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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have added extra dates to their 2024 UK and European tour due to demand.

• READ MORE: Nick Cave: “There’s no metric that says virtuousness makes good art”

Last month the band announced their ‘Wild God’ tour which is set to kick off in Germany this September, continuing through October before a UK leg in November.

Now Cave and co. have announced additional dates in London (November 9), Dublin (November 13), Amsterdam (September 27), Berlin (September 30) and Copenhagen (October 6).

Tickets for the new shows will go on sale Friday (April 19) at 10am local time from here (UK and Ireland) and here (Europe).

Current mailing list subscribers will also be automatically included in the artist pre-sale for new shows – with links and passwords set to be emailed before the sale goes live – starting on Wednesday (April 17) at 10am local time.

Supporting the band across select dates will be Dry Cleaning, The Murder Capital and Black Country, New Road.

The ‘Wild God’ tour will follow shortly the release of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ new album of the same name on August 30.

“I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave shared in a press statement. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious.”

He continued: “There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

He previously shared that the album isn’t “set through a lens of loss” like ‘Skeleton Tree’ (2016) and ‘Ghosteen’ (2019), which were centred around the loss of his 15-year-old son Arthur.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 2024 ‘Wild God’ tour dates are:

SEPTEMBER
24 – Oberhausen, Germany – Rudolf Weber ARENA
26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
27 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome [NEW DATE]
29 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena
30 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena [NEW DATE]

OCTOBER
2 – Oslo, Norway – Oslo Spektrum
3 – Stockholm, Sweden – Hovet
5 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
6 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena [NEW DATE]
8 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena
10 – Lodz, Poland – Atlas Arena
11 – Krakow, Poland – TAURON Arena
13 – Budapest, Hungary – Papp László Sportaréna
15 – Zagreb, Croatia – Arena Zagreb
17 – Prague, Czechia – O2 arena
18 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle
20 – Milan, Italy – Milan Forum
22 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
24 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi
25 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center
27 – Lisbon, Portugal – MEO Arena
30 – Antwerp, Belgium Sportpaleis
31 – Antwerp, Belgium Sportpaleis

NOVEMBER
2 – Leeds, UK – first direct arena
3 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
5 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena
6 – Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena
8 – London, UK – The O2
9 – London, UK – The O2 [NEW DATE]
12 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena
13 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena [NEW DATE]
15 – Birmingham, UK – Resorts World Arena
17 – Paris, France – Accor Arena 

Nick Cave has also announced a European solo tour for this summer – find all the details here.

Elsewhere, Cave and Warren Ellis have shared ‘Song For Amy’, a song they wrote for the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black.

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Jon Bon Jovi has revealed that he may never sing live again, admitting that if he can’t be “great”, then he’s “done”.

The ’80s rock legend opened up about his ailing vocals in a new interview with The Sunday Times, sharing: “If the singing is not great, if I can’t be the guy I once was… then I’m done.”

He added: “And I’m good with that.”

Last month, the ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ singer revealed that he was uncertain about being able to tour again after undergoing surgery on his vocal cords in 2022.

The artist said he’d undergone a procedure known as medialisation in 2022 after one of his vocal cords was found to be atrophying.

Elaborating in his interview with The Times, Bon Jovi said there was a “big difference between being in a studio and going out on the road”.

He explained: “We have just recorded a new album. I sing in vocal therapy every day. But I want to perform for two and a half hours a night, four nights a week – and I know how good I can be, so if I can’t be that guy … put it this way, I don’t ever need to be the fat Elvis.”

The band’s 16th studio album, ‘Forever’, is due to be released on June 7, 2024, which they previously described as “a return to joy”.

Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock, the frontman said he had to “work through a lot of dark misery” to arrive at the joy.

He continued: “Our last record, which was called ‘2020’, was a lot of observations and narratives about what was going on in the world around us – whether it was the COVID crises or George Floyd, shootings in schools, soldiers with PTSD.”

The band’s new four-part docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story – will debut on HULU in the US and Disney+ in the UK on April 26.

Bon Jovi said that the series will explain “why we are what we are,” including “all of the truths, all of the warts, all of the punches in the nose that got us to this place.”

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James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon – the sons of Paul McCartney and John Lennon – have written a song together called ‘Primrose Hill’ – check it out below.

The song is a tender acoustic number about spending time with a loved one at the popular London beauty spot, which appears on the single’s cover art.

“I’ll always remember Primrose Hill,” James McCartney sings wistfully on the chorus, backed by a mellow guitar melody.

