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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: NEW ALBUM “SKELETON TREE” RELEASED WORLDWIDE SEPTEMBER 9

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
New Album – Skeleton Tree
RELEASED WORLDWIDE SEPTEMBER 9

Watch the ‘I Need You’ video here
With visuals from feature film
ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
Global screenings now extended to September 11

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds‘ sixteenth studio album Skeleton Tree is released worldwide today, September 9th 2016 on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms via Bad Seed Ltd. Skeleton Tree follows The Bad Seeds’ most critically and commercially successful release of recent times, Push the Sky Away (2013).

In addition, today Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ reveal the video for I Need You. Accompanying the track is footage of the band performing the song taken from Andrew Dominik’s 3D black and white feature film One More Time With Feeling, which screened globally last night.

Watch I Need You here: http://smarturl.it/ NCATBSINeedYou

Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014 at Retreat Studios, Brighton, with further sessions at La Frette Studios, France in Autumn 2015. The album was completed and mixed at AIR Studios, London in early 2016.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Nick Cave – vocals, piano, vibraphone, synthesizer, backing vocals
Warren Ellis – synthesizer, loops, piano, Wurlitzer, violin, baritone tenor guitar, backing vocals
Jim Sclavunos – vibraphone, tubular bells, percussion, backing vocals
George Vjestica – guitar, backing vocals
Martyn Casey – bass
Thomas Wydler – drums

Track Listing:

1) Jesus Alone
2) Rings Of Saturn
3) Girl In Amber
4) Magneto
5) Anthrocene
6) I Need You
7) Distant Sky (feat. Else Torp)
8) Skeleton Tree

Classically trained Danish soprano Else Torp provides guest vocals on “Distant Sky”.

Apart from “Jesus Alone” which debuted in advance of the rest of the album, tracks from Skeleton Tree were first publicly unveiled at the worldwide screenings of One More Time With Feeling on September 8th. Directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, the Oscar nominated The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly), One More Time With Feeling began as a performance-based film, but evolved into something more complex as Dominik delved into the personal backdrop of the writing and recording of the album.

Watch “Jesus Alone” here: http://smarturl.it/ NCATBSJesusAlone

Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised ruminations. Filmed in black-and-white and colour, in both 3D and 2D, the result is stark, fragile and raw – a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness.

Watch the film trailer here: http://smarturl.it/ NCATBSwebsite

A co-production between Iconoclast and Pulse Films, in association with JW Films, and produced by Dulcie Kellett and James Wilson, One More Time With Feeling officially world- premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and has screened at more than 800 cinemas around the world. Due to overwhelming demand, cinemas worldwide have added screenings of the film on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September: www.onemoretimewithfeeling.film

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are – Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos,Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage and George Vjestica. Formed following the break up of The Birthday Party in 1982, to date the band has released sixteen studio albums, starting with From Her To Eternity in 1984. Skeleton Tree, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ latest release, demonstrates once again that their output remains as bold, explorative and vital as in their early pioneering recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin. One of the most critically acclaimed acts working today, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have sold over 5 million albums worldwide to date. Their influence has been profound and far-reaching with many artists covering their work and citing their influence, and they remain one of the most powerful and exciting live acts in the world.

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS REVEAL ‘JESUS ALONE’

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
REVEAL ‘JESUS ALONE’
TAKEN FROM NEW STUDIO ALBUM

SKELETON TREE
RELEASED WORLDWIDE SEPTEMBER 9

WITH VISUALS FROM FEATURE FILM
ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
GLOBAL SCREENINGS NOW EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 11

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have revealed Jesus Alone, the first track from their new studio album to be released next week – Skeleton Tree. Accompanying the track is footage of the band performing the song taken from Andrew Dominik’s 3D black and white feature film One More Time With Feeling.

Launching globally on September 8th, the film was originally intended as a one night only event. Due to overwhelming demand, cinemas worldwide have added screenings of the film on the , 10th and 11th of September.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album will be released globally on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms on September 9th 2016, the day after the film premieres.

