Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced a 2025 North American tour set to kick off next spring marking their first US tour in seven years.
Taking place in April and May of 2025, the run of dates across the United States will mark the first time Cave and co tour in North American since 2018. The Group were previously set to make their way to the US back in 2020 but had to cancel their tour due to the COVID pandemic.
The 18-date-run will see the ‘Red Right Hand’ singer commence tour on April 15 2025 at the Agganis Arena in Boston. From there, the band will make stops in cities such as Brooklyn, Detroit, Washington D.C., Montreal, Chicago, Portland, Vancouver and more. The string of dates will wrap up on May 14 2025 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Fransisco.
A ticket pre-sale will be available on Tuesday (September 10) at 10am local time for those who register here. General ticket sales will commence on Friday (September 13) at 10am local time. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 2025 US ‘Wild God’ tour dates are:
APRIL
15 – Boston, MA, Agganis Arena (with St. Vincent)
17 – Brooklyn, NY, Barclays Center (with St. Vincent)
19 – Detroit, MI, Masonic Temple
21 – Washington, DC, The Anthem
23 – Toronto, ON, Meridian Hall
24 – Montreal, QC, Place Bell
26 – Philadelphia, PA, The Met
28 – Chicago, IL, The Salt Shed
29 – Chicago, IL, The Salt Shed
30 – Milwaukee, WI, Miller High Life Theatre
MAY
2 – Columbus, OH, Palace Theatre
4 – Minneapolis, MN, The Armory
5 – Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Music Hall
7 – Denver, CO, Mission Ballroom
10 – Portland, OR, Theater of the Clouds
11 – Vancouver, BC, Queen Elizabeth Theatre
12 – Seattle, WA, The Paramount Theatre
14 – San Francisco, CA, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
The tour is in support of the band’s 18th studio album ‘Wild God‘. In a four-star review of the LP, 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 Eills shared: “Clearly, Nick has a very personal slant on these records – particularly the last few. They have been very different to anything he’s ever done. He’s lost two of his kids; that’s something I could never understand. I’ve been around him when it’s happening and made the records with him, but I’ve never had something like that happen to me.
“All that I could do was go in and work with him on the records. You wade in and do what you can, and try to do the right thing by the person. The best that you can do is to be there. It’s been a real privilege to have been involved in those records and to be with Nick. ‘Ghosteen’ [2019] was such an ambitious record and a very particular record. All the talk of ‘the light’ is directly following Nick’s lead.
He added: “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.”
Elsewhere, it was recently announced that Radiohead’s Collin Greenwood will be playing with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on their upcoming tour.
The news came after the band announced that Martyn Casey wouldn’t be able to join the tour due to illness. Previously, Greenwood has played with Cave live on his recent solo tours as well as several dates of the ‘Carnage’ tour with Warren Ellis. Greenwood also contributed parts to the band’s new album, ‘Wild God’, too.
