Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Detail Spring Tour
A bad seed, Warren Ellis, is joining Nick Cave for a tour of the U.S. and Canada beginning in March. In support of the duo’s first record together, Carnage, Cave and Ellis are scheduled to perform 17 shows throughout the whole month and the start of April next year. Their first show is at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, and they will stop in Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Canada. The tour precedes Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ own summer European stint that will run until August. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. EST this Friday, November 19, on Cave’s website. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis will play 17 shows across the US and Canada in spring 2022. Tickets on sale Friday, November 19 at 10am (local time): https://t.co/vPgEY...
Nick Cave Unveils New Song ‘Earthlings’ From Ghosteen Session
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds just released another unheard track “Earthlings” in lieu of the upcoming B-Sides & Rarities Part II. [embedded content] The song has been resurrected from the 2018 and 2019 sessions that resulted in the group’s highly acclaimed album, Ghosteen. Sounding like a monologue from Les Miserables’ Javert, it literally becomes a “Oombaya” chant, paralleling the meditative aura of Ghosteen. “‘Earthlings’ is the missing link that binds Ghosteen together,” Cave said. “A lovely song that just got away…” The Bad Seeds previously dropped “Vortex,” also an unreleased song from the collection. The long-anticipated follow-up to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities is set to arrive October 22. This will be the first time the entire collection will be pressed on vinyl. Par...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to Release B-Sides & Rarities Part II
Back in 2005, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released B-Sides & Rarities, a collection that’s exactly as its title describes. Now, 16 years later, the group has another volume of obscurities on the way. Out on Oct. 22, B-Sides & Rarities Part II was compiled by Cave and Warren Ellis, and contains 27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006-2020, including the first recordings of “Skeleton Tree,” “Girl In Amber” and “Bright Horses.” It will be released on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms. As for the first B-Sides & Rarities, this will be the first time it’s out on vinyl If you can’t wait to hear something from that collection, well, you’re in luck. You can check out the previously unreleased “Vortex” below. Here’s what Cave had to say about ...
Nick Cave Remembers Former Collaborator Anita Lane: ‘The Smartest and Most Talented of All of Us’
Early Bad Seeds collaborator Anita Lane died early this week. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter, Nick Cave remembered Lane as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far” and called her a “lighting in a bottle.” “You think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think that there is nothing more that can hurt you in this world, and then Anita dies,” he wrote. Cave admired Lane’s myriad accomplishments and sometimes contradictory qualities, saying, that “She was the brains behind The Birthday Party, wrote a bunch of their songs, wrote ‘From Her to Eternity,’ ‘The World’s a Girl,’ ‘Sugar in a Hurricane’ and my favourite Bad Seeds song, ‘Stranger Than Kindness.’ but was much more than that.” He al...
Read Nick Cave’s Tips on How to Rise Above Writer’s Block
Nick Cave detailed his process for overcoming writer’s block in his latest Red Hand Files post. The songwriter — answering the fan question, “What do you do when the lyrics just aren’t coming?” — examined how many musicians misdiagnose their own slow pace as a blanket lack of inspiration. “In my experience, lyrics are almost always seemingly just not coming,” he wrote in the lengthy letter. “This is the tearful ground zero of songwriting — at least for some of us. This lack of motion, this sense of suspended powerlessness, can feel extraordinarily desperate for a songwriter. But the thing you must hold on to through these difficult periods, as hard as it may be, is this — when something’s not coming, it’s coming. It took me many years to learn this, and ...
