Concert Review: St. Vincent and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at INmusic

Anne Erin "Annie" Clark, aka St Vincent, performs at the APE Presents Festival Day 3 in Victoria Park, London, 3 June 2018. Photo by Richard Isaac/REX/Shutterstock (9699744an)

St. Vincent is one of the most intriguing music artists of today, and each of her live shows is something special. It wasn’t anything different on Tuesday when she took the stage at the INmusic festival.

Slowly navigating the audience through her biggest hits, St. Vincent looked comfortable on stage rocking her guitar. Everyone looked like they enjoyed every bit of the show, from St. Vincent – who was surprisingly joking around – to fans – who got drawn into the world of St. Vincent’s songs.

Still, there wasn’t much opportunity to catch a break after St. Vincent wrapped up the show with an acoustic version of “Prince Johnny.” While her performance was more than enjoyable, the highlight of the night was iconic Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds.

It was everything you would expect and then some more, at least for Cave’s fans. They know how to embrace the good and bad sides of his music.

The main selling point of this live show was the emotion he managed to translate to the audience. His movement on the stage, the change of mood in his voice and energy that’s bursting out of him during the show is a special thing to witness.

The audience was almost hypnotized by the “king of melancholy,” who was set to touch them as much as possible with his songs about birth, love, death and everything in between.

When we thought the show is over after a 10-minute long rendition of “Stanger Lee,” Cave decided to continue playing, which is a great rarity at music festivals. He topped already great show with songs “Push the Sky Away” and “Rings of Saturn,” and then finally sailed into the night, leaving the audience in awe.