Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are releasing a new album, Wild God, and will tour North America next year.
They haven’t toured the U.S. as a full band since 2018, though Nick and Warren Ellis have performed solo. This upcoming tour begins in Boston in April, with St. Vincent joining them for the first two shows. After that, the tour continues across the country and ends in San Francisco.
Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time, but presales start on Tuesday. More details can be found on their tour website.
Cave shared with Rolling Stone last year about how crucial performing live is for him. "I think the concerts I do are transcendent in nature, as is all music that involves an authentic exchange with the audience," he said. "Sometimes, I think that music is the only place left, outside of religion, where we can have a legitimate transcendent experience.”
He also mentioned, “If you can go to a concert and be genuinely swept up by it, it makes you a better person, and it reaches up beyond… Music has the capacity to reach up beyond what we would normally expect from ourselves.”
The band will also start a European and U.K. tour soon, but Martyn Casey won’t join due to illness. Colin Greenwood from Radiohead will fill in for him.
Rolling Stone praised the new album Wild God, highlighting its "joyful madcap nature" and saying, “Cave plays preacher, congregation, and god over the course of a suite of songs that are in equal measure elegiac and ecstatic.”
Fans are excited to see the band back on tour after such a long break.
Tour Dates:
- April 15 – Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena (with St. Vincent)
- April 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center (with St. Vincent)
- April 19 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple
- April 21 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
- April 23 – Toronto, ON @ Meridian Hall
- April 24 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell
- April 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
- April 28 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
- April 29 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
- April 30 – Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre
- May 2 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
- May 4 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
- May 5 – Kansas City, MO @ Kansas City Music Hall
- May 7 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
- May 10 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds
- May 11 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
- May 12 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre
- May 14 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
