Step into the shadows and candlelight of Blood & Ballads, a two-hour journey through the jagged poetry and haunted grandeur of Nick Cave. This is no ordinary gathering—it's a reverent descent into the sacred and profane, the beautiful and brutal, where each song leads us deeper into a world of myth, memory, and dark romance.
We begin with fire and fury: the storm-ridden streets of Tupelo, the confessions of The Mercy Seat, and the phantasmagoria of The Carny. Through rattling sermons and lovelorn howls, the night unfolds like a fevered gospel. As the rhythm settles, we drift into Cave’s quiet devastations—the shimmer of The Ship Song, the ache of Nobody’s Baby Now, the tender doubt of Into My Arms.
But no true revel knows peace for long. The revelers return to murder ballads and twisted Americana: from Henry Lee's doomed passion to The Curse of Millhaven's gleeful chaos. And just as the night teeters on the edge of salvation, God Is in the House and There She Goes, My Beautiful World offer strange hymns of ironic grace.
Two final steps through snowy desolation—Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow and Oh My Lord—prepare us for our last breath: Where the Wild Roses Grow, a song soaked in sorrow, beauty, and fatal bloom.
Tonight, we don’t simply listen—we inhabit the music. This is Blood & Ballads, and Nick is our midnight guide.