Confirmation has come through the wire that Ed Kuepper has been announced as the replacement guitarist for the long serving Mick Harvey in The Bad Seeds.  Ed has had a long association with Nick Cave stretching back to the early days of his band The Saints and then Laughing Clowns, both of which reunited for shows at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are planning a world tour later this year and in the meantime they are set to re-release their first 4 albums – From Her To Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against The Pricks, Your Funeral… My Trial.

Laughing Clowns have announced a show at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival on the 26th April and a couple of nights  at The Basement in Sydney on the 2nd + 3rd May.