NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS
AUSTRALIAN CARNAGE TOUR
Tickets on sale Friday 29 July at 10am (local time) from nickcave.com
CARNAGE is out now – listen here
With two very special performances at the iconic Hanging Rock in the Macedon Ranges on November 25 and 26 now sold out, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis announce a full run of Australian Carnage tour dates with indoor shows in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra, Tamworth and a Melbourne city show in St Kilda.
The 15 show Australian Carnage tour kicks off in Adelaide on November 22 and finishes up at the Sydney Opera House on December 17.
Tickets are on sale Friday 29 July at 10am (local time) from nickcave.com
Full dates and venue details are below.
Nick Cave said, “I can’t begin to tell you how happy Warren and I are to be finally returning to Australia to perform. The wait has been way too long. See you all soon for the Carnage experience!”
While Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, and he and Cave have composed and recorded scores and worked on many other projects together, this is the first time the pair have toured Australia as a duo. With The Bad Seeds’ playing their first ever live show in St Kilda in 1983, the December 2 Palais show is a fitting recognition of the bands’ history.
Live reviews from the UK, Europe and most recently the US legs of the tour have celebrated the magic of Cave and Ellis performing together:
‘Utterly mesmerising… The raw power of the material and visceral intensity of the performance was – at times – breathtaking’
– The Telegraph **** (UK)
‘A show like no other from a true once-in-a-generation songwriting partnership’
– NME ***** (UK)
‘His concert with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis at the Shrine Auditorium provided a sanctuary — a warm place to bask in a mesmerizing performance.’
– LA Weekly (Los Angeles, CA)
‘The combination of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis in concert provide a transcendent look into the mechanics of redemption…. There is undeniable magic when they perform together.’
– The Hollywood Times (Los Angeles, CA)
The Australian Carnage tour follows the release of Cave and Ellis’ widely acclaimed CARNAGE album.
Cave and Ellis’ creative chemistry is rooted in their long history of music making, both as collaborators and as individual artists. They first crossed paths in 1993, when Ellis played violin on several songs for the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Let Love In, before going on to join the band as a full-time member. The two have also recorded as Grinderman, formed in 2006, and have composed and recorded numerous, film, TV, and theatre soundtracks together.
Supersonic presents
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS
AUSTRALIAN CARNAGE TOUR
Tuesday November 22
Festival Theatre, Adelaide SA
Wednesday November 23
Festival Theatre, Adelaide SA
Friday November 25
Hanging Rock, Macedon Ranges VIC SOLD OUT
Presented by Always Live and Frontier Touring
Supported by Courtney Barnett
Saturday November 26
Hanging Rock, Macedon Ranges VIC SOLD OUT
Presented by Always Live and Frontier Touring
Supported by Courtney Barnett
Monday November 28
Canberra Theatre, Canberra ACT
Tuesday November 29
Canberra Theatre, Canberra ACT
Friday December 2
Palais Theatre, Melbourne VIC
Presented by Frontier Touring
Monday December 5
Riverside Theatre, Perth WA
Tuesday December 6
Riverside Theatre, Perth WA
Friday December 9
BCEC Great Hall, Brisbane QLD
Saturday December 10
GCEC, Gold Coast QLD
Monday December 12
TRECC, Tamworth NSW
Wednesday December 14
Civic Theatre, Newcastle NSW
Friday December 16
Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW
Presented by Sydney Opera House
Saturday December 17
Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW
Presented by Sydney Opera House
Tickets on sale Friday 29 July at 10am (local time)from nickcave.com
