Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared the full stage times for their huge gig in Brighton this month. Check them out below.
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Cave and co. are set to play a big homecoming show at the seaside city’s Preston Park on Friday July 31, as part of the band’s current UK and European headline tour.
Opening for the Bad Seeds on the day will be The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher.
“I am thrilled beyond words to return to my beloved Brighton with The Bad Seeds to play Preston Park,” Cave said in a previous statement. “It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful. An epic show!!!”
Now, organisers have revealed the complete schedule for the outdoor concert. The gates to Preston Park are due to open at 1pm BST on July 31, ahead of Warmduscher’s 45-minute slot from 1:30pm.
Le Bon’s performance will then follow at 2:45pm until 3:30pm. Next up on the line-up is English Teacher, who’ll play between 4pm and 4:45pm. The Flaming Lips’ hour-long main support slot will begin at 5:30pm.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are billed to close out the night with an epic two-and-a-half-hour set from 7:30pm until 10pm. See the full itinerary below, and find any remaining tickets here.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ set times for Brighton’s Preston Park are:
Gates
1pm
Stage times
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – 7:30pm-10pm
The Flaming Lips – 5:30pm-6:30pm
English Teacher – 4pm-4:45pm
Cate Le Bon – 2:45pm-3:30pm
Warmduscher – 1:30pm-2:15pm
The upcoming show serves as a UK-exclusive performance for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and comes in support of their acclaimed 2024 album ‘Wild God’. It follows their gig at Dublin’s Malahide Castle last month, where they broke out a cover of The Pogues’ ‘A Rainy Night In Soho’.
Cave and his band are currently out in Europe, and played a set at Open’er 2026 last night (Thursday July 2). NME described the show as “a potted run-through of their impressive discography”, adding that “there was a giddy sense of chaos to the whole thing”.
The Bad Seeds’ forthcoming European festival appearances include NOS Alive, Mad Cool, Way Out West and Rock En Seine. Earlier this year, they headed out on the road in Australia and New Zealand.
In May, Cave revealed that the Bad Seeds were “messing around” in the studio with the “vague idea of making a new record” as the follow-up to ‘Wild God’.
“This morning, I am going to Islington to mess around in the studio,” he explained, saying that he would be working with his bandmates Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis.
Cave appears on Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea’s 2026 debut solo album, ‘Honora’, alongside Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. He also recorded a new version of ‘Red Right Hand’ for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
Meanwhile, the singer-songwriter shared his blunt verdict on Russell Brand’s new Christianity conversion book in April.
