Nick Cave

Australian musician

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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.
2024 Miça Townsend and Wendi Rose join as additional backing vocalists, further enhancing the band's vocal arrangements.
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.
August 2024 The band releases their most recent album Wild God in August.
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'.
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'.
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.
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.
2023 Wrote on his blog about his evolving religious beliefs, describing his approach to Christianity as 'non-political and fully personal and emotional'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2022 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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.
October 2022 Cave expressed support for the participants of the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, stating he was 'in awe of their courage'.
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.
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.
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.
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
2021 Nick Cave released the studio album 'Carnage' in collaboration with Warren Ellis
2021 Cave and Ellis scored the documentary The Velvet Queen.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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