Nick Cave Public Sessions 1982 - 1999
This list contains public concerts which were not regular live shows,
but for example solo performances or sessions in a record shop,
as well as Nick's solo concerts in the 1997-1999 period.
1982-1996
16/01/82 Melbourne, Royal Oak Hotel, jam with The Go-Betweens
Downtown Swinging Town - I Don't Care, Yeah - Dead Joe - Ring Of Fire
28/10/86 San Francisco, Reckless Records
Very nice session of acoustic songs played in a record store.
By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Serves You Right To Suffer -
I Threw It All Away - Rye Whiskey - Wade In The Water -
Green, Green Grass Of Home - Long Black Veil - Miniskirts -
Hey Joe - Knocking On Heaven's Door
23/06/87 - Berlin, Quartier Latin, benefit for "The Gift" record shop
15 minutes of covers, incl. Let It Be Me and songs from The Carpenters.
13/03/94 London, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Records
Loverman - I Let Love In - Papa Won't Leave You Henry -
Do You Love Me? - The Mercy Seat - Nobody's Baby Now -
Thirsty Dog
07/07/96 London, Royal Albert Hall, "Poetry Olympics" w. Warren Ellis
Dead Joe - Black Hair - The Mercy Seat
06/09/96 Dublin, Whelan's Tent, "In The City" Festival
The Flesh Made Word - Green Eyes
1997
03/03/97 - Paris, Virgin Megastore, also reading (and signing)
Dead Joe - The Mercy Seat - Black Hair
04/09/97 - Skibbereen, Ireland, Liss Ard festival, "Songs & Poetry"
Dead Joe - The Mercy Seat - parts from "And The Ass..." -
Time Jesum Transientum Et Non Riverentum (reading) - Black Hair
People Ain't No Good - West Country Girl
04/09/97 - Skibbereen, Ireland, Liss Ard festival, reading
The Carny - Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams)
05/09/97 Skibbereen, Ireland, Liss Ard festival
Lime Tree Arbour (aborted)- The Flesh Made Word (reading) -
Brompton Oratory - Little Empty Boat
05/09/97 Skibbereen, Ireland, Liss Ard festival
Nick, Mick Harvey & members from Patti Smith band:
People Ain't No Good - Stagger Lee - Henry Lee - Into My Arms
The Mercy Seat - Rainy Night In Soho - Black Hair
26/10/97 Rome, "World Food Day", FAO benefit
Into My Arms (with Warren Ellis on violin)
27/11/97 - Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, the Michael Hutchence funeral
Into My Arms
1998
03/09/98 - Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival
West Country Girl - Dead Joe
04/09/98 - Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival, session with
Mick, Conway and Warren. Nick participated at least on:
Into My Arms - Love Letter
05/09/98 - Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival,
Nick appeared on stage during Iarla O'Lionaird's set.
1999
14/03/99 - Wroclaw, Teatr Polski, "Festiwal Piosenki Aktorskiej" 16:00
Some songs with Polish artists who did
a set of Nick Cave songs before Nick's gig. Released on DVD in 2008.
Into My Arms (with band during their set).
The Mercy Seat - People Ain't No Good - Brompton Oratory -
West Country Girl - Love Letter - Far From Me - Into My Arms -
The Weeping Song (w. band) - The Ship Song - Dead Joe
14/03/99 - Wroclaw, Teatr Polski, "Festiwal Piosenki Aktorskiej" 20:00
The songs are the same as above.
02/07/99 London, Royal Festival Hall, Meltdown
"Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music Night"
Henry Lee - John The Revelator - Shine On Me
(last two with Kate and Anne McGarrigle)
11/11/99 Brooklyn, St. Ann's Church, "Harry Smith Night"
John The Revelator - Henry Lee - Shine On Me (all w. McGarrigles)
12/11/99 Brooklyn, St. Ann's Church, "Harry Smith Night"
John The Revelator - Henry Lee - Shine On Me (all w. McGarrigles)
Nick Cave Solo Concerts 1997-1999
Fall 1997 - Winter 1999
Comments: In 1997-1998, the first solo concerts started as one-off sessions.
