Nick Cave and Bad Seeds: live the 14 -minute song “Hollywood”

On stage on May 17 as headliner at the Cruel World 2025 festival in Pasadena, California, Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds played for the first time live together “Hollywood“. The song, of the duration of fourteen minutesis taken from the album released by the Australian singer -songwriter with his band in 2019, “Ghosseen”.

The song was proposed at the end of the set, characterized by a ladder that tried to cross the group’s entire career. “This is for Los Angeles,” Cave said to introduce the piece, while the texts were projected on the screen behind the band. As evidence of the moment, Here is a video of the performance:

Even if it is the first time that “Hollywood “ It appears in the lineup of a Bad Seeds concert, had already been performed regularly on the tour “Carnage “ of Cave together with Warren Ellis in 2021. The performance at the Cruel World scored the closure of the first North American tour of the Bad Seeds after seven years.

After returning to concert in Italy Last year with his band (here our story of the evening in Milan), Nick Cave will return to perform live in our country next July with His solo show. The Australian musician will be accompanied by Colin Greenwood of Radioheadwho participated in the creation of the latest album of Cave and Bad Seeds, before joining them on tour. The dates of the concerts are: July 16 in Mantua in Piazza Sordello, July 17th al Lucca Summer Festival in Piazza Napoleone, the July 19th to the amphitheater of the excavations of Pompeii and the 21 and 22 July At the Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.