Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Set ‘Wild God’ Tour of U.Okay. and Europe

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will wield their darkish artwork in arenas throughout the U.Okay. and Europe later this yr in help of Wild God, the band’s 18th studio album.

The various rock outfit will kick-off their months-long Continental European jaunt Sept. 24 at Rudolf Weber-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany, with a string of U.Okay. dates set for November. As it stands, the motion will wrap up Nov. 17 at Accor Arena in Paris, France.

Cave and Co. will use a previously-announced tour of Australia this April and May as a launch-pad for the northern run.

“I never think about how a record is going to go live, it never, ever occurs to me,” explains Cave in a press release. “The lyric writing process is way too hard to take ideas like that into consideration. But, when I listen to Wild God now, I think we can really do something epic with these songs live. We’re really excited about that – the record just feels like it was made for the stage.”

Wild God will drop Aug. 30 by means of Cave’s personal label Bad Seed, by way of a brand new, unique worldwide licensing settlement with Play It Again Sam, an imprint of the unbiased [PIAS] label group.

Earlier, the ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted bandleader stated of Wild God, “there’s no f—ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.”

Led by Cave, the present Bad Seeds lineup consists of Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, George Vjestica and longtime collaborator Warren Ellis, who produces the forthcoming album with Cave.

Wild God stretches throughout 10 tracks and was reduce at Miraval Studios in Provence, France and Soundtree Studios in London, England, that includes contributions from Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar).

It’s the followup to Ghosteen, the critically-lauded two-disc longplay from 2019, which explored Cave’s publicity to grief and ache, following the sudden dying of his son Arthur in 2015. 

Check out Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 2024 tour dates right here.