Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce first tour dates for 2017

PanARMENIAN.Net - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced their first tour dates in support of new album ‘Skeleton Tree’, scheduled for January 2017, NME reports.

Latest album ‘Skeleton Tree’ came out in September, released alongside One More Time With Feeling, a documentary film about the recording process and the death of Cave’s son, Arthur.

Cave and co have not played live since Arthur’s death, but now the band have confirmed a tour of Australia and New Zealand for January of next year.

Shows include dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Wellington, Auckland, among other cities. Tickets go on sale 9am Thursday (October 27).

See the dates in full below:

Hobart, Derwent Entertainment Centre (January 13, 2017), Ballarat, North Gardens (January 15), Wellington,TSB Bank Arena (January 17), Auckland, Vector Arena (January 18 ), Sydney, ICC Sydney Theatre (January 20-21), Newcastle, Newcastle Entertainment Centre (January 22), Brisbane, Riverstage (January 25), Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl (January 27-28), Adelaide, Adelaide Entertainment Centre (January 29), Perth, Perth Arena (January 31)

Arthur Cave tragically died after falling from a cliff in Brighton last July. The Cave family described the 15-year-old as “our beautiful, happy loving boy.”

Director Andrew Dominik said that the idea for the doc came about after Cave “realised he was going to have to promote the record.”

“Arthur had died halfway through making it. And the idea of [promoting] it made him feel sick, because he was going to have to discuss the context of the record with a whole bunch of journalists,” said Dominik. “That prospect was very alarming to him. His instinct in making the film was one of self-preservation: it was a way to talk about what happened, but there was a certain safety in doing it with someone he knew.”