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October 25, 2025 |
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds, Calvin Harris and The xx are set to headline Open’er Festival 2026.
The three acts will join previously announced headliners The Cure at the annual Polish event, which will take place in Gdynia from 1 to 4 July next year. Also performing across the weekend will be Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, Lose Control singer Teddy Swims, and Ethel Cain.
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds and Calvin Harris will headline the Orange Main Stage on 2 July, while The xx will take the top spot on 1 July.
David Byrne will perform on the Tent Stage on 1 July, with Ethel Cain scheduled to appear on the same stage on 3 July. Teddy Swims will make his Open’er debut on the Orange Main Stage on 4 July.
The Cure will headline the festival on 3 July, with more artists expected to be announced in the coming months.
Festival passes for four days, two days, or single days are currently available at opener.pl.
Meanwhile, Nick Cave recently shared that his perspective on artificial intelligence in art has evolved. He once called the technology “unbelievably disturbing,” but said his view changed after seeing a new AI-powered video marking the 40th anniversary of his song Tupelo. The film, created by filmmaker Andrew Dominik, used AI to animate still archival images.
Writing on his platform The Red Hand Files, he said: “As I watched Andrew’s surreal little film, I felt my view of AI as an artistic device soften. To some extent, my mind was changed.”
Nick admitted he was unsure when he first heard AI had been used to create the visuals, but ultimately described the finished product as “an extraordinarily profound interpretation of the song – a soulful, moving, and entirely original retelling of Tupelo, rich in mythos and a touching tribute to the great Elvis Presley, as well as to the song itself.”
He added that the AI-generated images of Elvis had “an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead,” and said the final crucifixion and resurrection imagery was “both shocking and deeply affecting.”
In January 2023, Nick had criticised ChatGPT, writing on The Red Hand Files that it should “f*** off and leave songwriting alone.”
At the time, he shared: “I feel sad about it, disappointed that there are smart people out there that actually think the artistic act is so mundane that it can be replicated by a machine.”
He also received multiple fan submissions of ChatGPT-generated lyrics written “in the style of Nick Cave,” which he described as “bulls***” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human.”
