Nick Cave Releases Trailer for Idiot Prayer
Earlier this month, Nick Cave announced that he’ll be doing a special solo performance on July 23. And today (July 13), he dropped the trailer for Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace.
In the video, Cave is seen penning some things in a notebook before walking into an empty Alexandra Palace where a piano is positioned in the center of the main hall.
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Along with the trailer, he talked about the creation of this show.
“I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms – with an emphasis on the delivery of the words,” he wrote in a note to fans (via NME). I felt I was rediscovering the songs all over again, and started to think about going into a studio and recording these reimagined versions at some stage – whenever I could find the time.
And then world “went into lockdown,” the Bad Seeds tour was pushed back and everyone “fell into an eerie, self-reflective silence.”
“It was within this silence that I began to think about the idea of not only recording the songs,” he said, “but also filming them – and so we started to assemble a small team, including the great cinematographer, Robbie Ryan, sound man, Dom Monks, and editor, Nick Emerson, with the intention to film as soon as it became feasible to get back to business in some way.”
He also talked about the safety measures while filming the show and said he was surrounded by “covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel.”
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace will be the final part of his trilogy of releases. 20,000 Days on Earth in 2014 and 2016’s One More Time With Feeling were the previous two films.
You can purchase your tickets for the one night only performance on July 23 here.
Watch the trailer for Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace below.
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