ROCKSTAR Nick Cave is to leave Brighton following the death of his son two years ago.

Speaking to GQ magazine during his Australian tour, the musician told how Brighton had too many memories attached to it.

It follows the death of his son Arthur, who fell from Cliffs at Ovingdean Gap after taking the drug LSD.

The 59-year-old musician said: “Mostly, we just find it too difficult to live here.

“I don’t know how to say this really. Everyone here has just been so great and that’s in a way half the problem.

“When I go out in Brighton these days, there’s a sort of feeling that we’re all in this together. And it’s just a little bit too intense for me.

“It’s too many memories, really. We’ve really tried. But it’s just beyond us, in a way, to remain.”

Cave has lived in Brighton with his family since 2002. But now the musician, his wife Susie and their son Earl plan to move to Los Angeles, California.

Earl’s twin Arthur was 15 when he took the hallucinogenic drug and became disorientated. He fell to his death from the cliffs in Ovingdean, a few minutes from his home, in July 2015.

Talking about life after the tragedy his father said: “There’s definitely a kind of recognition of the life that we used to lead and almost a shame that we could live a life and worry about certain things that we worried about back then, that just seem absolute luxuries in this new world.

“You know, indulgences. And that is a big change for us. I think we are not really concerned about a lot of things that we were concerned about before.

“ I think for both of us, it has something to do with not wanting to cause any more suffering in our day-to-day lives than we possibly can.

“So everyone’s more gentle with each other. And we’re nicer people, I guess, to put it one way, I suppose. And conflict doesn’t have the same sort of seductive energy that it used to.”

Cave had been busy recording his 16th album Skeleton Tree with his band The Bad Seeds at a studio just a few hundred metres from where his son died.

He addressed his grief in documentary film One More Time With Feeling and the album Skeleton Tree in 2016.

In the film, he tells of his difficulty in taking comfort in the kind words of strangers. The Australian singer recalls an anecdote in which a man in a bakery offered words of support while other customers look at him with kind eyes. He said it left him shocked and questioning when he became an “object of pity”.

He also tells of bursting into tears in the arms of someone he thought was a close friend only to realise it was a sympathetic stranger.