Nick Cave and Warren Ellis share stirring performance from new live film

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared a performance from their upcoming film This Much I Know To Be True – watch it below.

The Andrew Dominik-directed movie serves as a companion piece to the 2016 music documentary One More Time With Feeling, and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in March.

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It’ll be released in cinemas globally on May 11, with the first full trailer arriving last month.

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Per an official description, the project captures Cave and Ellis’ “exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life songs from albums ‘Ghosteen’ [Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds] and ‘Carnage’ [Nick Cave And Warren Ellis].

Today (April 14) the pair have released a special This Much I Know… performance of ‘Ghosteen Speaks’, which appears on the aforementioned 2019 Bad Seeds album. Tune in here:

The first clip from This Much I Know To Be True arrived in February, and saw Cave discuss his own definition of his artistry.

In the full trailer, Cave said, “We all live our lives dangerously, in a state of jeopardy, at the edge of calamity” while music from ‘Ghosteen’ played in the background.

The film features also features a special appearance by Cave and Ellis’ close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.

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Nice Cave and Warren recently wrapped up a North American headline tour in support of ‘Carnage’, their first-ever US tour as a duo. A run of UK dates took place throughout last  September and October.