We have a last-minute pair of tickets to give away to tonight's show at the Mahalia Jackson Theater.

Tonight, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will play the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. When he played Los Angeles, The L.A. Times critic Randall Roberts wrote:

Throughout 90 minutes, he was a menace hellbent on exploring good and evil, love and hate, a man battling overwhelming desire and insidious demons. He was a cruel-hearted romantic on "Nobody's Baby Now." Filled with regret, his craving for a lost love infecting his very being: "She lives in my blood and skin," he sang. "Her wild feral stare, her dark hair / Her winter lips as cold as stone -- I was her man." As he doted, violinist Warren Ellis soloed.

Cave prowled the Ace [’Theater]s stage, gesticulating wildly, a born performer who in another era might have been a traveling preacher or a snake-oil salesman. During one ballad, he invited a woman up to stand beside him. She cozied up and he comforted her like a prophet while he sang. Elsewhere, he pointed his finger at the balcony, creeping close to the front rows while conveying lyrical confusion on whether he was dead or merely slumbering: "No sleep runs this deep! No sleep runs this deep!" 

I previewed the show Friday in The New Orleans Advocate, and today thanks to a friend of My Spilt Milk, we have a pair of tickets to give away to tonight’s show including a parking pass. Register here for a chance to win. The contest closes today at 1 p.m. The winner must be able to meet me this afternoon before 5 to get the tickets.