Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have teased the imminent announcement of a massive show in Brighton next year.
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Earlier this month, Nick Cave took to the Red Hand Files to answer 50 questions from fans, and confirmed rumours that “there [was] a massive Bad Seeds show” planned for Brighton in 2026.
This morning, the band shared a video teaser, promising an official announcement was coming on Monday (September 15). Cave’s adopted hometown featured heavily in the clips, with lyrics to ‘Water’s Edge’ appearing on its shoreline.
After shots of Cave’s face were projected onto Brighton’s West Pier, the date “31.07.26” appeared on screen.
His connection to Brighton is deeply personal, having spent a number of years living there with his family before moving to Los Angeles following the death of his son Arthur in 2015. It also provided the backdrop to fictionalised documentary 20,000 Days on Earth.
Announcement coming 15 September pic.twitter.com/oOQvaOlwkQ
— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (@nickcave) September 12, 2025
If and when the date is officially announced, it will follow news of a homecoming for the Australian artist in support of the Bad Seeds’ acclaimed 2024 album ‘Wild God’.
The 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, marking their first Australian and New Zealand tour in nine years
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”.
