{"id":64807,"date":"2020-09-03T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=64807"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:20:02","slug":"idiot-prayer-nick-cave-alone-at-alexandra-palace-live-album-cinema-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/09\/idiot-prayer-nick-cave-alone-at-alexandra-palace-live-album-cinema-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave\u00a0Alone At Alexandra Palace – Live Album, Cinema Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the extraordinary response to the online streaming event in July, audiences will have another chance to experience ‘Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace’ as it screens in cinemas globally via Trafalgar Releasing from 5 November. The cinematic release of this remarkable and compelling film will be followed by an album on 20 November, available on vinyl, CD and streaming services worldwide.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

‘Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace’ was recorded in June 2020 as the UK slowly emerged from lockdown, and was conceived as a reaction to the confinement and isolation of the preceding months. Initially imagined as an online only event, fans will now be able to see the film in cinemas as an extended cut featuring four unseen performances.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later on 20 November, the music will be released as a double album of the same name featuring all 22 songs from the original film on vinyl, CD and streaming.<\/p>\n

In Idiot Prayer, Cave plays his songs alone at the piano in a rarely seen stripped back form, from early Bad Seeds and Grinderman, right through to the most recent Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album, ‘Ghosteen’.<\/p>\n

The performance was filmed by award winning Cinematographer Robbie Ryan (‘The Favourite’, ‘Marriage Story’, ‘American Honey’) in Alexandra Palace\u2019s stunning West Hall. It was edited by Nick Emerson (‘Lady Macbeth’, ‘Emma’, ‘Greta’). The music was recorded by Dom Monks.<\/p>\n

‘Idiot Prayer’ is the fourth film that Nick Cave has released in collaboration with Trafalgar Releasing, following 2018’s ‘Distant Sky – Live in Copenhagen’, directed by David Barnard, 2016’s One More Time With Feeling directed by Andrew Dominik and 2014’s award winning 20,000 Days on Earth directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe film \u2018Idiot Prayer\u2019 evolved from my \u2018Conversations With\u2026\u2019\u00a0events. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms. I felt I was rediscovering the songs all over again, and started to think about\u00a0going into a studio and recording these reimagined versions at some stage – whenever I could find the time.<\/p>\n

Then, the pandemic came – the world went into lockdown, and fell into an eerie, self-reflective silence.\u00a0It was within this silence that I began to think about the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them.<\/p>\n

We worked with the team at Alexandra Palace – a venue I have played and love – on securing a date to film just as soon as they were allowed to re-open the building to us.<\/p>\n

On 19th June 2020, surrounded by Covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel, we created something very strange and very beautiful that spoke into this uncertain time, but was in no way bowed by it.<\/p>\n

This is the album taken from that film. It is a prayer into the void – alone\u00a0at Alexandra Palace – a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history. I hope you enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Nick Cave<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pre-order the album now at\u00a0nickcave.com\/idiotprayer<\/a><\/p>\n

Book cinema tickets from 10 September* at nickcave.com\/idiotprayer<\/a>
\n*excluding the US, on sale date in US to be announced<\/p>\n

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tour Europe in Spring \/ Summer 2021. More info and tickets on sale now at nickcave.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the extraordinary response to the online streaming event in July, audiences will have another chance to experience ‘Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace’ as it screens in cinemas globally via Trafalgar Releasing from 5 November. The cinematic release of this remarkable and compelling film will be followed by an album on 20 November, available on vinyl, CD and streaming services worldwide.<\/p>\n

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