Nick Cave onstage in London 10 Feb 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Her Majesty’s Theatre, London – 10.02.13
Photos copyright John Galantini & Mary Jane Walker
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
London Her Majesty’s Theatre
10th February 2013
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds touring line up is:
Nick Cave: Vocals, Piano, Guitar
Warren Ellis: Violin, Mandolin & Samples
Martyn Casey: Bass
Conway Savage: Piano, Organ
Jim Sclavunos: Drums, Keys, & Percussion
Barry Adamson: Drums, Keys, & Percussion
Ed Kuepper: Guitar
Line-up corrections tx to Drowned In Sound (edited 12 Feb 2013)
*Plus “a string quintet, a small children’s choir and a couple of backing singers”
*Thomas Wydler is ill and did not play. *He will not play on this tour.*
*Additional info via The Arts Desk: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Her Majesty’s Theatre
Set List:
We No Who U R
Wide Lovely Eyes
Water’s Edge
Jubilee Street
Mermaids
We Real Cool
Finishing Jubilee Street
Higgs Boson Blues
Push The Sky Away
From Her To Eternity
Red Right Hand
O Children
The Ship Song
Jack The Ripper
Deanna
Your Funeral My Trial
Love Letter
Mercy Seat
Stagger Lee
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Third night just added at Hammersmith. Needless to say I am booked!
Free, you a wild man.
Wow! Thank you for sharing. This London recording sounds fantastic!
Glad to do it, Chris. That was a good show. Berlin wasn’t bad, either.
I just got the Paris show but I haven’t had a chance to listen. I’ll try and post it later on.
Got tickets for both nights at Hammersmith plus Paris.
Very happy.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Her Majesty’s Theatre, London
10th February 2013
(MP3 @320) 2 parts
Part 1, Part 2
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany
Feb 13, 2013 (FM Broadcast) (flac) 3 parts
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Jubilee Street Live @ Her Majesty’s Theatre 10 Feb 2013
a shame some songs didn’t are still at the setlist, but holy hell “From her to eternity” is there! and “My funeral…” as well. That along makes me sad I won’t be able to see him this part of the tour. I hope they will stay there.
The L.A. show on Feb 21 will be webcast via Pitchfork TV and Rockfeedback (YouTube)
http://pitchfork.com/news/49524-watch-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-perform-live-from-los-angeles-in-a-webcast-on-february-21/
http://www.youtube.com/rockfeedback
Tomorrow’s Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds concert at Admiralspalast, Berlin will be broadcast via “Le Mouv’” web site on 13 February at 8.30 PM
http://www.lemouv.fr/diffusion-nick-cave-live-report
*For those in America, this broadcast is at 2:30 pm EST (AFAIK). If anything changes I will update this info.
UK and European tour dates plus extra North American dates just announced.
Recommended review:
Push Every Other Band Away: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live Report
By Sean Adams (Drowned in Sound, 11 Feb 2013)
Why no mention of the legendary Ed Kuepper on guitar?!
Thank you for pointing that glaring omission. I am so sorry that I omitted Ed’s name from this post. I reprinted the line-up based on what was published in The Arts Desk report (which was the first one I looked at). They didn’t mention Ed. For some reason, I thought he was joining the band for the Australian leg. (WRONG) The line-up and instrument info has been corrected. Thanks again! – Morgan
Thanks for all the info. Thomas is unable to make this tour, as in the four special performances, or the full tour?
Full tour as far as I know but not positive. Hope he get better soon.
Thomas is out for the full tour, as Nick himself mentions during the set. You can hear it at the beginning of the Jubilee Street sample I’ve embedded in the above post.
I had listened to the clip (after posting), but it still wasn’t clear to me that Nick was referring to the full tour. Maybe I was just clinging to hope. Thank you for clarifying.
It is troubling that his illness will take him out for the full tour. I too hope he gets better soon.
A little selfishly, I was really hoping to see him (the longest serving Bad Seed still in the band) in person, as this will be my first time seeing the Bad Seeds (or Nick) live, and I am already sad to have missed Mick (my favorite) and Blixa.
Radio Eins *might* be live streaming Wednesday’s Berlin concert. If so, you can go to this page and click the ‘”Hören” (Listen) button located on the top menu bar.
http://www.radioeins.de/veranstaltungen/konzerte/nick_cave___the_bad.html
It will be live streaming on this French site also: http://www.lemouv.fr/evenement-nick-cave-en-direct-sur-le-mouv
The Berlin live audio stream has begun.
http://www.lemouv.fr/diffusions-lemouv039
Click “LIVE” and a player will open.
Thanks for the reminder! It sounds great!
