It’s hard to imagine Nick Cave and James Corden breathing the same air, and the mind reels a bit at the news that Cave was the musical guest on Corden’s Late Late Show last night. But Cave didn’t actually visit the Corden studio. Instead, James Corden debuted a clip from This Much I Know To Be True, the new live-concert film from director and longtime Cave collaborator Andrew Dominik. The film will play in theaters around the world for a single night later this spring, and we’ve already seen the clip of Cave and Warren Ellis performing “Lavender Fields” together. On last night’s show, James Corden introduced another performance that was taken straight from the film.

The Corden video didn’t feature a song from Carnage, the album that Cave and Ellis released last year. Instead, they went back to “Ghosteen Speaks,” the sort-of title track from the Bad Seeds’ soul-ripping 2019 double album Ghosteen. (James Corden introduced the song as a “hit.” This fucking guy, man.)

Given all we know about what Cave was going through when he made Ghosteen, “Ghosteen Speaks” is an absolutely gutting song, and it’s oddly inspiring to see Cave performing it. The film captures Cave and Ellis, backed by a string quartet and a whole crew of backup singers, as Dominik’s cameras spin around them. The shots of Ellis conducting the singers are just lovely. This is a great performance, and you can watch it below.

This Much I Know To Be True will play in theaters for a single night on 5/11.