Nick Cave + The Unhealthy Seeds, Calvin Harris and The xx will headline Open’er Competition 2026.
Nick Cave + The Unhealthy Seeds will headline Open’er
The three acts be a part of previously-announced The Remedy in topping the invoice on the annual Polish pageant, which takes place in Gdynia from 1-4 July subsequent yr, whereas Speaking Heads frontman David Byrne, Lose Management hitmaker Teddy Swimms, and Ethel Cain can even carry out on the occasion.
Each Nick Cave + The Unhealthy Seeds and Calvin will take to the Orange Primary Stage on 2 July, whereas The xx headline on 1 July.
Additionally on 1 July, David will carry out on the Tent Stage, with Ethel due on the identical space of the pageant on 3 July.
Teddy will make his Open’er debut on the Orange Primary Stage on 4 July.
As was beforehand introduced, The Remedy will headline the pageant on 3 July.
Additional line-up bulletins will probably be remodeled the approaching months.
4-day, two-day and one-day tickets can be found now from https://opener.pl/en/tickets.
In the meantime, Nick lately admitted his view of synthetic intelligence as an inventive instrument has begun to shift, having beforehand blasted the “unbelievinly disturbing” know-how.
He confessed his view has modified after seeing a brand new AI-powered video made to mark the fortieth anniversary of his tune Tupelo, which was created by 56-year-old filmmaker Andrew Dominik, and used the know-how to animate nonetheless archival photographs.
Writing on The Crimson Hand Recordsdata platform , he stated: “As I watched Andrew’s surreal little movie, I felt my view of AI as an inventive machine soften.
“To some extent, my thoughts was modified.”
Nick added on The Crimson Hand Recordsdata he was initially sceptical when he discovered AI had been used to create the video that has gone with however he discovered the clip “an awfully profound interpretation of the tune – a soulful, transferring, and completely unique retelling of Tupelo, wealthy in mythos and a touching tribute to the nice Elvis Presley, in addition to to the tune itself”.
He additionally stated the AI-animated photographs of Elvis “had an uncanny high quality, as if he had been raised from the lifeless, and the crucifixion-resurrection photographs on the finish had been each stunning and deeply affecting”.
In January 2023, Nick publicly condemned ChatGPT, telling followers on his weblog The Crimson Hand Recordsdata it ought to “f*** off and go away songwriting alone”.
He added on the time: “I really feel unhappy about it, upset that there are good individuals on the market that truly suppose the creative act is so mundane that it may be replicated by a machine.”
Nick additionally acquired a number of fan submissions of ChatGPT-generated lyrics written “within the fashion of Nick Cave” had been ones he seen as “bulls***” and “a grotesque mockery of what it’s to be human”.
