers south of London.
The couple settled into a gothic lifestyle on the south coast of England, and Susie chronicles their lives on her popular Instagram account.
The Bad Seeds musician, known for hits including Into My Arms and One More Time With Feeling, hugged Susie before pulling her close and giving her a kiss.
Nick and Susie currently live with their son Earl, 23, in a whimsical house in Brighton, located 75 kilometers south of London.
But the couple’s glamorous life has been hit by unimaginable tragedies over the years, including the shocking death of their son Arthur at the age of 15.
Arthur died in 2015 after falling 60ft from a cliff in Ovingdean, near Brighton, while taking LSD.
His family described the teenager as a “beautiful, happy and loving boy.”
Losing Arthur left Susie completely helpless.
“I struggle with certain things that have happened in my life and sometimes I can be in a pretty dark place,” she said in 2018.
‘I get lost when I’m designing. Time just flies by. It’s actually an absolute gift, because the worst thing happened to me. I channel all the positive energy I can into creating clothes.’
Unable to work, leave the house or face seeing anyone, Susie retired. Photographs from Arthur’s investigation show her hiding her face behind a curtain of raven black hair as she clung to Nick for support.
And then, three months later, a phone call came.
‘I got a call from Daisy Lowe, Pearl Lowe’s model daughter and family friend, saying she needed a dress for an awards ceremony and would I make her one?
‘So I crawled into the office to find the red cloth. And she used it. And I saw it photographed. That was kind of a breakthrough. From then on I went to work every day.
‘Having something to do that was physically demanding allowed me to temporarily not think about anything else.
“When Arthur died, I didn’t think I could continue. When you lose a child, nothing will take away the pain, ever. But I did realize that if I could focus on something outside of what had happened, that if I could somehow separate myself from everything, even for a few seconds, and start creating things in those moments of escapism, then that could be something important. .’
The couple have settled into a gothic lifestyle on the south coast of England, and Susie chronicles their lives on her popular Instagram account.
The couple experienced further tragedy in 2022 when Nick’s eldest son, Jethro Lazenby, died at age 30.
“It is with great sadness that I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” Nick said in a statement.
“We would be grateful for the family’s privacy at this time.”
Jethro was born to Melbourne-based model mother Beau Lazenby in 1991, just 10 days before Nick’s second son Luke was born.
The musician and his first-born son had a ‘tense’ relationship and only met when Jethro was seven or eight years old.
Nick and Susie’s son Arthur (right) tragically died aged 15, after falling 60ft from a cliff at Ovingdean, near Brighton, in July 2015. He is pictured here with his twin Earl.
The couple suffered further tragedy in 2022 when Nick’s eldest son, Jethro Lazenby (pictured), died aged 30.
As well as Earl, Nick has another son, Luke, 32, from his first marriage to Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro.
His son Earl, Arthur’s twin, is an actor and has starred in The End of the F***ing World, the television series Alex Rider and The School for Good and Evil.
Susie met Nick thanks to Bella Freud, a mutual friend, who said their paths crossed at a party at the Natural History Museum in London.
“He found me under the T-Rex,” Susie recalled.
They were married at a registry office in Richmond, south-west London, followed by a blessing at a chapel in Surrey, in 1999.
