Paris 1919: Last Chance to SeePR
Last chance to hear Paris 1919 live
John Cale to perform his stately baroque masterpiece one last time in the UK
Reviews have been ecstatic for the two previous live outings given to John Cale’s Paris 1919 album and fans of the legendary Welshman have one last chance to catch a performance of his majestic fourth solo record in the UK at The Norfolk & Norwich Festival on 14 May.
‘Even when he's looking back 37 years, Cale sounds like he's pushing forwards’
The Guardian
Now 68, classically trained John Cale has been one of the major figures in rock and avante-garde music since the mid sixties. Since leaving The Velvet Underground, which he co-founded with Lou Reed, he has worked with a virtual who’s-who of influential cult artists including Patti Smith, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Siouxsie Sioux, Iggy Pop, Squeeze, LCD Soundsystem and many others. His own solo recordings, while maintaining a delicious eccentricity vary vastly in style from modern classical to full throated electric guitar wielding rock’n roll.
Originally released in 1973, the richly poetic Paris 1919 is a pinnacle of literary melancholic songs with lush orchestrations and instrumental contributions from Little Feat’s Lowell George, The Crusaders’ Wilton Felder and the sweeping sounds of The UCLA Symphony Orchestra. As with much of Cale’s work though, there is an underlying threat. Paris 1919 was the setting for the Versailles Conference that partitioned Europe and effectively birthed the Third Reich. In the liner notes for the reissued CD of the album Cale himself describes the songs as ‘An example of the nicest ways of saying something ugly’.
Cale will also perform a selection of material from throughout his career. The recent London performance contrasted the Paris 1919 songs with the angst ridden, insistent ‘Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend’, his apocalyptic version of Elvis’ Heartbreak Hotel and the self explanatory ‘Dirty Ass Rock’n Roll’.
‘An ageless non-conformist directing magnificence from behind his keyboard’
Mojo
Further information/images/review tickets from Steve Forster at sfp,
01603 661459 steve@sfppr.co.uk
Listings Info
14 May, 8pm
JOHN CALE - WHEN PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE, Paris 1919
Norfolk & Norwich Festival atNorwich Theatre Royal £40, £35, £30, £20, £6
Notes for editors
Norfolk & Norwich Festival works to harness the transformational power of culture and the arts to engage with audiences and communities throughout the East of England and beyond. It produces the international arts festival for the East of England, programming world class music, theatre, dance, circus, visual arts and children’s events for 16 days each May and delivers Creative Partnerships, the government’s flagship creative learning programme in 49 schools in Norfolk and Norfolk Open Studios, one of the UK’s largest and most successful open studios schemes.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival10 is made possible through support from Arts Council England East, Norfolk County Council and Norwich City Council, has National Express East Anglia as its principal sponsor and its MG Free outdoor programme is sponsored by May Gurney.
