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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will return to the UK and Ireland this spring as part of a European live tour.

The band, whose excitably-titled new album DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! is released through Mute on the 3rd of March, will play the local leg in May.

Full details, as ever, below:

April
21 Lisbon Coliseum
22 Porto Coliseum
24 San Sebastian Polideportivo Anoeta
25 Barcelona Razzmatazz
26 Marseilles Docks Du Suds
28 Amsterdam Music Hall
29 Paris Casino Du Paris

May
1 Brussels Forest
3 Dublin Castle
4 Glasgow Academy
5 Birmingham Academy
7 London Hammersmith Apollo
16 Oslo Spektrum
17 Stockholm Annexe
19 Copenhagen KB Halle
21 Berlin Tempodrom
24 Prague Sazka Arena
25 Vienna Gasometer

June
3 Zagreb IN Music Festival
4 Belgrade Arena
6 Salonika Moni Lazariston
7 Athens Lycabetus Theatre

The shows are the band’s first since the Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus tour sold out as 2004 turned into 2005 and tickets go on sale this Friday (1st Feb) at 9am.

The first single to be taken from the album, also its title track, is released on the 18th of February. The video’s always worth a watch. Yes?