Nick Cave is hitting the road in January with The Bad Seeds for a tour that, thankfully, includes Newcastle.
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It will be the first time Cave has performed in Newcastle since 1982.
Music-lover and Herald reporter Ian Kirkwood said Cave played a gig at the former Northern Suburbs Rugby League Club off Industrial Drive on January 30, 1982, with his newly-formed band The Birthday Party “to a modest crowd of Newcastle punks – about 50 people”. The Laughing Clowns were the support act.
These days, Cave plays to a sell-out crowd just about every night.
The 2017 tour announcement follows the release of the band’s 16th studio album, Skeleton Tree, which debuted at number one on the ARIA charts in September and in eight countries worldwide.
Skeleton Tree is the second Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds album to top the charts in Australia, following on from 2013’s Push The Sky Away.
Companion film One More Time With Feeling, directed by New Zealand-born Andrew Dominik, premiered at The Venice Film Festival in August followed by screenings on September 8 in 950 cinemas across 30 countries in what was intended to be a one-day-only screening.
Given the incredible response to the film, One More Time With Feeling will return to the big screen in December.
This will be the biggest tour of Australia and New Zealand to date for Cave. It kicks off on January 13 in Hobart, followed by a special outdoor performance on the banks of Lake Wendouree in Ballarat on January 15 – the area of regional Victoria where both Cave and bandmate Warren Ellis grew up.
The tour will then stop at major cities across Australia and New Zealand, with two dates scheduled for both Sydney and Melbourne.
The touring band line-up in 2017 features Cave, Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, George Vjestica and Larry Mullins.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have sold more than 5 million albums worldwide since their debut in 1984, and are known for hits such as The Weeping Song, Into My Arms, Straight To You, Red Right Hand, The Mercy Seat, The Ship Song, Do You Love Me?, Henry Lee, There She Goes, My Beautiful World, Deanna and Stagger Lee.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds will perform at Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Sunday, January 22. Tickets are on sale from 9am on Thursday, October 27, through nickcave.com or Ticketek.