One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). The 3D black and white feature film has been officially selected to world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and will screen in more than 800 cinemas across the world immediately prior to the release of Skeleton Tree the following day. Tickets are selling fast for this unique global cinema event.
Watch the film trailer here: http://smarturl.it/NCATBSwebsite
Originally a performance based concept, One More Time With Feeling evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination.

Filmed in black-and-white and color, in both 3D and 2D, the result is stark, fragile and raw and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness.

Album pre-orders and cinema tickets: nickcave.com

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS TRACKLIST FOR NEW STUDIO ALBUM SKELETON TREE OUT SEPTEMBER 9 2016

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
TRACKLIST FOR NEW STUDIO ALBUM
SKELETON TREE
OUT SEPTEMBER 9 2016

3D B&W FEATURE FILM

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
SET TO SCREEN IN CINEMAS GLOBALLY ON SEPTEMBER 8 2016

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album Skeleton Tree will be released globally on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms on September 9, 2016.

Skeleton Tree will be launched with screenings around the world of One More Time With Feeling, a unique feature film about the making of the album. A must-see in 3D, tickets for September 8 launch screenings of One More Time With Feeling are going very quickly.

The tracklist titles for Skeleton Tree are as follows:

1.    Jesus Alone
2.    Rings of Saturn
3.    Girl in Amber
4.    Magneto
5.    Anthrocene
6.    I Need You
7.    Distant Sky
8.    Skeleton Tree

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The first opportunity to hear any of the songs from the album will be at the worldwide screenings of One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). Officially selected to world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, One More Time With Feeling will screen in more than 800 cinemas across the world on September 8, 2016, immediately prior to the release of Skeleton Tree the following day.

Watch the film trailer here: http://smarturl.it/ NCATBSwebsite

One More Time With Feeling evolved from a performance-based concept into something more complex as Dominik delved into the background of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination. The result is stark, fragile and raw and a true testament to an artist searching for his way through the darkness.

Album pre-orders and cinema tickets: nickcave.com

“ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING” SCREENING GLOBALLY ON SEPTEMBER 8th

Andrew Dominik’s unique new 3D B&W feature film
ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
Screening globally on September 8th
The feature film launches new studio album by
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
SKELETON TREE
Released worldwide September 9th

 

Director Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination Of Jesse James), has issued the very first public statement about working with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on new 3D black-and-white feature film One More Time With Feeling:

When Nick approached me about making a film around the recording and performing of the new Bad Seeds album, I’d been seeing quite a lot of him as we rallied around him and his family at the time of his son’s death. My immediate response was “Why do you want to do this?” Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn’t know who to say them to. The idea of a traditional interview, he said, was simply unfeasible but that he felt a need to let the people who cared about his music understand the basic state of things. It seemed to me that he was trapped somewhere and just needed to do something – anything – to at least give the impression of forward movement.
 
I took the record away and listened to it trying to work out a way into the whole thing. In the end I agreed to do it if I could shoot it in black-and-white and 3D. Nick’s response was, “I fucking hate 3D” or something like that. I showed him old black and white photos viewed through a stereopticon from the 50s. I told him I wanted to make a film where these sorts of photos came slowly to life. I felt that the stark black-and-white and the haunted drama of these 3D images perfectly addressed the disembodied sound of the record and the weird sense of paralysis that Nick seemed to exist in at the time.
 
To achieve this effect we built a special camera, a massive, lumbering piece of equipment that’s almost comic lack of mobility added to the eerie drift of the film itself. No one has ever seen a 3D black-and-white non-animated feature film in modern times – for as far as I know, no such thing exists. It is both modern and from a distant age – much like the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ new record, Skeleton Tree, actually.
 
Nick came to Los Angeles and watched the film. His response was obviously conflicted. How could it not be? In the end he said, “leave it as it is” – which we did. He said that it was obviously “made with love” – which it was and finally, “to make sure they see it in 3D”.