DAMN. SOUNDING GOOD! *Go Berlin!*
Reviews Etc:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Her Majesty’s Theatre, London
Barney Hoskyns, Rock’s Backpages, 11 February 2013 (free if you register)
Indeed, I had almost forgotten how explosively exciting the Bad Seeds can be at full throttle, pounding out ‘Deanna’, ‘Red Right Hand’, ‘The Mercy Seat’ and more. Martyn Casey’s growling and ominous bass notes underpin the whole edifice as Warren Ellis – resembling Homeland’s Nick Brody when he’s first hauled out of the torture bunker – flips from flute to fiddle to Fender Jaguar. While I miss the sinister Blixa Bargeld as a Keef-esque foil to Cave’s Jagger, Ellis is an altogether more affable replacement and a far more sensitive accompanist on quieter pieces like ‘Love Letter’ and ‘Your Funeral, My Trial’. And Conway Savage is relentless at the keyboard.
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-her-majestys-theatre-london
Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away
Luke Turner, Quietus, The, 10 February 2013
“Do people really expect Nick to be a real-life incarnation of Krent Able’s satirical Dr Cave cartoon strip, naked, priapic, and riding a baboon?”
http://thequietus.com/articles/11353-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-push-the-sky-away-review
Interview: Nick Cave
Rage Has Not Withered Him (read free if you register)
Sean O’Hagan, Observer, The, 18 March 2001
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/rage-has-not-withered-him
Vintage interview: Nick Cave
If This is Heaven I’m Bailing Out (read free if you register)
Don Watson, NME, 12 May 1984
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/nick-cave-if-this-is-heaven-im-bailing-out
Thank you so much for the live songs! They sound amazing!
You are welcome, Valerie. Thanks for posting a comment.
Good god they played From Her To Eternity and his voice is awesome. I can´t say how much I hope they´ll play it in Berlin as well. Jubilee Street seems to be a fantastic performance as well. Thank you very much for the great review, pics and snippets!
You are welcome, Anna. Looking forward to hearing your comments on the Berlin show. I hope Radio Eins will broadcast some of it – you never know.
Thank you for this nice review, and those 2 lovelly excerpts
I am glad you enjoyed it, Laurent.
Oh, Paris and Berlin; you are in for such a treat.
If we needed any reminder of how much we have missed the Bad Seeds in the last couple of years then we were certainly reminded last night in London by an outstanding performance from Nick and the Bad Seeds.
As late afternoon in London turned to dusk and the persistent rain which had fallen all day started to turn to light snow, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds took to the stage to unveil their new album.
Following a screening of a 15 minute film by Iain and Jane (an extended version of the trailer we saw previously) the Bad Seeds took to the stage at 08:20.
The concert started with a presentation of the new album in its entirety in album track order and it is beautiful live! Supported by a child Choir (plus Martha) and string quartet, regular Bad Seeds were joined by Barry Adamson (on drums and keyboard) and Ed Keupper on guitar. Sadly, Thomas is sick and unable to make this tour.
It would be difficult to pick out which tracks I enjoyed most from this opening set as I was simply blown away by it all. Jubilee Street obviously was a highpoint. We Real Cool worked really well live, it was not a song that had initially caught my attention as much on the few listens I have had to the album thus far but it was one of very many highlights. Wide Lovely eyes was as melodic as it is on the album and Higgs Bosun Blues could go on to become a regular in the set list for future tours.
Nick then transported us back 30 years with a blistering performance of From Her to Eternity (with Warren ‘conducting’ the string quartet)! At this point, I mentally ripped up my seat!
Full set list:
We No Who U R
Wide Lovely Eyes
Water’s Edge
Jubilee Street
Mermaids
We Real Cool
Finishing Jubilee Street
Higgs Boson Blues
Push The Sky Away
From Her To Eternity
Red Right Hand
O Children
The Ship Song
Jack The Ripper
Deanna
Your Funeral My Trial
Love Letter
Mercy Seat
Stagger Lee
The Choir and strings were used to great affect up to and including The Ship Song when they departed and Nick (after dedicating the song to Viv as it was ‘written during her tenure’) launched into Jack the Ripper.
The choir and strings were particularly beautiful on O’ Children and Love Letter.
Wonderful to hear Your Funeral, My Trail live and an outstanding performance of it.
Just the one encore due to a 10:20 venue curfew (I would have staid all night) and of course it was Stagger Lee, including the additional Devil verse (at least it did when Nick eventually remembered the words Grin).
Two hours of sheer genius; I enjoyed every second of it and am sure that it will only get better as the tour progresses.
Tx you for the review. I can always count on you for a good one! :*
I just posted on the other thread to ask you how the show was. I heard the audio and agree that the band is sounding good, indeed. Two thumbs up. *yay*
An outstanding concert last nigh; I was blown away by it! The new album works brilliantly live and Nick and the Bad Seeds were on top form.