Let's imagine the scene: Nick Cave on stage with his Bad Seeds and a certain Bob Dylan in the audience taking notes. It happened during the Paris stop of the “Wild God” tour, when the Australian bard and his band performed at the Accor Arena in the French capital on November 17th. After the concert, Dylan wanted to tell his impressions through a message shared on his official X/Twitter profile: “I recently saw Nick Cave at the Accor Arena in Paris. I was really struck by the song 'Joy' where he sings 'We've all had too much sorrow, now is the time for joy'. I thought to myself: yes, that's right.”
“Joy” is one of the tracks on “Wild God”, Nick Cave's latest studio work with the Bad Seeds, released last August 30th and presented live in concert also in Milan on October 20th (here is our live report ).
The Wild God Tour by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, having completed the European tranche, will resume from Boston on April 15, 2024 with the North American section, which will see how opening act St. Vincent.
Here is the official lineup of Nick Cave's concert in Milan:
Frogs
Wild God
Song of the Lake
Or Children
Jubilee Street
From Her to Eternity
Long Dark Night
Cinnamon Horses
Tupelo
Conversion
Bright Horses
Joy
I Need You
Carnage
First Rescue Attempt
Red Right Hand
The Mercy Seat
White Elephant
O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
The Weeping Song
Into My Arms
Meanwhile, arriving at the cinema only on 2, 3 and 4 December “Mutiny In Heaven | The Birthday Party. Nick Cave – The front row is not for the fragile”, the documentary that brings to the screen for the first time the sincere and uncompromising story of the rise and implosion of the Birthday Party, the band led by Nick Cave born in 1977 in Melbourne, from whose ashes the Bad Seeds would later arise.
Directed by Ian White and produced by Wim Wenders, the film premiered at the Seeyousound International Music Film Festival in Turin. The list of theaters participating in the event will be available shortly on nexostudios.it and presales will open on November 6th.
Through the voices and testimonies of the protagonists, White aims to show all the torment and anguish that often resulted in moments of violence in their live shows. “The front row is not for the fragile,” warns a very young Cave at a certain point, shortly before the start of a crazy Birthday Party concert. Drummer Phill Calvert describes the 1981 concerts as “very violent and dangerous between the band and the audience”. Mick Harvey remembers how the tension grew during the concerts: “It was scary to be on stage before things got out of control,” he recalls. And the documentary, in an hour and a half of music, shouts, words and chaos, underlines the anarchic and wild climate that accompanied the band's performances.
“Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party” is the first authorized documentary on the Australian band and features exclusive interviews with Cave, Calvert, Harvey and Howard. It retraces the group's first steps in Melbourne, then its movements to London and Berlin, before returning to the megalopolis of Oceania for an explosive final concert. All this amidst serious problems of drug addiction, excesses and violent tendencies. Below is the trailer of the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWECR8z7_gU
“Mutiny In Heaven | The Birthday Party. Nick Cave – The front row is not for the fragile” tells the story of one of the wildest post-punk bands ever, sucked into the swirling chaos of the smoky clubs of London and Berlin. The determination and the will to never give in to compromises are the starting point to face with a raw look the intertwining between artistic inspiration and addictions, between fame and interpersonal conflicts, all supported by the dark and ironic humor of the individual members of the band.
Using exclusive and incredibly candid interviews with Nick Cave and his companions, a rich repertoire of rare and unpublished archive images, works of art, music, studio footage, animations and multimedia content – we read in a note – Ian White creates a visually rich and narratively compelling film, also drawing on an enormous collection of over 1,000 recently discovered archive pieces, including letters, diaries, postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, posters, flyers, personal correspondence and lineups, which offer the I'm publishing an unprecedented look at the band, its incredible performances and its spectacular and chaotic career.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
