Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds with players from the Sydney Symphony
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MEDIA RELEASE
3 December 2012
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY SYMPHONY AND FBI RADIO IN ASSOCIATION WITH BILLIONS AUSTRALIA PERSENT
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds with players from the Sydney Symphony
CONCERT HALL, 26 & 27 FEBRUARY 2013
"While most of his peers are experiencing a protracted decline into mediocrity, Cave continues to push himself as a songwriter and performer, still producing some of his best work."
THE GUARDIAN
Sydney Opera House today announced the titans of Australian rock Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will partner with the Sydney Symphony to present two exclusive performances in the Concert Hall, on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 February, 2013.
Making their long-awaited Sydney Opera House debut, Cave and the Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and Ed Keupper will be joined by members of the Sydney Symphony for the first parts of each of these two career-spanning performances, while also premiering material from their fifteenth studio album Push the Sky Away - their first LP in four years.
Launching his career as the front man of the highly influential post-punk band The Birthday Party four decades ago, Cave's unparalleled journey has seen him imbue traditional rock, blues, folk and gospel with his signature baritone and poetic lyricism resulting in the Bad Seeds classics 'The Ship Song', 'Into My Arms', 'The Mercy Seat', 'God is in the House' and the duets with Kylie Minogue and PJ Harvey ('Where the Wild Roses Grow' and 'Henry Lee').
The first Bad Seeds release since 2008's critically acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! Push the Sky Away has reaffirmed the group's pure, instinctive inventiveness, as they refuse to be bound by any creative limitations. Produced by long-time collaborator Nick Launay and recorded at La Fabrique, a 19th century mansion in the South of France, Push the Sky Away promises to be the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums.
"It's really different. I mean, it doesn't sound like anything the Bad Seeds have done before. It's really good. It's really very, very beautiful. It's not a ballad record. It's not like classic Bad Seed ballads. But it's very, very beautiful and it's far away from Grinderman and that kind of thing." Nick Cave.
Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have maintained a lyrical sensibility that meditates upon universal themes of love, death, violence and religion throughout their 30 year career. Said The Guardian, "While most of his peers are experiencing a protracted decline into mediocrity, Cave continues to push himself as a songwriter and performer, still producing some of his best work."
Their first Sydney appearance since their headlining performance as curators of All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) in 2009, this Sydney Opera House debut will be a momentous occasion for a group immortalised in Australia's cultural landscape.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are touring nationally, for full dates: www.nickcave.com / www.billions.com.au
DETAILS
WHO: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds with players from the Sydney Symphony
WHEN: Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 February 2013, 8.00pm
WHERE: Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall
TICKETS: From $74
sydneyoperahouse.com/music 9250 7777
MEDIA CONTACT
Natasha Bowron
02 9250 7822 / +61 401 206 657
nbowron@sydneyoperahouse.com