Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds dropped a handful of songs, including Rings of Saturn, for their first performance of July. The band are on their European tour with a sole date in the UK falling at the end of the month. Cave and The Bad Seeds have featured hits like The Mercy Seat, Into My Arms, and songs from their latest album, Wild God, on most of the tour dates so far.
But songs like Rings of Saturn and The Weeping Song were absent from Cave’s setlist last night (July 2). This is likely due to time constraints imposed by festival headline slots. The Bad Seeds were performing at the Open’er Festival in Poland, with a near two-hour show played by the group.
A full setlist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ show at Open’er Festival in Poland can be found below.
- Get Ready for Love
- From Her to Eternity
- Train Long-Suffering
- Wild God
- O Children
- Tupelo
- Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis cover)
- Joy
- Bright Horses
- Henry Lee
- The Mercy Seat
- Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
- Red Right Hand
- Jubilee Street
- Hiding All Away / White Elephant
- Hollywood
- Into My Arms
It marks a minor set of changes to the performance, which had featured a four-track encore at other shows on the tour. A setlist for the band’s performance in Berlin, Germany, from June 30, can be found below.
- Get Ready for Love
- From Her to Eternity
- Train Long-Suffering
- Wild God
- O Children
- Tupelo
- Carnage (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis cover)
- Joy
- Rings of Saturn
- Bright Horses
- Henry Lee
- The Mercy Seat
- Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
- Red Right Hand
- Jubilee Street
- Hiding All Away / White Elephant
- Hollywood
- City of Refuge
- The Weeping Song
- Wide Lovely Eyes
- Into My Arms
The tour comes as Cave previously confirmed he is working on lyrics to a new album. In The Red Hand Files, Cave wrote: “I have often spoken about procrastination as an obstacle to creativity, but perhaps, in my efforts to encourage people to discover their potential, I have not fully acknowledged just how challenging it can be.
“The fear and anxiety you are talking about is very real. I am working on lyrics for a new album right now and am also about to go on tour, and even though I’ve written hundreds of songs and performed countless times, the trepidation is acute, sometimes verging on paralysing.
“Our fears around starting something new, risky and exposed are genuine. But here lies the maddening paradox – these anxieties, the very things that prevent us from moving forward, are intrinsic to that motion. I was talking about this only recently with a ceramicist friend, Adam Silverman, and he said that I was ‘stirring the pot’ and, in doing so, revealing something of my soul.
“He said it was little wonder I felt scared. Of course, I know this to be true, I’ve been here countless times, but it’s good to be reminded, and his words calmed me down a little. I also know, in my heart, that if there is one thing more daunting than writing a song, it’s not writing one – and I think we can apply this to many things, a job left undone is its own torment, a dream unrealised, its own kind of hell.
“There is a unique joy, the deepest satisfaction and a kind of spiritual appeasement in knowing that something we have made, or worked on, means something to somebody else. We may need to leap through these hoops of fire, wrestling against forces that hold us back from reaching our potential. Yet, understanding that struggle energises the work itself, turning creativity into a beautiful war – perhaps the noblest contest of them all.”
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