In a career that's lasted more than 40 years, indie rock elder statesman Nick Cave is renowned as a dynamic performer, his stentorian voice something between gothic storyteller, revival preacher and punk poet. Cave is also a fascinating speaker, vacillating between incisive and cryptic, deep and hilarious. Conversations With Nick Cave is an intimate night with the author/composer/post-punk hero, featuring performances of his decades-deep catalog alongside an unscripted, unrehearsed and unpredictable Q&A with the audience.

Nick Cave in Concert

The shadow of the gothically inclined punk-poet Nick Cave looms large over the history of independent rock. Born in Victoria, Australia, in 1957, his life was transformed by the first wave of Aussie punk bands like Radio Birdman and the Saints. He would soon be leading its gloomy, art-damaged second generation. As the leader of The Birthday Party, Cave and his band would release three albums — The Birthday Party, Prayers on Fire and Junkyard — between 1980 and 1982, dragging punk through rockabilly, jazz, blues, Captain Beefheart, French poetry and Southern Gothic literature. They broke up in 1983, leaving generations of goth-rock, art-rock and blues-rock bands in their wake. In 1984, he formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a band whose vivid narratives and art-rock bluster have carried them through 16 studio albums. In that time, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appeared in Wim Wenders' acclaimed film Wings of Desire, were covered by both Johnny Cash and Metallica and had "O Children" used in 2010's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Their documentary film, One More Time With Feeling, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Music Film. Cave also led punk-blues band Grinderman for two critically acclaimed LPs. Alongside collaborator Warren Ellis, Cave has been a prolific composer of film music, creating the soundtracks to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road, Hell or High Water, War Machine, Wind River and more. A true polymath, Cave has published two novels and has written screenplays (2005's The Proposition and 2011's Lawless). In 2017 he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia.