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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review – an incredible mass spiritual outpouring


This hugely moving concert spans every corner of the human experience, finding Cave at a point where time has deepened his music’s power and his connection with his audience

As the music has evolved from avant noise to piano balladry to emotional transcendence, the Bad Seeds have found themselves performing in ever vaster spaces – but that has simply become another means to dial every instrument and feeling up to the max. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianBehind him, a Bad Seeds lineup that includes Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood and a four-member gospel choir impeccably deliver 40 years’ of music. White Elephant’s “kingdom in the sky” gospel coda seems to uncork a mass spiritual outpouring not always palpable in a city Cave amusingly calls “fuckin’ Leeds”.

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