Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to lead Patti Smith, St. Vincent, Courtney Barnett in London

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will head up a stellar bill in London next spring.

As part of All Points East, the Bad Seeds are set to lead Patti Smith, St. Vincent and Courtney Barnett at Victoria Park on June 3rd.

Cave has been getting rave reviews for his live touring behind Skeleton Tree, a highly emotional album detailing appalling family tragedy.

“I wrote a bunch of songs after Arthur died, but I felt they were somehow a betrayal of what we were all going through at the time or worse, a betrayal of Arthur himself; that they didn’t possess the required emotional reach, so I scrapped them,” he told The Guardian of it.

“But Andrew Dominik found them in my notebooks and loved them and used some of them for voiceover in his film One More Time with Feeling. I can see now, with a bit of clarity, that there was something powerful about them that I was unable to see at the time. Anyway, they are floating around. But I am writing new stuff. Lots of new stuff.”