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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer

In addition to a sold out UK show, the Aussie icon and his band will be heading on tour across Ireland and the Continent

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“It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful”: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce huge Brighton show for summer 2026

The band will play their only UK show of 2026 at the city's Preston Park next July

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Nick Cave builds a church out of sorrow

Cave's “Wild God” tour reaffirms his status as an artist whose work offers both catharsis and connection

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“There was no malice intended; it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then.” Nick Cave once famously dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea on a song with “arguably the greatest lyric ever”

“I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre”

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Nick Cave addresses ‘obnoxious’ comment he made 25 years ago

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea responded to the remark in 2006, admitting that it had hurt his feelings

The Independent UK

Marianne Faithfull was the ultimate counter-culture icon

Marianne Faithfull’s work proved she was no mere muse, she was a creative force worshipped by cool musicians in every era

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“He's probably, for my money, one of the finest guitarists in the world”: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood on who he considers the best rhythm guitarist he's ever played with

The Radiohead bassist also reflects on what makes Thom Yorke's guitar playing different from Jonny Greenwood's

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“Nick Cave has this spiritual fervour with the audience”: Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on becoming a Bad Seed

The Radiohead bassist has just completed a stint in Nick Cave’s band and opens up on “the best time with the loveliest people”

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Nick Cave responds to ‘admirably perverse’ Bob Dylan post: ‘There’s been such an excess of despair’

Musician was thrilled to learn that the singer-songwriter had been in the audience at his recent show with The Bad Seeds in Paris

The Independent UK

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review – up close and existential with rock’s great everyman

In an expansive, transporting show, the singer-songwriter turned all-round guru reaches for the stars – and anyone within touching distance

The Guardian - UK

Pro-Palestine campaigners to protest at Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds concert

Protest groups have also written to the Australian singer asking him not to perform in Israel amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Evening Standard

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review – an incredible mass spiritual outpouring

This hugely moving concert spans every corner of the human experience, finding Cave at a point where time has deepened his music’s power and his connection with his audience

The Guardian - UK

‘It commemorates collective moments’: Radiohead through the eyes of Colin Greenwood

Since 2003, the bassist has taken his camera to the studio and on stage to capture his bandmates at work. Now, a beautiful new book shares his intimate, delicate pictures of one of Britain’s best-loved groups

The Guardian - UK

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce plans for 18-date North American tour

Nick Cave Cave & The Bad Seeds reveal dates for their first tour in North America since 2018

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The Guardian - UK

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – a different kind of transcendence

The Bad Seeds are back, if slightly muted, as Cave channels his grief following the death of two of his sons to often tremendous effect

The Independent UK

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds review, Wild God: An album that will have you believing in the transformative power of love

Swinging between doubt and faith, this is a record that can feel fathomless but leaves you buoyant

The Guardian - UK

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – this masterpiece will make you fall back in love with life

Contemplating pain, death and suffering, rock’s former prince of darkness finds euphoria despite it all, on an album of contagious joy and thrilling melody

The Guardian - AU

Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum

Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic

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“Loneliness and lack of meaning seem to inhabit the same dark orbit.” Nick Cave offers words of comfort and advice for anyone feeling lonely or lost

One of rock's most thoughtful and empathetic elder statesmen, Nick Cave shares his thoughts on coping with loneliness

The Guardian - AU

Spiderbait’s Kram: ‘Which famous person would I fight? Anyone but Danny DeVito’

The drummer-singer talks about his love for Alec Guinness, putting his foot in it with a Bad Seed and the ideal length of men’s shorts

Guitar World

“The producer showed me a great recording trick – he covered my pick with a thin layer of paper. The sound was pure Bowie”: He played with John Squire and KT Tunstall. Now George Vjestica is exploring his experimental side as one of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds

You may not know him at first glance, but the work of Stoke-on-Trent native George Vjestica has probably appeared on some of your favorite albums and movies

Guitar World

“Now that the years have passed, I can admit that we did make liberal use of Ry Cooder’s amps without his knowledge”: Kid Congo Powers is the journeyman guitarist who fused jazz and punk with the Bad Seeds, the Cramps and Gun Club

Powers reveals how drugs, jazz and lessons from the Cramps’ Poison Ivy were all brought to bear on Gun Club’s seminal 1984 album, The Las Vegas Story

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“Are these your questions?” When Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan interviewed Nick Cave for MTV at Lollapalooza 1994, it did not go well

Interviewing Nick Cave for MTV in Las Vegas in 1994, Billy Corgan made the mistake of calling the Bad Seeds an English band. It would get worse

The Guardian - UK

‘Cynicism doesn’t get you anywhere’: Warren Ellis on Dirty Three’s return, Nick Cave – and opening a primate sanctuary

It’s been 12 years since the Australian instrumental trio’s last album. Since then, their violinist has become Cave’s right-hand man and set up a home for abused monkeys. Now they’re back with a feverishly beautiful new album

Louder

"The record feels like it was made for the stage": Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce 27-date The Wild God UK / Europe tour, with Dry Cleaning, The Murder Capital and Black Country, New Road in support

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds unveil first headline shows in the UK and Europe since 2017

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