Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will present their new album Wild God on October 17 in Prague, which they will release at the end of the summer. He will return to the O2 arena after three years. The last time they performed in the metropolis was in 2022 at a more than two-hour open air concert at the Metronome Prague festival. The Australian composer, lyricist, singer and writer described the new album Wild God as “complex, but also deeply and joyfully infectious”. Viktor Palák informed about it on behalf of the organizing agency Fource Entertainment.
“Few people can work with an audience like Nick Cave, few people can rock like The Bad Seeds live,” said Palák.
Tickets priced from 1,290 to 2,090 crowns will be on sale from March 22. Irish band The Murder Capital will perform as guests of the concert.
In addition to the band The Bad Seeds, which consists of drummer Thomas Wydler, bassist Martyn Casey, keyboardist Jim Sclavunos, violinist and string player Warren Ellis and guitarist George Vjestica in addition to Cave, Colin Greenwood from the band Radiohead and guitarist Luis Almau also collaborated on the new album.
“This record is serious stuff! It gets you. It uplifts, it hits. That’s what I love about it,” Cave said. “It’s made up of intricate, interweaving narratives, with the title song Wild God at their center,” he added.
In the Czech Republic, Cave has an extraordinary listener base and has performed regularly on Czech stages since the beginning of the 90s. He was a wild punk, a rock chansonnier and the author of famous ballads. He had several bands and his illustrious career began in 1984 when he released From Her To Eternity with his group The Bad Seeds. The deep-voiced singer is still a busy author – whether it concerns music or his literary and film projects. His most commercially successful record is Murder Ballads from 1996, which also contained the first real hit – a duet Where The Wild Roses Grow with pop singer Kylie Minogue.
Cave also starred in several films, some of which he also wrote music for. As an actor and composer, he participated, for example, in Wim Wenders’ film The Sky over Berlin. The recently published book of interviews Faith, Hope and Massacre, which Cave conducted with the Irish singer and publicist Seán O’Hagan, speaks about his rich artistic career, its themes and style.