Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds have introduced a takeover at Brighton’s legendary impartial file store Resident, forward of their big homecoming present. Discover all the small print under.
Cave and co. are resulting from headline the seaside metropolis’s Preston Park on Friday July 31, as a part of the band’s present UK and European headline tour. Assist will come from The Flaming Lips, English Trainer, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher.
Now, it’s been confirmed that The Unhealthy Seeds will take over Resident as a part of a sequence of actions in Brighton round their huge gig.
The store is about to host a merch pop-up with a collection of present and new objects on supply, together with a spread specifically designed for the Preston Park date – solely out there at Resident and the live performance itself.
Followers may also be capable to get their palms on an unique tote bag made in collaboration with Resident, in addition to some basic Unhealthy Seeds and Cave Issues objects.
The file store is stocking a limited-edition vinyl launch (particulars to observe), too, and providing reductions throughout the group’s album catalogue, and giveaways. What’s extra, a particular put up field will enable followers to ship bodily letters to Cave’s Purple Hand Recordsdata.
The pop-up is scheduled to be open between Thursday July 30 and Sunday August 2. Join Resident’s e-newsletter or observe them for extra info.
Elsewhere throughout the identical weekend, Cave is taking up Brighton’s Duke Of York’s Picturehouse for a sequence of curated screenings. This particular occasion will characteristic 5 movies which have impressed and outlined the artist’s songwriting – every with a recorded introduction by Cave himself. Go to right here for extra particulars.
Talking in a earlier assertion in regards to the upcoming reside present, Cave mentioned: “I’m thrilled past phrases to return to my beloved Brighton with The Unhealthy Seeds to play Preston Park. It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be huge, dangerous and exquisite. An epic present!!!”
The gig serves as a UK-exclusive efficiency for Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds, and is available in help of their acclaimed 2024 album ‘Wild God’ (see the total stage instances right here). It follows their efficiency at Dublin’s Malahide Fort final month, the place they coated The Pogues’ ‘A Wet Evening In Soho’.
Cave and his band are presently out in Europe, and performed a set at Open’er 2026 final week. NME described the present as “a potted run-through of their spectacular discography”, including that “there was a giddy sense of chaos to the entire thing”.
They’ve since appeared at NOS Alive, and can take to the stage at Mad Cool tomorrow (Saturday July 11). The group’s different European summer time dates embrace Means Out West, ØYA and Rock En Seine. Earlier this 12 months, they headed out on the street in Australia and New Zealand.
In Might, Cave revealed that the Unhealthy Seeds had been “messing round” within the studio with the “imprecise thought of constructing a brand new file” because the follow-up to ‘Wild God’.
“This morning, I’m going to Islington to fiddle within the studio,” he mentioned, including that he could be working together with his bandmates Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis.
Cave seems on Purple Scorching Chili Peppers bassist Flea’s 2026 debut solo album, ‘Honora’, alongside Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke. He additionally recorded a brand new model of ‘Purple Proper Hand’ for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
In different information, the singer-songwriter shared his blunt verdict on Russell Model’s new Christianity conversion ebook this spring.
