{"id":355201,"date":"2025-08-18T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355201\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:08:10","slug":"nick-cave-teases-massive-bad-seeds-brighton-show-for-2026-responds-to-ai-criticism-shares-love-for-amyl-the-sniffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355201\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave teases &#8220;massive&#8221; Bad Seeds Brighton show for 2026, responds to AI criticism, shares love for Amyl &#038; The Sniffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Cave<\/a>\u2018s latest entry on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/50-questions-no-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hand Files<\/a>\u00a0has seen him give quickfire answers on everything from the possibility of a \u201cmassive\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bad Seeds<\/a> show in Brighton next year, criticism over his use of AI and even his opinion on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/amyl-and-the-sniffers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amyl and the Sniffers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/nick-cave-interview-hope-faith-carnage-new-bad-seeds-grinderman-cancel-culture-coronation-3448005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Cave: \u201cThere\u2019s no metric that says virtuousness makes good art\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The artist did another instalment of a series in which he asks 50 questions from fans with the answers \u2018yes\u2019, \u2018no\u2019, \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019 or \u2018Go fuck yourself\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he liked Amyl and the Sniffers, he answered \u2018yes\u2019, and in response to an enquiry about the rumour that \u201cthere\u00a0 is a massive Bad Seeds show\u201d planned for Brighton, where he lives, next year, he also answered \u2018yes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cave also tackled a question from Graham, based in Sydney, Australia, over the use of AI in a video released to mark 40 years of The Bad Seeds\u2019 \u2018Tupelo\u2019. He had previously called it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nick-cave-says-using-ai-in-music-is-unbelievably-disturbing-3783102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cunbelievably disturbing\u201d and said he thought it would have a \u201chumiliating effect\u201d<\/a>on the creative industries. In a contradiction of this stance, the video featured AI-animated archival photographs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/elvis-presley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Presley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now you\u2019re selling your soul to AI as well. Is there anything you won\u2019t push for your masters? Do you sleep well at night knowing you are going to hell?\u201d Graham asked, to which Cave replied with the \u2018Zzzz\u2019 emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Carol from Blackburn was more positive about it. \u201cNot a question\u2026well maybe\u2026why does seeing Elvis in your video make me cry? That beautiful young boy. That is really lovely, don\u2019t you think?\u201d she said. Cave\u2019s answer was \u2018yes\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cave addressed the criticism in more detail on\u00a0The Red Hand Files\u00a0last month. Director Andrew Dominik, who made the film as a gift, used AI without Cave\u2019s knowledge. He was sceptical, but the director encouraged him to rethink his stance, telling him: \u201cSuspend your fucking prejudices and take a look!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon watching the video, he \u201cfound it to be an extraordinarily profound interpretation of the song \u2013 a soulful, moving, and entirely original retelling of \u2018Tupelo\u2019, rich in mythos and a touching tribute to the great Elvis Presley, as well as to the song itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the AI-animated photographs of Presley \u201chad an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I watched Andrew\u2019s surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften. To some extent, my mind was changed,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-wild-god-review-3788381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acclaimed album \u2018Wild God\u2019<\/a> last year and toured it across the UK and North America earlier this year. These were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-announce-first-north-american-tour-in-seven-years-3791516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their first North American dates since 2018<\/a> after a planned tour in 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cave has also worked with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/warren-ellis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren Ellis<\/a> are set to score <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/nick-cave-novel-the-death-of-bunny-munro-tv-adaptation-starring-matt-smith-3550178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new television adaptation of his 2009 novel<\/a> The Death Of Bunny Munro. He also collaborated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a>\u2018s Bryce Dessner to write a new song for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/nick-cave-and-the-nationals-bryce-dessner-write-new-song-for-netflixs-train-dreams-3884916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the forthcoming Netflix film\u00a0Train Dreams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/nick-cave-interview-hope-faith-carnage-new-bad-seeds-grinderman-cancel-culture-coronation-3448005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NME spoke to Cave in 2023<\/a>, he was asked about how\u00a0The Red Files\u00a0has changed his perception of his audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really has. It\u2019s been a slow, developing thing. The things that I\u2019m concerned about are the same \u2013 even in The Birthday Party and early Bad Seeds when they were much more aggressive concerts, they were still concerned with ideas of transcendence and of basically trying to get the audience to a heightened state. In The Birthday Party it was the same thing, even though it was violent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy methods are just different these days \u2013 there\u2019s much more of a feeling of community, inclusiveness and hopefully transcendence; that we get together and hopefully arrive at a different place through the participation in the music. It\u2019s definitely a two-way thing. It\u2019s an outpouring and in-taking of love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Cave\u2018s latest entry on the\u00a0Red Hand Files\u00a0has seen him give quickfire answers on everything from the possibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-355201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rock","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115052052737626735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}