Nick Cave has announced an on-stage conversation event in Dublin, the day before the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ sold out show at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on 6 June, their first Irish headline gig since 2008.

“To be honest I am not sure what is going to happen at these events. I have always loved the Q&A format – not the formal onstage interviews that precede them but the questions from the audience afterwards. The audience tends to ask more challenging, revealing, playful and ultimately serious questions. You never know what you are going to get. They can be fearless and they can go deep. There has been a connection happening with the audience through the recent live shows where we have all shown a kind of willingness to open up and I thought that a direct conversation with the audience might be valuable. The more frank and intimate the questions, the more interesting the evening will be. The audience can ask me anything and I’ll do my best to answer. I do have some things to say. I can always play some songs at the piano if it all goes horribly wrong. But, I don’t know, I’ve got a good feeling about this one.” Nick Cave

If that wasn’t exciting enough news for fans of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds a limited number of Production Hold tickets will be released for sale this Friday, 11 May at 9am for their show at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on 6 June. Limerick three-piece Whenyoung have been added to the bill which already includes Patti Smith.

A season of Nick Cave films has also been announced at the Light House Cinema, Dublin and Pálás, Galway which highlights his contribution to modern cinema.

From 1 June to 6 June, the cinema will screen films featuring Nick Cave’s screenplays, scores with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis and the incredibly insightful documentary collaborations – ‘One More Time With Feeling’ and ’20,000 Days On Earth’ – plus feature films ‘Lawless’, ‘The Proposition’, ‘The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford’, ‘Wind River’ and ‘Hell Or High Water’.

‘SO, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW’ CONVERSATIONS WITH NICK CAVE at the Abbey Theatre, June 5. Tickets on sale Wednesday May 9, 12pm.