Two Australian music legends. Decades of collaboration. One long-awaited album. One big night. That's the maths behind the Brisbane leg of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' Carnage tour, which heads to the Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday, December 9.
Yes, this is some news to come sail your ships around — as part of an array of gigs in five states and one territory, on a tour that kicked off in mid-November and runs through to mid-December.
The pair is doing the rounds to support the 2021 album that shares the tour's name, which actually marks Cave and Ellis' first studio album as a duo.
Megan Cullen
Bandmates across several projects since the 90s — including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman — Cave and Ellis are Aussie icons, with careers spanning back decades. Together, they also boast more than a few phenomenal film scores to their names as well, including for The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road, West of Memphis, Far From Men, Hell or High Water and Wind River.Cave and Ellis have headed home after an American Carnage tour, and following Cave's subsequent tour with the Bad Seeds in Europe.
Laurine Payet
Top image: Palma Sabina.