Andrew Dominik

Watch the film trailer here: http://smarturl.it/ NCATBSwebsite

Album pre-orders and cinema tickets: nickcave.com

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS NEW STUDIO ALBUM – SKELETON TREE

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

NEW STUDIO ALBUM – SKELETON TREE
RELEASED: SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

FEATURE FILM – ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING
ONE NIGHT ONLY: SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree, will be released globally on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms on 9th September 2016. This follows the Bad Seeds’ most critically and commercially successful release of recent times, Push the Sky Away (2013).

Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014 at Retreat Studios, Brighton, with further sessions at La Frette Studios, France in autumn 2015. The album was mixed at AIR Studios, London in early 2016.

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The first opportunity anyone will have to hear any of the songs from the album will be to watch One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). The film will screen in more than 650 cinemas across the world on September 8, 2016, immediately prior to the release of Skeleton Tree the following day.

Originally a performance based concept, One More Time With Feeling evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination.

Filmed in black-and-white and color, in both 3D and 2D, the result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness.

© Andrew Dominik

 

Album pre-orders and cinema tickets: nickcave.com

NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 

Far From Men – Out Now

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Far From Men

 

“Very often a tension can happen between music and picture that is about chance and a kind of unknowingness that can be really amazing. Just by putting together two things that were created in isolation, music and film, suddenly something quite magical can happen.” – Nick Cave

The latest ravishing score by Cave and Ellis is for director David Olehoffen’s Far From Men and is out now on Bad Seed Ltd.

Far From Men was a triple prizewinner at the Venice film festival (2014) and stars Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb. Adapted from a short story by Albert Camus, it is a powerful tale of divided loyalties and colonialist violence during Algeria’s war of independence. With its mesmeric drones, pointillist piano jabs, weeping strings and nerve-jangling electronics, this is one of the duo’s most emotive and experimental soundtracks to date, sounding both achingly intimate and cosmically vast.

Watch a trailer featuring original music from the film: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommesvid

Far From Men is out now on Bad Seed Ltd.

The soundtrack can be pre ordered here:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommes
Amazon CD: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommescd
Amazon LP: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommeslp

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NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS

ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

FAR FROM MEN – MAY 19

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Far From Men

Watch a trailer featuring original music from the film: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommesvid

“Very often a tension can happen between music and picture that is about chance and a kind of unknowingness that can be really amazing. Just by putting together two things that were created in isolation, music and film, suddenly something quite magical can happen.” – Nick Cave

The latest ravishing score by Cave and Ellis is for director David Olehoffen’s Loin Des Hommes (Far From Men) and is released through Bad Seeds Ltd. on May 19th.

Far From Men was a triple prizewinner at the Venice film festival (2014) and stars Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb. Adapted from a short story by Albert Camus, it is a powerful tale of divided loyalties and colonialist violence during Algeria’s war of independence. With its mesmeric drones, pointillist piano jabs, weeping strings and nerve-jangling electronics, this is one of the duo’s most emotive and experimental soundtracks to date, sounding both achingly intimate and cosmically vast.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis create film and theatre scores that are elegantly minimal, hauntingly beautiful and instantly recognizable as theirs alone. Full of light and shade, creeping dread and inconsolable yearning, these heavily instrumental sound paintings inject aching humanity into ghostly frontier towns, parched desert vistas and post-apocalyptic war zones. Most are built around the duo’s intertwined piano and violin melodies, with sporadic use of guitar, flute, mandolin, celeste, percussion and other elements. Vocals are rare and sparing. But even without lyrics, they are always lyrical.

While Cave and Ellis have played together in the Bad Seeds and related projects since 1995, their shadow career as score composers only blossomed a decade later. The duo created their first suite of cinematic soundscapes for The Proposition (2005), directed by fellow Australian and frequent collaborator John Hillcoat. Scripted by Cave himself, this brutal Outback western starred Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson and Danny Huston. Bedded in looped violin motifs, these widescreen instrumentals and hushed ballads evoked the parched majesty and sweltering savagery of the story’s elemental desert setting.

