Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
From the air-punchingly powerful to the emotionally almost unbearable.
★ Most of tonight’s set comprises songs from Carnage, the album Cave and Ellis created during lockdown, and 2019’s Ghosteen, the album Cave recorded following the death of his teenage son Arthur. The mood is haunting: sepulchral and undeniably haunted in places, with three gospel singers layering devotional support, but perhaps surprisingly chaotic and even wickedly evil in others as Cave strives to embrace and move forward from the recent past.