These were not yet "quartet" sessions. From the very start, the solo
shows have always contained rare songs, b-sides and cover songs that were
not played in the Bad Seeds' sets. In these years we get to hear:
"Dead Joe" on the piano, "Time Jesum...", "Little Empty Boat", "Orphan Boy" etc.
11/10/97 London, Camden, Jazz Cafe, (with Warren Ellis & Kylie)
31/10/97 London, Barbican Centre, Benefit f. La Monte Young & M. Zazeela (w. W. Ellis)
14/11/97 Belfast, Elmwood Hall, Belfast Festival (with Kylie)
28/05/98 London, Mean Fiddler, Amnesty International benefit gig
21/08/98 Edinburgh, Queens Hall, Flux Festival
22/08/98 Edinburgh, Queens Hall, Flux Festival
05/09/98 - Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival, (with Iarla O'Lionaird)
28/09/98 Vienna, Akademietheater
22/11/98 - London, Brick Lane's Truman Brewery, Mavericks Festival
22/01/99 Antwerpen, De Singel, "De Nachten"
23/01/99 Amsterdam, Paradiso, "Les Nuits du Paradis"
14/03/99 - Wroclaw, Teatr Polski, "Festiwal Piosenki Aktorskiej" 16:00
14/03/99 - Wroclaw, Teatr Polski, "Festiwal Piosenki Aktorskiej" 20:00
YEAR 1997 1998 1999
MONTH Octob No Ma Augus Septe No Janua March
DAY 11 31 14 28 21 22 5 28 22 22 23 14 14
TOTAL # OF SONGS 9 6 9 6 10 11 6 10 7 15 13 11 11
Dead Joe 1 1 2 3 5 2 1 9 11 11
The Mercy Seat 2 2 3 1 8 9 2 4 2 14 2 2 2
Time Jesum Transientum 4 6 7 5 9 8 7 10 12
Black Hair 5 5 6 2 5 6 5 9 7
People Ain't No Good 7 4 11 1 5 2 3 3 3
West Country Girl 3 7 8 7 3 3 4 6 6
Little Empty Boat 9 9 6 10 10 10 15 13
Into My Arms 8 4 5 4 1 2 3 6 4 11 8 8
Love Letter 3 6 7 3 5 6 5 5 5
Brompton Oratory 1 4 6 4 13 6 4 4
And The Ass... 3 4 5
And The Ass [more]... 8
Still Your Face... 6 8
The Flesh Made Word 1 2 3
Far From Me 4 10 7 7
Love Song 1
Introduction To Mark 1 1
Where Do We Go Now, ... 9
Orphan Boy 11 7
The Ship Song 12 8 10 10
Into My Arms (w. band) 1 1
The Weeping Song (w. band) 9 9
Spring 99
Comments: Nick accompanied by Warren Ellis (violin and accordeon), Susan Stenger (bass) and Jim White (drums)
on various songs. Setlists may not be completely in correct order. There was some more
Love Song lecturing in between the early songs on the 28/3 late show, but I've listed it just once.
