Following its big streaming premiere in July, Nick Cave’s solo piano performance at Alexandra Palace, ‘Idiot Prayer’, is going to be released in cinemas this November.
It will also be released in audio-only form later the same month.“The film ‘Idiot Prayer’ evolved from my ‘Conversations With…’ events”, says Cave. “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 going into a studio and recording these re-imagined versions at some stage – whenever I could find the time”.“Then, the pandemic came – the world went into lockdown, and fell into an eerie, self-reflective silence”, he continues.
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