Special film screenings premiere new music from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The first opportunity to hear any songs from the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album ‘Skeleton Tree’ will be at screenings of the new feature film ‘One More Time With Feeling’ the day before release day: similar to recent innovative strategies from Frank Ocean and Beyoncé.

Cave approached Andrew Dominik (who directed the brilliant ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’) about making a film focusing on the recording and performing of the new Bad Seeds album around the tragic time of Cave’s son’s death.

Dominik explains that: “My immediate response was “Why do you want to do this?”. Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn’t know who to say them to. The idea of a traditional interview, he said, was simply unfeasible but he felt a need to let the people who cared about his music understand the basic state of things. It seemed to me that he was trapped somewhere and just needed to do something – anything – to at least give the impression of forward movement.”

Filmed in black-and-white and colour in both 3D and 2D, Dominik claims that the haunted drama of the 3D images “perfectly address the disembodied sound of the record and the weird sense of paralysis that Nick seemed to exist in at the time”. I am personally looking forward to hearing the new music but am also curious and almost wary as to how raw and sad the experience might be. Some of the best art can be the most disarming however, and the filmmaker and musician’s ambition and honesty can only be applauded.

At the time of writing there are still tickets available on Thursday 8th September at the Cineworld in the Marina, but also check availability at Eastbourne, Worthing, Chichester, Crawley and Picturehouse cinemas too.