According to Cave, discovering Ellis’ deep archive of violin loops was a revelatory tipping point, laying the foundations for the duo’s unorthodox composition methods. “It was suddenly an amazing way to write because you didn’t have to do things from scratch,” he explains. “Warren would put on a loop that would create this instant atmosphere, and we could go off and work on top of that. To sit at a piano, put chords onto a linear loop and make something out of that is just an easy and very pleasurable way to work.”

Cave and Ellis followed The Proposition with a trio of kinetic theatre pieces for the much-feted Icelandic actor-director Gisli Örn Gardarsson: Woyzeck (2006), Metamorphosis (2006) and Faust (2010). Their speedy composing techniques allowed them to take risks on this kind of left-field production, where raw creative energy takes precedence over budget. They also added plaintive tones and drones to two acclaimed documentaries: Geoffrey Smith’s The English Surgeon (2007), about an exiled doctor’s struggle to bring modern neurosurgery to post-Soviet Ukraine, and Matthew Watson’s The Girls of Phnom Penh(2009), a compassionate portrait of three sex workers in Cambodia.

Meanwhile, Hollywood began to take an interest in the shape of Andrew Dominik’s elegiac anti-westernThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. Because of post-production delays, the score was composed before Cave and Ellis saw a single frame of the finished film, and yet these sepia-tinted sound paintings and retro-rustic ballad proved a perfect fit for Dominik’s visually sumptuous psychological study of hero worship and homicidal stalking in the Old West. Cave even played an acting cameo, as a yelping saloon-bar minstrel.

Between film scores, the duo’s freeform working methods increasingly began to bleed into their rock-band day jobs with the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three and especially Grinderman. “Initially with The Proposition we would sit there and make hours and hours of music,” Ellis recalls. “Then that sprawled into the way we started doing the Grinderman stuff. It felt like there was a way to take that stuff into the bands, or form a band based around that approach. The score work always felt like it was asking to go to places that the bands weren’t.”

Cave and Ellis reunited with director John Hillcoat for his sombre adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel The Road (2009), starring Viggo Mortensen as a loving father guiding his young son across the ash-strewn ruins of a post-apocalyptic America. Their artfully minimal score combines mournful piano with clanging industrial percussion, heartsick longing and lurking malice. An anthology album of the duo’s film music to date, White Lunar, was also released in 2009.

After contributing to Everardo Valerio Gout’s award-winning Mexican crime thriller Days of Grace (2011), Cave and Ellis composed a full score for Amy Berg’s true-life documentary West of Memphis (2012), about a notoriously controversial murder case in Arkansas. The duo then changed musical gear for their next John Hillcoat collaboration, the blood-soaked Depression-era bootlegging thriller Lawless (2012), starring Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain. Cave adapted the screenplay while he and Ellis assembled a wilfully anachronistic selection of bluegrass cover versions, performed with a supergroup ensemble of vocal legends including Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Mark Lanegan.

Far From Men is released on Bad Seeds Ltd. May 19th 2015.

The soundtrack can be pre ordered here:

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommes
Amazon CD: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommescd 
Amazon LP: http://smarturl.it/loindeshommeslp 

Tribeca Film will release Far From Men on video-on-demand platforms on April 14, 2015, followed by a US theatrical release on May 1, 2015.

More info on Far From Menwww.tribecafilm.com/farfrommen

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: ELEVEN CLASSIC ALBUMS TO BE REISSUED BEGINNING DECEMBER 16, 2014

Eleven classic Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds albums dating back to 1984’s critically-acclaimed debut From Her To Eternity are to appear on heavyweight, 180g vinyl for the first time.

Four albums will be released December 16, 2014 with the remaining titles to follow in 2015. The campaign follows the recent acquisition of the Mute Records catalogue by BMG.

Each album has been re-mastered in a process overseen by former Bad Seed and founder member, the multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey. All album artwork reflects the original release from the cover to the printed inner sleeves.

BMG Director of Masters and Product Management Didier Dehauteur said, “The Bad Seeds catalogue is a precious piece of rock history. We are determined to deliver a set of reissues which genuinely pay tribute to a seminal band.”

The following titles will be released on December 16, 2014:

From Her To Eternity – Single LP 
(Original Release Date June 18, 1984)
Recorded in London Studios The Garden and Trident, From Her To Eternity marked the debut of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds after the break-up of Nick Cave’s former band The Birthday Party. Features Blixa Bargeld, of Berlin’s Einstuerzende Neubauten, on guitar. Said Cave at the time, “I don’t really think he knows how to play in the conventional sense at all. He just makes these incredible sounds.”

The Firstborn is Dead – Single LP 
(Original Release Date June 3, 1985)
Album number two was recorded in Berlin. Co-produced by Flood and the band, it was rich with references to the blues and bluesmen, the American South, and especially to Elvis Presley. Soundsdescribed the album as “the most evocative blues record for years.”

Kicking Against The Pricks – Single LP 
(Original Release Date Aug 18, 1986)
The band’s third album was a collection of cover versions of songs ranging from “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman” (John Lee Hooker) to “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” (Jimmy Webb) to “Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart” (Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook). Said Cave, “They were all done for different reasons. Some songs were tributes…other songs we didn’t think the song was ever done particularly well in the first place. Some songs had just haunted my childhood, like ‘The Carnival Is Over’ (Tom Springfield), which I always loved.”

Your Funeral…My Trial – Double LP 
(Original Release Date Nov 3, 1986)
First released as a double EP, Your Funeral…My Trial has a notable melancholy tone. Cave himself later said, “(This is) my favorite of the records we’ve done, is very special to me and a lot of amazing things happened, musically, in the studio. There are some songs on that record that as far as I’m concerned are just about perfect as we can get really – songs like ‘The Carny,’ ‘Your Funeral, My Trial,’ and ‘Stranger Than Kindness.’”

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Or 

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Additionally, the titles below will be available in early 2015:

Tender Prey
The Good Son
Henry’s Dream
Let Love In
Murder Ballads
The Boatman’s Call
No More Shall We Part

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS RELEASE NEW SINGLE “GIVE US A KISS / JUBILEE STREET (LIVE FROM THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE)” FROM 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH NEW YORK RELEASE EVENT TO BE BROADCAST LIVE BY NOISEY

20,000 Days on Earth
20,000 Days on Earth

“One day you’ll get into Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds because sooner or later everyone does, and when you do you’ll realize they’re the finest live band on the planet.” – Vice

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have released two previously unavailable tracks: “Give Us A Kiss” and “Jubilee Street (live from The Sydney Opera House)”. The songs from the award-winning feature 20,000 Days On Earth will be available digitally on September 4 with a limited edition vinyl 10” to be released onNovember 10. Pre-order the vinyl here and purchase the digital single on iTunes.

Additionally, Nick Cave will celebrate the United States theatrical release of 20,000 Days on Earth with a special screening at New York’s Town Hall. The screening will be followed by a rare Nick Cave solo piano performance as well as an audience conversation segment featuring Cave and 20,000 Days on Earth directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth. Tickets for this exclusive release event will be available for purchase by the general public at 12pm EST on Saturday, September 6 with a special fan presale occurring on Friday, September 5 at 12pm EST. Visit www.nickcave.com/live for further information.

For those who are unable to attend the Town Hall screening. Drafthouse Films and Noisey have partnered to live stream the happenings. For more information on Noisey’s coverage, visit http://noisey.vice.com/blog/noisey-presents-nick-cave-at-town-hall.

