Tears For Fears are releasing their first-ever live album later this month

It's an album forty years in the making. Tears For Fears are releasing their first-ever live album, Songs for a Nervous Planet, later this month.

The album includes four new studio songs - Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad, Emily Said, Astronaut and The Girl That I Call Home - as well as a concert film to accompany the release. Tears For Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) will be released in various New Zealand cinemas on 24 October.

The concert film was shot in Franklin, Tennessee, during the band’s Tipping Point Tour Part 2 in 2023.

On creating the album and film, Curt Smith said, “We decided to film the live show last year. I think a lot of people don’t know that we are a good live band, actually! They see a duo, and they think it’s going to be two people with a couple of keyboards and a bunch of backing tapes, and that’ll be it. Over the years, we’ve vastly improved since our heyday back in the Eighties.”

Roland Orzabal added, “We’ve never released an official live album, so you could say this is an album forty years in the making.”

In addition to the four new songs Songs For a Nervous Planet also includes live versions of some of their most iconic hits like Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Mad World, Shout and Head Over Heels.

Watch the live video for Head Over Heels below:

Songs For A Nervous Planet tracklist:
1. Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad
2. The Girl That I Call Home
3. Emily Said
4. Astronaut
5. No Small Thing
6. The Tipping Point
7. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
8. Secret World
9. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
10. Long, Long, Long Time
11. Break The Man
12. My Demons
13. Rivers of Mercy
14. Mad World
15. Suffer The Children
16. Woman In Chains
17. Bad Man’s Song
18. Pale Shelter
19. Break It Down Again
20. Head Over Heels
21. Change
22. Shout