Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds play ‘Skeleton Tree’ for first time in seven years as they kick off 2025 ‘Wild God’ US tour

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have kicked off their ‘Wild God’ US tour, and carried out ‘Skeleton Tree’ dwell for the primary time in seven years. Try footage of the present under.

The brand new run of dwell reveals are the primary US tour dates from them since 2018. The Group had been beforehand set to make their approach to the US again in 2020 however needed to cancel their tour as a result of COVID pandemic.

Comprising 18 dates, the tour kicked off final night time (April 15) on the Agganis Area in Boston, and opened with back-to-back renditions of ‘Frogs’, ‘Wild God’, ‘Track Of The Lake’ and ‘O Kids’.

In complete 22 songs had been performed, together with renditions of each ‘Carnage’ and ‘White Elephant’ – which Cave launched with Warren Ellis. The principle spotlight of the setlist, nevertheless, got here throughout the first encore, when the artist broke out the primary dwell model of ‘Skeleton Tree’ in seven years.

The music, which is the title observe to his 2016 album, was performed simply after ‘Papa Gained’t Depart You, Henry’ and ‘The Weeping Track’, and was adopted by a second encore that included a efficiency of traditional observe ‘Into My Arms’.

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Following on from their opening night time in Boston, the band will make additional stops in cities comparable to Brooklyn, Detroit, Washington D.C., Montreal, Chicago, Portland, Vancouver and extra throughout the subsequent month. The dates will wrap up on Could 14 on the Invoice Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Visit here for any remaining tickets.

The ‘Skeleton Tree’ album arrived in 2016, and was launched shortly after Cave’s son Arthur unexpectedly died on the age of 15 in July 2015, after falling from a cliff close to Brighton.

Talking in an interview final yr, Cave shared that he regretted recording the document so quickly after his son’s dying. “That’s the solely album that made issues worse,” he stated. “My psychological well being was made worse, as a result of I did it very quickly after my son died, and I shouldn’t have carried out.”

For the continued run of dwell reveals, Radiohead’s Collin Greenwood is enjoying with Nick Cave and co. This comes because the band introduced final yr that Martyn Casey wouldn’t be capable to be a part of attributable to sickness.

Beforehand, Greenwood performed with Cave dwell on his current solo excursions, in addition to a number of dates of the ‘Carnage’ tour with Warren Ellis. Greenwood additionally contributed elements to the band’s new album, ‘Wild God’, too.

Talking about working with the ‘Pink Proper Hand’ singer and becoming a member of the tour, Greenwood stated: “It’s an superior group of individuals to play music with. They’re sensible and with ferociously loud drummers; what a staff. For me, it’s a very enjoyable factor to do as a result of it’s not Radiohead. There are numerous totally different colors within the music, so I’m having a blast.”

Of Cave, he added, “He’s such a fantastic story-teller, and I actually love his piano-playing. After I took the tough recordings from the brand new album house to hearken to and heard his voice refill my entrance room, I believed, ‘What a voice! He’s obtained the lot!’

“I knew his music after all, however I didn’t understand it super-well. I knew ‘Let Love In’ and actually preferred that document, in addition to the earlier information ‘Push The Sky Away’ and ‘Skeleton Tree’,” he adeed. “Being fortunate sufficient to observe him work and write with Warren has been a real privilege.”

The tour is in help of the band’s 18th studio album ‘Wild God‘. In a four-star evaluation of the LP, NME wrote: “Unhealthy Seeds information are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. After all, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and nonetheless colored with the various shades of a life so difficult and weathered.

“However by no means has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “Leaping for love and the opening sky above” as “Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years“. With a lust for all times, the once-dark prince is letting the sunshine in.”