Nick Cave has shared the first trailer for a new live show streamed live, filmed in an empty Alexandra Palace.
Idiot prayer He sees the Bad Seeds frontman offer a unique rendition of songs from his entire career, including early rarities and Grinderman songs, right down to his latest acclaimed album ‘Ghosteen’.
In the new clip from the show, Cave is seen typing in a notebook before the performance before walking through the bowels of the iconic venue and finally sitting down at a piano in her main room.
Accompanying the trailer with a long note to fans, he wrote: “‘Idiot Prayer’ evolved from my ‘Conversations With …’ events, held over the past year or so.
“I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs in these shows, distilling their essential forms, with an emphasis on the delivery of words. I felt like I was rediscovering the songs again, and I started thinking about going to a studio and recording these reinvented versions at some point, whenever I could find the time.
“Then, of course, the world closed in. Bad Seeds’ 2020 global tour was postponed. Closed studies. Closed places. And the world fell into a mysterious self-reflective silence.
“It was in this silence that I started to think about the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them, and so we started to form a small team, including the great director of photography, Robbie Ryan, the sound man, Dom Monks, and editor Nick Emerson, with the intention of filming as soon as possible going back to business in some way. “
The show was filmed in the West Hall of the iconic London venue by award-winning cinematographer Robbie Ryan and will not be available to stream after its online broadcast on July 23. Visit here for tickets and more information.
He added: “In the meantime, I sat at home working to play more songs in the ‘Conversations’ format: new songs and songs from the Ghosteen album, songs from Grinderman and the first things from Bad Seeds, and everything in between.”
Describing the security measures in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Cave said he was surrounded by “greedy officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked gaffers and camera operators, edgy-looking technicians, and hand gel cubes.”
He added that the next film is the final offer in his release trilogy, following the 2014 documentary. 20,000 days on earth and 2016 Once more with feeling.
The hours of the July 23 broadcast are:
Australia and Asia: 8pm AEST
UK and Europe: 8pm BST / 9pm CEST
North and South America: 7 pm PDT / 10 pm EDT
