Iconic Aussie musician and writer Nick Cave is returning to his home country in early 2019 for a speaking tour, where he’ll engage in a candid conversation with his adoring public.
He’ll also be playing some of his most loved songs – ‘Into My Arms‘, please – on piano.
The intimate Q&A tour Conversations with Nick Cave began in the US and Ireland earlier this year.
Cave himself spoke of the tour as an opportunity to “open up“:
I thought that a direct conversation with the audience might be valuable – in the recent live shows we have all shown a kind of willingness to open up. The audience tends to ask more challenging, revealing, playful and ultimately serious questions. You never know what you are going to get. They can be fearless and they can go deep.
If you’ve ever seen a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – or even a Grinderman – live show, you’d know the fanatical devotion of Cave’s fans, and the way Cave responds in kind. It’s all outstretched arms, touching, weaving deep into the thick of the crowd and never missing a note, really very like a cult leader tending to his flock. Being at a Cave live set is like being part of a congregation.
We can probably expect Cave in his customary black two-, maybe three-piece suit, with an open-necked shirt, leaning back and speaking with unexpected candour, but the kind of levity you’d expect from the writer of novels The Death of Bunny Munro and And the Ass Saw the Angel.
When the Bad Seeds’ most recent record, Skeleton Tree, was released in 2016, Cave eschewed press, instead starring in the breathtaking documentary, One More Time with Feeling. The moving film charted both the recording of the album and the passage of Cave’s grief over the death of his son Arthur in an accident in 2015.
Cave has done interviews in the years since, around the release of both a ‘Best Of’, Lovely Creatures, and a live album, Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen. Every time he speaks with care, insight and humour about his 40+-year career, and that’s exactly what you’re likely to get at Cave’s January dates.
Cave kicks off the tour in Wangaratta, his childhood home, before heading down to Hobart, up the east coast, and finally to Adelaide and Perth. Tix go on sale on Thursday October 18.
Saturday January 5
Performing Arts Centre, Wangaratta
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Sunday January 6
Odeon Theatre, Hobart
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Tuesday January 8
Sydney Opera House
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Friday January 11
Home of the Arts, Gold Coast
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Saturday January 12
Brisbane City Hall
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Saturday January 19
Melbourne Town Hall
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Tuesday January 22
Adelaide Town Hall
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Wednesday January 23
Perth Concert Hall
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