“‘Primrose Hill’ is here!” shared James McCartney on social media alongside a picture with his co-writer. “Today I am so very excited to share my latest song co-written by my good friend @seanonolennon. With the release of this song it feels like we’re really getting the ball rolling and I am so excited to continue to share music with you.”

Listen to ‘Primrose Hill’ below.

Back in February, James announced his return to music in the form of the new single ‘Beautiful’ – his first new song since 2016.

James grew up contributing to recording sessions for his father’s albums ‘Flaming Pie’ in 1997 and ‘Driving Rain’ in 2001, as well as his mother Linda McCartney’s 1998 release ‘Wide Prairie’.

He started to release his own solo material in 2010 with a series of EPs, before he released his debut studio album ‘Me’ in 2013. This was followed up by 2016’s ‘The Blackberry Train’, before he went on a hiatus from music.

James has also become something of an unlikely internet sensation over the years due to a number of viral clips that have followed his career, including his dad’s message of encouragement (“Hey Jamesy, rock it man, I know you will!”) before a performance on ITV’s Lorraine.

He also appeared in an NME 66 Second Interview in 2012, answering the majority of the music-related questions by referencing his dad’s band.

Back in November, rumours began to swirl about the possibility of a band being formed out of the original Beatles’ children. But Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey shut down the rumours about a supergroup with Sean Lennon and Dhani Harrison.

In other Beatles news, meanwhile, the band shared their “final” track, ‘Now And Then’, back in November – which stemmed back to a demo recorded by Lennon, and was completed with the help of AI.

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The Libertines have unveiled their best dance moves in a bid to get their new album to Number One.

• READ MORE: The Libertines – ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ review: they’ve found their voice again

Pete Doherty, Carl Barât and co. returned with their new album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ last week, which NME awarded four stars while hailing the group for “finding their voice again”.

Now the band are seemingly up for anything in the hopes to land the record at the top of the charts. In a new spoof social media video, Doherty tells Barât: “Of course I want to get a Number One. It’s not like there’s a set formula for it.”

Barât replies that he can’t just get the Number One “because you think you deserve one”, before the pair read over suggestions from their label after determining that “sell a lot of records” is not a viable option.

While at first Barât turns down the suggestion of a TikTok dance, the video quickly cuts to a snippet of the co-frontman and Doherty pulling out their best dance moves to their single ‘Run Run Run’.

“Some bands will do anything for a number one record… not us, no sir x,” they captioned the tongue in cheek video. Watch it here.

Reviewing ‘…Eastern Esplanade’, NME wrote that “the sense of listening in on a band teetering on the precipice of disaster is gone, replaced by a more stable and necessarily safer version of The Libertines”.

It went on: “The results may be patchy, but this is not, and could not be, an album that rides the same intoxicating high as ‘Up the Bracket’. What they have done, though, is find their voice again, and, for the first time in over 20 years, The Libertines feel like a band with a viable future.”

Speaking to NME ahead of the release, the band said a sense of sobriety, togetherness and the desire “to write beautiful songs” helped shape the record.

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The Libertines have unveiled their best dance moves in a bid to get their new album to Number One.

• READ MORE: The Libertines – ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ review: they’ve found their voice again

Pete Doherty, Carl Barât and co. returned with their new album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ last week, which NME awarded four stars while hailing the group for “finding their voice again”.

Now the band are seemingly up for anything in the hopes to land the record at the top of the charts. In a new spoof social media video, Doherty tells Barât: “Of course I want to get a Number One. It’s not like there’s a set formula for it.”

Barât replies that he can’t just get the Number One “because you think you deserve one”, before the pair read over suggestions from their label after determining that “sell a lot of records” is not a viable option.

While at first Barât turns down the suggestion of a TikTok dance, the video quickly cuts to a snippet of the co-frontman and Doherty pulling out their best dance moves to their single ‘Run Run Run’.

“Some bands will do anything for a number one record… not us, no sir x,” they captioned the tongue in cheek video. Watch it here.

Reviewing ‘…Eastern Esplanade’, NME wrote that “the sense of listening in on a band teetering on the precipice of disaster is gone, replaced by a more stable and necessarily safer version of The Libertines”.

It went on: “The results may be patchy, but this is not, and could not be, an album that rides the same intoxicating high as ‘Up the Bracket’. What they have done, though, is find their voice again, and, for the first time in over 20 years, The Libertines feel like a band with a viable future.”

Speaking to NME ahead of the release, the band said a sense of sobriety, togetherness and the desire “to write beautiful songs” helped shape the record.

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