Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced their first Australian and New Zealand tour in nine years. Find all the details below.
The tour, which marks a homecoming for the Australian artist, comes in support of the Bad Seeds’ acclaimed 2024 album ‘Wild God’, and marks the band’s first shows in the region since 2017.
Shows kick off in January 2025, and will see Cave and co. head to outdoor venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, as well as indoor shows in Adelaide and Wellington, New Zealand.
“I can’t wait to get to Australia and New Zealand with The Bad Seeds and to bring you our epic Wild God show,” Cave said in a statement. “It’s been a long time coming, and I’ve missed both Australia and New Zealand very much. It will be a wild and mighty joy.”
Tickets go on sale on Friday (August 29) and will be available here. Find a full list of dates and venues below.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour dates are:
JANUARY
17 – Freemantle Park, Perth, WA
20 – Adelaid Entertainment Centre, SA
23 – The Domain, Sydney, NSW
24 – The Domain, Sydney, NSW
27 – Victoria Park, Brisbane, QLD
30 – Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, VIC
FEBRUARY
1 – Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, VIC
5 – TSB Arena, Wellington, New Zealand
6 – TSB Arena, Wellington, New Zealand
In a four-star review of ‘Wild God’, NME shared: “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.”
Speaking to NME about the creation of the album and working with Cave, Bad Seeds member and the frontman’s frequent collaborator Warren Ellis shared: “When we sat down at the start of last year, we’d just done a big festival run, the Bad Seeds were back together, and we’d played these really transcendental shows – they were really ecstatic at times. There was a real feeling that we wanted the music to move in that way. It’s really been driven by how Nick has been feeling.”
Meanwhile, Cave has also worked with Warren Ellis are set to score the new television adaptation of his 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro. He also collaborated with The National‘s Bryce Dessner to write a new song for the forthcoming Netflix film Train Dreams.
In other news, Cave recently shared an AI music video to mark 40 years of The Bad Seeds’ ‘Tupelo’, after previously calling the technology “unbelievably disturbing”.
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