Nick Cave
Australian musician
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| March 2025 | Cave announced providing vocals for a song by Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist) for a trumpet album, describing the song as one he cherishes deeply. |
| 2024 | Provided the voice of Bill Clarke in the stop-motion film Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot. |
| 2024 | Cave advised a musician to 'play' at The Great Escape Festival despite calls for boycott related to festival sponsorship connections to arms companies trading with Israel. |
| 2024 | Miça Townsend and Wendi Rose join as additional backing vocalists, further enhancing the band's vocal arrangements. |
| August 2024 | The band releases their most recent album Wild God in August. |
| July 23 2024 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released the third single 'Long Dark Night' from their album 'Wild God'. |
| May 31 2024 | The band released the second single 'Frogs' from their album 'Wild God'. |
| 2023 | Wrote on his blog about his evolving religious beliefs, describing his approach to Christianity as 'non-political and fully personal and emotional'. |
| 2023 | Won National Live Music Awards' Best International Tour in Australia with Warren Ellis. |
| 2023 | Cave disputed being characterized as right-wing, describing himself as having a 'conservative temperament' while also supporting trans rights and expressing concerns about rapid social changes. |
| June 2023 | Cave spoke openly about his 20-year heroin addiction in an interview with Archbishop Justin Welby on BBC Radio 4, discussing the stability of his later addiction period. |
| May 2023 | Nick Cave was a guest at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. |
| January 2023 | Cave publicly responds to a ChatGPT-generated song 'in his style' on The Red Hand Files, criticizing AI-generated music as a 'grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' and asserting that songwriting is a deeply personal, human act that cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence. |
| 2022 | Featured in the documentary 'This Much I Know to Be True', directed by Andrew Dominik. |
| 2022 | Cave published Faith, Hope, and Carnage, a book compiled from phone conversations with Irish writer Sean O'Hagan during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2022 | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. |
| 2022 | The band adds several new touring musicians: Carly Paradis on keyboards, Janet Ramus and T Jae Cole as backing vocalists, expanding their live performance capabilities. |
| October 2022 | Cave expressed support for the participants of the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, stating he was 'in awe of their courage'. |
| September 2022 | Exhibition 'We' begins at Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, displaying 17 of Nick Cave's hand-crafted ceramic figurines depicting Satan, running until January 2023. |
| June 2022 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds embarked on their first tour since the COVID-19 pandemic, with an expanded lineup including additional keyboardist and backing vocalists. |
| May 2022 | Cave's son Jethro died at the age of 31. |
| 2021 | Cave and Ellis scored the documentary The Velvet Queen. |
| 2021 | Nick Cave released the studio album 'Carnage' in collaboration with Warren Ellis |
| November 2021 | Cave explained on The Red Hand Files that he and his wife Susie moved from Brighton to Los Angeles due to overwhelming sadness, but later realized they carried their grief with them. |
| October 22 2021 | The band released B-Sides & Rarities Part II, a sequel to their 2005 compilation. |
| June 2021 | Cave confirmed his belief in God on his Red Hand Files blog. |
| 2020 | Cave expressed opposition to cancel culture and misguided political correctness, describing them as 'bad religion run amuck' that stifles creative expression. |
| 2020 | Cave wrote the libretto for 'L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S', a trance-minimal chamber opera by Nicholas Lens, with a recording produced by both writers and released by Deutsche Grammophon. |
| 2020 | Released the concert film 'Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace'. |
| 2020 | Appeared in the short documentary 'I Want Everything' by Paul Szynol about Larry Sloman's tribute to Cave's son Arthur. |
| June 2020 | Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition opens at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, co-curated by Nick Cave himself, showcasing his life and work. |
| 2019 | In an interview with Vice, Cillian Murphy revealed that Cave personally approved the use of 'Red Right Hand' as the theme song for Peaky Blinders after watching a pre-screening of the show. |
| 2019 | Cave expressed personal disagreement with both organised religion and New Atheism during a Q&A session on his Red Hand Files blog. |
| 2019 | Nick Cave wrote in defence of Morrissey, arguing for freedom of speech after the singer's controversial political statements led to some record stores refusing to stock his album. |
| October 3 2019 | Ghosteen premiered on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' YouTube channel. |
| September 23 2019 | Cave formally announced the album Ghosteen, which would be released in early October. |
| 2018 | Nick Cave launches The Red Hand Files, an online platform where fans can ask him personal questions and engage in direct correspondence, serving as a continuation of his previous 'In Conversation' live talks. |
| November 10 2018 | 'Shell Shock' opera was performed at the international Weekend of War and Peace in Paris by L'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, with live television broadcasting on Arte and France Musique. |
| 2017 | Following the death of his 15-year-old son Arthur, Cave and his family considered moving from Brighton to Los Angeles due to emotional difficulty. |
| 2017 | Named an Officer of the Order of Australia. |
| 2017 | Cave and Ellis scored two films: the neo-Western Wind River by Taylor Sheridan and War Machine by Australian director David Michôd. |
| 2017 | Nick Cave won the Grammy Awards' Best Music Film for the documentary 'One More Time with Feeling'. |
| November 2017 | Cave declined calls from Brian Eno and Roger Waters to cancel concerts in Tel Aviv, criticizing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as 'cowardly and shameful'. |
| August 9 2017 | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis performed two orchestral shows at Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia, featuring their film scores. |
| 2016 | Cave was the subject of the documentary 'One More Time with Feeling', directed by Andrew Dominik. |
| 2016 | Cave and Ellis scored the neo-Western film Hell or High Water, directed by David Mackenzie. |
| September 8 2016 | One More Time with Feeling was screened, accompanying the band's 16th album Skeleton Tree. |
| 2015 | Cave and Ellis scored the documentary Prophet's Prey. |
| 2015 | Cave released the book The Sick Bag Song. |
| July 14 2015 | Cave's son Arthur died after falling from a cliff near Brighton, with an inquest finding he had taken LSD and ruling the death an accident. |
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