Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced new the live album ‘Live God’, capturing the acclaimed tour of their 2024 album ‘Wild God’. Check out details below, along with footage of the title track and our interview with drummer Jim Sclavunos. (NME report)
Across 18 live tracks, Live God captures the wildly transcendent nature of those unforgettable shows, which are, in Nick Cave’s own words, “an antidote to despair.”
The tracklist includes performances of songs from the acclaimed 2024 studio album Wild God, as well as mind-blowing versions of catalogue favourites, such as ‘From Her To Eternity’, ‘Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry’ and ‘Into My Arms’.
The stellar ‘Wild God’ tour saw the band play across the UK, Europe and North America in 2024 and ‘25. Now, a live album of 18 tracks recorded across the dates will arrive on Friday December 5 via Bad Seed in partnership with Play It Again Sam on premium double gatefold vinyl LP, double CD and digital formats. A first taster comes with a live recording of the song ‘Wild God’ from their Paris show.
The record captures the entirety of ‘Wild God’ – which NME hailed as “with a lust for life, the once-dark prince letting the light in” – along with a smattering of classics and fan favourites including ‘Into My Arms’, ‘From Her To Eternity’, ‘Tupelo’ and ‘Red Right Hand’, as well as cuts from Cave and Warren Ellis‘ lauded collaborative album ‘Carnage’.
Cave described the shows as “an antidote to despair”, with longtime drummer and percussionist Jim Sclavunos agreeing that “this tour seemed distinctly more embracing of a love of life”.
‘Transcendental’ is too pretentious a word, but it’s something like that,” he told NME. “There was a really buoyant, joyous spirit to the whole thing. We’ve trodden down the path of being doom and gloom for a long time – surly men in black and all that jazz – but we’ve obviously moved on some time ago.”
Describing the mindset that led to the euphoric mood of the tour, Sclavunos admitted that “we’re all just happy campers these days”. When asked about Cave’s vibe in recent years, he replied: “I don’t know, I can’t be objective about that. We’ve been touring together since 1994. I’ve lost all perspective, frankly. In some ways he’s exactly the same, but in others so different.”