The film’s directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard spoke of the impact the band and their music has had on them and their debut feature 20,000 Day On Earth since shooting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live at Sydney Opera house on their 2013 Push The Sky Away tour.

“’Jubilee Street’ forced its way into our film. We’d planned to end with ‘Push The Sky Away’ and it’s pertinent lyrics about rock ‘n’ roll getting you right down to your soul; but after the band played ‘Jubilee Street’ at Sydney Opera House we didn’t stand a chance. Only four songs in and there was Nick, transforming in front of us. Our lives haven’t been the same since.” 

The film constructs a narrative and cinematic reality that seamlessly blends performance and storytelling with emotional truths. Neither a music documentary nor a concert film, 20,000 Days On Earth contains not just electrifying performances, but also keen insights into the creative process: we see a song grow from the tiniest of ideas sketched out by Cave in his office to a monstrous epic performed by the peerless Bad Seeds on stage at Sydney Opera House.

View the lyric video to “Give Us a Kiss” here: http://smarturl.it/ncandtbskissvid

Listen to “Jubilee Street (live Sydney Opera House)”: http://youtu.be/YpCGZXG7Hwo

View the 20,000 Days On Earth trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-p8VPpWOQ

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds fifteenth studio album Push The Sky Away was released in 2013 to a chorus of laudatory global reviews, charting at number 1 in seven countries. With their recent US shows were extolled as “rock and fucking roll at its finest” by Mother Jones, and hailed by their fans as their best yet, the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds story continues to unfold and grow.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, Barry Adamson and George Vjestica.

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH JOINS NICK CAVE ON HIS SUMMER 2014 CONCERT TOUR

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Nick Cave will perform at a trio of exclusive events this summer in conjunction with advance screenings of 20,000 Days on Earth, the groundbreaking new film on the iconic rock legend, and winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Canadian distributor, filmswelike, have announced special advance screenings of 20,000 Days On Earth — the lyrical and inventive documentary on musician Nick Cave — to coincide with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds” North American Summer 2014 tour before its wider, traditional theatrical release this September. In association with Goldenvoice, three eventized screenings will take place at The American Cinematheque”s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles (July 10), The Phi Centre in Montreal (August 1) and The French Institute Alliance Francais” Florence Gould Hall in New York City (August 4). Each of these screenings will be followed by a conversation with the rock legend himself, during which Cave — in a rare solo piano performance — will play a number of songs from his extensive catalog.

The rest of the advance screenings will take place in many of the same nationwide cities as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds” Summer 2014 tour, offering his fans the unique opportunity to watch the Sundance-winning film months before the release. As a nod of appreciation to his fans, pre-sale tickets to these exclusive advance screenings will first be made available to those on Nick Cave”s mailing list and website, nickcave.com/live starting this Thursday, June 5th — 24 hours prior to the general public on Friday.

“I am among many who consider Nick Cave the unofficial poet laureate of the modern age,” says Drafthouse Films founder Tim League. “I am personally excited we are able to integrate screening this bold and riveting portrait of an artist with a series of musical performances by Nick for a truly unique experience.”

Fusing cinematic drama with reality by weaving a fictitious 24-hour journey through the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave, the film is an intimate portrayal of the artistic process that speaks volumes to music fans, the art community and movie lovers alike. The debut directorial feature film of visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the film — which opens theatrically on September 17, 2014 — is set to an original score by Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seeds band mate Warren Ellis.

With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the genre-defying film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. The film made its World Premiere at this year”s Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded both “Best Directing” and “Best Editing” Awards in the World Cinema Documentary category.
Andrew O”Hehir of Salon.com calls it “gorgeous and haunting…an unclassifiable and frequently spectacular documentary.” Rob Nelson of Variety says “simply astounding, razor sharp, dynamic” while Michael Dunaway of Paste Magazine proclaims, “just spending an hour and a half or so inside the mind of Nick Cave would be fascinating enough. But the themes of time and lifetime, and the 20,000-day take on it, make this one a must-see.”

