Shame playing Dr Martens Boot Room in London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Shame, The Psychedelic Furs, The Black Lips, Baxter Dury, Nadine Shah and Bo Ningen have swelled an already impressive line-up of support acts for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ headline day at All Points East in June.
APE is set to be a major addition to the UK’s live music calendar when it launches in Victoria Park this spring, and Nick Cave is booked for June 3rd along with his previously confirmed fellow performers Patti Smith, St. Vincent and Courtney Barnett.
As if last year wasn’t busy enough for them, Shame are still hard on the touring trail now their debut album Songs Of Praise is out – an album which, upon its release, signalled itself as the ‘earliest possible contender for album of the year‘ according to Live4ever:
“Because back in the times before the sneering old men robbed the nineties born of their art, their dole and their dignity, there were a load of bands that made the Northern industrial wastelands what they were, a habitat of dry post-romantic articulation set to music that Metropolitanism couldn’t fathom or give a f**k about.”