John Cale S/D

Garry Moore : "Thank you, Mr. Cale. You have a whim of iron."

Following last month's terrific performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and three sold out shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, John Cale is announcing a performance at the 2013 Hopscotch Festival, happening September 5-7 in Raleigh, NC, and sharing the Laurel Halo remix of "Living With You," the original of which is from Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood.
JOHN CALE'S "LIVING WITH YOU" (LAUREL HALO REMIX) -
http://bit.ly/YdLjXD

JOHN CALE PLAYS LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON:

"Venus in Furs" (Web Exclusive) http://bit.ly/WJjP9g

"I Wanna Talk 2 U" http://bit.ly/RMroQ4

"Living With You" is built on John Cale's trademark viola drone with some of the most delicate nylon guitar picking he claims to have encountered. The "Living With You" single bundle includes the original version of the song, the "Organic Mix," which is a more stripped down version made by Cale that revels in the stark and nakedly emotional nature of the song, plus the Laurel Halo remix. The remix comes after a defining year for Laurel who was awarded The Wire's 2012 album of the year for her debut full length, Quarantine.

Watch & Listen:

"Hatred" stream http://bit.ly/Stgoox

"Face to the Sky" video http://bit.ly/VL2W1Q

"I Wanna Talk 2 U" stream http://bit.ly/QCF65f

Welcome To Nookie Wood video -http://bit.ly/NcM7YJ'

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/i12bent/437516637/1/tumblr_kyzo6mUetX1qzn0de

A friend lent me his autobiography. It's pretty great stuff.

radical sabotage era clip here: http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/nightclubbing-john-cale-band-1979/

Not one to rest on his laurels, that same year Cale performed his unrecorded song cycle, “The Nine Lives of Gordon Liddy,”

I have never heard of this.

me neither -- sounds made up, but apparently not:

The Nine Lives Of Gordon Liddy - 1980

Gordon Liddy was one of the Watergate burglars. It combines older songs - Only Time Will Tell (Sabotage/Live), later to be released material like Thoughtless Kind (Music For A New Society), Streets of Laredo (Honi Soit) coupled with Cable Hogue (Helen Of Troy), and unreleased pieces: Cold Country Comfort and Coming Around Again. Never recorded as a whole.

Holy crap at that 1979 clip!! Is there no bootleg out there of the stuff from that era that never made it to LP?

there are some good ones, hit me up via PM if you want but I only have them in FLAC.

Did "Fucking the Neighbor's Wife" ever get recorded?

ha, I thought I remembered that from somewhere

Holy shit -- I've been dying to hear Cowgirls-era Cale forever but all that's been officially released from that era was...well, Cowgirls.

I suppose I can just wait for you to post it, but do any of these dates include "Fucking the Neighbor's Wife"?

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no but wow @ that title, never heard of it.

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the blog I linked to way upthread for those shows has dead links, but this is a good excuse to address that.

makes me sad to see Bimble posts up under the fold as well :(

actually just came across this today -
Unreleased John Cale songs vol. 1
1. Autobiography (13 Oct 1984 Essen, W Germany)
2. Care Song (26 Jun 1980 Eindhoven, Netherlands)
3. Fucking Your Neighbor's Wife ( " )
4. Ton Ton Macoute (1977 Animal Justice outtake)
5. Wake Up The Boys (In The North Atlantic) (14 Jun 1981 San Diego, CA)
6. Living In Moonlight (16 Apr 1987 Hoboken, NJ)
7. Rape (9 Jul 1979 Toronto, Canada)
8. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (25 Apr 1980 NYC, NY)
9. Cold Country Comfort (24 May 1980 NYC, NY)
10. Coming Around Again ( " )
11. Candy Store (24 Jun 1981 NYC, NY)
12. ? (14 Jul 1981 San Diego, CA)
13. Dirge For The New Sunrise (17 Apr 1991 Madison, WI)
14. Lament (27 Jul 1998 Minneapolis, MN)

all songs by John Cale except:
7 - words by Deerfrance
8 - traditional French folk song
13 - words by Edith Sitwell
14 - words by Dylan Thomas

12 sounds like a song that was made up on the spot, quite possibly

unreleased John Cale songs, vol. 2
1. I Like To Keep Baby Happy (3 Jul 1983 Werchter, Belgium)
2. Flying Seagulls (24 Oct 1981 NYC, NY)
3. Uncle Sam In Samoa ( " )
4. Don't Let Me Down ( " )
5. All Aboard ( " )

http://modern-radio.com/board/t.php?id=48347

[scroll down for live links]

Well I'm nothing if not consistent.

