The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon + Warmduscher Join Nick Cave as Special Guests

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announce special guests for their sold-out UK headline show at Preston Park, their only UK show of the year. Joining the bill are The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher.

Brighton has been central to Nick Cave’s life and work for over 25 years, making Preston Park 2026 a truly historic homecoming event, with Cave expressing:

“I am thrilled beyond words to return to my beloved Brighton with The Bad Seeds to play Preston Park. It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful. An epic show!!!”

A Look at the Special Guests

Long established as one of the most iconic, influential forces in alternative rock music, GRAMMY Award-winners The Flaming Lips bring a boundary-pushing catalogue that balances darkness with moments of transcendence. 

Mercury Prize winners English Teacher represent a new wave of British guitar music, rich with narrative depth and emotional nuance,

and Mercury-Prize-nominated Cate Le Bon’s singular, art-led approach to songwriting and production echoes the more exploratory edges of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ work.

Warmduscher, meanwhile, channel a raw, kinetic energy that sits comfortably alongside the band’s more unrestrained moments.

Highlights Include

The live line-up includes: Warren Ellis, Colin Greenwood, Jim Sclavunos, George Vjestica, Larry Mullins, and Carly Paradis. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds will perform a setlist which takes songs from all four decades of their storied career, including their latest album Wild God, released in 2024 to great acclaim and brought fans the sold-out Wild God European Tour, one of the live experiences of the year. Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, across ten tracks, the band dances between convention and experimentation.

Renowned for their exhilarating and unforgettable performances, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds are widely regarded as one of the most thrilling live bands in the world, their reputation for this solidified in 2024, 2025, and early 2026 as critics and fans alike were stunned by The Wild God Tour as it travelled through the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. With praise for their live performances from esteemed papers saying that: “This hugely moving concert spans every corner of the human experience, finding Cave at a point where time has deepened his music’s power and his connection with his audience.” The Guardian and The Standard saying, “It was a night of a thousand climaxes.”