Issue #374

‘How do I make my partner not the centre of my world? I love him so much now I depend on his presence because everything is just better by his ...’

Issue #373

‘How are you feeling following the extraordinary Brighton show? I am back home in Northumberland now, I had my swim in the beautiful cold north sea. I’m feeling very ...’

Issue #372

‘Wishing you much love and strength on this day.’

Issue #371

‘30 SHORTS

Are you ever on tour, sitting in Room 104 of the Fairmont Hotel in Montreux, too tired to write a proper, thoughtful Red Hand File, so you just ...’

Issue #370

‘How have your beliefs evolved? What did you once hold true in your beliefs that you don’t hold now?’

Issue #369

‘What’s the worst thing about having become a really old rockstar?’

Issue #368

‘Any thoughts on shame? What an awful and recurrent feeling…’

Issue #367

‘Freddie Mercury never watched himself perform. Not once. Psychologists who studied his case said it was the most instinctively correct decision a whole performer ever made and the reason his ...’

Issue #366

‘I am a big fan of Warren’s and you don’t worry and I often wish I was a fly on the wall and could listn to your conversations. ...’

Issue #365

‘It seems to me like you’ve always harnessed your destiny and gone towards what your soul tells you. I feel like I’ve constantly ignored my various callings out ...’

Issue #364

‘How do you sleep at night? As someone who lies awake for at least an hour every night, I wonder how you go about silencing the endless churn of the ...’

Issue #363

‘It seems most of these questions are like “my family member died, I’m sad!”
And the answers are like “life is beautiful and mysterious, sadness brings us together ...’

Issue #362

‘40 SHORTS

That last file was a bit serious – Can we please have some of your irreverent question answering? In need of it given the state of the world. ...’

Issue #361

‘What are you reading? do you read non-fiction?’

Issue #360

‘[ ] Something has troubled me since my son Eden died last year at four years old from cancer. Long before he was ever sick, I carried a strange certainty that we ...’

Issue #359

‘[ ] Once again, I wake up to a world that feels completely meaningless. Why fucking bother?’

Issue #358

‘Do you ever stop working?’

Issue #357

‘Do you know how hard it is to come up with just ONE question out of the multitude of wonderings? What question might YOU have for us?’

Issue #356

‘Nick, I’m writing songs again. They’re fucking pouring out of me. It’s been 8 years since I wrote songs. But here’s the thing. I’m struggling to ...’

Issue #355

‘At the International Film Festival in Berlin, jury president Wim Wenders sparked controversy, stating that art and artists are “the counterweight to politics, we are the opposite of politics.” He ...’

Issue #354

‘I never thought I’d be one of those readers who wrote to you seeking counsel in grief, yet here I am: my precious wife C has passed after a ...’

Issue #353

‘Thank you for three phenomenal shows in Melbourne, which I witnessed from the front rows. Utterly sublime. Best concerts ever by any band that I have seen!!! The energy and ...’

Issue #352

‘How do you become a Bad Seed? Asking for a friend.’

Issue #351

‘Do you think humans have to suffer before harnessing genuine human sympathy?’

Issue #350

‘50 SHORTS

I used to love your music in the 80s and 90s. Your new music, I not only don’t like it, I find it unlistenable. It sounds ...’

Issue #349

‘What will you pray for in the new year?’

Issue #348

‘Merry Christmas, Nick!’

Issue #347

‘I don’t experience anything when I go to concerts anymore, but I still really enjoy music. Do you like going to concerts?’

Issue #346

‘Your newer merch is entirely soulless. Please take some more time on it for the 2026 Australia tour. It’s disappointing.’

Issue #345

‘I was coming up to wakefulness when I felt the presence of my son, dead ten years. “I’m so sorry, I’m so very sorry”, I murmured to him. “...’