2024-03-17 00:56:08
Australian singer Nick Cave will return to the Czech Republic with a new album “full of secrets”. He will perform alongside his best-known band, The Bad Seeds, on October 17 in Prague’s O2 arena.
Tickets for prices starting at 1,290 crowns will be available from next Friday in the Ticketmaster and Ticketportal networks. This was announced by the Fource agency, which organizes the event. “Few people can work with an audience like Nick Cave, few people can rock like The Bad Seeds live,” says Viktor Palák for the organizer.
Nick Cave was the last star of Prague’s Metronome festival in the summer of 2022. “Whenever he approached the audience, dozens of hands grabbed him from below, clutched him, hugged him, caressed him, tugged at him, imploringly clung to him,” Aktuálně.cz wrote at the time. At the end of last year, the book of interviews Faith, Hope and Massacre, which Cave conducted with the Irish musician and journalist Seán O’Hagan, also reached Czech readers. It was published by Argo.
The 66-year-old Australian living in Britain with the band The Bad Seeds last released a full-length album Ghosteen in 2019. Earlier this month, they released the first single from the eighteenth studio recording, which they called Wild God.
“I hope it has the same effect on listeners as it does on me, when the music bursts out of the speakers and engulfs me. It’s a complicated record, but also a deep and infectiously joyful record,” said the singer. “It’s full of secrets and elaborate, interwoven stories,” he added on the Red Hand Files website, through which he communicates with fans.
According to him, the band never knows in advance what exactly will be created in the studio. “Those albums reflect more the emotional state of the people who wrote them and the musicians who recorded them. When I hear it in retrospect, I have the impression that we were happy,” adds Cave, according to whom the album can hit you, lift you up and move you. It will be released on August 30, and will include ten songs.
Singer Nick Cave has been coming to Prague since the 90s. | Photo: Megan Cullen
The new Wild God was co-produced by his closest collaborator, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, with whom Cave already released the joint album Carnage in 2021.
In addition to members of The Bad Seeds, the album features Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood and guitarist Luis Almau.
The group will head to Prague on October 17, consisting of Nick Cave, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis and George Vjestica. The Irish band The Murder Capital will perform as frontrunners.
The fame of Nick Cave, who has been visiting the Czech Republic since the beginning of the 90s of the last century, but has never, for example, won a Grammy award, could soon be boosted by the television adaptation of his novel The Death of Zajda Munro. The main role of a big-mouthed salesman with cosmetic products in the six-part miniseries will be played by Matt Smith, known from the series Time Lord, Dragonborn or The Crown, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
This year, the band The Bad Seeds will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of their debut album From Here To Eternity from 1984. They came to Prague for the first time in September 1993, when they performed two concerts in the big Lucerna hall with Nick Cave in the lead.
It was then that Cave began to build a devoted listener base in the Czech Republic, wrote the ČTK agency. In the following years, the local audience experienced him as a wild punk, rock chansonnier and author of famous ballads.
The singer with a deep voice is still diligent not only in music, but also in literary and film projects. His most commercially successful record remains Murder Ballads from 1996, which included a real hit, the duet Where The Wild Roses Grow with pop singer Kylie Minogue. Cave also acted in several films, some of which he wrote music for. As an actor and composer, he participated, for example, in the film Sky over Berlin directed by Wim Wenders.
Video: Wild God single from Nick Cave’s new album
Single Wild God from the new album by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Photo: Megan Cullen | Video: PIAS Recordings