With dates sorted out and our ticket-purchasing duties divvied up, as I was flying out of the U.S. I was still hoping to fulfill a long-standing promise to myself to follow the band on the West Coast portion of their next tour, and with no time to think things through, I quickly consulted with Craig and my good friend Todd – also a long-time fan who lives in LA – to see who wanted to go to what shows. Luckily, pre-sale opportunities were announced for Wednesday and Thursday. The tour dates were announced that following Monday and tickets were to go on sale for the whole tour that Friday – the day I would be on a fourteen hour international flight 30,000 feet in the air. An announcement was made about the tour in mid-November, the weekend before I was leaving to travel half-way around the world to Southeast Asia. Time – along with my heart – stopped for a moment. But then one random day I was caught unawares and heard a rumor of another U.S. Nick Cave is a prolific artist so the time in-between tours is not because he’s idle but rather because he’s working on so many other artistic endeavors aside from his music with the Bad Seeds: film scores with collaborator Warren Ellis, screenplays, novels, an opera. It had been five years since their previous tour for Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and it would not have been surprising if another five years were to go by before their next tour.
At that time, I had no idea when I would have the opportunity to see them perform again. It was a cathartic process that had been building up over the past twenty-five years.
Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA A little over a year ago, I tried to put my long-running love affair with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds into words while suffering through withdrawals after two glorious live shows in Seattle and Vancouver on their Push the Sky Away tour.
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