Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced a huge run of European headline and festival tour dates for 2026 – check below for all the details.
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Last month, Cave and co. unveiled details of a huge homecoming gig at Brighton’s Preston Park next year. The show, taking place on July 31, will mark their only UK headline show of 2026.
Now, he’s shared details of a huge European tour, which includes festival dates across the continent.
Kicking off at Ireland’s Malahide Castle on June 1, he’ll play shows in Germany, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic and more through to August. The tour will wrap up on August 28 with a performance at France’s Rock En Seine.
You can find a full list of dates below, and ticket information here.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ 2026 UK and European tour dates are:
JUNE
01 — Malahide Castle, Ireland
16 — Open Air an der Emslandarena, Germany
18 — Heartland Festival, Denmark
20 — Metronome Prague , Czech Republic
21 — Burg Clam, Austria
24 — Release Athens Festival, Greece
26 — La Prima Estate, Italy
28 — Live is Live, Belgium
30— Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany
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JULY
06 — Jazz Open, Germany
09 — NOS Alive Festival, Portugal
14 — Festival de Nîmes, France
15 — La Belle Soirée de Vienne, France
17 — Les Vieilles Charrues, France
31 — Preston Park, UK
AUGUST
02 — Filmnächte am Elbufer, Germany
05 — Arena Pula, Croatia
07 — Donji grad Kalemegdan Fortress, Serbia
09 — Summer Well Festival, Romania
13 — Øyafestivalen, Norway
18 — Kalnai Park, Lithuania
21 — Cabaret Vert, France
23 — Königsplatz, Germany
25 — Kunst!Rasen, Germany
28 — Rock En Seine, France
The dates will follow a homecoming tour in Australia in support of the Bad Seeds’ acclaimed 2024 album ‘Wild God’.
The shows kick off in January 2025, and will see Cave and co. head to outdoor venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, as well as indoor shows in Adelaide and Wellington, New Zealand, marking their first Australian and New Zealand tour in nine years.
In a four-star review of ‘Wild God’, NME shared: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered.
“But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “Jumping for love and the opening sky above” as “Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years“. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
Speaking to NME about the creation of the album and working with Cave, Bad Seeds member and the frontman’s frequent collaborator Warren Ellis shared: “When we sat down at the start of last year, we’d just done a big festival run, the Bad Seeds were back together, and we’d played these really transcendental shows – they were really ecstatic at times. There was a real feeling that we wanted the music to move in that way. It’s really been driven by how Nick has been feeling.”
Meanwhile, Cave has also worked with Warren Ellis are set to score the new television adaptation of his 2009 novel The Death Of Bunny Munro. He also collaborated with The National‘s Bryce Dessner to write a new song for the forthcoming Netflix film Train Dreams.
In other news, Cave recently received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art for his contributions to music and literature, and made a rousing speech to commemorate the occasion.
He also shared insight on his political outlook, and said that he is “neither on the left nor on the right” as he finds both sides “unrecognisable”.
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