27/03/99 - Dublin, Guinness Hop Store
28/03/99 - Dublin, Gaiety Hall, 14:00 show
28/03/99 Dublin, Gaiety Hall, 20:00 show
30/03/99 London, South Bank Royal Festival Hall
01/05/99 Bergen, Norway, Grieghallen, Blues and Roots Festival
02/05/99 Bergen, Norway, Grieghallen, Blues and Roots Festival, early show
02/05/99 Bergen, Norway, Grieghallen, Blues and Roots Festival, late show
03/05/99 Stockholm, Sodra Teatern, early show
03/05/99 - Stockholm, Sodra Teatern, late show
MONTH March May
DAY 27 28 28 30 1 2 2 3 3
TOTAL # OF SONGS 12 13 13 16 16 17 13 16
The Love Song Lecture 2 2 2
West Country Girl * 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
People Ain't No Good 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2
Sad Waters 5 8 4 3 4 3 4 3
The Mercy Seat * 9 6 7 4 5 4 3 4
Henry Lee 10 7 8 7 6 5 5 7
Love Letter * 4 4 5 5 7 6 7 6
Into My Arms * 7 10 10 8 9 8 8 9
Do You Love Me (Part 2) * 6 9 9 10 10 9 9 11
Stagger Lee * 11 11 11 12 13 11 10 10
The Ship Song * 12 12 12 13 12 13 13 13
Far From Me * 8 5 6 11 14 16 16
Little Empty Boat 13 13 16 17
Loverman 9 8 7 6 5
Orphan Boy 11 12 12 12
Time Jesum Transientum 14 1 10 14
Dead Joe 15 15 14 11 15
The Loom Of The Land 16 15 8
And The Ass Saw The Angel 6
Summer 99
Comments: Again Nick is accompanied by Warren Ellis, Susan Stenger and Jim White on various songs.
"Papa Won't Leave You Henry" and "Straight To You" had not been played for years.
"Wild World" is another Birthday Party song returning (after "Dead Joe"), and "Right Now I'm A Roamin'" is a live debut.
On June 30, one line of "Foi Na Cruz' was also sung after a request for that song. August 28 was the "Parting Glass"
session and also included other artists performing their song. The event took place past midnight.
Nick sang background vocals on Bob Dylan's "New Pony" with Will Oldham.
30/06/99 London, Royal Festival Hall, Meltdown
11/07/99 Mainz, Zelt Festival
12/07/99 Hamburg, West Port Jazz Festival
31/07/99 Cambridge Folk festival
06/08/99 Dranouter Folk Festival, Belgium
27/08/99 - Edinburgh, Flux Festival, Ross Bandstand
28/08/99 - Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival, (with others, inc. Will Oldham)
29/08/99 Skibbereen, Liss Ard Festival
08/09/99 - Mantova, Festivaletteratura
09/09/99 Mantova, Festivaletteratura
11/09/99 Geneva, la Bâtie, festival de Genève at the Victoria Hall
18/11/99 Prague, Lucerna
21/11/99 - Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
23/11/99 Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
MONTH Ju July August Septembe November
DAY 30 11 12 31 6 27 28 29 8 9 11 18 21 23
TOTAL # OF SONGS 17 19 18 13 14 10 16 16 18 16 16 17 15
West Country Girl 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
People Ain't No Good 16 15 17 10 3 2 2 6 2 2 2 2
Sad Waters 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 5 3 5 5 3 3
The Mercy Seat 5 5 5 4 4 4 1 4 4 4 3 3 4 4
Henry Lee 9 2 2 3 3 5 5 3 5 4 4 5 5
Papa Won't Leave You, Henry 7 7 7 5 6 6 2 6 7 7 6 7 6 6
Love Letter 8 8 8 * 5 8 8 8 8 7 8 7 7
Straight To You 2 9 9 6 7 7 6 7 9 9 8 9 8 8
Stagger Lee 10 10 10 7 8 9 4 9 10 10 9 10 10 10
The Ship Song 12 12 11 11 11 8 14 6 12 11 13 16 14
Into My Arms 13 13 12 * 9 12 10 12 13 12 12 12 11
The Loom Of The Land 4 4 4 13 13 10 16 16 16 15 14 15 13
Wild World 15 14 13 12 10 7 15 15 17 16 6 9 9
Right Now I'm A Roamin' 14 16 14 12 13 14 13 13
Brompton Oratory 17 15 13 14 15 14 15 14
Far From Me 11 11 11 10 11 11
Little Empty Boat 17 19 18 14 18 16 17 15
Do You Love Me (Part 2) 6 6 6 12
Orphan Boy 11 11
Loverman 18 16
New Pony [w.Will Oldham] 5
Dead Joe 9
Green Eyes [read] 1
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