Nick Cave shares debut live performance of "Galleon Ship" as part of upcoming Idiot Prayer film

The live performance video of "Galleon Ship" is the first full song visual to be released from Nick Cave's forthcoming Idiot Prayer film.

It's also a live debut of the Ghosteen track, as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds are due to tour the album in the UK and Europe in April 2021.

The Australian musician recorded his Idiot Prayer solo show in London's Alexandra Palace venue in June while it was empty due to the coronavirus pandemic. The show will also see Cave perform new track "Euthanisia", which was recorded during the Skeleton Tree sessions.

Speaking about his Idiot Prayer film, Nick Cave says, "Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events, performed over the last year or so. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms - with an emphasis on the delivery of the words. I felt I was rediscovering the songs all over again, and started to think about going into a studio and recording these reimagined versions at some stage - whenever I could find the time."

"Then, of course, the world went into lockdown," Cave continues. "The Bad Seeds' global 2020 tour was postponed. Studios shut down. Venues shut down. And the world fell into an eerie, self-reflective silence. It was within this silence that I began to think about the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them - and so we started to assemble a small team, including the great cinematographer, Robbie Ryan, sound man, Dom Monks, and editor, Nick Emerson, with the intention to film as soon as it became feasible to get back to business in some way."

Cave adds, "Meanwhile, I sat at home working out how to play more songs in the Conversations format - new songs and songs from the Ghosteen album, Grinderman songs and early Bad Seeds stuff, and everything in between. We worked with the team at Alexandra Palace - a venue I have played and love - on securing a date to film just as soon as they were allowed to re-open the building to us. We had an amazing production team and crew, and what they did within this extraordinary situation was a marvel. Surrounded by Covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel, together we created something very strange and very beautiful that spoke into this uncertain moment, but was in no way bowed by it."