Nick Cave and wife Susie Bick seen in rare public display of affection

Nick Cave is smiling again as he enjoyed a romantic outing with his wife in London following years clouded 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, wrapped his arms around Susie before pulling her in close. 

The pair then locked lips while holding several shopping bags before continuing along the path.

Nick dressed to impress for the outing in a grey patterned suit, light blue buttoned down shirt and black dress shoes.

Susie, 55, looked stylish in white pants, a matching coloured shirt and beige coat.

She accessorised her ensemble with a pair of black boots, a black designer handbag and sunglasses.

Susie recently ceased trading of her fashion label The Vampire’s Wife after a decade amid the brand’s struggles to recover from the pandemic and repay an outstanding tax debt.

She published an emotional statement on the British fashion brand’s website earlier this month in which she said they were closing its doors due to ‘factors beyond our control’.

London‘s legendary 80s ‘It’ girl founded the label in 2014 with friend and business partner Alex Adamson.

Its ‘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 label 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 home in Brighton, located 75km south of London.

The couple settled into a Gothic lifestyle on the south coast of England, with their lives chronicled by Susie on her popular Instagram account.

But the couple’s glamorous life has been hit with unimaginable tragedy over the years, including the shock 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 on LSD. 

The teenager was described by his family as a ‘beautiful, happy, loving boy’.

Losing Arthur left Susie utterly bereft. 

‘I struggle with certain things that have happened in my life and sometimes can be in quite a 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 any positive energy I can into creating clothes.’

Unable to work, leave the house or face seeing anyone, Susie retreated. Photographs from Arthur’s inquest show her hiding her face behind a curtain of raven-black hair as she clung to Nick for support.

And then, three months later, came a phone call. 

‘I got a call from Daisy Lowe — the model daughter of Pearl Lowe and a family friend — saying she needed a dress for an awards ceremony and would I make one for her?

‘So I dragged myself into the office to find the red fabric. And she wore 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 which was physically demanding enabled me temporarily not to think of anything else.

‘When Arthur died, I didn’t think I could carry on. When you lose a child, nothing will take away the pain, not ever. But I did realise if I could focus on something outside of what had happened, that if I could separate myself somehow from it all, even for a few seconds, and start creating things in those moments of escapism, then that might be an important thing.’

The couple experienced more tragedy in 2022 when Nick’s eldest son Jethro Lazenby died at age 30.

‘With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,’ Nick said in a statement. 

‘We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.’

Jethro was born to his Melbourne-based model mother Beau Lazenby in 1991, just 10 days before Nick’s second son Luke was born.

The musician and his firstborn had a ‘strained’ relationship and only met when Jethro was seven or eight years old.

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In addition to 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, television series Alex Rider and The School for Good and Evil.

Susie was introduced to Nick by Bella Freud, a mutual friend, who ensured their paths crossed at a party at the Natural History Museum, in London.

‘He found me under the T-Rex,’ Susie recalled.

They married in a register office in Richmond, South-West London, followed by a blessing at a chapel in Surrey, in 1999.