Nick Cave has shared details of a European solo tour set to kick off later this summer. Find ticket details below.
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The news was announced today (January 27) on Cave’s official Instagram page, and confirms that he will be playing 13 solo shows across Europe between June and August.
Shows commence with two back-to-back nights at the Theater 11 venue in Zurich on June 10 and 11, before Cave heads over to Hamburg for a show at the Elbphilharmonie on June 21.
Dates in July include four stops in Italy and two in France. The former begins with shows in Lucca and Pompei on July 17 and 19 respectively, before two shows at the Auditorium Cavea in Rome. The latter consists of a show in Cannes and a show in Arles.
The four final scheduled dates run across August and feature two dates in Bergen, Norway, as well as slots in Sigulda, Latvia and Sofia in Bulgaria. Tickets go on sale this Friday (January 31) at 10am local time. Visit here to buy tickets and find a list of new shows below.
Nick Cave’s 2025 European tour dates are:
JUNE
10 – Switzerland, Zurich @ Theater 11
11 – Switzerland, Zurich @ Theater 11
21 – Germany, Hamburg @ Elbphilharmonie
JULY
17 – Italy, Lucca @ Piazza Napoleone
19 – Italy, Pompei @ Anfiteatro di Pompei
21 – Italy, Rome @ Auditorium Cavea
22 – Italy, Rome @ Auditorium Cavea
24 – France, Cannes @ Palais des Festivals de Cannes
26 – France, Arles @ PIAS Show at Théâtre Antique
AUGUST
6 – Norway, Bergen @ Grieghallen
7 – Norway, Bergen @ Grieghallen
12 – Latvia, Sigulda @ Sigulda Castle
19 – Bulgaria, Sofia @ Plovdiv Ancient Theatre
For the upcoming shows, Cave will be accompanied by Colin Greenwood, best known as the bassist for Radiohead.
The collaboration comes as the two have worked together for an extended period now, including various other solo Nick Cave tours and as part of the shows celebrating the release of his 2021 surprise album with Warren Ellis, ‘Carnage’.
More recently, the instrumentalist has also joined Cave for his ‘Wild God’ tour with The Bad Seeds, and also contributed some bass to the recordings on that album.
Last October, Greenwood opened up about his time joining the band as their live bassist. His addition to the line-up came as the band announced that Martyn Casey wouldn’t be able to join the ‘Wild God’ tour due to illness.
Speaking to NME about filling in for Casey, Greenwood said: “It’s an awesome group of people to play music with. They’re brilliant and with ferociously loud drummers; what a team. For me, it’s a really fun thing to do because it’s not Radiohead. There are a lot of different colours in the music, so I’m having a blast.”
Of Cave specifically, he added: “He’s such a great story-teller, and I really love his piano-playing. When I took the rough recordings from the new album home to listen to and heard his voice fill up my front room, I thought, ‘What a voice! He’s got the lot!’”
Nick Cave and Colin Greenwood perform with The Bad Seeds at The O2 Arena in London, November 2024. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
’Wild God’ was given a four-star review by NME, which read: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered.
“But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, ‘Jumping for love and the opening sky above’ as ‘Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years’. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
Before the release, Nick Cave spoke to NME about his outlook on life, and opened up about how he thinks social media contributes towards the pessimistic outlook of younger generations.
“I think social media is a huge problem and is having a huge demoralising effect on society. Young people are losing faith in the world in general and what the world has to offer them. That’s a major problem,” he said.
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