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After Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds could not go on tour in the Corona period with her ethereal album “Ghosteen”, the tour around the new record “Wild God” got special attention. The singer described them as the end of a trilogy (starting with “Skeleton Tree”), which, with songs like “Joy” and “Conversion”, shows an almost spiritual way out of the tribulation.
So you could be excited to listen to these music charged with church choir pathos and mystical symbols live. Anyone who missed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their largest European tour so far (with two concerts in Berlin’s largest event hall) can now get an intensive impression of what it was like.
Arte shows the Recording of a full, 2.5 hour concert from Paris. The gig on November 17, 2024 in the Accor Arena was also the final appearance on the old continent. You can tell the volume on the essentials, but Cave also gives great exhaustion in front of an audience.
Nick Cave skilfully connects old and new
The new pieces in their grandiOR, worn with gospel choir are excellent with classics from the musician’s rich work. “Red Right Hand” and “The Mercy Seat” have a different urgency than before, but how highly comes “Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry”, how skillfully kitschy the “Weeping Song”. And at “Jubilee Street”, every single gig is now on the bass from Radioheads Colin Greenwood on the bass.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Accor Arena, Paris can be streamed in the ARTE channel in the Arte Canal by May 31st.