LIVE GOD: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds capture the live experience on record. All information here.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release a new live album, LIVE GOD – a documentation of their acclaimed Wild God tour, which took in the UK, Europe and North America in 2024 and 2025. The work includes 18 live tracks and is said to have captured the intense, transcendent atmosphere of these concerts, which Nick Cave himself describes as “an antidote to despair,” according to the press release.
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Publication and formats
LIVE GOD will be released on December 5, 2025 and can be pre-ordered now. The album will be available in three formats:
- Premium double LP in gatefold sleeve and colored inner sleeves
- Double CD in digisleeve packaging with UV spot varnish and colored card wallets
- Digital version for download and streaming
The album is released on the Bad Seed label in collaboration with Play It Again Sam.
“Wild God (Live God)” can be heard and seen in advance
The first live single “Wild God (Live God)” is now available to preview:
Content and tracklist
The live album contains recordings from the entire studio album WILD GOD (2024) as well as reinterpreted older tracks from the band’s repertoire, including:
- From Her to Eternity
- Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
- Into My Arms
Complete tracklist:
- Frogs
- WildGod
- Oh children
- From Her to Eternity
- Long Dark Night
- Cinnamon Horses
- Tupelo
- Conversion
- Bright Horses
- Joy
- I need you
- Carnage
- Red Right Hand
- White elephant
- O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
- Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
- Into My Arms
- As The Waters Cover The Sea
Tour finale and new dates in 2026
The “Wild God” tour ends in Australia and New Zealand in February 2026. In the summer of the same year, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds returned to Europe for a series of large open-air concerts and festival appearances. The kick-off will take place on June 10th at Malahide Castle in Ireland.
The tour then leads through Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Norway and Lithuania. The finale is scheduled for August 28th at the Rock en Seine festival in France. Further dates will be announced later.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live in Germany 2026 – concert dates at a glance
- June 16, 2026 – Lingen, Open Air at the EmslandArena
- June 30, 2026 – Berlin, Waldbühne Berlin
- August 2nd, 2026 – Dresden, film nights on the banks of the Elbe
- August 23, 2026 – Munich, Königsplatz Munich
- 08/25/2026 – Bonn, Kunst!Rasen
Tickets & advance sales start
Advance sales for the German branch of the tour started on October 8th at all known advance booking offices.