More information on the special screenings can be found at nickcave.com/live.

For theatrical bookings in US contact Sumyi Khong Antonson, VP of Marketing and Distribution at sumyi.antonson@drafthouse.com.

For PR inquiries on 20,000 Days on Earth in the US, please contact Ted Geoghegan at tedgeoghegan@gmail.com

For PR inquiries on 20,000 Days on Earth in Canada, please contact Jasmine Pauk at jasmine@filmswelike.com

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About Drafthouse Films

Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, is a curated brand of provocative, visionary and artfully unusual films new and old from around the world. Following the earnestly simple motto of “sharing the films we love with widest audience possible,” Drafthouse Films debuted in 2010 with the theatrical release of Four Lions, which was named of Time Magazine“s “Top 10 Films Of The Year.” Their diverse and unique slate includes the highly-acclaimed, Oscar® nominated documentary The Act Of Killing produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, 2013 SXSW Midnight Audience Award winner Cheap Thrills starring David Koechner (Anchorman), British auteur Ben Wheatley”s psychedelic trip into magic and madness, A Field In England, Ari Folman”s Cannes Film Festival selected sci-fi epic The Congress starring Robin Wright, Harvey Keith, Jon Hamm and Paul Giamatti, Midnight Movie sensations Miami Connection and The Visitor and rediscovered classics Wake in Fright and Ms. 45. Recent and upcoming releases include Dutch thriller Borgman, Michel Gondry”s Mood Indigo, Sundance Award-winning documentaries The Overnighters and 20,000 Days on Earth featuring musician and culture icon Nick Cave. Drafthouse Films distributes films theatrically, through home video, VOD and their direct-to-consumer platforms integrating into the ever-growing Alamo Drafthouse entertainment lifestyle brand, which along with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas includes: Mondo, the collectible art boutique; Fantastic Fest, the largest international genre film festival in the US; and the pop culture website Badass Digest.

About Films We Like

Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada. www.filmswelike.com

About Nick Cave

Nick Cave has been performing music for more than thirty years as the lead singer of The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He is also an acclaimed film score composer, screenplay writer, novelist and occasional actor. His first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989, The Death of Bunny Munro was published in 2009. Cave has also published collections of lyrics & prose – King Ink & The Complete Lyrics.

Cave wrote the screenplay for the John Hillcoat directed The Proposition (2005) and again took on the screenplay adaptation role for Hillcoat”s Lawless (2012).

Together with Warren Ellis, Cave has composed and recorded soundtracks for The Proposition (2005), Andrew Dominik”s adaptation of Ron Hansen”s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2006), John Hillcoat”s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy”s The Road (2009), Lawless (2012), David Oelhoffen”s Loin Des Hommes (due 2014/2015) and multiple documentaries including The English Surgeon (2007), The Girls Of Phnom Penh (2009) and West of Memphis (2013).

Born in Australia, Cave now lives in England. He continues to record and tour with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and is involved in an ever-increasing variety of music, literary, film and theatre projects.

About Pulse Films

Founded in 2008, Pulse Films is a uniquely integrated production company that has produced award-winning feature films, commercials, music videos, branded content and television formats. Over the past five years, Pulse CEO and co-founder Thomas Benski and Head of Film Lucas Ochoa have developed a partnership that has produced a number of critically acclaimed documentaries and award winning theatrical film releases. Their distinguished slate includes the seminal LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, the record breaking & Paramount Pictures released Katy Perry film Part of Me and the Grammy and Grieson nominated Blur documentary No Distance Left to Run. Forthcoming theatrical releases include the Sundance award winning 20,000 Days on Earth featuring Nick Cave, The Possibilities Are Endless starring Edwyn Collins, which received its world premiere at SXSW and the 2011 Sundance Best Cinematography Award winner Who is Dayani Cristal? starring Gael Garcia Bernal. Pulse has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris.