Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have surprised fans with a gig on the roof of an East Sussex record shop.<\/p>\n
The Australian singer and his band emerged on to the balcony of Resident Music in Brighton’s The Lanes area at 11:00 BST on Friday, where they performed a selection of their own songs and a T-Rex cover.<\/p>\n
Cave, who lived for more than two decades in the city after moving there in 1999, played the impromptu show ahead of a huge open air concert at Preston Park on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
“Thank you, Brighton – what a thing to be doing,” the 68-year-old shouted to the packed crowds below. <\/p>\n
With Cave’s wife Susie and son Earl watching from the sidelines, the band finished with a singalong rendition of Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry, from their 1992 album Henry’s Dream.<\/p>\n
At the end of the performance, Cave said: “See you tonight. Thank you, and thank you, Resident Records, for this.<\/p>\n
“Best record shop in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have surprised fans with a gig on the roof of an East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}