(RIP Bimble)

tyler you are a hero, again.

haha. i assume there are complete bootlegs of these shows where he did this gordon liddy song cycle? would like to hear the whole thang in full...

here's what he was playing -
http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/setlists/1980_05_24.html
New York 1980-05-24

Live at the Squat Theatre, New York, NY - May 24, 1980. First night of The Nine lives of Gordon Liddy. With Joe Bidewell.
Setlist

Cold Country Comfort #
Only Time Will Tell (early lyrics)
Coming Around Again
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
Thoughtless Kind (early lyrics)
Cable Hogue
Streets Of Laredo
(recorded) Narration / King Harry
Buffalo Ballet
Child's Christmas in Wales
(I Keep A) Close Watch

Finally checked out that "Walking The Dog" video. Nice, thanks.

great richard hell vids on that page too...

Will have to look at those as well.

Watched the Wayne Fontana cover. What else?

In the meantime watching The Student Teachers.

there's one older post of "love comes in spurts" maybe from the same show?

OK, just found that while I was away. Yeah, looks like the same show.

Dang, great shot of Quine playing the solo.

http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/nightclubbing-richard-hell-and-the-voidoids/

“Richard had some charisma you can’t buy in a store and apply to yourself like a cream,” recalled Television guitarist, Richard Lloyd. ”He had ‘it,’ the inimitable ‘it,’ the mysterious ‘it.’ His loopy bass lines were cartoonish in their wonderment; he was fantastic.”

Mentioned this on a film thread: there's a nice (too) few seconds of "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" in the Ed Koch documentary.

Almost put out a Student Teachers CD. Always grouped them with a later class of CBs bands. Nervous Rex. US Ape. Student Teachers only had a few songs but they were all really good. Channel 13 I only heard on a Hyped2Death/Homework comp and was obsessed. Other songs are on the 2x5 Marty Thau comp and the Roir New York Singles Scene comp.

just getting around to that lost cale songs comp -- some really cool things on here!

also interesting -
On the Hear Fear promo album Cale announces cover versions of Jerusalem, Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan), Eight Miles High (the Byrds), and I Can See For Miles (The Who), all to be included on the Slow Dazzle album.

It never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-Gk11mvqM

(Why restrain the Ollie Halsall spam to the Patto thread)

That's a great version! Thanks.

They're both mentioned far upthread, but should be mentioned again. Dead Or Alive from Honi Soit and Hungry For Love from Caribbean Sunset are both sublime, 2 of his best songs.

yeah Hungry for Love never leaves my iPod. The rest of Caribbean Sunset is pretty great too (thanks Bimble for opening my eyes to taht one)

Reissue it on CD with the live album, damnit!

I thought about starting a "singers whose voices haven't shown any/much deterioration after several decades" thread just so I could mention Cale, but it seemed like a thin thread concept. But I just started listening to Circus Live and he's really delivering! 40+ years after The V.U. debut, not bad.

RIP

ha ha

Marc Maron, of all people, has an interview with Cale going up on the WTF Podcast website on Monday.

How is he getting all these musicians lately? In the past 2 months he's had hour-long interviews with Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, Iggy and more.

After midnight in Nookie Wood.

New single, not on Shifty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yJuwkWsTo&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yJuwkWsTo&feature=youtu.be

December Rain from Nookie Wood could be sung by Rihanna.

John Cale & Jonathan interviewed in Australia in 1983. JC performs "Chinese Envoy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6af7Cj05I

Different interview from the same tour in which Jojo sings "Vincent van Gogh" Would post on a Jonathan thread but I don't know which one so I am posting it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5D6-7TwDMY

have you guys heard this? damn...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExyOA7VLF0
more importantly, does anyone have the other track he played "i have nothing left to destroy"?!!!

saw him several times in the 80s, that was a reliable part of the set. third time he moved it over to piano iirc.

he played it when i saw him in knoxville! it was awesome.

oh yeah, he does it all the time, but is it ever as weird/fucked up as this version? yikes!

the version I saw at Fender's in Long Beach circa '86 was really unhinged, as was "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" that night

lol?

Former Velvet Underground star John Cale is to premiere a new work in the UK which will feature the noise of flying drones as they hover over the audience.

The 72-year-old musician, who has often delved into the avant garde, will perform the new "audio-visual collaboration", called LOOP>>60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra at the Barbican in London in September.

He is working with the designer and architect Liam Young on the project which will see the drones carrying speakers to project the sound, as well as making mechanical noises of their own which will be incorporated.

Cale, who collected an OBE from Buckingham Palace in 2010 with pink hair, will work with his band to perform songs from his extensive back catalogue.

But he has rearranged them using different tunings and to fit the new format.

Young is aiming to free the drones from their usual associations with surveillance and military uses to make them "choreographed, disembodied instruments which take flight in the auditorium to create a profoundly immersive live music performance", according to the Barbican.

The gallery said it had been through a long process to ensure the performance with the drones met rigorous health and safety rules.

A spokeswoman said: "We've already been through a lengthy planning and approval period with this project to ensure there won't be any risk to audiences attending the performances in September."

The drones will not all be in flight at once but will have choreographed entries and exits through the performances on September 12 and 13, using their own landing point on the stage.