Description
Format: LP x 2
ROCK | RELEASE DATE: 20/11/2020
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS IDIOT PRAYER: NICK CAVE ALONE
2020 live release. Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace is a concert film and live album by musician Nick Cave.
It was filmed by cinematographer Robbie Ryan and features Cave performing solo on piano at Alexandra Palace in London. Idiot Prayer serves as the final film in a trilogy-along with 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and One More Time with Feeling (2016)-and was described by Cave as “it’s luminous and heartfelt climax.”
PRAISE FOR ‘IDIOT PRAYER’
The Telegraph **** “Cave’s solo live stream could be the most the beautiful and sombre performance he’s ever given”
The Guardian **** “Cave’s performance in an empty hall, with just piano and voice, seems to try and ward off the terrifying silence of the Covid-19 age”
Evening Standard **** “Gravitas echoes beautifully in the void of an empty Alexandra Palace”
The Independent **** “’Idiot Prayer’ performance is stately and beautiful”
The Arts Desk **** “The dramatic minimalism of this setting is perfect for an expressive face, and such powerfully emotional songs”
Tracks: Spinning Song / Idiot Prayer / Sad Waters / Brompton Oratory / Palaces Of Montezuma / Girl In Amber / Man In The Moon / Nobody’s Baby Now / (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? / Waiting For You / The Mercy Seat / Euthanasia / Jubilee Street / Far From Me / He Wants You / Higgs Boson Blues / Stranger Than Kindness / Into My Arms / The Ship Song / Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry / Black Hair / Galleon Ship
